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. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:18:02 MST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6706052.html?nid=3299 Mapping out our nation's founding. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:06:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704693.html?nid=3299 Five poker books to ante up for. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:28:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704005.html?nid=3299 Arts Farebrother, Rachel. The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance. Ashgate. Dec. 2009. 226p. ISBN 978-0-7546-6198-6. $99.95. King-Hammond, Leslie. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Vol. 8: Hughie Lee-Smith. Pomegranate. Feb. 2010. 124p. ISBN 978-0-7649-5351-4. $35. Biography Hawkins, Martha. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703854.html?nid=3299 The 11th day of the 11th month marks the 91st anniversary of the armistice that ended the Great War. The “war to end all wars” certainly qualifies as wishful thinking now, as we look back over nearly a century of conflict. The now familiar images of World War I—trenches, barbed wire, sandbags, and mud—are pervasive in the following stories, as are the shattered men and r... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703841.html?nid=3299 Midwestern gardeners are legendary for enduring and outwitting winter, with its heavy snowpack and recurring freezes and thaws. Most of them also reckon with a relatively short growing period. All of them find their horticultural plans complicated by hot, humid summers. In fact, the Midwest deals with four seasons dictating special considerations for plants, pests, and chores! This article use... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703838.html?nid=3299 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703766.html?nid=3299 Not so little. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:13:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6702630.html?nid=3299 Classics as comics. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:50:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701530.html?nid=3299 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701222.html?nid=3299 Boyd, Noah . The Bricklayer . Morrow . Feb. 2010. c.400p. ISBN 978-0-06-182701-3 . $24.99.F A highly skilled operative leaves his government organization, having become fed up with its bureaucracy and incompetence, but is lured back for a specific project with promises of autonomy and resources and because his country needs him. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701220.html?nid=3299 Greenwood, T. The Hungry Season . Kensington . Feb. 2010. c.300p. ISBN 978-0-7582-2878-9 . pap. $15. F This compelling study of a family in need of rescue is very effective, owing to Greenwood's (Two Rivers) eloquent, exquisite word artistry and her knack for developing subtle, suspenseful scenes. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700359.html?nid=3299 There is nothing more frightening than the turning of what should be a haven into a nightmare. Which is why haunted house stories are perennial favorites with readers who like to be scared witless. Evil spirits and horrifying previous occupants are just some of the unwanted guests in the homes conjured by these masters of the disquieting. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700345.html?nid=3299 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700362.html?nid=3299 Libraries are not so unlike market giants Netflix, Amazon, and Pandora. That is, they all thrive when librarians succeed at helping users make the next choice. Despite our significantly different business models and missions, we share an interest in facilitating the search for information, including what to read, view, and listen to next. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701453.html?nid=3299 Celebrating Sendak Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:28:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6700187.html?nid=3299 Keats times five! Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:17:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698504.html?nid=3299 This season, Santa's bag of holiday fiction overflows with tales from authors old and new, cozies, a short-story collection from a beloved writer, a fairy tale of sorts, and even a trio of romances. [For more holiday romances, see Kristin Ramsdell's forthcoming Romance column, LJ 10/15/09.—Ed.] Ahern, Cecelia . Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698269.html?nid=3299 Footnotes don't merely add detail and annotate facts in thick volumes of nonfiction. Authors from Junot Díaz to David Foster Wallace pepper their texts with footnotes to add historical context, make fictional places seem real, or just insert a little something innovative to a story. Inventive writers who tinker with form and language light up the small print at the bottom of the page. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698263.html?nid=3299 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, so that librarians can start planning their purchases. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698260.html?nid=3299 Traditional American folk music, or roots music, is the foundation on which the houses of rock, rhythm and blues (R&B), country, and jazz are built. It is an important part of our American heritage and remains of great interest to many today. Fans of the soundtrack to the 2006 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Bruce Springsteen's 2006 album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, and the mu... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST