Library Journal articles from September 2010

Library Journal archives from September 2010

RA crossroads: craft books for adults.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Amy Butler)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Amy Butler is well on her way to giving Martha Stewart, Vera Bradley, and Orla Kiely a run for their money with her modern updates to a Laura Ashley--esque style. Her many craft books offer the perfect opportunity to...

XPress reviews: first look at new books.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Young adult review)(Book review)(Brief review)
September 15, 2010... "Verdict: YA and adult readers who like strong heroines and classic tales will enjoy this volume, which is sure to be in demand by Discworld fans." --from Amy Watts's review of Terry Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight: A Tiffany Aching Adventure...

Webcast alert: Fall Announcements 2010.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Summer's over, but fall offers a bounty of promising titles. For leads, look no further than our recent Fall Announcement 2010 Book Buzz webcast. For the archived edition, go to bit.ly/dgWyxe

Farewell to LJ, not libraries: Norman Oder, departing as News Editor, reflects on 14 years.(Library Journal)(Editorial)
September 15, 2010... MY 14 YEARS AT LIBRARY JOURNAL HAVE BEEN a fascinating, accidental career; indeed, I've half-joked to colleagues that had our current hiring standards (which give preference to library experience) been in place, I wouldn't be here. An...

Support LSSC!(feedback)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... The goal of a national paralibrarian certification, sponsored through the American Library Association (ALA), has been on the Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Paralibrarian Section agenda for almost ten years. ALA and the team that has...

Update.(feedback)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... The new address for the Medline Plus site ("Breathe and Relax," Collection Development, LJ 9/1/10, p. 32) is medlineplus.gov.

Antitax ballot measures alarming Coloradans.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Public services in Colorado, including library services, could be devastated if three seemingly simple--and, to critics, complex and deceptive--tax rollback measures pass in the November 2 election. According to an analysis by the Colorado...

Colorado lib.: "perfect storm".(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Citing what its director calls "a perfect storm of budget challenges," the Jefferson County Public Library (JCPL), Lakewood, CO, plans to cut its budget by at least $3 million--about 12 percent--over the next two years. And it could be worse...

East Cleveland library seeks to join Cuyahoga.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Though it is the state's poorest city, East Cleveland, OH, population 27,000, has long had an impressive library, with special collections and a main library theater. However, after a year of dramatic cuts in library support and services, the...

At conference, efforts to rejuvenate reference.(news desk)(Conference news)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Against a backdrop of shrinking budgets and generally declining reference usage statistics, some 315 public and academic librarians gathered in Denver, August 8-10, for the Reference Renaissance conference to discuss how new mobile technologies...

In Stamford, CT, reprieve dashed, cuts coming.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... In June, the Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT, announced it would close its three branches all but one day a week and cut hours at the main library, all to meet a budget shortfall of $1.2 million, some 17 percent less than the library sought to...

Black librarians gather.(CONFERENCE REPORT)(7th National Conference of African American Librarians)(Conference news)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... City, In the white-hot heat of the "Magic of Birmingham, AL, a city fraught with memories of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) held its 7th National Conference of African American Librarians...

The latest public library loan? Electricity meters.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Spurred by concerns about conservation and cost, public utilities across the country have begun to partner with libraries, enabling loans of portable Kill a Watt electricity meters, which can be used to gauge home power usage. In Seattle,...

New studies measure academic library ROI.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... A new international study of eight libraries suggests that for every monetary unit invested in academic libraries, the parent institution received between 15.54 and 0.64 units in research grant income. Such results suggest that there are many...

Evanston gets library fund.(news desk)(Evanston Public Library)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... The Evanston Public Library (EPL), IL, Board of Trustees has voted to establish a Public Library Fund (PLF), allowing it to set its own millage, up to a limitation. The state-determined maximum of .23 mills per $1000 assessed property value...

Greek Lib. gets Gates award.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has presented its 2010 Access to Learning Award, worth $1 million, to the Veria Central Public Library in northern Greece. It is the first library in the country to provide its users with free access to...

OCLC tests article ILL plan.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... OCLC is currently field-testing a new service called Direct Request for Articles, in which PDFs of complete journal articles are made available through OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing interlibrary loan (ILL) service. Via the service, a...

TX bookmobile PL closes.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... The 80-year-old Jefferson County Library, TX, comprised Of a bookmobile and a small walk-in library for roughly 33,000 residents, will close in December. Its budget was $300,000. The library, based in Beaumont, serves unincorporated areas of...

Volunteers add hours in Charlotte, raise questions.(news desk)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... An aggressive effort to recruit volunteers at the budget-battered Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, NC, resulted in the announcement that two branches were to open one additional day per week for six hours, as of September 13. "Using volunteers...

Goodstein Library.(people)
September 15, 2010... Pat Auflick is the new Director of the Goodstein Library at Casper College, WY. She was a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Kent State University.(people)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... James K. Bracken is the new Dean of University Libraries, Kent State University, OH, He previously was Assistant Director for Collections, Instruction, and Public Services at Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus. Bracken replaces Mark...

Whitman Public Library.(people)(Jessica Finney)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Jessica Finney is now the Director of the Whitman Public Library, MA. She was the library's Adult Services Librarian.

Pierz Public Library.(people)(Bev Gold)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Bev Gold recently retired after serving since 1982 as Manager of the Pierz Public Library, Great River Regional Library, St. Cloud, MN.

Windsor Public Library.(people)(Barry Holmes)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Barry Holmes is now CEO, Windsor Public Library, Ont. He was CEO, Greater Victoria Public Library, BC.

University Libraries.(people)(Charla Lancaster and Rebecca Miller)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... The University Libraries at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, has named Charla Lancaster as Director of Assessment and Library Access Services; Rebecca Miller is College Librarian for Science, Life Sciences, and Engineering.

Fairfield Public Library.(people)(Dawn La Valle)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Dawn La Valle has been named Assistant Director at the Fairfield Public Library, CT. For the past seven years, La Valle worked at the White Plains Library, NY, as Adult Reference Librarian and Supervisor of Periodicals.

University of North Carolina.(people)(Patrick Mullin)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Patrick Mullin, Interim Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), retired July 30 after a 37-year career.

Dickinson Area Public Library.(people)(Renee Paasch)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Renee Paasch is now Director, Dickinson Area Public Library, ND, following the retirement of Cheryl Tollefson, after 37 years. Paasch was Interlibrary Loan and Acquisitions Librarian there.

Palmer School of Library and Information Science.(people)(Linda Ryan, Jody Howard, and David Jank)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... At the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, Brookville, NY, Linda Ryan has been named Director; she was Director of the Rittenberg Law Library of St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY. Jody Howard...

Pascagoula Public Library.(people)(Lori Ward Smith)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Lori Ward Smith is the new Branch Manager, Pascagoula Public Library, part of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, MS. She most recently was Director, Pickens County Cooperative Library System, Carrollton, AL.

Chugiak-Eagle River Branch Library.(people)(Zane Treesh)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Zane Treesh is the new Manager of the Chugiak-Eagle River Branch Library, Anchorage Public Library (APL), AK. Treesh has held a variety of positions at APL over the past 12 years.

Digital strategy director leaves NYPL.(infotech)(New York Public Library's Josh Greenberg)
September 15, 2010... Josh Greenberg, who headed up New York Public Library's (NYPL) digital initiative since 2007, has left the library and taken a new grant-making position s a program director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He started there September 1. ...

Harvard library labs foster new digital library projects.(infotech)(Harvard University)
September 15, 2010... At Harvard University, two different "library labs" aim to produce new information technology projects, with a clear focus on openness. Such projects could lead to new and practical library applications and could include collaborations with...

Library bloggers vs. JSTOR.(infotech)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A controversy in August surrounding the interface update for the journal archive JSTOR became the talk of the blogs. JSTOR's new default settings were set to include results from every journal in the JSTOR collection,...

III names new president.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Library automation company Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III), promoted Nell Block, formerly its VP of worldwide sales, to president--a newly created position, according to Innovative spokesman Gene Shimshock. Block will take over the day-to-day...

EBSCO adds text-to-speech.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Database aggregator EBSCO Publishing announced that it has built in a text-to-speech option to all of its EBSCOhost databases. The SpeechStream toolbar, created by software company Texthelp Systems, allows text from all databases to be read...

OverDrive unveils project Gutenberg ebook downloads.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Digital product vendor OverDrive announced that its partner Boston Public Library (BPL) has added some 15,000 public-domain, DRM-free ebooks from Project Gutenberg (PG) to its OverDrive-powered "Virtual Branch" and is making them available to...

For [love] or [money]: libraries and the struggle to remain "free".
September 15, 2010... Public libraries are walking a tightrope. They are a free service to all, but increasing funding cuts have some libraries turning to a wide variety of revenue-generation strategies to ensure financial security. Gift and coffee shops, meeting...

The perfect politician: elected officials aren't the only ideal library allies.
September 15, 2010... The perfect politician, the ideal political ally to a library, is often but not always an elected official. He or she is always an effective champion of "reasonable financial support," i.e., "the amount... which a thoroughly competent librarian...

Showing our strengths: are you a Woo? An Activator? An Achiever, Analytical? Strengths training can reinvigorate team spirit and foster a healthy atmosphere in tough times.
September 15, 2010... "Any questions?" library director Sasha asked her department heads, sitting back. A real Political Animal, Sasha nodded as the debate opened around the table. Within seconds, Fly-off-the-Handle Sue had protested the new administrative proposal....

Go "title rogue".(BACKTALK)
September 15, 2010... WHAT IS IT WITH THE LIBRARY profession and our obsession with individual titles? Is it insecurity? Fear? Elitism? Maybe the focus on titles is not entirely our fault. Perhaps the variety and inherent inconsistency found in this era of ever more...

Beattie, Ann. Walks with Men.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Beattie, Ann. Walks with Men. 2 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 2 1/2 hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792772347. $39.95; digital download. F In PEN/Bernard Malamud Award winner Beattie's powerfully stark period novella, Jane, a...

DeMille, Nelson. The Lion.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... DeMille, Nelson. The Lion. 14 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 15 3/4 hrs. Hachette Audio from AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9781607885412. $124.99; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; 14 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio; 8 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 8 3/4...

Dibdin, Michael. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Dibdin, Michael. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 6 3/4 hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792771647. $64.95; Playaway digital; digital download. F The late British crime write Dibdin (d. 2007), best...

Ebershoff, David. The Danish Girl.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Ebershoff, David. The Danish Girt. MP3 digital download, library ed. unabridged. 11 1/2 hrs. HighBridge Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781615730872. $52.43; Playaway digital. F Ebershoff's (www.ebershoff.com) 2000 debut novel, which is currently being...

Heitzmann, Kristen. Indivisible.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Heitzmann, Kristen. Indivisible. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 1/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307736086. $35; digital download. Random Audio. F The small town of Redford, CO, seems picture perfect--until Police ChiefJonas Westfall...

King, Stephen. Blockade Billy.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * King, Stephen. Blockade Billy. 3 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 2 1/2 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781449834432. $24.75; 3 CDs. retail ed. S. & S. Audio; Playaway digital;digital download. F King, a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, takes a...

Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 1/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307736185. $39.95; 8 CDs. retail ed. Penguin Audio; digital download. F After emigrating from Hong Kong, 11 -year-old Kimberly Chang...

Larsson, Stieg. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Larsson, Stieg. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. tr. from Swedish by Reg Keeland. 16 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 20 1/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307735010. $40; 16 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; Playaway digital; digital...

Marston, Edward. Murder on the Brighton Express.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Marston, Edward. Murder on the Brighton Express, 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8 hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792772316. $89.95; digital download. F This fifth title in Marston's "Railway Detective" series, following The...

On September 1, audiobook publisher/ distributor Recorded Books (see Publisher Spotlight, L/4/1/10).(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... On September 1, audiobook publisher/ distributor Recorded Books (see Publisher Spotlight, L/4/1/10) launched Universal Class for libraries, a continuing education (CE) online database service previously available only to consumers and featuring...

Earlier this summer, UK-based media company AudioGO acquired BBC Audiobooks America (BBCAA) and its parent company, BBC Audiobooks.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Earlier this summer, UK-based media company AudioGO acquired BBC Audiobooks America (BBCAA) and its parent company, BBC Audiobooks (see Audio NewsBriefs, LJ 8/10). Beginning with this issue, BBCAA will be referred to in the pages of L/and in...

Available in October through Trafalgar Square Publishing from Independent Publishers Group are three boxed-set additions to the Collins Easy Learning Audio Course.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Available in October through Trafalgar Square Publishing from Independent Publishers Group are three boxed-set additions to the Collins Easy Learning Audio Course: Complete Italian, Complete French, and Complete Spanish. Each set comprises two...

Following a June 17 announcement on spending by the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the extension of the Public Lending Right (PLR) service to audiobooks and certain categories of ebooks has been suspended.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Following a June 17 announcement on spending by the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the extension of the Public Lending Right (PLR) service to audiobooks and certain categories of ebooks has been suspended. It will again be...

Min, Anchee. Pearl of China.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Min, Anchee. Pearl of China. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 3/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781436186322. $102.75; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital;digital download. F Any other author, fiction or nonfiction, would he...

Nemirovsky, Irene. Dimanche.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Nemirovsky, Irene. Dimanche. tr. from French by Bridget Patterson, 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 1/4 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441748683. $45; 8 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital download....

Palahniuk, Chuck. Tell-All.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Palahniuk, Chuck. Tell-All. 5 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 5 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441735065. $50; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F As housekeeper and confidante to has-been movie star Katherine...

Peters, Elizabeth. A River in the Sky.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Peters, Elizabeth. A River in the Sky. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2010. ISBN 9781440779435. $102.75; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. HarperAudio. F Pseudonymous author/Mystery Writers of...

Roth, Philip. My Life as a Man.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Roth, Philip. My Life as a Man. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 1/4 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441805409. $92.97; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Roth's seventh novel,...

Slaughter, Karin. Broken.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Slaughter, Karin. Broken. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 1/2 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781423342403. $99.97; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 5 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 6 hrs.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital...

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. 4 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 5 1/4 hrs. Naxos AudioBooks. 2010. ISBN 9781843793601. $28.98; digital download. PHIL Aurelius's musings on man's duty to himself, his family, and others comprise one of the great...

Avlon, John. Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Avlon, John. Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 6 1/2 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441866059. $99.97; 6 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; digital download. POL SCI This...

Brafman, Ori & Rom Brafman. Click: The Magic of Instant Connections.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Brafman, Ori & Rom Brafman. Click: The Magic of Instant Connections. 4 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 4 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2010. ISBN 9780307735119. $35; 4 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. BUS Organizational business...

Frauenfelder, Mark. Made by Hand.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Frauenfelder, Mark. Made by Hand. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400147816. $71.99; 6 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playaway digital (Dec. 2010); digital download. SOC SCI Author Frauenfelder...

Gwynne, S.C. Empire of the Summer Moon.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... * Gwynne, S.C. Empire of the Summer Moon. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 15 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400146550. $79.99; 12 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. HIST [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Loftus, Geoff. Lead Like Ike.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Loftus, Geoff. Lead Like Ike. 8 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 9 1/2 hrs. Springwater: Oasis Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781598597349. $29.99; Playaway digital (Dec. 2010); digital download. BUS Loftus (VP of communications, Society of Corporate...

Top-selling Playaway[R] audio titles for the month of August.(TOP AUDIO)(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 The Postcard Killers. James Patterson & Liza Marklund. unabridged. 7 hrs. Hachette Audio. ISBN 9781607887591. $74.99. F Patterson's first pairing with Swedish mystery writer Marklund; Katherine Kellgren, Erik...

Ridley, Matt. The Rational Optimist.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Ridley, Matt. The Rational Optimist. 10 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. HarperAudio. 2010. ISBN 9780061992629. $39.99; digital download. BUS If you are very concerned about genetically modified foods, global warming, and the use of...

Sweet, Jeffrey. The Value of Names.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Sweet, Jeffrey. The Value of Names. 1 CD. retail ed. unabridged. 1 1/4 hrs. L.A. Theatre Works. 2010. ISBN 9781580816540. $18.95; Playaway digital (Dec. 2010); digital download. DRAMA Retired actor Benny Silverman is disturbed to learn that...

Van Dyk, Jere. Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Van Dyk, Jere. Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban. 8 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. Macmillan Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781427210432. $39.99; digital download. POL SCI/AUTODIOG While researching a book about the borderlands between...

Waters, John. Role Models.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Waters, John. Role Models. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400147038. $59.99; 7 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. AUTOBIOG Cult filmmaker Waters gives us another...

Hayhurst, Dirk. The Bullpen Gospels.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Hayhurst, Dirk. The Bullpen Gospels. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441763075. $50; 9 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital download. SPORTS Hayhurst's...

Turbow, Jason with Michael Duca. The Baseball Codes.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
September 15, 2010... Turbow, Jason with Michael Duca. The Baseball Codes. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781441763006. $45; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. SPORTS Sports journalist Turbow digs, but...

Raffles: The Complete Collection.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
September 15, 2010... Raffles: The Complete Collection. 4 discs. color. 726+ min. Christopher Hodson & Others, ITV Studios, dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781598233891. $59.99. SDH subtitles. F This 14-part series,...

Trial & Retribution. Set 4.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
September 15, 2010... Trial & Retribution. Set 4. 3 discs, colon 408+ min. Alex Pillai & others, La Plante Prods., dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781598283907. $49.99. SDH subtitles. F This hard-hitting series from...

Craft in America. Season 2.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
September 15, 2010... Craft in America. Season 2. color. 2 hrs. Nigel Noble & Daniel Seeger, Craft in America, dist. by PBS Home Video, shoppbs.org/ education. 2009. DVD ISBN 9781608831166. $54.95. Closed-captioned. Crafted Over Time. colon 88 min. Patrick...

Prime Suspect, the iconic TV police drama created by Lynda La Plante and starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison, won seven Emmys, eight BAFTAs, and a Peabody during its 15-year run on networks including PBS.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Prime Suspect, the iconic TV police drama created by Lynda La Plante and starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison, won seven Emmys, eight BAFTAs, and a Peabody during its 15-year run on networks including PBS. Prime Suspect: The Complete...

Blockbuster, which dominated the home video rental business for over a decade, plans to file for bankruptcy protection this month, reports the Los Angeles Times.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Blockbuster, which dominated the home video rental business for over a decade, plans to file for bankruptcy protection this month, reports the Los Angeles Times. That would leave public libraries, Netflix, and Redbox as the primary lenders of...

Netflix has entered into an agreement with Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM that will add those studios' films to its online streaming library 90 days after their screening on Epix, a pay TV channel launched by the three studios in October 2009.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... Netflix has entered into an agreement with Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM that will add those studios' films to its online streaming library 90 days after their screening on Epix, a pay TV channel launched by the three studios in October 2009....

A&E Home Entertainment has launched a new Instant Expert line of DVD documentary "quick guides" developed by History[TM] and dealing with topics in ancient, American, and world history; arts and literature; and science and technology.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... A&E Home Entertainment has launched a new Instant Expert line of DVD documentary "quick guides" developed by History[TM] and dealing with topics in ancient, American, and world history; arts and literature; and science and technology. Among...

PureFlix Entertainment has created a new studio imprint, Harvest Distribution, which will release movies exclusively from independent faith-based producers.(Brief article)
September 15, 2010... PureFlix Entertainment has created a new studio imprint, Harvest Distribution, which will release movies exclusively from independent faith-based producers. Current releases include the sf drama The Scarf and the family comedy Holyman...

Start Spinning: The Video.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
September 15, 2010... Start Spinning: The Video. 2 discs, colon 144 min. Interweave, interweavestore.com. 2009. DVD ISBN 9781596682078. $34.99. CRAFTS This well-presented instructional DVD demonstrates how to spin fleece into yarn. While it is interesting for the...

Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
September 15, 2010... Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary. 2 discs, colon 328+ min. Pepita Ferrari, Natl. Film Bd. of Canada, www2.nfb.ca. 2009. DVD UPC 698193222561. $295. Public performance; home use Amazon.com $39.98. FILM Errol Morris, Werner Herzog,...

Dobe and a Company of Heroes!(Video recording review)
September 15, 2010... Dobe and a Company of Heroes! color & b/w. 51 min. DVD ISBN 9780802611024; acad. libs. DVD ISBN 9780802611011. Travel the Movie Trail. 30 min. DVD ISBN 9780802611000; acad. libs. DVD ISBN 9780802611017. ea. vol: color & b/w. Tony...