Reviews of Reference books, highlights of essential titles and newer resources from Library Journal.
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 houses?the American More...
ATLASES Lavin, Stephen J. & others. Atlas of the Great Plains. Univ. of Nebraska. 2011. 335p. illus. maps. bibliog. ISBN 9780803215368. $39.95. REF Lavin (geography, Univ. of Nebraska), Fred M. Shelley (geography, Univ. of Oklahoma), More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 Reference Suite of Online More...
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 (history, Louisiana More...
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 evolved considerably. It now More...
EDUCATION The Greenwood Dictionary of Education. 2d ed. Greenwood. 2011. 570p. ed. by John W. Collins III & Nancy Patricia O?Brien. bibliog. ISBN 9780313379307. $95. Online: ABC-CLIO eBook Collection REF Collins (librarian, Monroe C. Gutman More...
ATLASES Atlas of the 2008 Elections. Rowman & Littlefield. 2011. 320p. ed. by Stanley D. Brunn & others. index. ISBN 9780742567955. $75. Online: www.rlpgbooks.com/ebooks REF Brunn (Cities of the World) and coeditors Gerald R. Webster, More...
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 individuals. Content includes the current biographies of those who appeared in More...
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, crime, energy, health, pop culture, sports, More...
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 More...
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 More...
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. Fifty thousand More...
In this Article Short Takes CAREERS Marquis Who?s Who, Inc. Who?s Who in Corporate America 2011. Marquis Who?s Who. 2011. 1323p. ed. by Patricia Delli Santi & Alison Perruso. ISBN 9780837935751. $389. Online: Marquis Biographies More...
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 More...
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 More...
the resources examined here offer a sophisticated way to think critically about the issues that matter and to discover what voters consider to be the issues that affect us most profoundly.
ARTS & HUMANITIES Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. ABC-CLIO. 2011. 644p. ed. by Eric Michael Mazur. photogs. filmog. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780313330728. $85. Online: ABC-CLIO eBook Collection REF In recent years, the intersection of More...
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 More...
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 More...
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, providing access to More...
ARTS & HUMANITIES Critical Survey of Poetry. 4th ed. 14 vols. Salem. 2011. 6500p. ed. by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781587655821. $1295. Online: Salem Literature Online REF In 2003, Salem More...
Cheryl LaGuardia takes a look at the content and features of this digitized archive of original manuscript materials from the holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society.
ARTS & HUMANITIES Edgington, K. & Thomas L. Erskine with James M. Welsh. Encyclopedia of Sports Films. Scarecrow. 2011. 551p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780810876521. $85. Online: NetLibrary, Overdrive, MyiLibrary, EBL & Questia REF More...
Could it be true that print and digital reference publishing really blossoms in arid budgetary conditions? This robust list of titles that runs the gamut in subject matter would argue so. Plus, the top free
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 users to search and browse More...
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 individual faiths including Islam, Judaism, More...
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), More...
Cheryl LaGuardia puts this ebook platform geared toward serious scientific researchers through the paces.
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 More...
Cheryl LaGuardia digs in to this indie comics resource, and discovers that the content stands out by a mile.
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 More...
ARTS Cumming, Valerie & others. The Dictionary of Fashion History. Berg. 2010. 286p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9781847885333. pap. $29.95. The Berg Companion to Fashion. Berg. 2010. 782p. ed. by Valerie Steele. photogs. index. ISBN More...
The search-engine project--a collaboration between OCLC, two information schools, and a software consultancy--would leverage reference librarian expertise in search results.
Arts & Humanities Booker, M. Keith. Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema. Scarecrow. (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 44). 2010. 368p. bibliog. ISBN 9780810855700. $80; Online: NetLibrary, Overdrive, MyiLibrary, EBL, & Questia More...
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 EBSCO databases. These More...
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
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 More...
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 More...
"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 More...
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 library?s catalog, website, More...
General Reference New Oxford American Dictionary. 3d ed.Oxford Univ. 2010. c.2096p. ed. by Angus Stevenson & Christine A. Lindberg. illus. ISBN 9780195392883. $60. REF Providing the most thorough coverage of American English, the third edition More...
Four voices consider new (and evergreen) approaches to reference services.
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 More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 More...
More than 900 recent and forthcoming reference print and online products from 142 publishers, organized by category, with grade levels for easier selection.
Nine subscription-based biography electronic resources.
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 More...
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 Adam Matthew Digital Pelham House, London Rd., Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 More...
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 More...
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 reports, papers, and newsletters in the field of criminal justice More...
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 More...
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 States, More...
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 of a More...
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 More...
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 More...
Credo Topic Pages Credo Reference http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=178 CONTENT Credo Topic Pages are designed to act as starting points for research, providing context and vocabulary for topics in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. They present subject materials More...
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 countries, geographies, places, and peoples of More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 century. The collection, created from More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 More...
?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 More...
History Dodson, Aidan & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. 2010. 320p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-500-28857-3. pap. $29.95. REF Dodson (archaeology, Univ. of Bristol) More...
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 review, there More...
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, More...
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. More...
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 More...
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 broadband Internet access in help More...
Bach: Cello Suites composed by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Pablo Casals (EMI Classics)Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work by Martin Geck (Harcourt)Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals by Albert E. Kahn (S&S)The Cello More...
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 More...
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 More...
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by Peter S. Canellos (S&S)True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve)Sons and Brothers by Richard D. Mahoney (Arcade)The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier (Basic More...
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 More...
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, More...
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 Services (IMLS) More...
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 More...
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (Sourcebooks)Lincoln (S&S)Lincoln's Herndon (Da Capo)Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (Harvard)We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, (S&S)Neal Wyatt is a collection development More...
Gavin, James. Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne.Atria: S. & S. Jun. 2009. c.608p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-7432-7143-1. $27. MUSICGavin (Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker) now turns his More...
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 More...
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 More...
The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A Practical Vegetable and Herb Garden Encyclopedia by Stephen Albert (BookSurge)Kitchen Harvest: Growing Organic Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs in Containers by Susan Berry (Frances Lincoln)Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 More...
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Cambridge Univ. Apr. 2009. c.185p. ed. by Kevin J.H. Dettmar. index. ISBN 978-0-521-71494-5. pap. $24.99. Heylin, Clinton. Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957–1973. Chicago Review. More...
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 More...
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, More...
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 More...
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 Political, More...
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 More...
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 More...
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 Engineering; Coastal, Waterway, and More...
Seen any good movies lately? Want to see pictures of your favorite actors on the set of their best-known films? Or maybe posters and lobby displays from Academy Award™–winning movies? Looking for biographies or articles More...
Founded in 1909, the NAACP has since been the major civil rights group in the United States, and it's still around. Next year, the organization celebrates its centennial in conjunction with the publication of NAACP: More...
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 More...
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