Survey for Librarians and library professionals for buying books on Library Journal. en-us http://www.libraryjournal.com/community/Book+Buying+Survey/47137.html?nid=3313 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:23:49 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6543610.html?nid=3313 Ronald Mallett's NPR appearance leads me down a winding path. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:02:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6539643.html?nid=3313 Street lit, ghetto books, or urban fiction: no matter what you call this hot genre, its many incarnations seldom remain on library shelves. To clue librarians into this infrequently reviewed phenomenon, LJ proudly presents The Word on Street Lit, a new monthly online column. In this edition: Chunichi, Sheri Sher, and Teri Woods. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:34:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6533419.html?nid=3313 Masterpiece Classic: The Complete Jane Austen leads me down a winding path. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:59:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6529380.html?nid=3313 A flock of hot new titles has just landed at the library. You could stand in the stacks and shout about it, print up an announcement and set your assistant to licking 10,000 stamps, or hope that word of mouth will get things moving. Or you could rely on the wizardry of the Internet to communicate the news quickly and easily to your entire community at once. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6530172.html?nid=3313 Street lit, ghetto books, or urban fiction: no matter what you call this hot genre, its many incarnations seldom remain on library shelves. To clue librarians into this infrequently reviewed phenomenon, LJ proudly presents The Word on Street Lit, a new monthly online column. In this edition: K'wan, Mark Anthony, and Carl Weber. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:10:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6529741.html?nid=3313 In this inaugural column, Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells leads me down a winding path. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:42:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6523448.html?nid=3313 Strategies to fix America's ailing health-care system seemed to fly off the presses every month in 2007. Doctors, journalists, and policymakers clamored to have their say, as did supporters and opponents of the controversial life-extension movement. These top trends, which registered in 2006 as well and will only balloon in this election year, correspond to a complicated reality: aging baby boo... Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6523447.html?nid=3313 A 2006 Canadian opinion poll found that more than half of the respondents had never heard of the term sustainability; seven out of ten were incapable of defining it; once defined, however, more than 80 percent saw sustainability as a high-priority national goal. Polls probing U.S. attitudes show similar numbers. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6496525.html?nid=3313 Thousands of letters, photographs, stage notes, and scripts from one of America's most famous actors will be available to the public in February at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6457018.html?nid=3313 Collection development ideas... Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6452407.html?nid=3313 Moderated by Barbara Hoffert, the panel featured Jonathan Burnham, senior vp & publisher, Harper: HarperCollins; Sarah Crichton, publisher, Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux; Jennifer Enderlin, associate publisher & executive editor, St. Martin’s Press; Paul Slovak, vp & associate publisher, Viking. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6446879.html?nid=3313 Does the world—and do libraries—really need new books on China, the largest, fastest-changing, and perhaps most contradictory country in the world? Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6446364.html?nid=3313 As the days grow longer and warmer with the approach of summer, our thoughts turn to the outdoors and the clear blue of water sports. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6445511.html?nid=3313 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413434.html?nid=3313 LJ's annual survey shows a rosy picture, even if the Internet is behind the lens. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6305540.html?nid=3313 The strongest increase in years and a focus on fiction characterize LJ's annual survey. Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA502011.html?nid=3313 Our annual survey shows budgets are up and fiction is surging. Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST