Library Journal articles from January 2008

Library Journal archives from January 2008

Seeing green: libraries are perfectly suited to be incubators for energy conservation.(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... WHEN YOU'RE PREGNANT, ALL YOU SEE IS OTHER pregnant women. When you've got a toddler, there they are, no matter where you turn. Last month, LJ headed to Chicago for its second annual Design Institute, this one on "Going Green," and ever since,...

I remember that future: leave the door ajar for the new librarians.(blatant berry)(Personal account)
January 1, 2008... THE FALL SEMESTER HAS JUST ENDED. I CAN'T remember when I've been so sorry to see a semester close or been as engaged by students. It is tiring to teach two three-plus-hour sessions two nights a week after 6:30 p.m. But this semester was...

ALA's "insurance".(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... John Berry raised some useful questions about the value of the American Library Association (ALA) endowment ("The Endowment's Purpose," Blatant Berry, LJ 10/15/07, p. 10). As the association's treasurer and its senior endowment trustee, we...

Librarians for elections.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... Ron Shank is right on the money when he suggests that libraries make 2008 the Year of Election Education ("Libraries and the Elections," Publisher's Letter, LJ 9/15/07, p. 8). It is an area where libraries can really make a difference. The...

Corrections.(feedback)(Correction notice)
January 1, 2008... In "Reference into the Future" (Reference 2008, p. 8-11, Supplement to LJ 11/15/07), the April 2008 launch of "Pop Culture Universe" was misattributed to Praeger, Greenwood's current events imprint, and the database was inaccurately entitled...

Barbie meets Mr. Darcy, via Topeka.(front desk)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... So maybe Barbie makes a good book reviewer. A couple of Barbies appear in an offbeat 90-second book review of Shannon Hale's Austenland(Bloomsbury; LJ4/15/07) about a Jane Austen fantasy camp. The video, and a couple of dozen others, were...

Columnist on outsourcing.(front desk)(Quotation)
January 1, 2008... "Why shouldn't Halliburton or Blackwater run our libraries? They're champions of democratic principles, diversity and intellectual freedom." --Brad Barker, "Mr. Library Man," Modesto Bee, December 13, 2007

A crucial vote in Florida.(front desk)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On January 29, Floridians will vote on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would further limit local government revenue from property taxes. The Florida Library Association's Campaign To Convince...

Heard.(front desk)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... "Right now, sustainable design is an option. I don't think it's going to be like that for very long." --ARCHITECT RICK MCCARTHY, BURNIDGE CASSELL ASSOCIATES, AT THE LJ DESIGN INSTITUTE, CHICAGO, 12/11/07

From the 1940s through the 1960s, the entry of women into the workplace inspired numerous series of "career girl" novels, and Jennifer Wolfe, a metadata librarian in Iowa has collected 23 examples of "library career romances.(front desk)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... From the 1940s through the 1960s, the entry of women into the workplace inspired numerous series of "career girl" novels, and Jennifer Wolfe, a metadata librarian in Iowa has collected 23 examples of "library career romances." As she writes on...

Downtown debut in Indianapolis: much-delayed central library finally opens; Bramble named new CEO.(lj news)(Laura Bramble)
January 1, 2008... The much-delayed Indianapolis--Marion County Public Library's (IMCPL) Central Library opened to the public on December 9, at 293,000 square feet plus a 183,000 square foot parking structure. The 1917 Cret Building (foreground of photo) was...

Book-a-librarian in San Francisco.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... While a lot of librarians pursue tech-focused reference, the San Francisco Public Library's (SFPL) Marc Webb thinks one-on-one service is the new frontier, helping patrons grapple with new technology and research techniques. Launched in April,...

NIH public access mandate survives: after one year, researchers' work to become freely available.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... After President George W. Bush vetoed a Labor, Health and Human Services domestic spending bill, which contained a mandatory public access policy for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the policy was approved by both the House of...

NetLibrary OK w/Recorded Bks.: mutual lawsuits are dismissed; settlement terms not revealed.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A once-bitter battle between NetLibrary and Recorded Books has reached a settlement, with their mutual claims dismissed. On November 12, the two sides jointly requested that a federal court "dismiss without prejudice" their litigation. ...

Pitt library, press work digitally: provision of digital backlist will bring 500 titles alive.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... In an ambitious expansion of its existing D-Scribe program, the University of Pittsburgh University Library System (ULS) and University of Pittsburgh Press (UPP) have announced a partnership that will eventually offer open access to digital...

IMLS offers State Library report.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The State Library Agency Report for FY06 offers a wealth of information on topics such as libraries Internet access, services, collections, staff, and revenue. It covers state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The...

Portico's "dim" e-archive lights up: discontinued journal gains new life from archiving service.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... For more than five years, Portico (www. portico.org) has steadily been building its archive of e-journal content, in case a publisher closed off direct access to that material. At the end of 2007, SAGE Publications was the first Portico partner...

DCPL shake-up; 38 managers leave.(lj news)(District of Columbia Public Library )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) executive director Ginnie Cooper, who took on the job in July 2006, has continued her transformation plans; in December, the library announced that by this month 30 managers were to retire and eight...

Columbia joins Google scan plan.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Columbia University Libraries is the 28th library to sign an agreement with Google to digitize library books in the public domain and make them available online. Under the agreement, librarians and Google will select "hundreds of thousands" of...

$950k Gates grant to help with e-rate.(lj news)(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A $950,000 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant will help the American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) develop and provide training and consulting services for libraries facing the cumbersome E-Kate...

A library starts to lend kindles.(lj news)(Sparta Public Library)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new Kindle ebook reader from Amazon.com is certainly not oriented for the library borrowing model, given that books purchased are limited to the device itself (see netConnect, Winter 2008, p. 12ff.). But that...

Veteran West Virginia archivist fired.(lj news)(Fred Armstrong)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Fred Armstrong, West Virginia state archives director for 22 years, was dismissed on November 1 for no stated reason, and librarians, local history buffs, and one major elected official have stood up in his defense. Meanwhile, Armstrong has...

Buffalo/Erie gains $1.6m for hours.(lj news)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... On December 4, the Erie County legislature, NY, passed a $1.4 billion 2008 budget that includes an additional $1.6 million for public libraries. The Buffalo & Eric County Public Library (BECPL) will use the funds over a three-year period to...

ARL: e-journals may tip in five years.(lj news)(Association of Research Libraries )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A report by the Association of Research Libraries concludes that publishers and libraries are caught in "an extended transition zone," lasting at least five years, between print-only and e-only journals. The report, "The E-Only Tipping Point...

PL gains health advocacy center.(lj news)(Grinton I. Will Branch Library )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Grinton I. Will Branch Library in Yonkers, NY, now offers a Health Advocacy Resource Center, which aims to help older adults and their caregivers navigate the confusing maze of healthcare information. According to the Westchester Library...

Memphis PL head, colleagues retire.(lj news)(Public Library and Information Center's Judith Drescher)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Judith Drescher, director of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center, and two other veteran employees retired at the end of December, it was announced earlier in the month. Despite the brief gap between the announcement and the...

Copper thieves plague library.(lj news)(Houston Public Library)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Houston Public Library, TX, is the latest victim of a spate of copper theft that has spread across the United States in the last two years. On December 3, staff at the Julia Ideson Building, which houses the Houston Metropolitan Research...

After ice storms, OK PLs are refuges.(lj news)(public libraries)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... One in three Oklahomans were without power in early December, mostly in the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas, because of ice storms that began Sunday, December 9, and libraries were hit hard. Lack of power and the loss of phone service added to...

Police: kids' library book not obscene.(lj news)('It's Perfectly Normal' book at the Lewiston Public Library)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A Maine library has been cleared of obscenity charges for having a controversial sex ed title on its shelves, and the patron who removed the book from the library will stand trial for theft. A police investigation found that the Lewiston Public...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... MARCH 4-6--Louisiana Library Assn., Shreveport www.llaonline.org APRIL 9-11--Kansas Library Assn., Wichita skyways.lib, ks.us/KLA 9-11--New Mexico Library Assn., Las Cruces www.nmla.org 9-11--Tennessee Library Assn.,...

Library of Congress.(people)(new director Martha Anderson)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Martha Anderson has been named Director of Program Management for the Library of Congress's (LC) National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, which focuses on original digital content. Anderson has been acting in this...

Columbus Metropolitan Library.(people)(new director Helene Blowers)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Helene Blowers has joined the Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH, as the new Web Strategy Director. She formerly was Public Services Technology Director at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC. She is an L.J 2007 Mover &...

University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Schusterman Center Library.(people)(new director Stewart Brower)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Stewart Brower is the new Director of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Schusterman Center Library, overseeing all services, collections, special projects, and outreach. He comes from the University at Buffalo, where he served as Associate...

OCLC Partner Programs.(people)(new director Cindy Cunningham)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Cindy Cunningham, most recently Director, Media Metadata at Corbis Corporation, Seattle, is now Director, OCLC Partner Programs. From 1998 through February 2004, Cunningham held a variety of positions at Amazon, including U.S. Catalog...

Warren County Public Library.(people)(new director Larisa Good)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Larisa Good has been appointed Director for Warren County Public Library, Monmouth, IL. She replaces Julian Bruening, who retired after serving as Director for more than two decades. Good most recently was Supervisor Branch Librarian at the...

Bright District Library.(people)(new director Nancy Johnson)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Nancy Johnson is the new Director of the Bright District Library, MI, replacing Charlene Huget, who retired in June. Johnson previously was Director of the White Lake Township Library, MI.

Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Libraries.(people)(Prissy Lakus retires)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Prissy Lakus, who devoted 44 years of service to the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Libraries, has retired. She most recently was Chief Librarian for the South Tampa area, which included Charles Fendig Library, Jan Platt Regional Library,...

Neal Ney, Director of the Evanston Public Library, IL, for the past 15 years, retired October 31.(people)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Neal Ney, Director of the Evanston Public Library, IL, for the past 15 years, retired October 31. Ney earlier had been a library director in Park Forest and Kankakee, IL. Paul Gottschalk, the library's Administrative Services Manager, has been...

South Dakota.(people)(new state librarian Daniel Siebersma)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Daniel Siebersma has been named State Librarian for South Dakota. He most recently served briefly as Director of the Brown County Library, Green Bay, WI, and before that as Director of the Lakeland Library Cooperative, Grand Rapids, MI.

Obituary.(people)(Obituary)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Elitea "Lee" Allison, retired Children's Librarian, Newark Public Library, NJ, has died at the age of 94. She retired from the library system in 1983 after 45 years of service. James Ramer, founding Dean of the School of Library and...

Gale moving directories online: librarians want materials electronically--with ownership and browsability of print.(infotech)(Company overview)
January 1, 2008... LJ had the opportunity to visit with Gale last summer (see InfoTech, LJ 6/15/07, p. 25) and was treated to early intel on updates and a new platform. A return visit in mid December provided fresh opportunities to view the company's product...

OverDrive backing epub standard.(infotech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... OverDrive is the latest company to support the International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) epub digital publication standard for ebooks. Beginning in early 2008, its "global network of libraries, schools, and retailers will be able to...

MyiLibrary Lures Univ. Presses.(infotech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Ingrain Digital Group's MyiLibrary division is expanding its stable of customers. The company has signed ebook distribution contracts with nine North American university presses. They are: * Columbia University Press * Pennsylvania...

French med info in ScienceDirect.(infotech)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Elsevier announced in December the addition of 45 French-language medical journals from its Elsevier Masson division to ScienceDirect. The publisher said that the titles, "including Feuillets de Radiologie, Journal de Chirurgie, and La Press...

Credo partners with WiLS.(infotech)(Credo Reference and Wisconsin Library Services )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Similar to its deals with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois and with SOLINET, Credo Reference is partnering with Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) to provide its General Reference service to member libraries at a...

Thomson's Intel property tool.(infotech)(Thomson Scientific's Thomson Innovation)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific is now marketing Thomson Innovation, an "intellectual property research and analysis solution" that allows researchers to "simultaneously search worldwide editorially enhanced patent data, Asian patent data translated into...

Springer gives MARC to OCLC.(infotech)(Springer Science and Online Computer Library Center )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Springer Science+Business has formed a partnership with OCLC to provide MARC 21 records for the Springer eBook Collection. Springer said that OCLC customers will be able to "obtain these records using their usual download workflows." Springer...

San Jose SLIS honors Plosker.(infotech)(San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science's George Plosker)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), CA, has named George Plosker, IEEE client services manager, one of its "40 most influential alumni." Plosker was included with 39 others as part of SLIS's...

The transparent library coping with anonymity.(infotech)
January 1, 2008... PICTURE THIS: YOUR LIBRARY HAS launched a visionary long-range reorganization plan that sparks an anonymous, critical blog from staff members. Or your library appears in an anonymous YouTube or Flickr extravaganza that targets your...

Norma Blake: New Jersey State Librarian.(LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR 2008)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You hear it from the beaches and pine forests in the southern end of the state to the Delaware Water Gap in the northwest corner. Librarians and officials in education and government all recount the leadership and...

20 years and counting: in commemoration of the Librarian of the Year Award's 20th anniversary, all 19 of the profession's indefatigable stars return for an encore.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] What more illuminative view of librarianship through the years than from atop the shoulders of two decades of the field's finest? When LJ named them Librarians of the Year, these inimitable 19 (for the 20th, Norma...

Best audiobooks of 2007.
January 1, 2008... Heard any good books lately? Apparently, lots of people are listening. According to a survey conducted by the Audio Publishers Association, annual audiobook sales are now estimated at $923 million. Customers find books at libraries, retail...

Treading carefully: budgets nudge upward, but many libraries remain wary.(BUDGET REPORT 2008)
January 1, 2008... On the face of it, the libraries that reported back to us in the annual LJ Budget Survey are doing reasonably well, continuing the modest growth we reported last year ("Keeping Pace," LJ 1/07, p. 55-57). However, a closer look suggests that...

A healthy delivery.(Collection Development: Pregnancy)(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... Books on the topic of pregnancy abound; in fact, publishers are more attentive to the subject than ever. According to R.R. Bowker's Books in Print, 226 nonfiction pregnancy titles were published in 2006, a 30 percent increase over the decade...

Prepub alert.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... FICTION Allen, Sarah Addison. The Sugar Queen. Bantam. May 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-553-80548-9. $22. Retiring Josey bursts into bloom after agreeing to shelter brassy Della Lee from her nasty boyfriend. A book club feature at...

Mystery.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... CHINESE RIDDLES Thanks to its expanding presence on the world stage, modern China is a popular setting in the mystery genre. Peter May's series (The Killing Room) teams up a high-ranking Beijing police officer with an American pathologist. A...

Bruns, Don. St. Bart Breakdown.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Bruns, Don. St. Bart Breakdown. Oceanview, dist. by Midpoint Trade. Mar. 2008. c.268p. ISBN 978-1-933515-12-0. $24.95. M Rock music journalist Mick Sever (Jamaica Blue) goes to St. Bart to interview big-time music producer Danny Murtz but...

Campbell, Chester D. The Marathon Murders: A Greg McKenzie Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Campbell, Chester D. The Marathon Murders: A Greg McKenzie Mystery. Night Shadows. Feb. 2008. c.215p. ISBN 978-0-9799167-0-0. $26.95; pap. ISBN 978-0-9799167-1-7. $14.95. M Private investigators Jill and Greg McKenzie (Secret of the Scroll;...

Colley, Barbara. Wash and Die: A Charlotte LaRue Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Colley, Barbara. Wash and Die: A Charlotte LaRue Mystery. Kensington. Feb. 2008. c.234p. ISBN 978-0-7582-2251-0. $22. M There is something so engaging, so charming about Charlotte LaRue. She has not had an easy life, and she works hard and...

Hills, Kathleen. The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Hills, Kathleen. The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies. Poisoned Pen. Jan. 2008. c.307p. ISBN 978-1-59058-476-7. $24.95. M In the rural 1950s Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the father of a dysfunctional family is murdered in a field. Soon Constable...

Lavene, Joyce a Jim Lavene. Hooked Up: A Stock Car Racing Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Lavene, Joyce a Jim Lavene. Hooked Up: A Stock Car Racing Mystery. Midnight Ink. Jan. 2008. c.277p. ISBN 978-0-7387-1110-2. pap. $13.95. M In their second racing adventure after Swapping Paint, Nascar fans Ruby and Glad Wycznewski again...

Magson, Adrian. No Tears for the Lost.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Magson, Adrian. No Tears for the Lost. Creme de la Crime, dist. by Dufour. Feb. 2008. c.291p. ISBN 978-0-9551589-7-1. pap. $17.95. M A former British ambassador to Colombia receives his son's finger in the mail. What lies beneath the scheme...

Moody, Bill. Shades of Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Moody, Bill. Shades of Blue. Poisoned Pen. Feb. 2008. c.265p. ISBN 978-1-59058-485-9. $24.95. M Evan Horne is as good an investigator (Looking for Chet Baker) as he is a jazz pianist. Having returned to San Francisco from Europe, he...

Spencer, Sally. Death Watch: A Chief Inspector Woodend Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Spencer, Sally. Death Watch: A Chief Inspector Woodend Novel. Severn House. 2007. c.217p. ISBN 978-0-7278-6544-1. $28.95. M A 13-year-old girl goes missing, and Detective Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend's team is in charge of the search....

Wesley, Valerie Wilson. Of Blood and Sorrow: A Tamara Hayle Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Wesley, Valerie Wilson. Of Blood and Sorrow: A Tamara Hayle Mystery. One World: Ballantine. Jan. 2008. c.223p. ISBN 978-0-345-49271-5. $24.95. M In her eighth outing, PI Tamara Hayle (Dying in the Dark) is hired to return a child to her...

Akunin, Boris. Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Akunin, Boris. Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin. Random. Feb. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-0812-97860-5. pap. $14. M Fans of the Erast Fandorin mysteries (e.g., The Winter Queen) here get two for the price of one. In...

Box, C.J. Blue Heaven.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Box, C.J. Blue Heaven. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Jan. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-312-36570-7. $24.95. M Two young kids witness a backwoods execution-style murder in their rural Idaho hamlet. Worse yet, the killers--four retired cops from Los...

Ford, G.M. Nameless Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Ford, G.M. Nameless Night. Morrow. Feb. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-06-087442-1. $23.95. M Paul Hardy awakens in the hospital after a bad accident only to discover that he is no longer the man who has been living for the last seven years in a...

Harvey, John. Gone to Ground.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Harvey, John. Gone to Ground. Harcourt. Feb. 2008. c.400p. ISBN 978-0-15-101363-0. $25. M When academic Stephen Bryan is found dead in his bathroom, his face "pulled inside out," suspicion falls on his boyfriend, but there is no proof of...

Hyland, Adrian. Moonlight Downs.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Hyland, Adrian. Moonlight Downs. Soho Crime. Feb. 2008. c.325p. ISBN 978-1-56947-483-9. $24. M This distinctive debut novel is perfect for mystery fans who are craving new horizons. Emily Tempest is half Aboriginal and grew up in the...

Penny, Louise. The Cruelest Month: A Three Pines Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... * Penny, Louise. The Cruelest Month: A Three Pines Mystery. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Mar. 2008. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-312-35257-8. $23.95. M The Quebecois village of Three Pines (first introduced in Still Life and Fatal Grace) is once again...

Rees, Matt Beynon. A Grave in Gaza: An Omar Yussef Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... * Rees, Matt Beynon. A Grave in Gaza: An Omar Yussef Mystery. Soho Crime. Feb. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-1-56947-472-3. $24. M In Rees's exceptionally fine follow-up to his highly praised debut, The Collaborator of Bethlehem, the Palestinian...

Smith, April. Judas Horse: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... * Smith, April. Judas Horse: An FDI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery. Knopf. Feb. 2008. c.336p. ISBN 978-1-4000-4205-0. $23.95. M In this sequel to Good Morning, Killer, FBI Agent Ana Grey has just returned to the job from enforced time off...

Winspear, Jacqueline. An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... * Winspear, Jacqueline. An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel. Holt. Feb. 2008. c.338p. ISBN 978-0-8050-8215-9. $24. M Revenge is a dish served incompletely in Winspear's fifth Maisie Dobbs novel (after Messenger of Truth). This time,...

Prepub mystery.
January 1, 2008... Booth, Stephen. Scared To Live. Bantam. May 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-0-385-33907-0. $25. The answers to arson and assassination take Det. Sgt. Diane Fry and Det. Constable Ben Cooper from Derbyshire to the other side of Europe in this third...

Graphic novels.
January 1, 2008... LOVE AND COMICS have been in bed together since at least the 1700s, when witty kibyoshi (pictorial novels) recounted infatuations and misadventures in Japan's pleasure quarters (see Adam Kern's scholarly Manga from the Floating World,...

Abadzis, Nick. Laika.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Abadzis, Nick. Laika. First Second: Roaring Brook, 2007. 208p. bibliog. ISBN 978-1-59643-101-0. pap. $17.95. F With communism's triumph over capitalist science via Sputnik, Soviet Premier Khrushchev wanted an in-your-face sequel: a living...

Caniff, Milton. The Complete Terry and the Pirates.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Caniff, Milton. The Complete Terry and the Pirates. Vol. 1. IDW Pub. (Library of American Comics). 2007. 372p. ISBN 978-1-60010-100-7. $49.95. F Young Terry Lee, bequeathed a map to an abandoned Chinese mine by his late grandfather, sets...

Fleming, Ann Marie. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Fleming, Ann Marie. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). 2007. 170p. ISBN 978-1-59448-264-9. pap. $14. BIOG Like the linking-rings magic trick, two stories intertwine: Long Tack Sam's around-the-world life and...

Herriman, George. Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Herriman, George. Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty. Fantagraphics. 2007. 138p. ISBN 978-1-56097-854-1. $29.95. F Herriman's inventive and influential Krazy Kat Sunday strips are widely regarded as comics masterpieces and have...

Nowak, Naomi. House of Clay.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Nowak, Naomi. House of Clay. ComicsLit: NBM. 2007. 144p. ISBN 978-1-56163-511-5. pap. $12.95. F Beautiful psychedeco graphics spin out a story about a well-to-do daughter sent off to earn tuition for nursing school when family finances...

O'Malley, Bryan Lee. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... O'Malley, Bryan Lee. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together. Oni. 2007. 216p. ISBN 978-1-932664-49-2. pap. $11.95. F Scott Pilgrim, a dopey but lovable 23-year-old slacker and bassist for struggling Toronto band Sex Bob-omb, was dating Knives Chau...

Peeters, Frederik. Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Peeters, Frederik. Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story. Houghton. 2007. 192p. tr. from French by Anjali Singh. ISBN 978-0-618-82099-3. $18.95. AUTOBIOG At a youthfully dissipated summer house party, Fred is smitten by Cati and her joie de...

Project: Romantic; An Anthology Dedicated to Love and Love Stuff.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Project: Romantic; An Anthology Dedicated to Love and Love Stuff. AdHouse Bks. 2008. 255p. ed. by Chris Pitzer. ISBN 978-0-9770304-2-2. pap. $19.95. ANTHOL Thirty-three wildly varied minicomics make up this lavish color collection, ranging...