Library Journal RSS Feed Library Jounral en_us Mon, 28 May 2012 17:23:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls www.universitypressscholarship.com; for a free trial go to www.oup.com/online/freetrials Content University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) is an umbrella product that offers more than 7000 ebook titles in 21 subject areas published by six university ho... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/892235-283/university_press_scholarship_online_.html.csp Reference 829177@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/892217-283/reference_reviews.html.csp Reference 828499@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 In these tough times, many librarians are the ones “left behind” after cutbacks, doing a reference job they never expected. Michael Bemis’s acclimation to work in a maximum-security prison shows that even in the most extreme environment, it’s just the... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/892125-283/you_work_where.html.csp Reference 824548@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 www.cqpress.com/lib/prs; for a free trial please go to www.cqpress.com/requestfreetrial.asp. CONTENT CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions (PRS) combines a number of the publisher's government and political referenceCQ Press Political ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/892065-283/cq_press_political_reference_.html.csp Reference 822791@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 MAYBE THE THING that really makes us human is not the ability to use tools, to think abstractly, or to love, but the ability to take things like sports, fashion, and celebrity seriously even though we know they are completely unimportant. Here, we look... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/892064-283/ereviews_pop_culture.html.csp Reference 822781@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 HISTORY Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. 2011. 1042p. ed. by Alexander Mikaberidze. photogs. maps. index. ISBN 9781598843361. $195. Online: ABC-CLIO eBook Collection REF  With this survey, Mikaberidze (hi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/892054-283/reference_reviews.html.csp Reference 822429@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 From M.E. Sharpe Publishers, Inc. http://www.sharpe-online.com/; for a free trial please go to: http://www.sharpe-online.com/SOLR/a/freetrial. Content Since LJ's last review of Sharpe Online Reference (SOLR) in the 9/1/09 issue, the database has evol... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891913-283/sharpe_online_reference__ereviews.html.csp Reference 817138@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891912-283/reference_reviews_october_1_2011.html.csp Reference 817101@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/online-database; for a free trial please go to: http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/online-database/free-trial#. Content Marquis Biographies Online (MBO) packs in detailed information on more than 1.4 million accomplished individu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891751-283/marquis_biographies_online__ereviews.html.csp Reference 810882@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891722-283/reference_reviews.html.csp Reference 810309@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 www.infobasepublishing.com/OnlineProductDetail.aspx?ISBN=160057131X Content The World Almanac® Online expands on the contents of the publisher's print World Almanac®. In addition to the thousands of facts and statistics on business, consumer information... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891498-283/world_almanac_online__ereviews.html.csp Reference 803058@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 In this Article Short Takes ECONOMICS Weiss Ratings. Weiss Ratings Consumer Box Set Spring 2011. 9 vols. 601p. ISBN 9781592378104. single issue: $359; biannual subscription: $499.   Weiss Ratings. Weiss Ratings Guide to Health Insurers Spring 2011.... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891486-283/reference_reviews_september_1_2011.html.csp Reference 802794@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Publishers took a break from partying in New Orleans at ALA annual to announce new and updated databases. Here are some highlights, many of which will be featured in Cheryl LaGuardia’s upcoming eReviews columns. LaGuardia will also offer free trials o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891311-283/enews_from_the_show.html.csp Reference 795618@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 www.atozdatabases.com/home  CONTENT AtoZdatabases contains information on 30 million businesses, 33 million business executives (with five million to be added this month), two million new businesses, 220 million residents, and 90 million home owners. Fift... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891280-283/atozdatabases__ereviews.html.csp Reference 794694@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891249-283/reference_reviews_august_2011.html.csp Reference 793721@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Didn’t we just have an election cycle? As we were working on this set of reviews, Republican presidential hopefuls were lining up on stage to express their agreement with one another on every issue (except maybe on precisely how many and what kind of g... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891092-283/ereviews_politics_and_elections.html.csp Reference 789678@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 EDUCATION The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Vol. 17: Education. Univ. of North Carolina. 2011. 400p. ed. by Clarence L. Mohr. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780807834916. $45; pap. ISBN 9780807872017. $24.95. REF  This is the latest in a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891090-283/reference_reviews_july_2011.html.csp Reference 789655@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 I’m so glad we had this time together,  Just to have a laugh or sing a song.  Seems we just get started and before you know it  Comes the time we have to say, “So long.” I hope you’ll indulge if not forgive my wistful propensity for preciousness by way o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/891003-283/free_reference_bids_farewell_with.html.csp Reference 786343@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/890518-283/reference_reviews_june_1_2011.html.csp Reference 769378@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Access Video on Demand  Facts On File and Films Media Group, http://www.infobasepublishing.com/StreamingPLLanding.aspx CONTENT Access Video on Demand is a streaming video subscription service for public libraries using the Films on Demand platform, pr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/890133-283/access_video_on_demand_from.html.csp Reference 756478@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 The idea of Texas’s return as a soverign republic independent of its other 49 brethren is more than an urban cowboy myth perpetuated by ever-brisk sales of the anthemic “TEXAS SECEDE” slogan set against the Lone Star flag and emblazoned on T-shirts, b... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/890132-283/free_reference_the_handbook_of.html.csp Reference 756475@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 The constantly falling costs of creating electronic resources have made it possible for just about anyone to build a service that might be useful to librarians and their patrons. My brother and I have done that with ShipIndex.org, a site that helps pe... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/890131-283/à_la_carte_not_buffet.html.csp Reference 756472@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/890112-283/reference_reviews_may_15_2011.html.csp Reference 756146@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Jewish Life in America c 1654–1954  Adam Matthew Digital, amdigital.co.uk/collections/Jewish-Life-in-America-c1654-1954.aspx CONTENT Jewish Life in America c1654–1954 is a digital archive of original manuscript materials from the holdings of the Americ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889988-283/ereviews_jewish_life_in_america.html.csp Reference 750286@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 If last month’s column hit a new high explicating the diversely informative features of the controversial advocacy site created by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML; see Free Reference, LJ 3/15/11), then the paucity of ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889770-283/free_reference_the_big_kahuna.html.csp Reference 743854@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Most major database providers—ProQuest, EBSCO, and Gale—offer a professional-level resource covering religion or a religion/philosophy combination. There are also several specialized bibliographic and reference products dedicated to the study of indiv... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889750-283/ereviews_religion_resources_and_short.html.csp Reference 743241@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 GALE NEWSVAULT   Gale/Cengage Learning, http://gdc.gale.com/products/gale-newsvault Content Gale NewsVault is Gale’s platform for cross-searching the range of its digital historical and newspaper collections, reaching back over 400 years. It allows us... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889749-283/erreviews_gale_newsvault_from_galecengage.html.csp Reference 743230@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889702-283/reference_reviews_april_15_2011.html.csp Reference 742379@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 CRCnetBASE 2.0  CRC Press, www.crcnetbase.com  CONTENT CRCnetBASE 2.0 is the major new release of the CRCnetBASE platform, first launched in 1999. It offers online access to more than 6000 e-reference books and handbooks in over 40 disciplines, rangin... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889311-283/crcnetbase_2.0_from_crc_press.csp Reference 727653@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 HISTORY The Cold War. 3 vols. Salem. (Magill’s Choice). 2010. 960p. ed. by Robert F. Gorman. photogs. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781587657306. $225. REF   Between 1945 and 1991, the struggles between capitalism and communism played out on the w... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889271-283/reference_reviews_march_15_2011.html.csp Reference 726979@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels  Alexander Street Press, alexanderstreet.com/products/comx.htm CONTENT Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is an online collection of original comic books and gra... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889071-283/underground_and_independent__comics.html.csp Reference 720303@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Throughout my thirty-year tenure as a reference librarian in a medium-large urban public library, I have accrued a fair number of red and black letter days. September 27, 1983—our first public access personal computer workstations (four Commodore 64s: ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888878-283/free_reference_irs.gov_--_the.csp Reference 713407@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Jewish Studies Source EBSCO Publishing, ebscohost.com/academic/jewish-studies-source CONTENT Jewish Studies Source (JSS) is a full-text database of more than 400 titles, including 123 journals and magazines, with 65 titles not available from other EBS... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888584-283/ereviews_jewish_studies_source_from.html.csp Reference 704107@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888572-283/reference_reviews_february_1_2011.html.csp Reference 703867@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 We can look at this group of resources as a series of gifts given to facilitate the research and enrich the lives of those privileged to use them. EBSCO, with its fierce determination to assemble the most comprehensive and accessible bibliographic and ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888517-283/ereviews_visual_arts_and_short.html.csp Reference 701923@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Back in the day when women were women, men were men, and real reference librarians knew their National Union Catalog from their Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, toting Sheehy’s Guide to Reference Books under their arm as if it were the King Jame... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888465-283/free_reference_ehow.com_the_be-all.csp Reference 698826@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Screencasting for an audience of one: crazy, right? To record and narrate on-screen actions takes time and specialized equipment, has a significant learning curve, and calls for an arresting voice like Leonard Cohen’s. Putting in that level of work fo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888274-283/reference_backtalk_screencasting_for_an.html.csp Reference 693028@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 "I have the shu-gah," an obese middle aged woman told me one day at the public service desk. Following a somewhat convoluted and protracted reference interview which ultimately revealed my abject deficiency in colloquial medical terminology, I learn... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887700-283/free_reference_dlife.com_a_diabetes.csp Reference 680801@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 NoveList Plus EBSCO Publishing ebscohost.com/novelist/default.php?id=3 CONTENT NoveList Plus is an upgrade to NoveList, EBSCO’s classic readers’ advisory file. It is is a component of NoveList Complete, EBSCO’s multichannel delivery system involving a l... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887699-283/ereviews_novelist_plus_from_ebsco.html.csp Irving Cumberbatch Reference 680784@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887673-283/reference_reviews_december_2010.html.csp Reference 680113@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 A ABC-CLIO PO Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA 93116; 800-368-6868/FAX 866-270-3856; customerservice@abc-clio.com www.abc-clio.com Abingdon Press PO Box 801, Nashville, TN 37202; 800-251-3320/FAX 800-836-7802; orders@abingdonpress.com www.abingdonpress.com Ada... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887062-283/reference_supplement_2011_publisher_index.html.csp Reference 659264@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 When given the topic “the user experience,” I assumed there must be an entire discipline and literature devoted to it. Being a well-trained reference librarian with all the resources of a large research library at my disposal, I naturally turned to... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887365-283/imagination_sympathy_and_the_user.html.csp Reference 669567@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 People come to the desk to ask a question. They get an answer or referral. They go away. It sounds rather mundane and routine, which is why it’s called a reference transaction. What if it were considered a reference user experience? Is such a thing ev... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887364-283/fish_market_101_why_not.html.csp Reference 669561@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 The essays featured here stem from talks given at the Focusing on the User Experience session of this year’s Reference Renaissance conference, an illuminating biennial gathering of reference and user services librarians put on by the BCR consortium ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887363-283/the_reference_user_experience_four.html.csp Reference 669556@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 I began using public libraries decades ago, when the “People’s University” ethos was stronger and truer. I’ve reluctantly let go of that notion. Experience has taught me not to pursue interests at libraries that extend beyond light entertainment. ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887362-283/why_i_dont_use_libraries.html.csp Reference 669552@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 To deliver a user experience that really has meaning, librarians must provide deeply personal and private value, as well as demonstrate larger social need. There is much labor to be done at both ends of this continuum. But first, we ought to lay ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887361-283/the_visibility_and_invisibility_of.html.csp Reference 669547@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 general reference Encyclopedias; Almanacs; Directories; Atlases; Gazetteers; Genealogy; Ebook Platforms e ABC-CLIO Digital Collections. ABC-CLIO. 2010. www.abc-clio.com. YA UG GP GA Atlas of the World. 9th ed. National Geographic. 2010. 432p. ISBN 9781... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887052-283/reference_supplement_2011_new_reference.html.csp Reference 658546@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 1 Guinness World Records 2011. [HC] Craig Glenday. Guinness World Records. 2010. ISBN 9781904994589. $28.95. 2 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed.   [P] Joseph Gibaldi. Modern Language Assn. 2009.   ISBN 9781603290241. $22. ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887375-283/reference_best_sellers.html.csp Reference 669969@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Any librarian worth his or her reference salt has had numerous unpleasant encounters at a public service desk. All too often, patrons (or customers, users, clientele, fill in the buzzword blank) attempt—either normally as a function of their own idios... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887444-283/free_reference_ushmm.org_the_united.csp Reference 672257@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Criminal Justice Abstracts EBSCO Publishing, ebscohost.com/academic/criminal-justice-abstracts/ CONTENT Criminal Justice Abstracts (CJA) from EBSCO Publishing provides indexing and abstracts for books, journals, dissertations, governmental and NGO report... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887443-283/ereviews_criminal_justice_abstracts.html.csp Reference 672239@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Atlases Atlas of World History. 2d ed.Oxford Univ. 2010. 312p. ed. by Patrick O’Brien. illus. maps. bibliog. index.ISBN 9780199746538. $49.95. REF General editor O’Brien (Inst. of Historical Research, Univ. of London) headed the international cadre... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887436-283/reference_reviews_november_15_2010.html.csp Reference 672064@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/reviews/reference/887159-283/reference_reviews_november_1_2010.html.csp Reference 663076@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 When my beloved 1981, 255,962-mile-old Ford Crown Vic Morrow Police Interceptor recently started to hemorrhage oil, blow smoke, and hawk up carburetor cookies like an octogenarian Camel unfiltered four-pack-a-day smoker, I knew it was not long for I-3... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886909-283/free_reference__cars.com_a.csp Reference 654584@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 While we take considerable joy in examining the flashy new features, dazzling technical capabilities, and growing sophistication of resources in this column, here our focus is pretty old-school: content quality. People searching for reference information ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886908-283/ereviews_general_reference_sources_and.html.csp Reference 654581@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886743-283/ereviews_credo_topic_pages.html.csp Reference 647203@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 You haven’t earned your reference desk bizarro question merit badge until you’ve heard one of these bon mots: “I’ve been watching the NBA playoffs a lot, and all these guys in the crowd of Boston, Los Angeles, and Cleveland keep hoisting this sign that sa... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/883814-283/free_reference.html.csp Reference 554451@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 Naxos video library Naxos, www.naxosvideolibrary.com CONTENT Naxos Video Library (NVL) is a subscription streaming music service providing full-length videos of ballets, concerts, documentaries, operas, and other musical productions. At the time of this r... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/883813-283/ereviews.html.csp Reference 554448@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/883812-283/reference.html.csp Reference 554441@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25   “Brian’s Law of Reference Publishing” goes something like this: when budgets are flush, librarians are hard-pressed to find new and unique reference titles. But when collection development budgets for reference have been slashed, there’s a sur... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889712-283/best_reference_2010_print_electronic.html.csp Reference 742487@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:16:42 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/888854-283/reference_reviews_february_15_2011.html.csp Reference 712915@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:15:36 Reference Extract, a search engine project being developed by researchers from OCLC, the information schools of Syracuse University, NY, and the University of Washington, Seattle, and software consultancy Zepheira, recently received an additional $350,000... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/889123-283/reference_extract_project_gets_350k.html.csp David Rapp Reference 722052@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:15:25 Arms Control and Global Security: A Document Guide. 2 vols. Praeger Security. 2010. c.569p. ed. by Paul R. Viotti. illus. ISBN 978-0-313-35430-4. $104.95. Online: ABC-CLIO eBook Collection REF  A timely reference, in light of recent developments in Ame... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/885317-283/reference_short_takes.html.csp Reference 603578@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:14:29 Atlases Stephens, A. Ray. Texas: A Historical Atlas. Univ. of Oklahoma. 2010. c.417p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-8061-3873-2. $39.95. REF  This updated and rechristened edition of the 20-year-old Historical Atlas of Texas bears little rese... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/885235-283/reference.html.csp Reference 601162@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:14:29 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887458-283/e-reference_ratings_update_biography.html.csp Reference 672577@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:14:07 MLA Literary Research Guide Modern Language Association, mlalrg.org Content The MLA Literary Research Guide (LRG) is “a selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United S... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/887176-283/ereviews_mla__literary_research.html.csp Reference 663346@elibraryjournal.com Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:14:01 When Bette Davis—verily, one tough broad who knew of what she spoke—famously said "Old age is no place for sissies," she unwittingly provided an anthemic tagline the boomer generation is now coming to embrace. The 76 million American children born between... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886502-283/free_reference_aarp.com.csp Reference 638709@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 World Geography and Culture Online Facts On File  www.infobasepublishing.com/OnlineProducts.aspx CONTENT  This resource is Facts On File’s new version of its World Atlas, offering both ready-reference and in-depth information about the countri... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886501-283/ereviews_world_geography__culture.html.csp Reference 638706@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Education American Universities and Colleges. 19th ed. 2 vols. Praeger. 2010. 1644p. index. ISBN 9780313366079. $194.95. REF Last published in 2008, this reference work—which has been regularly issued for more than a half century under different titl... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886472-283/reference_reviews_september_15_2010.html.csp Reference 637955@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Celys, Stonor, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers Adam Matthew Digital; http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections Content  Medieval Family Life (MFL) is a collection of manuscripts dating from approximately 1400 to the 20th cen... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886197-283/ereviews_medieval_family_life_from.html.csp Reference 628527@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Careers  Hill, Kathleen T. Career Opportunities in the Food and Beverage Industry. Ferguson: Facts On File. 2010. c.298p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780816076123. $49.50; Online: Infobase eBooks REF  With more than 80 profiles of jobs in the field, this la... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/886093-283/reference_reviews_september_1_2010.html.csp Reference 626671@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 “When,” implored my recently i-sci (or info sigh-ence, as I prefer) master’s-degreed public service librarian comrade, after a particularly exhausting episode assisting a library customer to complete an online job application, “were we expected to become ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/885318-283/free_reference.html.csp Irving Cumberbatch Reference 603581@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Del Rey. 2008. 1,190p. illus. ISBN 978-0-345-47763-7. $125. REFWeighing in at roughly 1200 pages, this is everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about Star Wars and lots of things you didn't want to know-or never realized existed. Assembled by top SW gurus ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/862640-283/story.csp Reference 445408@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 This is the story of how a jet-lagged LJ editor crashed a publisher's party overseas in October 2008 and came away both inspired and humbled. The publisher was Oxford University Press (OUP), and the celebration was in honor of the 80th birthday of the leg... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/862572-283/story.csp Mirela Roncevic Reference 445065@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 GEOnetBASECRC Pr., www.geonetbase.comGEOnetBASE is a collection of 134 (at present) online books covering emerging developments in the geosciences. The subjects covered include Agriculture and Agronomy; Anthropology; Botany and Plant Science; Civil Engine... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/862570-283/story.csp Cheryl LaGuardia Reference 445054@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/862517-283/story.csp Carol Tenopir Reference 444790@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/862305-283/story.csp Ann Burns Reference 443729@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (Bloomsbury)Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda (Harcourt)How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster (Harper Paperbacks)B... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/861578-283/wyattaposs_world_books_on_books.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 440095@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Community hubsService to the unemployedBusiness adoptionHelp with service providersIn comments (PDF) with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the American Library Association (ALA) highlighted the importance of public access computers and broadba... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/856307-283/ala_to_fcc_consider_how.html.csp Reference 413698@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 ABC-CLIO eBook Collection. ABC-CLIO. 2009. www.abc-clio.com. YA UG GA ABC-CLIO's acquisition of Greenwood Publishing Group in late 2008 and its recent addition of Linworth Publishing to the Libraries Unlimited imprint has placed the already established sc... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/856304-283/reference_2010_crãme_de_la.html.csp Mirela Roncevic Reference 413682@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/856232-283/wyattaposs_world_reading_around_the.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 413323@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Jan. 2010. c.272p. illus. index. ISBN 978-1-59448-884-9. $26.95. PSYCHManagement guru Pink, who first made a name for himself with the New York Times best seller A Whole New Mind, elaborates on some decades-old motivational... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855977-283/story.csp Pink, Daniel H. Reference 412048@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesParenting literature often leads with titles that plead for a return to the "good old days" of well-mannered kids, more free time, family dinners, and a greater sense of community. Solid offerings continue to outline ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855953-283/story.csp Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Di Reference 411928@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855648-283/story.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 410432@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley (Harper)The National Parks: America's Best Idea directed by Ken Burns (PBS Home Studio)Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natur... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855541-283/wyattaposs_world_summer_reading-into_the.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 409893@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Start With: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (Pantheon)Then Read:Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne (Princeton)Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David Knight, (Cambridge)Th... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855456-283/wyattaposs_world_19th_century_biographical.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 409456@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Podcasts address economic downtownturnMany economy-related issues fulfilled by PLsWeb site includes links to useful resourcesAs the nation's economic downturn has contributed to heavier attendance at public libraries, the Institute of Museum and Library S... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855286-283/imls_offers_podcasts_on_how.html.csp Lynn Blumenstein Reference 408616@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Meyer, Danny. Mix Shake Stir: Recipes from Danny Meyer's Acclaimed New York City Restaurants. Little, Brown. May 2009. c.224p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-316-04512-4. $29.99. BEVERAGESMeyer, author (Setting the Table) and owner of such legendary New York Ci... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/855132-283/book_review_spotlight_danny_meyer.html.csp Reference 407842@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854995-283/reading_to_remember_david_herbert.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 407157@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854977-283/book_review_spotlight_jamesgavin_stormy.html.csp Reference 407067@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson (Microsoft Pr.)Solving the PowerPoint Predicament by Tom Bunzel (Que)slide:ology by Nancy Duarte (O'Reilly Media)Clear and to the Point by Stephen M. Kosslyn (Oxford)Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds (New Riders Pr.)... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854954-283/wyattaposs_world_presentation_power.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 406952@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater by Matthew Amster-Burton (Houghton Mifflin)Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School by Katherine Darling (Atria)Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eatin... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854842-283/wyattaposs_world_foodie_memoirs.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 406392@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854689-283/wyattaposs_world_plant_it_cook.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 405631@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Titan. May 2009. 240p. illus. ISBN 978-1-8457-6931-4. $39.95. ARTJoe Simon and Jack Kirby are comics' Lennon/McCartney dream duo. Teaming in the 1940s, Simon was the seasoned writer/editor/inker and Kirby the hot young artist who ultimately became one of ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854616-283/the_best_of_simon_and.html.csp Reference 405266@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution by Mark S. Blumberg (Oxford)Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean Carroll (Norton)Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould (Belknap: Harvard)How to Bui... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854613-283/wyattaposs_world_reading_evo-devo.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 405251@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton (St. Martin's)Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer (Viking)Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)Why... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854502-283/wyattaposs_world_thinking_on_paper.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 404696@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 State recognizes key role of libraryFunds allocated to respond to "crisis"NC LIVE consortium has added relevant booksMore and more, libraries have become the default sites for job searching and the North Carolina State Library will soon launch a program t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854313-283/in_north_carolina_state_library.html.csp Norman Oder Reference 403751@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854261-283/book_review_spotlight_clinton_heylin.html.csp Reference 403491@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Norrell, Robert J. Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. Belknap Pr. Jan. 2009. 508p. ISBN 0-674-0321-1-X. $35. BIOGAfrican American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), who organized the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tusk... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854132-283/book_review_spotlightrobert_j._norrell.csp Reference 402835@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Mark Twain once said, 'Classics are books that everybody talks about but nobody bothers to read.'; Reference classics do, in fact, get read, not cover to cover but certainly in passages bypatrons, or more likely, librarians. It's not uncommon for standard... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854066-283/reference_backtalk_what_makes_a.html.csp Mike Bemis, Washington County L Reference 402500@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Bradley, Adam. Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. Basic Civitas: Perseus. Mar. 2009. c.272p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-465-00347-1. pap. $16.95. MUSICWith hip-hop's tremendous growth over the last decade, the amount of literature covering the genre ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/854018-283/book_review_spotlight_adam_bradley.html.csp Reference 402256@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation by Isobyl la Croix (Timber Pr.)African American National Biography edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham (Oxford Univ.)Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Poli... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/853981-283/wyattaposs_world_rusaaposs_reference_sources.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 402071@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, ed. byJ. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Gale Cengage)Encyclopedia of Human Rights, ed. by David P. Forsythe (Oxford)Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts, ed. by Thomas S. ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/reference/853567-283/wyattaposs_world-reigning_reference_five_picks.html.csp Neal Wyatt Reference 399986@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45