The Reader's Shelf, collection development features, collection management articles, and roundups of subjects on the verge. en-us http://www.libraryjournal.com/community/Collection+Development/47123.html?nid=3299 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/260304.html Terms of Use. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:11:10 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671182.html?nid=3299 On Monday at the ALA conference, Neal Wyatt (Wyatt’s World and RUSA president) inaugurated a new series on RA, discussing the potential of Pandora and bringing in Susan Chun (The Steve Project) and Nora Rawlinson (EarlyWord)…. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:45:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6669022.html?nid=3299 David Freeland's Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure (New York Univ.) will be published in August (see review, p. 109). At summer's approach, I have arranged to meet the author, a historian of music and popular culture and a contributing writer to New York Press, on the southwest corner of Canal and Bowery, near the edge of New York's Chinatown. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6669020.html?nid=3299 After much reflection, the Middlesex Community College Library in Connecticut took the plunge last summer. Are we talking a day at the beach? A dip in someone's pool? No, not as refreshing as that, although we did feel as if we were drowning at times. The plunge was our decision to intershelve reference books with circulation. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668997.html?nid=3299 Urban fantasy (UF) is much more than vampires. Here is a crop of summer titles that reflect the genre's diversity, ranging from UF romance (Marjorie Liu) to UF that leans toward horror (John Farris) and UF-fantasy hybrids (Tanya Huff). [For other UF titles, see Mike Resnick's Stalking the Dragon, John Shirley's Bleak History, and Mike Carey's Dead Men's Boots, reviewed in this month's SF column. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668424.html?nid=3299 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668189.html?nid=3299 Archivists and rare-book librarians have a unique view into the world of literary mysteries. After all, they work with the clues every day. Whether depicted as dutiful introverts who operate in a remote, secluded area of the library or as ex–special forces operatives living a now quiet life, there is just something wonderful about librarians guarding the gate to a mystery. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668174.html?nid=3299 On January 19, 2009, the day before his historic inauguration, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, commemorated Martin Luther King Day by volunteering for various community service projects around the Washington, DC, area. A record number of Americans also participated in the King Day of Service (www. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6668173.html?nid=3299 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670532.html?nid=3299 Five for the YA set. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:14:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670405.html?nid=3299 Panelists shared tips on managing E-resources, which have absorbed more and more of the collections budget and are now being reevaluated, with many cancelled.... Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6669025.html?nid=3299 Good things in small packages. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:19:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6667617.html?nid=3299 Stories from the plains and the skies. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:41:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6666534.html?nid=3299 There's way more to summer eating than hamburgers and hot dogs. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:07:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6665178.html?nid=3299 Fathers and sons and daughters. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:07:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6663768.html?nid=3299 With its long hot days, summer cries out for books to sink into and savor. These six women authors—variously classified as writers of chick lit, romance, and women's fiction—know how to create novels that fit the season perfectly. Their delightful tales seduce readers into setting and scene and sustain interest with characters and dialog that are always as funny as they are charming. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6663759.html?nid=3299 In order to grab the attention of library patrons more effectively, EBSCO Publishing's NoveList has introduced NoveList Select, a product that embeds the NoveList readers' advisory tool's recommendations directly into the OPAC. The service provides recommendations based on a user's search term, cross-checking it against a database of information on more than four million fiction and nonfiction ... Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6663752.html?nid=3299 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6663405.html?nid=3299 Five with a different sci-fi twist. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:30:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6661899.html?nid=3299 Five summer pulse pounders! Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:26:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6661944.html?nid=3299 Panel selects must-have titles for libraries. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST