Library Journal articles from March 2006

Library Journal archives from March 2006

Forty years and counting: John Berry: conscience of the profession, voice of LJ.(Editorial)
March 1, 2006... LIBRARY DIRECTORS AND DEANS COME AND GO. Presidents of the American Library Association (ALA) change yearly. It a the last 40 years there have been nine executive directors of ALA and about half a dozen editors-in-chief of the ALA house organ....

The precarious profession: predators, police, and propagandists jeopardize Internet integrity.(blatant berry)
March 1, 2006... THE INTEGRITY OF OUR DIGITAL INFORMATION systems is in jeopardy. The net and web upon which we all depend to retrieve information, conduct commerce, educate ourselves and our students, and communicate are under assault by increasingly...

CT, the nondestination.(feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... David Bryant ("Uneasy in the Big Easy," Feedback, LJ 1/06, p. 12), what a pompous blockhead! Aside from your slander of American Library Association (ALA) officers (they can defend themselves), I took exception to your gross, negative...

Fair and balanced?(feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed David Bryant's "Uneasy in the Big Easy" (Feedback, LJ 1/06, p. 12). We work in a wonderful profession, but letters like that are the only incentive to thumb through a copy of LJ. Imagine how much...

New Orleans reborn.(feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... We visited New Orleans in December and couldn't have had a better time (David Bryant, "Uneasy in the Big Easy," Feedback, LJ 1/06, p. 12). The people in shops thanked us for coming down to their city. Enough restaurants were back in business...

Subsidize scholarship.(feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... While many in the university press community have misgivings about the Google Library project, many others view this as an opportunity to... provide important content to faculty and researchers. The mission of a university press is to...

LJ's Hoffert wins reviewing award.(Barbara Hoffert wins Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group Award)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Barbara Hoffert won this year's prestigious Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group Award for excellence in book reviewing. Hoffert, who celebrates her 20th anniversary with LJ this April, has been editor of the book review since 1992. She also...

Beyond price and location.(FedEx Corp.'s marketing strategies)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... "You cannot defend a brand by promoting your features.... FedEx is in the peace of mind business, not shipping. What is at the very heart of why people turn to libraries?" --Patricia Martin, LitLamp Communications Group, at the OCLC...

Brooklyn PL calls Frey fiction.(Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc. and Brooklyn Public Library 's classification of James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces")(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Doubleday, the publisher of James Frey's dubious "memoir" A Million Little Pieces, reaffirmed on February 1 that it considered his book nonfiction, even as an author's note, to be added to future editions, acknowledged numerous falsehoods. But...

Stat watch.(Illustration)
March 1, 2006... STAT WATCH Where Fiction Is Set TOP STATES California Texas Florida Virginia North Carolina TOP CITIES New York London, UK Los Angeles Chicago San Francisco Source: R.R. Bowker's analysis of 13,000...

Council approves dues increase: at Midwinter Meeting, author Codrescu slams ALA stance on Cuba; New Orleans concerns remain; LIS, RFID prompt debate.
March 1, 2006... ALA MIDWINTER CONFERENCE REPORT The American Library Association (ALA), returning to pleasant San Antonio for its Midwinter Meeting for the first time since 2000, approved some important steps to organizational progress, notably a...

Berry retires, but not quite.(John N. Berry III officially retired from the staff of Library Journal )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... John N. Berry III officially retired from the staff of Library Journal on January 31, capping a more than 40-year career. His tenure at LJ was marked by his commitment to editorial integrity reflected in his very first editorial upon being...

Sign up for LIXpress, LJ Academic Newswire.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... LJXpress is a weekly snapshot of the latest news, reviews, and Library Journal.com web exclusives such as interviews with trendmakers, LJ's Advice to the Librarylorn, collection development lists, and more for public and academic librarians....

Bush proposes budget boost.(George W. Bush's fund to public libraries)
March 1, 2006... Urges folding NCLIS & NCES into IMLS in 18 months Despite a tight federal budget, the Bush administration has proposed a nearly five percent increase in library funding. The Library Services and Technology Act budget would be $220,855,000,...

Memphis PL faces four percent cut.(LJ NEWS)(Memphis Public Library and Information Center)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... The Memphis Public Library and Information Center will have to cut $700,000 from its operating budget and lose $50,000 in state aid for its next fiscal year--in all, a nearly four percent cut from its $19 million budget. (The city provides...

Indianapolis borrows $45m for library.(LJ NEWS)(Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library board voted to borrow $45 million to complete the central library expansion project. Property taxes will rise, approximately $3-$4 per $100,000 assessed value, according to the Indianapolis Star....

MA PL rejects FBI computer request.(public library)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Police in Newton, MA, along with state police and agents from the FBI, appeared quickly at the Newton Free Library on January 18 after they learned that a terrorist threat sent to nearby Brandeis University had been generated from a library...

ALISE: poster sessions key.(Association for Library and Information Science Education )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... From Research to Practice: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in LIS Education" was Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) president Ken Haycock's theme for the 2006 annual conference in San Antonio, January...

Calendar.(LJ NEWS)(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... APRIL 5-7--Oregon Library Assn., Salem www.olaweb.org 5-7--Tennessee Library Assn./ Southeastern Library Assn., Memphis wwwlib.utk.edu/~tla; sela.jsu.edu 18-24--Florida Library Assn., Orlando www.flalib.org 19-21--New Mexico...

Library of Congress.(Mary Jane Deeb has been appointed )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Mary Jane Deeb has been named Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress (LC), Washington, DC. Head of the Near East Section since 2004, Deeb joined LC in 1998 as the Arab World specialist. In 2003, she led an...

University of Oklahoma Schusterman Campus: Yong-Mi Kim.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Yong-Mi Kim has joined the faculty of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma Schusterman Campus in Tulsa, a distance education hub offering MLIS and Knowledge Management graduate degrees as well as a B.A. in...

North Carolina State University Libraries.(people)(appoints Monica McCormick)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Monica McCormick is the new Director of Digital Publishing at the North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh. McCormick, who served for 16 years at the University of California Press, ten as Principal Editor, will receive her Master of...

Oklahoma Schusterman Campus: Betsy Martens.(people)(appointment)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Betsy Martens has joined the faculty of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma Schusterman Campus in Tulsa. Martens earned her Ph.D. in Information Transfer from Syracuse University, NY. Her dissertation,...

Columbia University.(people)(Michael Ryan appointed at Rare Book and Manuscript Library)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Michael Ryan, Director of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has been appointed Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, at Columbia University, New York, effective May 1. He...

North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries.(people)(hires John Rickety)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... John rickety has been named Collection Manager for the Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, Raleigh. He joined the intitution as an NCSU Libraries Fellow in July 2005, after receiving a Master of...

Obituary.(Richard Couper)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 1, 2006... Richard Couper, President and Chief Executive of the New York Public Library (NYPL) from 1971 to 1981, died on January 25. He was 83. Couper was a foundation executive when recruited to NYPL. During his tenure, the library computerized its card...

No status quo in San Antonio: ALA Midwinter Meeting yields small crop of new products, but vendors grapple with big issues.(ALA MIDWINTER CONFERENCE REPORT)
March 1, 2006... The American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting traditionally isn't a grand showcase of new products. The most recent affair in San Antonio, January 20-25, proved no exception, although the venue boasted a fairly spacious and...

3M adds two RFID SelfChecks.(INFOTECH)(radio frequency identification)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... 3M beefed up its stable of SelfCheck Systems with the addition of new C-Series and R-Series units, both of which employ RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. The C-Series unit is for checkin only and features real-time checkin, 3M...

Polaris portable inventory tool.(INFOTECH)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Another cool item on the show floor was the Polaris Inventory Manager. The handheld device, roughly the size of a notebook (tablet) PC, incorporates a stylus pen so library staff can perform a detailed inventory of their collection without RFID...

ENCompass name dropped.(INFOTECHa)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... In one of the bigger surprises at Midwinter, Endeavor told LJ that it has dropped its ENCompass brand and renamed all the products in that line. Henceforth, ENCompass for Digital Collections will be called simply Curator, ENCompass for Journals...

Wilson adds Play Index, more art.(INFOTECH)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... WilsonWeb is now offering online access to Play Index, which includes entries on all major plays from the ancient Greeks to modern Broadway and off-Broadway--roughly 30,000 citations in all. The database is highly searchable, allowing users to...

Auto-Graphics debuts Verso 6.0.(INFOTECH)(Auto-Graphics Software)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Auto-Graphics came to ALA armed with the latest version of AGent Verso. The company told LJ that Verso 6.0 is tailored for medium to large public libraries and is completely web-based and sans any thin clients. Auto-Graphics is marketing the...

Safety in numbers.
March 1, 2006... "ENCYCLOPEDIA-OFF" A researcher asked about "opml" so I searched Encyclopaedia Britannica Online and found nothing, but Wikipedia gave a full definition along with explication of the acronym (Outline Processor Markup Language) and links to XML...

What chat transcripts reveal.
March 1, 2006... CHAT REFERENCE PROVIDES NEW ways to interact with patrons. Research by Marie L. Radford of Rutgers University (mradford@scils.rutgers.edu) and Lynn Silipigni Connaway of OCLC (connawal@oclc.org), supported by the Institute of Museum and Library...

Striking thirteen: librarians, publishers, and book vendors better have their eyes wide open for the changes to come with the new ISBN-13.(international standard book number )
March 1, 2006... The most elemental identifier of a book, the international standard book number (ISBN) allows publishers, booksellers, and libraries to label works in a consistent way and to distinguish not only among different titles but also among different...

Valeria Fike: College of DuPage Library, Glen Ellyn, IL.(PARAPROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR 2006)
March 1, 2006... "She practices what we all preach!" a member of her team writes about Valeria Fike, supervisor of reference support and College and Career Information Center services at the College of DuPage Library (CODL), Glen Ellyn, IL. Thus begins a...

Hot ice, cool birds.(science publishing introduces books)
March 1, 2006... What is "hot" in popular science publishing can be curious and unexpected, but it is always revealing. For example, global warming has been in newspaper headlines recently; so, what has been a frequent topic in the 38 best science books of...

And the winners are....(the best performance awards in science books)
March 1, 2006... It's awards season once again, and here are the 2005 winners of the major science book prizes (first detailed in last year's article, LJ 3/1/05, p. 46-47). The awards are primarily intended to recognize science books targeted to general...

Conferencing @ your computer: the ins and outs of virtual conferences.(virtual conferencing brings everyone online)
March 1, 2006... Last year we presented at teaching and learning conferences in Illinois, Hawaii, and California and at national audiences for programs sponsored by PALINET and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). We didn't earn any frequent...

Boston beckons.(PLA PREVIEW 2006)(public libraries' seminars)(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... The semiannual Public Library Association (PLA) meeting always takes a healthy bite out of the numbers generated by the American Library Association's (ALA) summer annual. With ALA heading for steamy New Orleans, which still is recovering from...

Down South America way.(Collection Development / Travel to South America)
March 1, 2006... South America is a continent defined most, perhaps, by extremes: extreme jungles, extreme mountains, extreme animals, extreme governments. The Amazon River, which spreads across much of the continent and houses some of the world's most unique...

Smoking gun.(coworkers smoking habits)
March 1, 2006... "THERE GOES THE CHIMNEY," Kathleen Groh said under her breath, watching fellow parapro Phyllis Wright heading toward the door of the Vickers Public Library, a cigarette and her lucky Zippo with the four-leaf clover on the side clutched tight in...

Groh up.(workplace disadvantages)
March 1, 2006... There really are two issues here--confusion about the library's break policy and the staff member who has taken it upon herself to spy on her coworkers. The first problem is the easier to address. The library's employee manual should...

Put it in writing.(managing work hours)
March 1, 2006... While it may seem that smoking is the issue here, it is not. Certainly, a rift between the smoking and nonsmoking employees at Vickers PL is the catalyst in this situation, but a lack of an enforced break policy is truly to blame for the...

Prepub alert.
March 1, 2006... FICTION Arana, Marie. Cellophane. Dial: Random. Jul. 2006. 416p. ISBN 0-385-33664-0. $24. Having earned a National Book Award nomination for her memoir, American Chica, the Washington Post Book World's editor is now chancing fiction....

Mystery.(mystery fiction collections)
March 1, 2006... TOUGH CHICKS Coming this spring is a plethora of strong, savvy females. Elizabeth Darcy (North by Northanger) uses compassion and intelligence to solve a crime. The lively Blackbird sisters (Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too) combine their innate...

Prepub mystery.
March 1, 2006... Albert, Susan Wittig. The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood. Berkley Prime Crime. Jul. 2006. 352p. ISBN 0-425-21004-9. $23.95. Rats, cats, fairies, and undesirable real estate development besets Beatrix Potter and her new hometown of Sawrey in her...

Almond, Steve & Julianna Baggott. Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Almond, Steve & Julianna Baggott. Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions. Algonquin. Apr. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 1-56512-443-X. $22.95. F Two thirtysomething wedding guests, John and Jane, recognize a common edginess in each other, a...

Armstrong, Sarah. Salt Rain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Armstrong, Sarah. Salt Rain. MacAdam/Cage. Apr. 2006. c.220p. ISBN 1-59692-173-0. $22. F In this debut from journalist Armstrong, originally published in Australia, 15-year-old Allie lives with her mother, Mae, in Sydney. When Mae drowns...

Asensi, Matilde. The Last Cato.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Asensi, Matilde. The Last Cato. Rayo: HarperCollins. Apr. 2006. c.480p, tr. from Spanish by Pamela Carmell. ISBN 0-06082857-9 [ISBN 978-0-06-082857-8]. $24.95. F In her first novel to be published in English, Spanish author Asensi tells a...

Aston, Elizabeth. The True Darcy Spirit.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Aston, Elizabeth. The True Darcy Spirit. Touchstone: S. & S. Mar. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 0-7432-7490-3. pap. $14. F In Mr. Darcy's Daughters, Aston created five young women as the offspring of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Two of them,...

Child, Lee. The Hard Way.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Child, Lee. The Hard Way: A Jack Reacher Novel. Random. May 2006. c.384p. ISBN 0-385-33669-1. $25. F Jack Reacher may know the time to the minute without a watch and bring justice to bear wherever he goes, but this time he does it the...

Crusie, Jennifer & Bob Mayer. Don't Look Down.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Crusie, Jennifer & Bob Mayer. Don't Look Down. St. Martin's. Apr. 2006. c.384p. ISBN 0-312-34812-6 [ISBN 978-0-312-34812-0]. $24.95. F Noted romance/chick-lit author Crusie (Bet Me) and adventure author Mayer (Z: A Dave Reilly Novel) team...

Dewberry, Elizabeth. His Lovely Wife.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Dewberry, Elizabeth. His Lovely Wife. Harcourt. Mar. 2006. 288p. ISBN 0-15-101221-0. $24. F "His lovely wife"--these words are meant to compliment, but often they reduce the spouse of a famous man to not much at all. Dewberry (Flesh and...

Fumiko Hayashi. Floating Clouds.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Fumiko Hayashi. Floating Clouds. Columbia Univ. Mar. 2006. c.304p, tr. from Japanese by Lane Dunlop. ISBN 0-231-13628-5. $27.50. F Fumiko (1903-51) received numerous accolades for her contributions to modern Japanese literature, but this...

Hassinger, Amy. The Priest's Madonna.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Hassinger, Amy. The Priest's Madonna. Putnam. Apr. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 0-399-15317-9. $23.95. F When Marie first meets the priest Berenger Sauniere, she is a little girl captivated by his charm and youth. When he is later assigned as...

Hendra, Tony. The Messiah of Morris Avenue.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Hendra, Tony. The Messiah of Morris Avenue. Holt. Apr. 2006. c.256p. ISBN 0-8050-7964-5 [ISBN 978-0-8050-7964-7]. $24. F In Hendra's debut novel (see his hit memoir, Father Joe), the Christian Far Right totally controls the U.S. government....

Iggulden, Conn. Emperor: The Gods of War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Iggulden, Conn. Emperor: The Gods of War. Delacorte. Mar. 2006. c.400p. ISBN 0-38533767-1 [ISBN 978-0-385-33767-0]. $25. F This is the fourth and possibly last installment in Iggulden's epic series (see also Emperor: The Field of Swords)...

John, Marie-Elena. Unburnable.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... John, Marie-Elena. Unburnable. Amistad: HarperCollins. Apr. 2006. c.256p. ISBN 0-06-083757-8 [ISBN 978-0-06-083757-0]. $23.95. F The psychological damage caused by not knowing one's personal history comes center stage in John's alluring...

Kwitney, Alisa. Sex As a Second Language.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Kwitney, Alisa. Sex as a Second Language. Atria: S. & S. Apr. 2006. c.330p. ISBN 0-7432-6890-3. $22. F Soap opera actress--turned--ESL teacher Kat Miner is about to turn 40, and her life isn't where she expected it to be. Her messy divorce...

Lansens, Lori. The Girls.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Lansens, Lori. The Girls. Little, Brown. May 2006. c.384p. ISBN 0-316-06903-5. $23.95. F Twenty-nine-year-old twins Ruby and Rose Darien are conjoined at the head and share an essential vein, which makes separation impossible. Born...

Morrissey, Donna. Sylvanus Now.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Morrissey, Donna. Sylvanus Now. Norton. Apr. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 0-393-32869-4. pap. $14.95. F As in her noted previous novels (Kit's Law and Downhill Chance), Morrissey's latest takes place in remote coastal Newfoundland. It is the 1950s,...

Mosley, Walter. Fortunate Son.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Mosley, Walter. Fortunate Son. Little, Brown. Apr. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 0-316-11471-5 [ISBN 978-0-316-11471-4]. $23.95. F Tommy was born out of wedlock with a hole in his heart; he's also lame and black. Eric, on the other hand, glows with...

Mullins, Meg. The Rug Merchant.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Mullins, Meg. The Rug Merchant. Viking. Mar. 2006. c.258p. ISBN 0-670-03481-9. $23.95. F This thoughtful, poignant love story that crosses cultures is sure to please readers. Iranian Ushman Kahn is a lonely and isolated rug merchant who...

Nunez, Sigrid. The Last of Her Kind.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Nunez, Sigrid. The Last of Her Kind. Farrar. 2006. 375p. ISBN 0-374-18381,3. $25. F Every so often you close a book, and the only word that comes to mind is "Wow." This fifth offering from award winner Nunez (For Rouenna) elicits such a...

Porter, Henry. Brandenburg Gate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Porter, Henry. Brandenburg Gate. Atlantic Monthly. Apr. 2006. c.448p. ISBN 0-87113-940-5 [ISBN 978-0-87113-940-5]. $24. F Porter (Empire State), the British editor of Vanity Fair, returns with a topnotch Cold War thriller set in 1989...

Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Poison.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Poison. Norton. Apr. 2006. c.608p. ISBN 0-393-06101-9. $25.95. F Schaeffer's last novel was set in medieval Japan (The Snow Fox); here, she travels closer to home with a story of bereavement and intrigue among...

Vapnyar, Lara. Memoirs of a Muse.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Vapnyar, Lara. Memoirs of a Muse. Pantheon. Apr. 2006. c.224p. ISBN 0-375-42296-X. $22.95. F Tanya, a wayward young Russian girl, searches for meaning in Vapnyar's debut novel (following There Are Jews in My House: Stories). Her early...

Wasserstein, Wendy. Elements of Style.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Wasserstein, Wendy. Elements of Style. Knopf. Apr. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 1-40004231-3. $24.95. F In the wake of 9/11, New York City's A-list socialites struggle to find meaning in their lives even while they continue to worry over what to...

Auchincloss, Louis. The Young Apollo and Other Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Auchincloss, Louis. The Young Apollo and Other Stories. Houghton. Apr. 2006. c.256p. ISBN 0-618-55115-8 [ISBN 978-0-618-55115-6]. $24. F Auchincloss has been writing brilliantly about New York's wealthy socialite class for many years now,...

Ma, Jian. Stick Out Your Tongue.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Ma Jian. Stick Out Your Tongue. Farrar. May 2006. c.104p, tr. from Chinese by Flora Drew. ISBN 0-374-26988-2 [ISBN 978-0-37426988-3]. pap. $16. F Written nearly 20 years ago, this latest offering from Ma Jian (Red Dust; Noodle Maker) to be...

Monk, Bathsheba. Now You See It ...: Stories from Cokesville, PA.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Monk, Bathsheba. Now You See It...: Stories from Cokesville, PA. Sarah Crichton: Farrar. Jun. 2006. c.240p. ISBN 0-374-22330-0 [ISBN 978-0-374-22330-4]. $23. F Monk's loosely connected set of short stories makes up a witty, sardonic...

Oates, Joyce Carol. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, 1966-2006.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Oates, Joyce Carol. High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006. Ecco: HarperCollins. Apr. 2006. c.688p. ISBN 0-06050119-7. $34.95. F Like a successful rock band putting together a best-of compilation CD, Oates (The Falls) has...

Arts of Africa: 7000 Years of African Art.(Arts of Africa: Jean Pigozzi's Contemporary Collection)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Arts of Africa: 7000 Years of African Art. 410p. Bibliog. ed. by Ezio Bassani. ISBN 88-7624-284-8. $65. Pigozzi, Jean. Arts of Africa: Jean Pigozzi's Contemporary Collection. 365p. ed. by Andre Magnin. ISBN 88-7624-296-1. $75. ea. vol....

Bochner, Jay. An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Bochner, Jay. An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession. MIT. 2005. 371p. illus. index. ISBN 0-262-02580-9. $39.95. PHOTOG This collection of essays addresses a few major themes in the work of American...

Guthrie, Woody (illus.) & Steven Brower & Nora Guthrie (text). Woody Guthrie Artworks.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... * Guthrie, Woody (illus.) & Steven Brower & Nora Guthrie (text). Woody Guthrie Artworks. Rizzoli, dist. by Random. 2005. 344p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-8478-2738-0. $45. FINE ARTS Hundreds of folk legend Guthrie's artworks were discovered by...

Hoy, Anne H. The Book of Photography: The History, the Technique, the Art, the Future.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Hoy, Anne H. The Book of Photography: The History, the Technique, the Art, the Future. National Geographic, dist. by Random. 2005. 447p. Photogs. Bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7922-3693-9. $40. PHOTOG This book, which offers a history of...

Magnum Ireland.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Magnum Ireland. Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. 2005. 256p. ed. by Brigitte Lardinois & Val Williams. photogs. ISBN 0-500-54303-8 [ISBN 978-0-500-54303-0]. $60. PHOTOG Editors Lardinois (special projects & cultural director, Magnum...

Mahon, Alyce. Eroticism and Art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Mahon, Alyce. Eroticism & Art. Oxford Univ. 2006. c.304p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-19-280187-2. $30. FINE ARTS This is arguably the most thoughtful book on erotic art recently published. Mahon (modern art, Cambridge) reflects on issues...

Micklewright, Keith. Drawing: Mastering the Language of Visual Expression.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Micklewright, Keith. Drawing: Mastering the Language of Visual Expression. Abrams Studio: Abrams. 2005. 168p. illus. index. ISBN 0-8109-9238-8. pap. $29.95. FINE ARTS Practicing artist Micklewright (former head, foundation studies, Arts...

Molinari, Luca. Massimiliano Fuksas: Works and Projects, 1970-2005.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Molinari, Luca. Massimiliano Fuksas: Works and Projects 1970-2005. Skira, dist. by Rizzoli. 2006. 288p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 88-7624-289-9. $75. ARCHITECTURE "Dynamic and visually stunning" best describes the architectural designs and...

Poirier, Diane Elisabeth. Brassai: An Illustrated Biography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Poirier, Diane Elisabeth. Brassai: An Illustrated Biography. Flammarion, dist. by Rizzoli. 2005. 208p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 2-0803-0497-8. pap. $80. PHOTOG Transylvanian-born French photographer Gyula Halasz, or Brassai, led a charmed...

Powell, Kenneth (text) & Grant Smith (photogs.). 30 St Mary Axe: A Tower for London.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Powell, Kenneth (text) & Grant Smith (photogs.). 30 St Mary Axe: A Tower for London. Merrell, dist. by CDS. 2006. c.224p. illus. ISBN 1-85894-322-1. $59.95. ARCHITECTURE Architect Norman Foster's cylindrical 40-story Swiss Re tower,...

Stelarc: The Monograph.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Stelarc: The Monograph. MIT. 2005. 256p. ed. by Marquard Smith. photogs. index. ISBN 0-262-19518-8. $30. FINE ARTS Edited by Smith (art history, Kingston Univ., London; editor in chief, Journal of Visual Culture) and with a foreword by sf...