Library Journal articles from May 2004

Library Journal archives from May 2004

May day blues: bad times don't kill the spirit of librarianship.(Editorial)
May 1, 2004... These are tough times to be a manager in any library. Tough times to work in one, too. A nasty mix of election-year politics, U.S. soldiers dying in a war to bring liberty to a people who don't seem to want it, and a sputtering economy has...

Service not servitude.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... Roy Tennant amazes me again with his insightful and instructive prose ("Building a New Bibliographic Infrastructure," Digital Libraries, LJ 1/04, p. 38). Anyone who dismisses him as an ogre out to get catalogers simply has incredibly thin skin....

Don't bash boomers.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... I am in my late fifties, with hair and beard now mostly white. I continue to work because I enjoy it and because of economic necessity, even after more than 30 years. John Berry ("Listen to the Young," LJ 3/15/04, p. 8) and some of the younger...

Consolidation: an old idea.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... I was surprised that we are still debating the advantages of library consolidation (Saul Amdursky, "The Case for Consolidation," LJ 2/1/04, p. 38-40) even though this idea has been around for a century. The notion of larger library units...

Correction.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2004... In LJ's report of a wonderful program at the recent Public Library Association Conference ("First-year blues," News, LJ 4/1/04, p. 16-17), conducted by April Spisak and Ria Newhouse, we misspelled "Spisak." We apologize.

IMLS to initiate study on future of librarians.(Late Bulletins)(Institute of Museum and Library Services)
May 1, 2004... The Institute of Museum and Library Services (www.imls.gov) is seeking proposals for a $1 million study on the future of librarians in the work force over the next decade. The study will analyze current and projected U.S. library work force...

GA legislature approves bill to reform Atlanta PL board.(Late Bulletins)(Georgia)
May 1, 2004... A bill to reform the beleaguered Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System--which had previously stalled in the Georgia legislature--passed in April. SB 231 will abolish the library's current Board of Trustees, reduce the new board's size from 17 to...

ALA, working assets sponsor voter registration drive.(Late Bulletins)(American Library Association)
May 1, 2004... The American Library Association (ALA) and Working Assets are cosponsoring an online voter registration drive, "Register to Vote @ your library" (www.yourvotematters.org/ala). The Your Vote Matters site was created by Working Assets for...

British Library launches 10m [pounds sterling] effort to save archives.(Late Bulletins)
May 1, 2004... The British Library, with the Libset Rausing Charitable Fund, is launching a 10 million [pounds sterling] program to preserve some of the world's endangered archives. Library officials say the program responds to "worldwide threats to...

Regina PL closures approved, challenged.(Late Bulletins)(Public Library)
May 1, 2004... Though the board of the Regina Public Library, SK, voted six to two for no mill rate increase in its 2004 budget, forcing the closure of three community library branches, library advocates haven't given up (see News, LJ 3/15/04, p. 20). The...

Critics take over Enoch Pratt's, friends group in Baltimore: new members backed by community group ACORN, which sued over branch closings, composition of board.(News)
May 1, 2004... Critics of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library, who previously filed a lawsuit when the library closed five branches (see News, LJ 11/1/02, p. 18), have taken control of the Friends of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, bringing in some 70 people...

VA libraries sign new Elsevier deal: use of professional negotiator helps gain expanded access.(News)
May 1, 2004... A consortium of seven Virginia universities has announced that, with the help of a professional negotiator, it has renewed and expanded its "Big Deal" for access to STM publishing giant Elsevier's ScienceDirect. The renewal and expansion...

Starr, CA State librarian, retires: cites huge growth in libraries, role of librarians as intellectuals.(News)(Kevin Starr)
May 1, 2004... After ten years on the job, Kevin Starr, historian, author, and librarian, retired April 1 as California State Librarian. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named Starr the first-ever State Librarian Emeritus, and Starr will continue to lobby for...

Omaha approves joint-use library: meanwhile, Irving, TX, terminates joint public/college project.(News)
May 1, 2004... Construction of a joint public and academic library in South Omaha is scheduled to begin early next year. The City of Omaha, Metropolitan Community College, and Omaha Public Library approved an agreement to build a 30,000 square foot facility...

UK releases STM inquiry transcripts: industry leader Elsevier is not challenged by Parliament.(News)(STM Publishing)
May 1, 2004... The UK Parliament has released the uncorrected transcripts of the Science and Technology Committee's recent Inquiry in STM Publishing. The hearings took place over two days, March I and March 8, and followed up on written testimony offered...

New contract for ERIC database: largest source of education records will offer full-text access.(News)
May 1, 2004... The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $34.6 million contract to Computer Sciences Corporation of Rockville, MD, to develop and operate a new database system lot the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC;...

Public libraries.(What's Happening In ...)
May 1, 2004... Fighting a projected $35 million shortfall, the Richmond City Council, CA, has cut $9.2 million from department budgets. The two branches of the Richmond Public Library will close, and the main library will be cut to 30 hours a week. Library...

Academic libraries.(What's Happening In ...)
May 1, 2004... The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant of $97,554 to Cornell University Library's Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance to develop an online preservation tutorial for Iraqi librarians and archivists....

National/international news.(What's Happening In ...)(includes multiple articles )
May 1, 2004... The Alan Lomax Collection, an ethnographic documentation collected over 70 years, has been acquired by the Library of Congress (LC). The acquisition was made possible through a cooperative agreement between the American Folklife Center at LC....

Calendar.(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... CBHL is "Opening Doors" at Carnegie Mellon; The "Roots of Supporting Healthy Libraries" are at NYSLAA; "Your Link to Knowledge & Recreation" at MnLA JUNE 7-10--Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) 48th Annual Conference, Evangel...

New Mexico State University Library.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Ellen Bosman is the new Head, Technical Services Department, New Mexico State University Library (NMSUL), Las Cruces. She was Head, Technical Services, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, for 13 years. Kirsten Clark is the new Government...

Brooklyn Public Library.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Linda Cohen is the new Assistant Director of Neighborhood Services, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), NY. She began her career at BPL in the late 1970s and after a hiatus, returned to the library in August 1995. She has served in a variety of...

James L. Farrell Jr..(People)(Personnel changes at the New York State Library.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... James L. Farrell Jr. has retired after 23 years of service with the Division of Library Development, New York State Library, Albany. As the regional liaison from the State Education Department to public library systems and public libraries in...

Charlotte Chung-Sook Kim.(People)(Chicago Public Library.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Charlotte Chung-Sook Kim has retired as Assistant Commissioner of Neighborhood Services, Chicago Public Library, after nearly 13 years of service.

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Carol Nersinger is the new Director, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe Cotinty, NY, effective May 24. She was Director of Library Development, New Jersey State Library, Trenton. Carole Joyee, who has been Interim Director since Richard...

Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Dinah Shockey has been appointed Director, Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library, Wayncsboro, PA, succeeding Scott Valentine, who left in November 2003. Shockey has worked at the Montgomery County Public School System for 16 years, first as...

Albion Public Library.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Colleen Verge has been appointed Director, Albion Public Library, MI, replacing Karen Sherrard, who left last year after 21 years at the library. Verge was Manager, Loving Branch, Ann Arbor District Library, MI.

Columbia University Libraries and Information Services.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Melvin Vives is now Macintosh Technical Specialist, Academic Information Systems, Columbia University Libraries and Information Services, New York. He was Macintosh Engineer, Field Team Lead, Florida International University, Miami.

Dan Zack has retired as Director, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL, after 17 years.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Dan Zack has retired as Director, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL, after 17 years. Karen Maki, Assistant Director, will be Interim Director during the nationwide search for a new executive director.

Computers in Libraries 2004 ponders past and future: unforeseen privacy issues, aggregation, digital storage, and "dissing" Google among the hot topics at annual show.(Conference Report)
May 1, 2004... The 19th annual Computers in Libraries Conference peered into the future, drew lessons from the past, and ran like clockwork. Program chair Jane Dysart and her organizing committee are by now old hands, bringing together three keynote...

ABC-CLIO links to OUP journals: databases to magazine link is latest in string of partnerships.(Industry News)
May 1, 2004... ABC-CLIO has cut a deal with Oxford University Press (OUP) that will see the former's Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life databases linked to Oxford's online journals, including The English Historical Review, Past & Present, and...

VTLS signs first VITAL contract: University of Delaware dons FEDORA for African American art.(Installations)
May 1, 2004... VTLS has snagged the first customer for its recently announced VITAL system. The University of Delaware has purchased the product, which is based on the open source digital object repository FEDORA (flexible extensible digital object repository...

ACA libraries select innovative: Appalachian and European academics contract for Millennium.(Installations)(Appalachian College Association)
May 1, 2004... A group of 11 Appalachian College Association (ACA) libraries has launched its first shared catalog, using Innovative lnterface's Millennium product, The 34 member ACA, composed of private religious liberal arts colleges spread throughout the...

ebrary has cut a deal with SLA (formerly, Special Libraries Association) to "host, distribute, and archive Information Outlook and other SLA publications using the same interface used by libraries worldwide that subscribe to its aggregated book databases and other products.".(Infotech Briefs)
May 1, 2004... ebrary has cut a deal with SLA (formerly, Special Libraries Association) to "host, distribute, and archive Information Outlook and other SLA publications using the same interface used by libraries worldwide that subscribe to its aggregated book...

Baker & Taylor (B&T) is adding more than 20,000 new book excerpts to its collection development tool Title Source II.(Infotech Briefs)
May 1, 2004... Baker & Taylor (B&T) is adding more than 20,000 new book excerpts to its collection development tool Title Source II. According to B&T, the additional listings "more than triple the number of titles that offer enriched content." The product...

Surpass Software is now marketing Copycat, a cataloging tool for downloading free MARC records with no annual database subscription.(Infotech Briefs)
May 1, 2004... Surpass Software is now marketing Copycat, a cataloging tool for downloading free MARC records with no annual database subscription. The company also has established a new pricing structure specifically for library districts with centralized...

Classical International Inc. has signed with OHIONET to provide members in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia with "consortial subscription opportunities" for the Classical Music Library.(Infotech Briefs)(Classical International Inc.)(OHIONET)
May 1, 2004... Classical International Inc. has signed with OHIONET to provide members in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia with "consortial subscription opportunities" for the Classical Music Library. The service includes streaming classical music and...

Auto-Graphic's AGent product is this year's winner of the Canadian e-Content Award in the Best Management Software category.(Infotech Briefs)
May 1, 2004... Auto-Graphic's AGent product is this year's winner of the Canadian e-Content Award in the Best Management Software category. Sponsored by the e-Content Institute, the awards "recognize and honor innovative development of electronic content...

EOS International has again been ranked as one of the top 20 software outfits in San Diego County in an annual revenue survey conducted by San Diego Business Journal.(Infotech Briefs)
May 1, 2004... EOS International has again been ranked as one of the top 20 software outfits in San Diego County in an annual revenue survey conducted by San Diego Business Journal. Company CEO Tony Saadat gave credit to both his sales force and to the...

Tutor.com will provide service to the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), starting with a pilot program at select libraries.(Infotech Briefs)
May 1, 2004... Tutor.com will provide service to the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), starting with a pilot program at select libraries. Tutor.com will expand service, including Live Homework Help, to the system's 59 community libraries. BPL is Tutor.com's...

Spying on search strategies.(Online Databases)
May 1, 2004... ONLY THE MOST dedicated super-searchers are motivated to learn and control command systems, like DialogClassic, that rely on the user to input complex search strategies. Infrequent searchers and most end users choose interfaces that do some of...

Capture usage with E-Metrics: the E-Metrics Instructional System will help librarians collect and use data about networked environments.(Infotech Feature)
May 1, 2004... LIBRARIES TODAY provide services and resources in a hybrid operating environment: there is the physical library and there is the electronic one. Because of this, libraries can no longer rely solely on traditional building-based measures of use....

Born with the chip: the next generation will profoundly impact both library service and the culture within the profession.(Cover Story)
May 1, 2004... LIBRARIANS HAVE ADAPTED amazingly well to the challenges of an Internet-enabled, web-dominated world. It's been quite a ride as we worked with digital content, learned new search tools, and strived to get our many and varied systems...

Early career survival: many find it harder to enter the profession than it sounds in the recruitment literature. Here's how one librarian's strategies can help others gain a foothold.
May 1, 2004... I GOT MY DREAM JOB as a reference librarian in a public library shortly after graduating from library school at Dominican University in River Forest, IL, in 2001. Ten months later, I was laid off owing to budget cuts. Although devastated, I was...

Best new magazines of 2003.
May 1, 2004... AFTER A STEEP DECLINE FROM just under 1100 new magazines launched in 1998 to 745 in 2002, the number of debuts in 2003 rose back up to nearly 1000. Is the economy truly on an upswing? Many in the magazine business think so. Samir Husni,...

BookExpo 2004: more to explore.(Conference Preview Chicago June 3-6)(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... A NEW EMPHASIS ON international rights has BookExpo America (BEA) returning to New York City every other year until 2009, which means the show won't see the Windy City as often after this year's conference at McCormick Place Convention Center,...

The two faces of mental illness.(Mental Health)
May 1, 2004... HALLUCINATIONS, delusions, frightening behavior--when we think of "craziness" or "insanity," we picture the more extreme symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Although these conditions each claim about 2.5 million victims in the...

Best consumer health books 2003.(Consumer Health)
May 1, 2004... ANYONE WHO WATCHES TELEVISION, listens to the radio, surfs the web, or reads magazines and newspapers now encounters advertising for prescription drugs. Once confined to medical journals, these advertisements encourage people to analyze their...

Dr. Everyman: publishers help consumers take control of their healthcare.(Consumer Health)
May 1, 2004... HEALTH PUBLISHERS AGREE that an increasingly unsatisfactory medical system has left many Americans eager to take control of their own healthcare, and they are in dire need of the information to do so. Consumers, says Atria Books vice president...

Periodicals information directory.(Directory)
May 1, 2004... DESCRIPTIVE copy for the periodicals listed in this directory was excerpted from evaluations in Magazines for Libraries, reviews in Library Journal's Magazines column, or was written by the publishers themselves. All information not enclosed by...

Abraham, Pearl. The Seventh Beggar.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] ABRAHAM, Pearl. The Seventh Beggar. Riverhead: Putnam. Sept. 2004. 368p. ISBN 1-57322-285-2. $25.95. In her third outing, Abraham once again visits the world of the Hasidim, as a Hasidic teenager in upstate New York becomes fascinated...

Acito, Marc. How I Paid for College: a Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] ACITO, Marc. How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater. Broadway. Sept. 2004. 336p. ISBN 0-7679-1841-X. $21.95. Not a how-to, alas, but reputedly a very funny debut about a New Jersey teenager who...

Adair, Cherry. On Thin Ice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] ADAIR, Cherry. On Thin Ice. Ballantine. Sept. 2004. 320p. ISBN 0-345-47579-8. $19.95. Lily is determined to beat Derek Wright in Alaska's risky Iditarod, but she's held up by several suspicious accidents along the trail. Fortunate, is...

Berry, Steve. The Romanov Prophecy.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] BERRY, Steve. The Romanov Prophecy. Ballantine. Sept. 2004. 400p. ISBN 0-345-46005-7. $24.95. [TAPE] abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-1480-7. $34.95. Like his debut, The Amber Room, this thriller by Atlanta lawyer Berry is set in...

Binchy, Maeve. Nights of Rain and Stars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] BINCHY, Maeve. Nights of Rain and Stars. Dutton. Sept. 2004. 288p. ISBN 0-525-94754-X. $25.95. In a Greek village, far from Binchy's beloved Ireland, residents and travelers who are variously Greek, Irish, American, and German manage to...

Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien. Madeleine Is Sleeping.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] BYNUM, Sarah Shun-Lien. Madeleine Is Sleeping. Harcourt. Sept. 2004. 272p. ISBN 0-15-101059-5. $22. Told in dreamlike fragments--and, indeed, our heroine has fallen into a Sleeping Beauty--like doze--his debut is the tale of a young...

Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Paradise City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] CARCATERRA, Lorenzo. Paradise City, Ballantine. Sept. 2004. 336p. ISBN 0-345-41097-1. $24.95. In Manhattan, where he lived until he was 14, Naples cop Giancarlo Lo Manto joins with NYPD veteran Jennifer Fabini to find Lo Manto's missing...

Cornwell, Patricia. Trace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] CORNWELL, Patricia. Trace. Putnam. Sept. 2004. 464p. ISBN 0-399-15219-9. $26. Kay Scarpetta is back--and back in Virginia, where her investigation into the sorry death of a teenaged girl leads her to some uncomfortable truths.

Donoghue, Emma. Life Mask.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] DONOGHUE, Emma. Life Mask. Harcourt. Sept. 2004. 588p. ISBN 0-15-100943 0. $26. Donoghue returns to 18th-century England, setting of her best-selling Slammerkin, for this story of an unexpected love triangle involving denizens of...

Higgins, Jack. Dark Justice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] HIGGINS, Jack. Dark Justice. Putnam. Sept. 2004. 288p. ISBN 0-399-15178 8. $25.95. Higgins regular Scan Dillon is off and running to England, Russia, and Iraq as he tracks down the disgruntled British Muslim who failed to assassinate...

Jen, Gish. The Love Wife.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] JEN, Gish. The Love Wife. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 400p. ISBN 1-4000-4213-5. $25. Chinese American Carnegie Wong is happily married to the WASPy Blondie. So why is his truculent mama insisting on disrupting things by bringing over a pretty...

Kertesz, Imre. Liquidation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] KERTESZ, Imre. Liquidation. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 112p. ISBN 1-4000-4153 8. $22. Here's your chance to find out why Kertesz won the 2002 Nobel prize. Famed author B. has survived both Auschwitz (where the author himself was imprisoned) and...

King, Stephen. The Dark Tower VII.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] KING, Stephen. The Dark Tower VII. Scribner. Sept. 2004. 768p. ISBN 1-880418 62-2. $35. What we've all been waiting for: the final book in the "Dark Tower" series.

Phillips, Arthur. The Egyptologist.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] PHILLIPS, Arthur. The Egyptologist. Random. Sept. 2004. 432p. ISBN 1-4000-6250-0. $24.95. Having hit it big with his debut, Prague (set in contemporary Budapest), Phillips makes the natural transition and presents a second work...

Spragg, Mark. An Unfinished Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] SPRAGG, Mark. An Unfinished Life. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 272p. ISBN 1-4000-4201-1. $23. Irg. pint. ISBN 0-375-43433-X. $25. Single morn Jean Gilkyson, whose husband died when she was pregnant, feels compelled to flee an abusive boyfriend....

Vassanji, M.G. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] VASSANJI, M.G. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 384p. ISBN 1-4000-4216-X. $25. This 2003 Giller Prize-winning novel tracks the life of Vikram Lall, who is of Indian descent, from a childhood in 1950s Kenya during...

Ward, Liza. Outside Valentine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] WARD, Liza. Outside Valentine. Holt. Sept. 2004. NAp. ISBN 0-8050-7598-4. $23. Ward's first novel, a reconstruction (through three separate story lines) of Charlie Stark-weather and Caril-Ann Fugate's 1958 murder spree across five...

Wolstencroft, David. Good News, Bad News.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] WOLSTENCROFT, David. Good News, Bad News. Dutton. Sept. 2004. 336p. ISBN 0-525-94794-9. $23.95. Spies George and Charlie get their final assignment from the Agency: they're supposed to kill each other. From the creator/writer of the...

Angelou, Maya. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] ANGELOU, Maya. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table. Random. Sept. 2004. 192p. ISBN 1-4000-6289-6. $29.95. Irg. pint. ISBN 0-375-43428-3. $31.95. [TAPE] abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-1514-5. $19.95. [CD] abridged. Random Audio. ISBN...

Capote, Truman. Too Brief a Treat: the Letters of Truman Capote.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] CAPOTE, Truman. Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote. Random. Sept. 2004. 400p. ISBN 0-375-50133-9. $27.95. Capote biographer Gerald Clarke gathers all of the Truman's letters.

D'Adamo, Peter J., M.D. with Catherine Whitney. Arthritis: Fight It with the Blood Type Diet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] D'ADAMO, Peter J., M.D. with Catherine Whitney. Arthritis: Fight It with the Blood Type Diet. Putnam. Sept. 2004. 208p. ISBN 0-399-15227-X. $21.95. The doctor who showed you how to Eat Right 4 Your Type gives specific directives on...

Dalai Lama & Victor Chan. The Wisdom of Forgiveness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] DALAI LAMA & Victor Chart. The Wisdom of Forgiveness. Riverhead: Putnam. Sept. 2004. 256p. ISBN 1-57322-277-1. $24.95. Real lessons in forgiveness from the Dalai Lama, collaborating for the first time with a Chinese author.

Ensler, Eve. The Good Body.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] ENSLER, Eve. The Good Body. Villard. Sept. 2004. 208p. ISBN 0-375-50284-X. $19.95. [TAPE] abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-1500-5. $19.95. [CD] abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-1501-3. $19.95. With The Vagina Monologues,...

Gill, Gillian. Nightingales: the Story of Florence Nightingale and Her Remarkable Family.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] GILL, Gillian. Nightingales: The Story of Florence Nightingale and Her Remarkable Family. Ballantine. Sept. 2004. 624p. ISBN 0-345-45187-2. $27.95. We all know about Florence Nightingale's great works, but here Gill (biographer of Mary...

Holland, Max. The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: the White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] HOLLAND, Max. The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 480p. ISBN 1-4000-4238-0. $26.95. From a former...

Jamison, Kay Redfield. Exuberance: the Passion for Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] JAMISON, Kay Redfield. Exuberance: The Passion for Life. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 352p. ISBN 0-375-40144-X. $24. The celebrated author of The Unquiet Mind swings away from the mind's darker recesses to examine boundless enthusiasm. With a...

Kressley, Carson. Off the Cuff: the Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] KRESSLEY, Carson. Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them. Dutton. Sept. 2004. 224p. ISBN 0-525-94836-8. $24.95. Gentlemen: You've seen him on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. You've picked up his...

Murphy, Ann Pleshette. The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of the Years We Spend Raising Our Children.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] MURPHY, Ann Pleshette. The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Making the Most of the Years We Spend Raising Our Children. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 272p. ISBN 0-375-40643-3. $22.95. [TAPE] abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-1578-1. $24.95. [CD]...

Schor, Juliet B. Born to Buy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] SCHOR, Juliet B. Born To Buy. Scribner. Sept. 2004. 256p. ISBN 0-684-87055-X. $25. Like Susan Linn's recent Consuming Kids (LJ 3/15/04), Schor's work decries marketing to children, who by kindergarten can on average identify 200 logos.

Tennant, Alan. On the Wing: to the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... [] TENNANT, Alan. On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon. Knopf. Sept. 2004. 320p. ISBN 0-375-41551-3. $25. Wildlife author Tennant gets into a little Cessna with a World War II vet and tracks the peregrine falcon...

Gardening best sellers.
May 1, 2004... 1 Stonework: Building Rock Gardens, Walks, Walls, and Ornaments [P] Alan & Gill Bridgewater. Voyageur Pr. 2004. ISBN 0-89658-041-5. $14.95. 2 Flower Gardening [HC] Julie Bawden-Davis. Reader's Digest. 2004. ISBN...

Graphic novels.
May 1, 2004... Manga continues to be a dominant force in the comics market: according to ICv2.com, in 2003 manga was the fastest-growing area of popular culture, with sales estimated at $100 million. Here's some manga terminology, with definitions and...

Allie, Scott (text) & others (illus.). The Devil's Footprints.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Allie, Scott (text) & others (illus.). The Devil's Footprints. Vol. 1. Dark Horse. 2003. c.144p. ISBN 1-56971-933-0. pap. $14.95. F Brandon Waite's late father investigated dark sorcery, but Brandon himself has steadfastly kept to more...

Autobiographix.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Autobiographix. Dark Horse. 2003. c.104p. ed. by Diana Schutz. ISBN 1-59307-038-1. pap. $14.95. AUTOBIOG Beginning with an entertaining vignette by Frank Miller about his appearance in last year's movie Daredevil, this anthology of 16...