Library Journal articles from September 2005

Library Journal archives from September 2005

The practice prerequisite: an internship must be required in LIS programs.(Editorial)
September 15, 2005... LIBRARY EXPERIENCE IS AS IMPORTANT IN GETTING hired by a library as the MLS, maybe even more so. That has been and still is the report from recent graduates of library and information studies (LIS) programs across the nation. It raises a host...

Lending "people" at European libraries.(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... We knew some European libraries had achieved technical innovations ahead of North American ones, but now they're revolutionizing the notion of "content." In Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Hungary, public libraries...

A "wild" library card.(Richland County Public Library, Maurice Sendak)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The Richland County Public Library (RCPL), Columbia, SC, has a long association with illustrator Maurice Sendak. The Main Library's Children's Room features a 46' Sendak mural, plus two "Wild Things" at the entrance, and is the only location...

Loving the "liberry".
September 15, 2005... The anonymous public librarian contributors to the "Love the liberry" blog (Iovetheliberry.blogspot.com) find Dada-esque moments in patron interactions. Here's one from 8/17/05: Free hotspot? No. not here. All of the city liberries have...

Archiving memory at UM.(University of Minnesota)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Since February, and through the end of this month, the 35'-high interactive public art project "Archiving Memory" will have transformed three floors of the University of Minnesota's Elmer L. Andersen Library. The walk-through project...

Libraries damaged, librarians respond, after hurricane's fury: temporary cards, shelter services provided to Katrina evacuees; will 2006 ALA conference move from New Orleans?
September 15, 2005... As the flood waters rose in the coastal sections of storm-tossed Louisiana and neighboring states in early September, librarians also rose to meet the needs of their own patrons and evacuees. Though many people were missing and buildings...

Denver cancels some fotonovelas.(Denver Public Library)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... In response to complaints about nudity, sexual content, and violence against women--triggered by anti-immigration groups critical of services to illegal immigrants (see News, LJ 8/05, p. 17ff.)--the Denver Public Library has canceled...

Patriot Act challenged in CT: ACLU sues on behalf of anonymous library faced with FBI request.(American Civil Liberties Union, Federal Bureau of Investigation)(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... In a Bridgeport, CT, courtroom, U.S. judge Janet C. Hall August 31 heard the ACLU's challenge to lift the gag order regarding a Federal Bureau of Investigation request for library records from a Connecticut library. ACLU argued that its...

IFLA 2005: equality of access.(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
September 15, 2005... The sun shone, the National Library had its grand opening, and the cultural heritage of hospitable Norway was presented in music, dance, and tours, as the 71st IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) World...

Buffalo to close only 16 branches: system will cut hours and staff and start charging for holds.(Buffalo and Erie County Public Library)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Thanks to the willingness of four rural towns to contribute local money for support, the board of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY, has announced the closure of 16, not 20, branches of the cash-strapped system (see News, LJ...

Kids' books in Ok. City restricted: divided commission creates adults-only section for gay, other titles.(Metropolitan Library Commission)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... After a 10-7 vote, the Metropolitan Library Commission, Oklahoma City, has overruled the recommendations of library staff and decided to set up a special collection of children's books, including those with gay themes, which only adults can...

ALC to study public opinion: $770K grant also will fund assessment of ROI studies.(Americans for Libraries Council funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on study of return-on-investment)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The Americans for Libraries Council (ALC) has been awarded a two-year, $770,000 challenge grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to implement Building the Case for Libraries, a three-part initiative to build knowledge about public...

Providence solves privacy problem: library creates foundation to obey open meetings rules.(Providence Public Library)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The Providence Public Library (PPL) has found a neat solution to its dilemma of keeping its donor information private while providing certain data to the public in accordance with state law. Following a closed meeting August 24, PPL announced...

TWBG/Patterson launch awards.(LJ NEWS)
September 15, 2005... Are you a librarian who loves getting patrons jazzed about books? Then you might have $25,000 coming your way: Time Warner Book Group (TWBG) and best-selling author James Patterson have created a new annual award "intended to single out and...

Velterop goes to springer: former head of BioMed central to push publisher's "Open Choice".(Jan Velterop)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Jan Velterop, who resigned in April as publishing director of pioneering open access publisher BioMed Central (see News, LJ 5/15/05, p. 17), has been appointed to the newly created position of director of open access at Springer, the...

Librarian of the Year nominations.(LJ NEWS)
September 15, 2005... LJ editors are seeking nominations for the 17th annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library...

FL librarian suspended--not: commissioner acts unilaterally after sex offender caught.(Sue Martin of Valparaiso Community Library)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Sue Martin, head librarian of the Valparaiso Community Library, FL, was suspended with pay on August 11 after a registered sex offender's actions on the library's Internet computer eventually led to his arrest. However, the county commission...

Small West Virginia college gets big gift.(Bethany College recives fund from Mary Cutlip Roche)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Bethany College, WV, with a student body of about 800, has received a $3.2 million bequest from Mary Cutlip Roche, who died in 2004 at age 95. A member of the Class of 1935 and a former librarian at the college, Roche had told Bethany...

Three nominated for NCLIS seats.(Sandra Ashworth, Jan Cellucci, Diane Rivers for National Commission on Libraries and Information Science)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The White House has nominated three candidates to serve as commissioners on the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). Commissioner Sandra Ashworth of Idaho was nominated to a second term, and Jan Cellucci of...

Columbia College.(Jo Cates)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Jo Cates was promoted to AssociateVice President for Academic Research and Dean of the Library, Columbia College, Chicago. Her responsibilities include the library; centers for Black Music Research, Arts Policy, and Asian Arts and Media;...

Lewis and Clark Library System.(Judith Hart the new director)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Judith Hart is the new director of the Lewis and Clark Library System, Helena, MT. She was director of the Page Public Library, AZ, which was recognized for excellence in the 2005 Best Small Library in America competition sponsored by LJ and...

Akron-Summit County Public Library.(David C. Jennings)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... David C. Jennings, the new Director, Akron-Summit County Public Library, is a 24-year veteran with the library, having served ten years as assistant director and as interim director since May 2004. Jennings, who succeeds recently retired...

Morton Grove Public Library.(Benjamin Hall Schapiro is the director of Morton Grove Public Library)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Benjamin Hall Schapiro was named Director, Morton Grove Public Library, IL, replacing Sharron L. McCoy, who retired in August. Schapiro, who holds an MLS from the now-defunct School of Library Service at Columbia University, New York, was...

Library of Congress (LC).(Federal Library and Information Center Committee's Roberta Shaffer )(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Roberta Shaffer is now executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) and the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) at the Library of Congress (LC),Washington, DC. FLICC fosters interagency...

Grand Valley State University (GVSU).(Lee C. Van Orsdel the new dean)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Lee C. Van Orsdel is the new Dean of University Libraries, Grand Valley State University (GVSU), Allendale, MI. More than 22,000 students are enrolled at GVSU, where the plan is to build a new library over the next few years. Formerly dean of...

Colorado State Library talks virtual reference: Denver symposium shows expected growth and a few surprises.
September 15, 2005... Virtual reference collaboratives quickly are gaining ground. The Colorado State Library (CSL) recently hosted a Denver symposium devoted to the subject, which revealed that steady growth in usage is the norm, with volume doubled in some...

Article linker adds Google.(Serial Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Serials Solutions has adopted Google Scholar as an OpenURL-enabled source for its Article Linker hosted link resolver product. According to the company, "working in close collaboration with the Google Scholar team, Article Linker has enabled...

Carl*X ups language options.(Library Corporation)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The Library Corporation has increased the number of non-Roman character sets supported in Unicode by its Carl*X system. The vendor revealed that the Carl.X Public Access Catalog supports "search, retrieval, and display of Chinese, Russian,...

Martin named OCLC advisor.(Online Computer Library Center Inc. choses Robert Martin)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... OCLC August 3 named Robert Martin, former director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), special advisor to the President for cultural heritage institutions. In addition to advising OCLC, Martin will be returning to a former...

Iraqi librarian training.(Online Computer Library Center Inc., International Human Rights Law Institute conducts workshop)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Additionally, OCLC is working in tandem with the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University's College of Law, Chicago, to boost cataloging in Iraqi libraries. The two organizations recently held a cataloging standards...

GA, MD take RFID plunge.(Wood stock Public Library signs Integrated Technology Group to install an Apex Radio Frequency Identification)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... RFID continues to spread both domestically and overseas: the Wood stock Public Library, GA, has signed with ITG (Integrated Technology Group) to install an Apex RFID system, including three XpressCheck patron self-service stations, in hopes...

Easy upgrade.(Harford County Public Library to use Apex)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... In Maryland, the Harford County Public Library's Abingdon Branch replaced its existing RFID solution with Apex. The company said that "with the exception of a few upgrades in a few areas, the switch did not necessitate any significant...

BiblioChip for Munich.(Munich Public Library opts for Bibliotheca)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The Munich Public Library, Germany, has opted for Bibliotheca's BiblioChip for its massive upcoming RFID project. The Swiss company acknowledged that in early 2006, Munich's main and two branch facilities will undergo the change, with 23...

CrossRef free OpenURL tool.(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... CrossRef has launched a free OpenURL resolver (www.crossref.org/openurl) "to facilitate navigation of the 17 million items now registered" on the reference-linking service. The tool works as a digital object identifier (DOI) search resource...

Reference X appeal.(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... GOOGLE NEWS "Comes a Pause in the Day's Scanning That Is Known as Google Print" (apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).... With the recent news that Google Print will stop scanning copyrighted titles until November, I'm hoping to see more...

Xreferplus: Xrefer; www.Xrefer.com.(Product/Service Evaluation)
September 15, 2005... Xreferplus Xrefer; www.Xrefer.com Xreferplus is an online reference aggregator that has grown from 121 reference books (when originally reviewed here, LJ 12/02) to 169 reference tools in 21 different subject areas: art, biography, business,...

Getting to "the right stuff".
September 15, 2005... IN A WORLD AWASH WITH INFORmation, finding what you really want can be difficult. Any database or web index can deliver a set of results. But it's particularly difficult to highlight the most relevant "stuff." Web search engines such as...

The rescuers: city councilors Frank DiCicco and Michael Nutter reverse a library budget cut and save service in Philadelphia s branches.(Free Library of Philadelphia)
September 15, 2005... It has been a rough, roller coaster year at the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP). Philadelphia City Councilmen Michael Nutter and Frank DiCicco used confrontation and classic urban political strategies to help rescue library branches and...

Saint Paul's strategic plan: as its ten-year plan ends, Saint Paul Public Library seeks a new five-year vision.
September 15, 2005... On the surface, public libraries are islands of calm, but spend a few minutes with any library administrator and a different picture emerges. Waves of new technologies surge in and around our libraries. Visits and computer use are rising like...

Librarian as CM leader: the role for special librarians is expanding as companies want more control over all their corporate information with content management systems.(Content Management)
September 15, 2005... When Dori Whitehurst, information research services manager at PQ Corporation in Conshohocken, PA, needed to incorporate 104-year-old legacy documents into new systems, she turned to the Microsoft Sharepoint Content Management (CM)...

The best thing a library can be is open: more library resources than ever are available 24 hours a day. So why are more and more students demanding the same of the library itself?
September 15, 2005... In the late 1990s, amid the bubbling euphoria of the digital revolution, some university administrators (you know who you are) not-so-secretly envisioned the day when they could vastly trim their campus libraries. After all, with library...

Adventures in pop culture.
September 15, 2005... ALL MY LIFE, I HAVE BEEN AN INFORmation sponge. Tell me an obscure fact once, and it's sealed in my brain for all time, or at least until I need it to win a cutthroat round of Trivial Pursuit. I have a particular affinity for information...

I propose a standards solution.(Priscilla Caplan)(Interview)
September 15, 2005... PEOPLE WHO CAKE ABOUT STANdards are worried. As a community we're investing heavily in library systems, information systems, and repository systems that require appropriate and robust standards. At the same time, our standards development...

Prepub alert.
September 15, 2005... FICTION Beauman, Sally. The Sisters Mortland. Warner. Jan. 2006. 384p. ISBN 0-446-57819-3. $24.95. CD: Time Warner Audio. Even as young Maisie sits for a portrait with her older sisters, tragedy strikes the family. Thirty years...

Graphic novels.
September 15, 2005... There are various schools of thought on how and where to shelve graphic novels in the library. How a specific library handles GN classification and shelving is affected by many different factors, including shelf space, the proximity of...

Ariyoshi, Kyoko. Swan. Vol. 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Ariyoshi, Kyoko. Swan. Vol. 2. CMX: DC Comics. 2005. 208p. tr. from Japanese by Maya Perry. ISBN 1-4012-0536-4. pap. $9.95. F Sixteen-year-old Masumi passionately wants to become a prima ballerina, but since her early training was...

Azzarello, Brian (text) & Jim Lee & Scott Williams (illus). Superman for Tomorrow, Vol. 1.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Azzarello, Brian (text) & Jim Lee & Scott Williams (illus.). Superman for Tomorrow. Vol. 1. DC Comics. 2005. 128p. ISBN 1-4012-0351-5. $24.99. F In this taut, gripping tale--a top seller in its initial serialization, with strong echoes...

Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. DC Comics. 2005. 192p. ISBN 1-4012-0444-9. pap. $19.99. F From 1988 to 1992, DC published a trio of now out-of-print "best of" Batman collections: two volumes...

Busiek, Kurt (text) & Cary Nord & Thomas Yeates (illus.). Conan, Vol. 1: The Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Busiek, Kurt (text) & Cary Nord & Thomas Yeates (illus.). Conan. Vol. 1. The Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories. Dark Horse. 2005. 176p. ISBN 1-59307-301-1. pap. $15.95. F Robert E. Howard's barbarian hero Conan, the best-known...

Dignan, Michael (text) & Kriss Sison (illus.). Last Hope, Vol. 1.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Dignan, Michael (text) & Kriss Sison (illus.). Last Hope. Vol. 1. Seven Seas, dist. by S. & S. 2005. 192p. ISBN 1-933164-02-6. pap. $10.99. F This is an inaugural release from Seven Seas, the first publisher of American manga-style GNs...

Flight.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... * Flight. Vol. 2. Image Comics. 2005. 432p. ISBN 1-58240-477-1. pap. $24.95. F The wonderful first volume of this full-color anthology series was one of the highlights of 2004. More than twice the length of the first volume, this new...

Four Letter Worlds.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Four Letter Worlds. Image Comics. 2005. 144p. ISBN 1-58240-439-9. pap. $12.95. F This standout black-and-white anthology contains 16 stories by different creators varying widely in style and is divided into four parts--"Love," "Hate,"...

Kirby, Jack (text & illus.) & Mike Royer (illus.). Black Panther by Jack Kirby.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Kirby, Jack (text & illus.) & Mike Royer (illus.). Black Panther by Jack Kirby. Vol. 1. Marvel. 2005. 136p. ISBN 0-7851-1687-7. pap. $19.99. F The Black Panther, masked hero and monarch of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, was...

Star, Joann & Lewis Trondheim. Dungeon, Vol. 2: The Barbarian Princess.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Sfar, Joann & Lewis Trondheim. Dungeon. Vol. 2: The Barbarian Princess. NBM: Nantier Beall Minoustchine. 2005. 96p. tr. from French by Joe Johnson. ISBN 1-56163-421-2. pap. $9.99. F In this clever spoof of Dungeons and Dragons--type...

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. The Push Man and Other Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. The Push Man and Other Stories. Drawn & Quarterly. 2005. 208p. tr. from Japanese by Yuji Oniki. ISBN 1-896597-85-8. $19.95. F In 1957, manga creator Tatsumi coined the term gekiga (or "dramatic pictures") to denote...

Turner, James. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Turner, James. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief. SLG. 2005. 232p. ISBN 1-59362-020-9. pap. $12.95. F In this allegorical farce, the inhabitants of Nil have rejected love, altruism, and all philosophies and belief systems and declare that the...

Herman, Daniel. Silver Age: The Second Generation of Comic Book Artists.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... ABOUT COMICS Herman, Daniel. Silver Age: The Second Generation of Comic Book Artists. Hermes. 2005. 224p. ISBN 1-932563-65-2. $49.99; pap. ISBN 1-932563-64-4. $29.99. HIST This heavily illustrated oversized book is a history and...

de los Santos, Marisa. Love Walked In.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... de los Santos, Marisa. Love Walked In. Dutton. Jan. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 0-52594917-8. $23.95. F Cornelia is a sprightly little thing who's stuck in a rut managing a coffee shop and watching her beloved film classics in her spare time....

Evans, Nicholas. The Divide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Evans, Nicholas. The Divide. Putnam. Sept. 2005. c.400p. ISBN 0-399-15206-7. $26.95. F The latest offering from the mega-best-selling author of The Horse Whisperer involves a fractured family coming to terms with the dissolution of a...

Gabaldon, Diana. A Breath of Snow and Ashes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... * Gabaldon, Diana. A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Delacorte. Sept. 2005. c.980p: ISBN 0-385-32416-2. $28. F Anyone who has gotten this far in Gabaldon's popular "Outlander" saga knows to expect loads of steamy sex, kidnappings, medical...

Gopnik, Adam. The King in the Window.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... * Gopnik, Adam. The King in the Window. Miramax: Hyperion Bks. for Children. Oct. 2005. c.416p. ISBN 0-7868-1862-X. $19.95. Something odd has happened to 11-year-old Oliver, an American boy living in Paris. After putting on a golden crown...

Harris, Joanne. Sleep, Pale Sister.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... * Harris, Joanne. Sleep, Pale Sister. Perennial: HarperCollins. Sept. 2005. c.368p. ISBN 0-06-078711-2. pap. $13.95. F Before she wrote more contemporary books like the wildly popular Chocolat, Harris penned this dark and haunting gothic,...

Hill, Reginald. The Stranger House.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Hill, Reginald. The Stranger House. HarperCollins. Oct. 2005. c.480p. ISBN 0-06-082081-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-082081-7]. $24.95. F This standalone novel by award-winning suspense writer Hill (Good Morning, Midnight) features two characters with...

Joss, Morag. Half Broken Things.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Joss, Morag. Half Broken Things. Delacorte. Sept. 2005. c.320p. ISBN 0-385-33940-2. $22. F British suspense writer Joss (Funeral Music) won CWA's Silver Dagger Award for this novel about Jean, a housesitter being forced into retirement....

Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Bad Attitude.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Bad Attitude. Pocket Bks: S. & S. Sept. 2005. ISBN 1-4165-0356-0. $18. F Suspense, espionage, high-tech gadgetry, and steamy love scenes abound in romance author Kenyon's hardcover debut, the first full-length novel in...

Marshall, Bev. Hot Fudge Sundae Blues.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... * Marshall, Bev. Hot Fudge Sundae Blues. Ballantine. Sept. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 0-345-46843-0. $23.95. F Faking salvation to comfort Grandma is the beginning of 13-year-old Layla Jay's spiraling descent into a labyrinth of deceit in 1960s...

Mordden, Ethan. How's Your Romance?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Mordden, Ethan. How's Your Romance? St. Martin's. ("Buddies" Cycle). Sept. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 0-312-33330-7. $24.95. F This fifth and concluding volume of Mordden's "Buddies" series (once a trilogy, it seems to have evolved into a...

Nicholas, Denise. Freshwater Road.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Nicholas, Denise. Freshwater Road. Agate. 2005. c.333p. ISBN 1-932841-10-5. $23.95. F This uneven debut novel about the Civil Rights era mostly relates the experiences of Celeste Tyree, a black 19-year-old college student who naively and...

O'Farrell, John. May Contain Nuts: A Novel of Extreme Parenting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... O'Farrell, John. May Contain Nuts: A Novel of Extreme Parenting. Black Cat: Grove. Oct. 2005. c.320p. ISBN 0-8021-7015-3. pap. $13. F British bourgeois bohemians take competitive parenting to new lows in this social farce by the author...

Rucka, Greg. Private Wars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Rucka, Greg. Private Wars. Bantam. Oct. 2005. c.432p. ISBN 0-553-80277-1. $24. F In this latest installment of Rucka's "Queen and Country" series (after A Gentleman's Game), Special Ops agent Tara Chace is back in London, her...

Sanchez Pinol, Albert. Cold Skin.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Sanchez Pinol, Albert. Cold Skin. Farrar. Nov. 2005. c.192p, tr. from Catalan by Cheryl Leah Morgan. ISBN 0-374-18239-6. $20. F Barcelona-based anthropologist Sanchez Pinol has written an unsettling allegory about the tension between two...

Weiner, Jennifer. Goodnight Nobody.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Weiner, Jennifer. Goodnight Nobody. Atria: S. & S. Sept. 2005. c.352p. ISBN 0-7434-7011-7. $26. F Kate Klein, an "accidental mother of three" in suburban Connecticut, misses New York City and just doesn't seem to fit in with all of the...

Weisberger, Lauren. Everyone Worth Knowing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Weisberger, Lauren. Everyone Worth Knowing. S. & S. Oct. 2005. c.384p. ISBN 0-7432-6229-8 [ISBN 978-0-7432-6229-3]. $23.95. F Who wouldn't want a job that allows one to party for a living? That's just what Bettina "Bette" Robinson has....

Berman, Judith. Bear Daughter.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Berman, Judith. Bear Daughter. Ace: Berkley, dist. by Penguin Group (USA). Sept. 2005. 432p. ISBN 0-441-01322-8. pap. $15. FANTASY One morning, young Cloud awakens in the form of a human girl, shedding the bear shape she inherited from...

Blackwood, Tyler. Prophecy of the Seventh Dragon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Blackwood, Tyler. Prophecy of the Seventh Dragon. Five Star: Gale. Sept. 2005. c.341p. ISBN 1-59414-389-7. $25.95. FANTASY AS an Eskarian Defender, Christopher Bartholomew helps protect an unsuspecting humanity from demonic and alien...

Brooks, Terry. High Druid of Shannara: Straken.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Brooks, Terry. High Druid of Shannara: Straken. Del Rey: Ballantine. Sept. 2005. c.384p. ISBN 0-345-45112-0. $26.95. FANTASY Young Pen Ohmsford undertakes a nearly impossible mission: he must retrieve the High Druid from exile in the...

Hambly, Barbara. Circle of the Moon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Hambly, Barbara. Circle of the Moon. Aspect: Warner. Sept. 2005. c.470p. ISBN 0-446-69404-5. pap. $13.95. FANTASY In the lands ruled by the Yellow City, only men practiced magic; women were expected to be subservient. All that changed,...

Hobb, Robin. Shaman's Crossing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Hobb, Robin. Shaman's Crossing. Eos: HarperCollins. (Soldier Son Trilogy, Bk. 1). Sept. 2005. c.624p. ISBN 0-06-075762-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-075762-5]. $25.95. FANTASY Accompanying his newly made noble father to the new lands acquired by the...

Irvine, Alexander C. The Narrows.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Irvine, Alexander C. The Narrows. Del Rey: Ballantine. Sept. 2005. c.352p. ISBN 0-345-46698-5. pap. $13.95. FANTASY On the eve of America's entry into World War II, a secret operation takes place in Henry Ford's top-secret plant in...

Moorcock, Michael & Storm Constantine. Silverheart: A Novel of the Multiverse.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Moorcock, Michael & Storm Constantine. Silverheart: A Novel of the Multiverse. Pyr: Prometheus. Sept. 2005. c.485p. ISBN 1-59102-336-X. $25. FANTASY In the city of Karadur, center of the multi-verse, ancient families named for the four...

Moore, James A. Blood Red.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Moore, James A. Blood Red. Earthling. Sept. 2005. c.331p. ISBN 0-9766339-1-4. $40. HORROR The town of Black Stone Bay seems almost perfect, with its high cliffs, black sand beaches, and peaceful atmosphere--until the arrival of Jason...

Park, Greg. Veil of Darkness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Park, Greg. Veil of Darkness. Bladestar. (Earthsoul Prophecies, Bk. 1). Sept. 2005. 532p. ISBN 1-932280-85-5. pap. $15.95. FANTASY In the world of the Nine Lands, the Earthsoul, spirit of the earth itself, grows weak, and the demon god...

Rabe, Jean. The Finest Choice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... Rabe, Jean. The Finest Choice. Tor. Sept. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 0-765-30821-5 [ISBN 978-0-765-30821.4]. $24.95. FANTASY AS one of the Finest, horselike creatures charged with the guardianship of certain humans whose lives possess the seeds...

Stirling, S.M. The Protector's War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 15, 2005... * Stirling, S.M. The Protector's War. ROC: NAL. Sept. 2005. 496p. ISBN 0-451-46046-4. $24.95. SF In one catastrophic moment in the final years of the 20th century, all technology ceased to function, leaving humanity without any power...