Library Journal articles from July 2003

Library Journal archives from July 2003

Librarians are public diplomats; USIA libraries did more for peace than all the current surveillance. (Editorial).(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... I remember the tragic loss to an information-starved world when the libraries of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) were closed. People from Marrakech to Moscow, Bangkok to Jakarta had used them as if they were local public libraries. They did...

No need for an MLS. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... In response to Bill Crowley ("The Suicide of the Public Librarian," LJ 4/15/03, p. 48-49), I'm a reference librarian who came to librarianship... after a professional career in another discipline.... I obtained an MLS and began work as a...

We knew it was the directors. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... Bill Crowley chose an alarming title for his essay ("The Suicide of the Public Librarian," LJ 4/15/03, p. 48-49). Wow, I thought that my kind were slowly killing themselves. Instead, I read and find out that library directors and administrators...

The force from Calgary. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... I enjoyed the Movers & Shakers 2003 supplement (LJ 3/15/03) and was especially impressed by Marilyn Wallace (p. 43), the "irresistible force" from Calgary. --Linda Cornett, Dir., Johnson & Wales Univ. Lib., Norfolk, VA

Completely objective. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... I was outraged and disappointed by your review of Future Guide Dogs (Video Reviews, LJ 4/1/03, p. 146). Your review suggests that I, the documentary filmmaker, am responsible for what people say and do in the film. It's a "documentary" not a...

Not quite there yet. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... The profile for Ex Libris ("The Competition Heats Up: Automated System Marketplace 2003," LJ 4/1/03, p. 62) implies that the implementation of ALEPH in the State University of New York system is complete. As I write, 19 of about 60 libraries...

SLA won't change name, hires director. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... At its 94th annual conference in New York, on June 11, members of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) could not muster a two-thirds majority to change the organization's name. SLA will continue with a branding initiative. Also, SLA named...

Five-day service should remain at New York PLs. (Late Bulletins).
July 1, 2003... Responding to public criticism, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg backed off from a "doomsday budget" that would have cut service to four days a week from five days a week at the city's three public library systems--the New York Public...

Las Vegas PL loses referendum. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A $50.6 million bond issue that would have built four new libraries in the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District (LV-CCLD) was rebuffed by 62 percent of voters on June 3. Library Director Daniel Walters told the Las Vegas Sun that it was a...

Atlanta bias verdict upheld. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A three-judge federal appeals court has upheld the verdict that found three board members and the director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System liable for discrimination against seven white librarians (see "Can Atlanta-Fulton PL Emerge...

Finalists named for Multnomah job. (Late Bulletins).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Four finalists have been named for the directorship of the Multnomah County Public Library, OR. Along with Deputy Director Ruth Metz, selected as interim director at the departure of Ginnie Cooper in December 2002, are Norman Maas, former...

BEA in Los Angeles: librarians show an increased presence; mixed buzz, less glitz, but an opportunity to meet publishers and authors, build collections, plan for book groups. (News).
July 1, 2003... No one expected the turnout in Los Angeles for the BookExpo America (BEA) annual convention, May 30-June 1, to duplicate last year's stampede to publishing's watering hole, New York City. However, attendance was stronger than in previous years...

At issue: vendors, prices, tours, & more. (Day of Dialog).
July 1, 2003... Publishers, distributors, audiobook producers, and authors joined some 225 librarians at the sixth annual Day of Dialog, cohosted by Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) and LJ at the Central Library May 29. Spearheaded by LJ Editor Francine...

In PA, hope for library funding: much or all of $37.5 million cut in state aid should be restored. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... After the Pennsylvania General Assembly earlier this year passed a budget that includes a 50 percent cut in state funding for libraries--from $75 million to $37.5 million--library advocates said they hoped the money would be restored in the...

ALA Web site problems aired; at emergency meeting, group discusses how to fix what's wrong. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The American Library Association's (ALA) Web Advisory Committee, along with additional member leaders in technology, came together to discuss ALA's beleaguered new web site (www.ala.org). ALA Executive Director Keith Fiels called the meeting,...

GPO, OMB agree on agency printing; private printers to be allowed, but must go via GPO, provide copies. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Public Printer of the United States Brace R. James and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. announced a compromise June 6 that will allow executive branch agencies to choose their own printers but also help...

Some state funds cut for Detroit PL; interim director Skowronski finally named to permanent position. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... After the Michigan Senate voted to reduce state funding for the Detroit Public Library (DPL) to $100,000 from the $2.6 million that Gov. Jennifer Granholm pro posed, the House in mid-June reinstated $1.668 million. DPL is one of five...

Knox County, TN, finally gets director; search committee's choice rejected by board, then mayor steps in. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The drawn-out saga to find a new director for the Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, TN, has finally been resolved--though not without a final twist. L.J. "Larry" Frank, former director of the Hinsdale Public Library, IL, was named by Knox...

Voters finally save New Rochelle PL; separate tax passes on third try, after contentious campaign. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The New Rochelle Public Library, NY, won a reprieve via citizens who voted 7,098 to 4,254 June 3 to approve a $3 million tax to keep the facility from closing on July 1. The library's financial problems stem from a 1996 law that forces cities...

Follett Media Unit merges with BWI; video/audio megadistributor to join book division for single sales outlet. (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Attention library materials buyers: the Follett Library and School Group has merged two of its divisions. Follett Media Distribution (FMD), one of the library market's largest distributors of video, DVD, CD-ROM, audiobooks, and compact discs,...

CA PL conference stresses creativity; library must create engaging experience; staffers are "on stage". (News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... How do you make your library a destination? Teams from 36 California public libraries tried to answer that at a conference held May 18-20 at the new Cerritos Library, also known as "The Experience Library." The conference was sponsored by the...

Lexington Public Library. (Public Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Kathleen Imhoff, former assistant director of the Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been named to head the Lexington Public Library, KY. The job, which started July 7, pays $90,000 a year. The other finalist was Jo Ann Pinder,...

Hawaii State Librarian. (Public Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Hawaii State Librarian Virginia Lowell retired June 30 when her contract expired, citing family responsibilities, even though the Board of Education wanted her to stay on and steer the statewide public library system.

San Jose Public Library. (Public Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... San Jose Public Library, CA, won't have to close some branches an additional day each week. Mayor Ron Gonzales announced June 4 that whittling the schedule of 13 out of 17 branch libraries from six days to five was not a viable means to plug...

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. (Public Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... It looks like branch libraries will remain open in the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC, as Republican county commissioners have released a list of budget priorities that rely on no raises for employees. This responded to...

St. Paul Public Library. (Public Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly and the city council have put aside their differences over how to fund the St. Paul Public Library (SPPL). Kelly attempted to overturn the council's April 2 ordinance making the library system a separate entity from...

Long Beach Public Library. (Public Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A gift from city prosecutor Tom Reeves to the foundation of the Long Beach Public Library, CA, has prompted outrage from city council members who assert he overstepped his boundaries. Following a settlement of a misdemeanor case against JetBlue...

Information Access Alliance. (Academic Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Information Access Alliance, a group of six library organizations, is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to block Cinven and Candover's proposed purchase of Bertelsmann Springer (see News, LJ 6/15/03, p. 20). The alliance is concerned that...

University of Texas at Austin. (Academic Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Fred M. Heath, dean of libraries at Texas A&M University at College Station since 1993 and president of the Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors, has been named the new vice provost and director of general libraries at the...

University of Nebraska. (Academic Libraries).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... As part of their estates, two University of Nebraska (UN) alumnae have given nearly $4 million for the unrestricted support of UN-Lincoln Libraries. The separate bequests were made by Mildred Othmer Peterson, who died in 2001, and Mariana...

EBSCO. (National/International News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... EBSCO has "definitively closed" its acquisition of the U.S. operations of RoweCom and its subsidiary agencies. EBSCO says that more than 70 percent of publishers support the deal and will fulfill the orders placed and paid for by libraries. For...

Library and Bookseller Protection Act. (National/International News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has introduced S.1158, the Library and Bookseller Protection Act, which is somewhat of a companion to H.R. 1157 in the House of Representatives, the Freedom To Read Protection Act of 2003. Both would restore the...

Bibliotheque National de France. (National/International News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... International library organizations are decrying the decision by U.S. officials to deny a representative from the French national library, the Bibliotheque National de France, entry to inspect Iraqi libraries and archives as part of a UNESCO...

Directory of Open Access Journals. (National/International News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Officials at Lund University in Sweden announced the official launch of an online directory of open access journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ; www.doaj.org) is supported by the Information Program of the Open Society...

UCITA. (National/International News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Vermont is the fourth state to enact a UCITA "bomb-shelter" law, which protects consumers and businesses against the repercussions of UCITA, the 'Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. To date, only Virginia and Maryland have enacted...

Tutor.com acquires LSSI's Reference chat service; customers shocked but will wonder what the pricing structure will be; CEO claims business as usual. (Industry News).
July 1, 2003... Tutor.com, which provides online, one-to-one K-12 tutoring, has purchased LSSI's Reference Division, a leader in the chat, or virtual reference, market. LSSI supplies the VRT software for libraries to provide chat as well as the Web Reference...

ProQuest adds Washington Post; Historical Newspapers and Digital National Security Archive enlarged. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... ProQuest has added a 110-year digital archive of the Washington Post to its Historical Newspapers database. The archive covers each page of the newspaper from 1877 to 1987 in PDF files. Full text of the publication from 1988 forward also is...

TLC puts video preview on OPACS; streaming samples will help patrons borrow and librarians buy. (Industry News).(The Library Corporation partnering with Video Pipeline, Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Library Corporation (TLC) is partnering with Video Pipeline, Inc. to provide streaming video to Library. Solution and CARL.Solution users. Through the partnership, libraries will be able to include streaming video previews to VHS/DVD rifles...

Automation vets rejoin the field: Wilson, Walton, Hatvany, and Rietdyk back in the library technology fold. (Infotech People).(Jim Wilson, Robert Walton, Bela Hatvany and Ron Rietdyk)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Jim Wilson, one of the founding partners of Dynix, has rejoined the company as senior library advisor to work with prospective customers of the Horizon Information Management System. Wilson established Dynix in 1983 with Paul Sybrowsky and...

VTLS scores more RFID contracts; Allentown biz school/Atlantic Builders Group latest customers. (Installations).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... VTLS is making further headway with its RFID Solution. The Allentown Business School Library, PA, and the Atlantic Builders Group on behalf of the Harford County Public Library, MD, have contracted with the vendor for the installation of the...

Maricopa County goes GIS; Arizona Library District updating service with Polaris and more. (Installations).(GIS Information System's Polaris)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Maricopa County Library District, which claims to be Arizona's largest countywide system, is upgrading its automation capabilities with GIS Information System's Polaris. Along with circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, and more, the...

Regis University selects Millennium; Jesuit school latest Colorado library to contract with Innovative. (Installations).(Innovative Interfaces)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Denver-based Regis University has signed a contract with Innovative Interfaces for the installation of the vendor's Millennium system. The Jesuit school, which is the state's largest private university, serves 12,000 students across three...

Sirsi Corp. signs Rochester Public; Minnesota SELCO member library to install suite of products. (Installations).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sirs/ Corporation has added the Rochester Public Library, MN, to its stable of customers. The library has signed for the installation of a suite of products including a Unicom Library Management System, Web2 e-Library with DataStream-enriched...

National Geographic licenses AGent; prestigious society contracts with Auto-Graphics for portal tool. (Installations).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The famed National Geographic Society is the latest institution to contract with Auto-Graphics for the vendor's AGent portal tool. Announcing the deal, Auto-Graphics said that AGent "will be set up to access a variety of local resources and...

Web watch. (Infotech).(websites on human rights)
July 1, 2003... CLICKING ON THE WEB... Human rights violations are on the rise. The session of the United Nation's Commission on Human Rights, which concluded on April 25, had a full agenda concerning the records of countries as disparate as China, Columbia,...

Patriotism as if our constitution matters. (Digital Libraries).
July 1, 2003... YOU HAVE PROBABLY thought about what you will do if the FBI comes to your library and requests your circulation records for the last few months. And you've no doubt thought about your web logs that keep track of every click a user makes. ...

Remaking an online system. (Online Databases).
July 1, 2003... ONLINE COMPANIES continually tinker with their systems. Commercial aggregators need to accommodate new databases or new features such as linking. Search engines must change ranking algorithms to subvert rogue web sites or hackers who seek to...

University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Elizabeth Aversa, Past President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, has been appointed Director, University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies, Tuscaloosa. She was Director, University of...

Columbia University Libraries and Information Services. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Jennifer Dell is now Communications Coordinator, Columbia University Libraries and Information Services, New York. She most recently served as a Communications Officer, Ministry of Finance, Government of British Columbia, Victoria.

Santa Clara County Library System. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Sarah Flowers is now Deputy Librarian, Santa Clara County Library System, San Jose, CA. She was Acting Deputy Librarian since March 1. Flowers is an LJ 2002 Mover & Shaker.

Public Library Association. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Agnes Griffen, Past President of the Public Library Association (1981-82), has retired from the Tucson-Pima Public Library, AZ, where she was Director since 1997.

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCHC). (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Kathy Kennedy-Brunner is now Manager, Madeira Branch, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCHC). She has been with the system since 1991. Lisa Ribar has been appointed Manager, Bond Hill Branch, PLCHC. She has been with the...

New York Public Library. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Jean Strouse, author and biographer (Morgan, American Financier; Alice James), has been appointed the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library. She succeeds...

Dacus Library. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Gina Price White was promoted to Director of Archives and Special Collections, Dacus Library, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. She has been with the library since 1986.

Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Herbert S. White, retired Professor and Dean Emeritus, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humane Letters by Indiana University. White is well known as the...

Obituaries.(Obituary)
July 1, 2003... Cunagunda Pontez deLasso-Morgan, retired Librarian, Fenton Art and Glass Company Museum Library and Learning Center, Williamstown, WV, died May 2 at the age of 93. Her career in librarianship spanned 70 years. Leslie Troutman, former...

Opportunity in the air: facing sweeping change, information professionals blaze new career paths. (Special Librarians)(Cover Story).(Cover Story)
July 1, 2003... IN ANY CAREER, there will always be things you can control, and things you can't. But for special librarians, it is getting a little hard to tell the difference. Work in a venerable corporate library, say at Time Inc. or perhaps the American...

Dealing with digital: as government documents librarians incorporate more digital materials, they are finding that the very shape of their libraries is transformed. (A Day in the Life GovDocs Libraries).
July 1, 2003... WHEN CAROLYN KOHLER became a government publications librarian at the University of Iowa in 1968, her biggest problem was finding enough storage room for the infinitely expanding print collection. Now, as the U.S. government moves toward a goal...

Sending postcards from the airport. (Autism/Asperger's).
July 1, 2003... IMAGINE TRAVELING to an exotic island, and the only postcard you send to family and friends is from the airport upon arrival. How would you describe where you're going to go and what it will be like from just the sales brochures and travel...

We must protect state library funding. (Backtalk).
July 1, 2003... SO THE BATTLE goes on, waged not in Iraq but in Denver. The Joint Budget Committee submitted its Long Bill to the Legislature, thus proposing the 2003-04 Colorado state budget and simultaneously raising a collective moan. Among the line...

How do you manage?
July 1, 2003... CASE STUDY Whose Job Is It, Anyway? THE WYETH PUBLIC Library was the latest in the field to be caught in the crosshairs of the withering economy. As in many such facilities across the country, the board and Director Eileen Moran had...

Prepub alert.
July 1, 2003... COMING IN NOVEMBER 2003... holiday greetings from Deveraux, Mitchard, and Perry, plus everything from a new series by Gabaldon to a new translation of Don Quixote. And nonfiction ranges widely, too; there are two memoirs recalling Ann Landers,...

Cookbook best sellers.
July 1, 2003... 1 Forever Summer [HC] Nigella Lawson. Hyperion. 2003. ISBN 1-4013-0016-2. $35. 2 Conscious Cuisine: A New Style of Cooking [HC] Cary Neff. Sourcebooks. 2002. ISBN 1-57071-926-8. $35. 3 The Gift of Southern Cooking [HC] ...

BookExpo: a win-win experience: librarians and publishers find mutual agendas at the U.S. book show. (Inside Track).
July 1, 2003... For publisher/librarian relations, BookExpo America was a win-win show. Librarians, who totaled some 11 percent of the 6,684 book buyers scouting the halls, found publishers eager to talk to them, a gamut of material from houses of every size,...

Graphic novels.
July 1, 2003... Tokyopop's great success since launching its "Authentic Manga" line in early 2002--much of it in general bookstores as opposed to comics shops--is having a powerful impact on the comics industry. Industry pundits have been suggesting for years...

Asamiya, Kia. Batman: Child of Dreams.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... DC Comics: Warner Bros. 2003. c.352p. ed. by Max Allan Collins. ISBN 1-56389-906-X. $24.95. F Manga artist and writer Asamiya (Nadesico; Silent Mobius) here takes on a topic little explored by Japanese creators: the American superhero....

Collins, Max Allan (text) & Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Josef Rubinstein (illus). On the Road to Perdition: Oasis.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Paradox: DC Comics. 2003. c.96p. ISBN 1-4012-0068-0. pap. $7.95. F Collins originally intended Road to Perdition (the GN upon which the multiple-Oscar-nominated movie was based) as an extended series in the manner of one of his...

Dixon, Chuck (text) & Jeff Johnson & others (illus.). Way of the Rat. Vol. 1: The Walls of Zhumar.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... CrossGeneration Comics. 2003. c. 160p. ISBN 1-931484-51-1. pap. $15.95. F In the city of Zhumar, on the western frontier of an empire based on medieval China, the thief Boon Sai Hung steals a ring and a scroll from an aged scholar. A...

Gallagher, Fred & others. Megatokyo: Vol. 1: Chapter Zero.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... I.C. Entertainment. 2003. c. 144p. ISBN 1-929090-30-7. pap. $9.95. F Two young computer gamers fly to Japan on a whim, spend lots of money on cool stuff, and discover that they're stranded when they can't afford plane tickets home. So...

Johns, Geoff & others. JSA: Fair Play.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... DC Comics: Warner Bros. 2003. c. 176p. ISBN 1-56389-959-0. pap. $14.95. F This is the fourth collection of DC's latest series about the Justice Society of America, a revived version of the company's first super-group, originally created in...

Katsura, Masakazu. Video Girl Ai: Vol. 5: Spinoff.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Viz Comics. 2003. c.192p. tr. from Japanese by Yuji Oniki. ISBN 1-56931-855-7. pap. $15.95. F In this manga series, depressed high school student Yota Moteuchi rents an adult video that promises, I'll Cheer You Up. He is astonished when...

Kesel, Barbara & others. Meridian: Traveler Edition. Vol 1: Flying Solo.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... CrossGeneration Comics. 2003. c.192p. ISBN 1-931484-54-6. pap. $9.95. F This new, smaller (5 1/2" x 8"), and less expensive edition of the first volume of Meridian is the first book in CrossGen's "Traveler" line, created as a response to...

Mattotti, Lorenzo (illus.) & Jerry Kramsky (text). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Comics Lit. 2003. c.64p. tr. from Italian by Adeline Darlington & others. ISBN 1-56163-330-5. $15.95. F This is a European adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's horror classic, in which the scientist Dr. Jekyll, oppressed by the struggle...

Rabagliati, Michel. Paul Has a Summer Job.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Drawn & Quarterly. 2003. c.152p. tr. from French by Helge Dascher. ISBN 1-896597-54-8. pap. $16.95. F When Paul is thrown off an after-school art project by his overbearing principal because of poor grades, he quits high school and gets a...

Taniguchi, Tomoko. Princess Prince.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... CPM Manga: Central Park Media. 2003. c.336p. ISBN 1-58664-860-8. pap. $15.95. F Fifteen years before the opening of this shojo (girls') manga fantasy, the King of Gemstone was given a prophecy by an angel bird that his kingdom would be...

Thompson, Craig. Blankets.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Top Shelf Productions. 2003. c.592p. ISBN 1-891830-43-0. pap. $29.95. AUTOBIOG Four years in the making, this is Thompson's follow-up to his first GN, the acclaimed Good-Bye, Chunky Rice. Here he enters the realm of autobiographical...

Feiffer, Jules. The Great Comic Book Heroes.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Fantagraphics. 2003. c.80p. ISBN 1-56097-501-6. pap. $8.95. GRAPHIC ARTS The original version of this long out-of-print book was first published in 1965 by Dial Press and featured more than 100 pages of comic-book stories from 1939 to 1950...

* Nakazawa, Kenji. Barefoot Gen. Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Last Gasp of San Francisco. 2003. c.296p. tr. from Japanese by Project Gen. ISBN 0-86719-450-2. pap. $14.95. F This groundbreaking manga was first published in Japan in the early 1970s and published in the United States first by New Society...

Russell, P. Craig. The Magic Flute.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... NBM. 2003. c.144p. ISBN 1-56163-350-X. $24.95. F Artist Russell, creator of an Eisner Award-winning comics adaptation of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, has also done several other opera adaptations over the years, which NBM is now...

* All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 3d ed. Backbeat: Music Player Network. 2003. c.786p. ed. by Vladimir Bogdanov & others, index. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. pap. $24.95. REF Audiophiles are made, not born; a record collection plump with dud recordings and bad purchases is the...

American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... 2 vols. 2d ed. ABC-CLIO. 2003. c.1900p. permanent paper. ed. by Robert L. Beisner & Kurt Hanson. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-57607-080-8. $225. REF Six years ago, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations set out to...

Campbell, Gordon. The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Oxford Univ. Jul. 2003. c.862p. permanent paper. illus. ISBN 0-19-860175-1. $150. REF Campbell (Renaissance literature, Univ. of Leicester, U.K.) has written a comprehensive, one-volume dictionary of Renaissance Europe. In contrast to...

Childhood Disorders Diagnostic Desk Reference.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Wiley. 2003.694p. ed. by Elaine Fletcher-Janzen & Cecil Reynolds. illus. index. LC 2002032387. ISBN 0-471-40428-4. $75. REF Book collaborators (Encyclopedia of Special Education, 2d ed.) and college educators Fletcher-Janzen (Univ. of...

Drug Interaction Facts[TM] 2003.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Facts & Comparisons[R]. 2003. 1543p. ed. by David S. Tatro. index. ISBN 1-57439-137-2. pap. $79.95. REF With the average American senior citizen taking more than a dozen prescription drugs every year, undesirable interactions will occur....