Library Journal RSS Feed Library Jounral en_us Fri, 17 May 2013 17:29:19 http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls While we do not represent the rainbow of reading tastes American public libraries accommodate, we Book Review editors—now nine strong—are a wildly eclectic bunch. One look at our bedside tables and ereaders would reveal very little crossover. S... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/888841-290/editors_spring_picks.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 712705@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:27:19 Crime fiction is a genre dedicated to exploring the underside of both human psychology and life itself. This year’s crop of summer and fall mysteries and thrillers—and in particular those by debut writers and established authors launching new series—pr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/889722-290/genre_spotlight__mystery_dispatches.html.csp Maude Adjarian BooksNewsInterviews 742712@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:24:23 Illustrations Copyright Sam R. Kennedy In this Article SF/Fantasy on the Web Epic Fantasy: 20 Core Titles Map to the SF/Fantasy Galaxy There’s an important difference between setting trends and chasing them, and a look at 2011’s crop of ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891346-290/epic_journeys_fantasy_makes_a.html.csp Neil Holland BooksNewsInterviews 796720@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:24:15 Bowling for dollars Bouchercon, held September 15–19 in St. Louis, always provides fun opportunities for mystery authors and readers to give back locally. At the stunningly retro Flamingo Bowl, 13 teams of authors, publishers, and wannabes knocked down ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892390-290/a_mystery_meet_up_in.html.csp Teresa L. Jacobsen BooksNewsInterviews 833664@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 In 1986 two key events served as catalysts for the founding of Sisters in Crime, a nonprofit organization that promotes women’s equality in the mystery genre. Phyllis Whitney, a prolific author of popular gothic suspense novels, wrote to the Mystery W... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892321-290/woman_up_sisters_in_crimes.html.csp Barbara Fister BooksNewsInterviews 831616@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 There’s an important difference between setting trends and chasing them, and a look at 2011’s crop of fantasy and sf finds publishers on the healthy side of the line. Proud of cases where they’ve been ahead of the curve in expanding readership in spec... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891589-290/sffantasys_epic_journey.html.csp Neil Holland BooksNewsInterviews 806315@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 AUTHOR-ITY FIGURES ALA always boasts a cache of fabulous and varied programs on books and their creators. (L.-r.): On Saturday, hear Jennifer Niven Celebraging Southern Writers and Wendy mcClure on the hot Literary Memoirs trend. Sunday is for Mystery and... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/890384-290/ala_2011__authors_.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 765977@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 In novels like Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and Shanghai Girls, See introduces U.S. readers to forgotten chapters in Chinese history. Her new book, Dreams of Joy (see review on p. 80), addresses Mao’s Great Leap Forward campaign (1958–6... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/890212-290/qa_lisa_see_may_15.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 758871@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Eat local. That’s the idea behind the growing locavore movement. The word itself has become more commonplace, especially since it was named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year in 2007. Locavores typically eat food grown or produced within ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/889579-290/collection_development__the_rise.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 738125@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Reviewer Andrea Tarr catches up with Rebecca Rasmussen, whose debut novel, The Bird Sisters (LJ 3/1/11), is a lovely, luminous, character-driven story that captures the joy and heartbreak of youth. The poetic, vivid prose is enchanting—once you meet the... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/889529-290/qa_rebecca_rasmussen._april_1.csp BooksNewsInterviews 736657@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Let’s not panic. We knew the news would be bad. Respondents to LJ’s annual book buying survey of public libraries nationwide reported that adult book budgets were down eight percent overall, the largest plunge recorded since the survey began in 1998. W... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/888879-290/ljs_book_buying_survey_2011.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 713428@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 In 2009, Elly Griffiths’s acclaimed debut, The Crossing Places, introduced U.S. mystery readers to British forensic anthropologist Ruth Galloway; her foil and lover, DCI Harry Nelson; and the windswept, stark beauty of England’s Norfolk coast. In her seco... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/887456-290/qa_elly_griffiths_november_1.html.csp Susan Gilford Brown BooksNewsInterviews 672528@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Atlases Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad. Univ. of California. 2010. c.224p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 9780520266162. $39.95. REF   Consider this another spectacular atlas from accomplished geographer Hayes, author o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/887159-290/reference_reviews_november_1_2010.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 663076@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 November 2011 brings 57 starred reviews from our two issues and recent Xpress Reviews. Perhaps because I'm headed for the shores of Albion again, I couldn't help but notice a streak of Anglophilia. Many long awaited the centennial edition of J.M. Barrie's... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892648-290/starred_reviews_november_2011anglophilia_.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 841690@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:19:58 Sorry about the cloak-and-dagger stuff, but I cannot say much more than this: for the past month, I have been fulfilling my civic duty by serving as an alternate juror on a federal criminal trial. I can say that I have come to appreciate—truly—the value o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892609-290/memoir_short_takes_jeannette_wintersons.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 840846@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:19:58 Though I've "committed to incorporating more frontlist" in my columns, to quote my editor, I have to say: I never could tell my frontlist from my backlist. Does currency matter to dudes? Other than sabre saws, for example, when the old tool is working jus... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892608-290/books_for_dudes_adventures_with.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 840830@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:19:58 Whether they're personal, political, educational, or entertaining (and often all of the above) zines are a democratic form of media that exists to give voice to diverse points of view. Despite their heterogeneity, zine creators and zine readers all need t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892597-290/zinesters_do_it_on_the.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 840381@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:19:57 As Lewis Carroll's Alice so aptly points out, "What is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?" Welcome to RA Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media converge, and whole-collection reader's advisory service goes where it may... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892607-290/ra_crossroads_what_to_read.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 840805@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:19:57 Fed up with all the end-of-paper-publishing rhetoric, workers from Atomic Books and Quimby's Bookstore declared the Revenge of Print 2011 (RoP). The Facebook page (I know, I know) has 473 posts as of August 2, 2011, so clearly the movement has attracted p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891662-290/revenge_of_print_retired_zinesters.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 808739@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:19:52 Moon prism power, make up! Kodansha's Sailor Moon and Sailor V manga reissues beat out Naruto for top graphic novel sales on September's bookstore scoresheet from Nielsen BookScan. Will the Sailor Scouts—called Sailor Senshi in the new translation—bring t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892455-290/graphic_novels_prepub_alert_bendiss.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 836021@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:19:44 Street lit established its roots when writers hand-sold books out of car trunks, in beauty salons, and on street corners. Now librarians can learn all about street lit in an authoritative professional work titled The Readers' Advisory Guide to Street Lite... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892423-290/the_word_on_street_lit.html.csp Wilda Williams BooksNewsInterviews 835029@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:19:44 Just in time for Halloween, here are eight recent titles to celebrate the season. Featuring ghosts, witches, monsters, and the occasional zombie, they carry enough thrills and chills to satisfy even the most jaded adult reader. Curl up with a bowl of bite... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892456-290/35_going_on_13_ghosts.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 836029@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:19:43 This month, we see several titles advising parents to back off—or risk getting in the way of healthy development. Yet with books like Kerry Cohen's Dirty Little Secrets making headlines, it's difficult to see how less intervention is appropriate. David. H... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892446-290/parenting_short_takes_entitlement_teen.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 835757@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:19:43 October 2011 brings 63 starred reviews from our two magazine issues and recent Xpress Reviews. First things first: it's impossible not to note the wealth of literary and popular fiction. Fall is the season to showcase award contenders and push holiday gif... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892284-290/starred_reviews_october_2011.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 830419@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:19:41 Summer is over, thankfully. We survived the usual heat and humidity in New York, plus an earthquake, a hurricane, and flooding. Nature really is a mother, but books can get you through anything, so here are some goodies to help you through the next di... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892225-290/classic_returns_hunter_s._thompsons.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 828885@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:30 A summer hiatus spent studying Victorian fiction has made it a little tougher to get back into the memoir swing of things, but a few of these titles reminded me why this is such a sweet gig. I want to hang out with Jeanne Darst and Peter Smith and tell th... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892224-290/memoir_short_takes_jeanne_darsts.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 828871@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:30 I love a challenge like Ethel Merman loves a parade. I did an Ironman this summer, and while that was difficult enough, I threw in an extra Ironman. Why? For the challenge. I pick up that theme here. It's not easy to encapsulate 700-plus pages about the p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892223-290/books_for_dudes_seven_protean.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 828856@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:30 Although you may not yet be thinking about Thanksgiving, a slew of Christmas and other holiday books are coming. This year's select titles run the gamut from down-home to sophisticated, narrow to broad, and sentimental to downright snarky. Crafters and co... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891740-290/holiday_cooking__crafting_20.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 810729@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:19:29 Next month, Viking will publish Pulitzer Prize–winning author William Kennedy's latest novel, Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (see the starred review). It's an amalgam of politics, mysticism, gangsters, romance, jazz, and Hemingway. Set against the back... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892002-290/qa_william_kennedy_author_of.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 819363@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:19:09 You can accuse the publishing industry of many things, but just don't call it boring. Developments like Amazon's purported ebook loaning library leave many collection development professionals feeling winded and powerless. Our new Librarian-Publisher Dia... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892003-290/librarian_publisher_dialog_jim_carmin.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 819369@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:19:09 According to the August 22 edition of Publishers Weekly, higher education titles led all book categories in growth since 2008. In comics, we have seen an increasing number of adaptations of star titles (classic as well as popular), nonfiction graphic nove... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/892006-290/graphic_novels_prepub_alert_r..csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 819388@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:19:09 Based in Portland, OR, graphic novelist Craig Thompson made his name among librarians with Blankets, his deeply personal, widely celebrated look at growing up and falling in love for the first time. This month he returns with the even more ambitious Habib... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891805-290/qa_craig_thompson_on_habibi.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 813057@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:19:07 September 2011 brings 29 starred reviews from our Sept. 1 issue and recent Xpress Reviews. (This number is smaller than usual owing to our production schedule; the Sept. 15 issue was still closing as this column was being compiled, so we couldn't include ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891819-290/starred_reviews_september_2011.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 813878@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 This month brings reviews of two new magazines from Great Britain and one from Canada, along with a Western-themed literary magazine and a new offering from McSweeney's. Delayed Gratification. 2010. q. £55. ISSN 2046-1933. Aud: GA (Subject: Cur... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891770-290/the_magazine_rack_new_reviews.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 811395@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 Atmosphere, or lack thereof, can be deadly. Just ask any Star Trek redshirt unfortunate enough to beam down to an uncharted planet sans helmet—or see the evidence in books. Looking for quality murder 'n' mayhem led me on quite the wild-goose chase. While ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891814-290/books_for_dudes_atmospheric_murder.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 813722@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:55 What's the point of memoir? It's an old question, but one this month's memoirists answer through their stories: to deal with one life's darkness can illuminate another's. September's memoirs shed light on some bleak situations and make light of others. Wh... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891809-290/memoir_short_takes_david_finchs.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 813404@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:18:54 As Lewis Carroll's Alice so aptly points out, "What is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?" Welcome to RA Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media converge, and whole-collection reader's advisory service goes where it may... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891808-290/ra_crossroads_marisa_de_los.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 813347@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:18:54 —Last week in New York City, BookExpo America returned to the Jacob K. Javits Center and once again nearly rendered me psychotic from all the walking, talking, bathroom waiting, and galley lugging. Although I wasn't able to attend as many sessions as I wa... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/890847-290/bookexpo_america_2011_takeaways.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 781233@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:06 At this year's BookExpo America, I had the distinct pleasure of hearing Wendy Bartlett, collection development coordinator of Cuyahoga County Public Library, hold forth on the art and science of buying for demand. That is, giving the people what they want... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/891218-290/qa_wendy_bartlett_collection_development.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 792799@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:18:00 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/890923-290/special_guest_qas_r.l._stine.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 783966@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:36 The International Thriller Writers (ITW) membership includes many of the world’s best-selling authors: David Morrell, Gayle Lynds, Lee Child, Sandra Brown, Clive Cussler, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, and James Patterson, among others. All of these aut... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/890913-290/first_thrills_itw_debut_authors.html.csp Wilda Williams BooksNewsInterviews 783649@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:36 Last spring, best-selling novelist David Morrell (First Blood) joined forces with Hank Wagner to edit Thrillers: 100 Must Reads (which garnered a starred LJ review), which collects the observations of the genre's leading writers on classic and contemporar... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/890925-290/qa_david_morrell_coeditor_of.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 784204@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:36 BookExpo America (BEA), the largest event of the North American publishing industry year, is again at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, May 23–26, but look for a few tweaks. It’s still midweek, but the exhibit hall will return to a three-da... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/889941-290/bea_preview_2011__the.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 748692@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 02 May 2011 17:16:53 Libraries, Ebooks, and Competition Ebooks and the Retailization of Research Ebook Sanity E-Texts for All (Even Lucy) Treating the digital like the physical is insanity of the highest order. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: publishers ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/885940-290/ebook_sanity.html.csp Griffey BooksNewsInterviews 620292@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:15:26 Libraries, Ebooks, and Competition Ebooks and the Retailization of Research Ebook Sanity E-Texts for All (Even Lucy) People keep writing articles about how valuable libraries are, even with ebooks and the Internet and all. Well, doh. Of course... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/885871-290/libraries_ebooks_and_competition.html.csp Hellman BooksNewsInterviews 618389@elibraryjournal.com Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:15:26 Publishers Weekly (PW) announced today the creation of a quarterly supplement listing self-published materials called PW Select, which will also include reviews. Listings in the issue will cost $149, though review choice will remain at the discretion of t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/886489-290/pw_announces_self-published_books_supplement.html.csp Josh Hadro BooksNewsInterviews 638314@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Mariam Touba It was my pleasure to work at the New-York Historical Society's library, an independent research library with collections documenting New York and American history, for many years. Mariam Touba, reference librarian and curator of the libr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/886464-290/author_qa_mariam_touba.html.csp Margaret Heilbrun BooksNewsInterviews 637844@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Illustration ©Michael Byers, LevyCreative.com Since Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was published in 2008, it has received 1,561 consumer reviews on Amazon, averaging four of five stars. Library­Thing has registered 682 reviews, putt... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/886292-290/every_reader_a_reviewer_the.html.csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 632752@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Photo by Nancy Crampton About 20 years ago, when I was in graduate school to get my MA in American civilization at NYU, it was English professor Kenneth Silverman, a Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer who made the experience a marvelous ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/886171-290/author_qa_kenneth_silverman.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 627948@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45   A new author shares what the library has meant to her. Were it not for a library-namely, the public library of Utica, NY, a five-story brick and limestone box of neoclassical grandeur-I would not have been born. My parents met there in 1963. My mothe... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/885913-290/love_and_healing_in_the.html.csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 619619@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The stepchild of genre fiction generally garners disdain when mentioned as a reading preference. This knowledgeable panel gets under the covers to reveal the intricacies of romance writing and how librarians can help patrons find the love. Romance is a l... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/885244-290/bea_2010_reading_between_the.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 601836@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884600-290/library_journalaposs_coverage_of_bea.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 582945@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Panelists insist there was always YA/adult crossoverManuscripts should not be editor for crossover appealYA titles including more serious issuesThanks to Harry Potter and the Twilight series, an increasing number of adults are heading to their library or ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884597-290/bea_2010_youaposre_reading_that-tackling.html.csp Mike Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 582926@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 At Library Journal, we're pleased, and relieved, at the turn of events that has aligned us with a library company, Media Source, headed by CEO Randy Asmo. Soon we will move to newdigs in New York City (location TBD), along with our sister publication Scho... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884567-290/lj_buyout_whataposs_in_it.html.csp Francine Fialkoff BooksNewsInterviews 581163@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThe inaugural Empire State Book Festival goes down April 9 and 10 in Albany, NY. You likely don't live within a stone's throw, but we're talking it up as a beautiful example of library-initiated book and literacy outr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884308-290/empire_state_book_festival_programming.html.csp Heather McCormack BooksNewsInterviews 579866@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesAs Fiction Editor Wilda Williams attests in her 2010 mystery preview-see "The New Noir," publishing in LJ 4/15/10-we're about to witness a Soviet mystery boom. William Ryan's The Holy Thief (Minotaur Books, September)... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884278-290/10_librariansapos_questions_for_william.html.csp Therese Purcell Nielsen, Abby S BooksNewsInterviews 579698@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesIn this expanded version of Prepub Alert, you'll find hot fall fiction (e.g., Cunningham, le Carré), a big nonfiction list from Aczel to Zailckas, plus news of the latest Tom Clancy.Fiction | Nonfiction | Coming Attr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884239-290/prepub_exploded_oct._2010_pt..csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 579526@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In Publishers Weekly, Lauren Gilbert, information services manager, Cold Spring Harbor Library, NY, writes an essay on BookExpo America headlined A Librarian Walks into...:If Rodney Dangerfield were a librarian at BEA, he might say: 'we don't get any resp... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/884129-290/a_librarian_on_why_bookexpo.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 578973@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 30 to 50 percent intend to purchase within a yearTablets preferred over dedicated ereaders12,700 users in 14 countries surveyedEreaders and multi-function tablets would become as ubiquitous as MP3 players if prices were cut in half and if consumers were g... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/883982-290/surge_in_ereader_tablet_purchases.html.csp Nanette Bulebosh BooksNewsInterviews 578226@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ILS integrationPublishers remain skepticalWill Blio and Copia become partners? Reps from the new ebook platforms Copia and Blio joined two librarians-New York Public Library deputy director of collections and circulating operations Christopher Platt and T... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/883964-290/bea_2010_day_of_dialog.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 578122@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 On a panel yesterday hosted by LJ Prepub guru Barbara Hoffert, four editors from major houses gave their 20 faves (see below) for the coming fall/winter season, and threw in a couple of spring/summer titles too. Hoffert was familiar with many of the title... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/883949-290/bea_2010_editorsapos_picks_at.html.csp Francine Fialkoff BooksNewsInterviews 578022@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Google's cut still vagueMany partners, just not the KindleSmartphone app for direct purchasesAs LJ reported earlier this month, Google Editions, the search giant's 'cloud bookstore'; of titles available on any device, is slated to go live this summer, wit... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/883947-290/bea_2010_getting_to_the.html.csp Norman Oder BooksNewsInterviews 578020@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesI've been a lover of New York City food since I was born on the Upper East Side, from its pricey strip steaks to its budget chicken parmesan heroes. When I was six or seven years old, my dad moved to the Lower East Si... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/883942-290/bea_2010_bright_lightscheap_eats.html.csp Tara Lannen-Stanton BooksNewsInterviews 578015@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesYes, we have thrillers-from the likes of Mary Higgins Clark and Martha Grimes-but with Pearl Abraham's American Taliban and Ian McEwan's Solar, fiction gets topical. In nonfiction, check out the good science titles an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/883763-290/prepub_exploded_april_2010_pt..csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 551804@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesRecommendation: Any new or backlist title from Small Beer Press because the award-winning publisher of literary fiction and fantasy is holding its 2009 Christmas Franciscan Fundraiser Sale. Through December 31, 2009, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856355-290/story.csp Wilda Williams BooksNewsInterviews 413938@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Ten years ago, I had what seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea: for my MFA thesis (which I had two years to finish), I'd write a book about the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture, one of the most important tools in medicine, taken from a ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856332-290/librarians_the_secret_to_narrative.html.csp Rebecca Skloot BooksNewsInterviews 413823@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856308-290/story.csp Norman Oder BooksNewsInterviews 413702@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThe four-volume 'Mercy Thompson'; series has been described as a 'top-notch paranormal mystery'; by Publishers Weekly and 'engaging'; by LJ. Mercy does have singular talents-she can fix your Volkswagen and then turn i... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856280-290/qampa_mercy_thompsonaposs_comics_support.html.csp Martha Cornog, Philadelphia BooksNewsInterviews 413562@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesPrepub expands online to give you more titles and more details. In this column, hotly anticipated new fiction from Isabel Allende,Brunonia Barry, and Scott Turow, and in nonfiction, memoirs from Bruce Feiler and Laura... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856247-290/prepub_exploded_may_2010_pt..csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 413397@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesMickey Leigh is not the only one who has slept with Joey Ramone. But Leigh, brother of the late Ramones frontman, has more to offer than some rock groupie eager to cash in on a bedroom tell-all. Leigh's frank portrait... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856154-290/qampa_mickey_leigh_amp_legs.html.csp Robert Morast, Fargo, ND BooksNewsInterviews 412933@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesAward-winning comics artist Eddie Campbell is probably best known for his work on Alan Moore's From Hell.Readers would do well to check out his recently published Alec: "The Years Have Pants," the superb omnibus editi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/856074-290/story.csp Martha Cornog BooksNewsInterviews 412532@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Longtime mystery writer Nevada Barr (Anna Pigeon series) launches her first stand-alone thriller this month. Speaking in a phone interview from her home in New Orleans, she shared some background on the exciting, psychologically draining 13½ (LJ 8/09) an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855810-290/qampa_nevada_barr.html.csp Teresa L. (Terry) Jacobsen, Sol BooksNewsInterviews 411227@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Poignant. Imaginative. Passionate. Original. These are some of the words LJ's reviewers used to describe the first novels forthcoming this fall and winter. We haven't been able to review them all yet, but we are providing a listing here, grouped by type, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855802-290/falling_into_bounty_fall_amp.html.csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 411187@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesWhy did it take so long for someone to realize that parenthood starts well before the birth of a child? Comedy writer David Javerbaum-former executive producer of The Daily Show anda key contributor to the best-sellin... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855760-290/a_consumer_health_librarian_interviews.html.csp Barbara Bibel, Oakland P.L. BooksNewsInterviews 410977@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Barbieri, Maggie. Final Exam. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Dec. 2009. 352p. ISBN 978-0-312-37677-2. $24.99.Alison Bergeron finds drugs in a missing student's dorm and gets her detective boyfriend on the case. The fourth in New York-based Barbieri's "Murder 101... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855583-290/story.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 410106@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855565-290/bampt_ebrary_team_up_on.html.csp Michael Rogers BooksNewsInterviews 410017@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In 1998, Nancy Pearl and Chris Higashi, librarians working in the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library (SPL), had a brainstorm. Challenged with a grant to develop new audiences for literature, they were intrigued with the power of ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855557-290/story.csp Beth Dempsey BooksNewsInterviews 409977@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Estleman, Loren D. Alone. Forge: Tor. Dec. 2009. 272p. ISBN 978-0-7653-1576-2. $24.99. After Frames, Estleman, who's written more than 60 novels and won four Shamus Awards, sets film archivist Valentino's second adventure in motion with a letter from Gret... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855521-290/story.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 409789@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Twenty-five years since her first release, West Virginia-based Jo Goodman has added another notch to her belt with the wonderful Western romance Never Love a Lawman (see p. 61). Writing beautifully vivid historical romances that evoke the time and the set... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855487-290/story.csp BooksNewsInterviews 409622@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 RBI divesting most U.S. trade magazinesBanker appointed for salePublisher pledges continued excellenceReed Business Information (RBI) is putting Library Journal and its affiliated publications, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, up for sale. Th... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855464-290/story.csp BooksNewsInterviews 409501@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Although the recession continues to permeate every pore of American business, it doesn't seem to have hit art book publishing-yet. Against all expectations, high-end scholarly publications, exhibition catalogs, and monographs on individual artists-a few w... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855462-290/fall_for_art_more_than.html.csp Mirela Roncevic BooksNewsInterviews 409491@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855412-290/barnes_amp_noble_launches_ebookstore.html.csp Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly BooksNewsInterviews 409247@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 LJ's Spiritual Living columnist, Graham Christian, gave a starred review to Willis Barnstone's The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas (Norton) in his July LJ column. He has now ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855411-290/lj_talks_to_willis_barnstone.html.csp Graham Christian BooksNewsInterviews 409242@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Local librarians enjoyed a full day of programs on July 15 at the 29th annual Romance Writers of America (RWA®) conference in Washington, DC. Nearly 100 professionals learned the ins and outs of bringing an author event to their libraries from the savvy ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855410-290/story.csp Bette-Lee Fox BooksNewsInterviews 409237@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Covering the Kennedy assassinationReflections on presidents from Hoover to ReaganSetting standards for TV newsThe death of legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite on July 17 remindedus of an interview Glenn Lewis did for LJ in the December 1996 issue on the ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855405-290/flashback_1996_lj_quottalks_toquot.html.csp Glenn Lewis BooksNewsInterviews 409212@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Boston Noir. 270p. ed. by Dennis Lehane. ISBN 978-1-933354-91-0. Phoenix Noir. 304p. ed. by Patrick Millikin. ISBN 978-1-933354-85-9. ea. vol: Akashic. Nov. 2009. pap. $15.95.Crime fiction master Lehane and Poisoned Pen Bookstore bookseller and critic Mil... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855310-290/prepub_mystery.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 408736@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In 1992 Teri Woods, then a Philadelphia legal secretary and mother, finished her first novel and spent the next six years submitting True to the Game to more than 20 publishers. Undeterred by their rejections, she self-published the novel in 1998 and sold... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855304-290/story.csp Vanessa Morris BooksNewsInterviews 408706@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Organizational structure announced"Market-focused" organizationServices to libraries, publishers groupedSome three weeks after the integration of Ingram Book Group, Ingram Digital, and print-on-demand Lightning Group into Ingram Content Group, CEO Skip Pr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855199-290/ingram_content_group_organized_to.html.csp Francine Fialkoff BooksNewsInterviews 408177@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 When journalist Stieg Larsson died in 2004, he left an impressive record of fighting right-wing extremism in his native Sweden and three crime novels. Although he lived to enjoy the Swedish publication of the first book, the posthumous international succe... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855137-290/qampa_stieg_larsson.html.csp Wilda Williams BooksNewsInterviews 407867@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 For a so-called dying industry, publishing looked prettyalive at this year's BookExpo America (BEA) in New York City. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the attendees who often crowded the aisles and booths-and packed LJ/SLJ's Librarians' Lounge-or many... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855104-290/editorial_the_book_is_not.html.csp Francine Fialkoff, Editor-in-Ch BooksNewsInterviews 407702@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 So, what were the must-have titles at BEA? After circling the show floor for two days, eight librarians with collection development or readers' advisory backgrounds presented their picks in ten-minuteintervals at BEA's first-ever Librarians' Book Shout an... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855082-290/bookexpo_america_2009_librariansapos_book.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 407592@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Top titlesDownloadable ARCsIn the future, physical books still matterThis year's BookExpo America drew fewer librarians-about 2100-than the blockbuster show in New York in 2007, but it was hard to tell from the crowds who thronged the Librarians' Lounge a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855073-290/bookexpo_america_2009_books_and.html.csp Francine Fialkoff BooksNewsInterviews 407547@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 So, what were the must-have titles at BEA? After circling the show floor for two days, eight librarians with collection development or readers' advisory backgrounds came up with a list and presented them in ten minutes each at BEA's first-ever Librarians'... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855067-290/bookexpo_america_2009_librariansapospicks_ofthe.html.csp Francine Fialkoff BooksNewsInterviews 407517@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855064-290/bookexpo_america_2009_at_ljaposs.html.csp Francine Fialkoff BooksNewsInterviews 407502@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Armstrong, David. Written Out. Severn House. Oct. 2009. 224p. ISBN 978-0-7278-6779-7. $28.95.Is a novelist's disappearance an evil plot or an innocent affair? Detectives Frank Kavanagh and Jane Salt return after A Kind of Acquaintance to take the case.Bea... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855026-290/prepub_mystery.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 407312@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Don't even think about attending BEA without first consulting LJ's inside line on top freebies and great places to eat when your day is done. First up is Book Review Editor Barbara Hoffert's six galleys to grab at BEA. Six is just for starters-here's a li... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/855004-290/bookexpo_america_galley_grabs_and.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 407202@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The well-being of animals matters, and not only because, as Jeremy Bentham said, 'The question is not whether they can talk or reason, but whether they can suffer.'; What's more, we're in this world together, and how animal life fares, so, eventually, far... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/854983-290/featured_giveaway_g.a._bradshawaposs_elephants.csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 407097@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Jeannette Walls's new work, Half Broke Horses (Scribner), is subtitled A True-Life Novel, and that seems about right. After the coruscating truths of her memoir, TheGlass Castle, she's chosen to retell her grandmother's life "with the storyteller's libert... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/854982-290/featured_giveaway_jeannette_wallsaposs_half.html.csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 407092@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Who could not love Firmin, that rascally rat who learned how to read and gave us a street's-eye view of 1960s Boston decay and renewal in Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife? Firmin was 2006's little book that could, becoming an ALA Notable Book,... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/854981-290/featured_giveaway_sam_savageaposs_the.html.csp Barbara Hoffert BooksNewsInterviews 407087@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 With the sale of Library Journal and School Library Journal, what happens to longtime sibiling publication Publishers Weekly?PW reports:Jeff DeBalko, president of Business Media at Reed Business, followed[the] 9 a.m. corporate memo with a reorganization a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853772-290/with_sale_of_lj_and.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 401015@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 From a press release issued today: Ohio-based Media Source Inc. announces today that it has acquired Library Journal and School Library Journal from Reed Business Information-US.The acquisition includes all print and web products, services, supplements, a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853771-290/library_journal_school_library_journal.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 401010@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Albert, Susan Wittig. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree. Berkley Prime Crime. Jul. 2010. 320p. ISBN 978-0-425-23445-7. $24.95.In the first in a new series from the best-selling Texas-based author of the China Bayles mysteries, the Darling Dahlias,... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853705-290/prepub_mystery.html.csp Anna Katterjohn BooksNewsInterviews 400674@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Seventh annual grantApplication deadline in the fallOne winner is still replacing books lost in 1987Online new and used bookseller Alibris has named three winners of the 2010 Alibris Collection Award, sharing a $3000 book grant: North Carolina Museum of N... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853622-290/three_institutions_share_3000_alibris.html.csp BooksNewsInterviews 400264@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 There have been several reports of layoffs and consolidations among book retailers and wholesalers; it's hard to tell whether it represents restructuring or retrenching.Publishers Weekly reports on a realignment at BarnesandNoble.com, involving both layof... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853569-290/staff_changes_and_cuts_at.html.csp LJ Staff BooksNewsInterviews 399997@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Reading print-on-paper books about the fragmentation of texts and the freeing of information seems fitting. Jaron Lanier admits as much in the opening to You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (see review, LJ 12/09, p. 131, bit.ly/LJSciTech1209). 'The words in... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853564-290/toward_a_human-centric_internet_jessamyn.html.csp Jessamyn West BooksNewsInterviews 399971@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine (HarperCollins, 2009), won top honors in the RUSA Reading List for genre fiction in the women's fiction category. The announcement came Sunday night at the ALA Midwinter RUSA awards. Trigiani ("Big Stone Gap" ser... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/853497-290/ala_2010_midwinter_meeting_trigiani.html.csp LJ Staff BooksNewsInterviews 399635@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Blio to offer 'multi-modal presentation'; of contentCopia highlights text-based social networkingAs ebook stores proliferate, EFF urges caution over privacy and content rightsMany of the stories from the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas feature... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/collectiondevelopment/booksnewsinterviews/849920-290/after_ereaders_getting_down_to.html.csp Josh Hadro BooksNewsInterviews 378373@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45