...David E. Hubbard Purpose Chemistry book reviews serve as an aid to collection development, as well as an educational function for bibliographers and subject specialists. This study aims to outline a methodology for locating book reviews for a subject literature and characterizing the books...

... aims to aid librarians in making decisions about developing and maintaining collections on the topic. Design/methodology/approach The authors consulted a variety of sources, including the Library of Congress catalog, WorldCat, Bowker's Global Books in Print database, book reviews...

... literary awards were identified and a detailed analysis of awarded books' subjects and the publishing sources was conducted. Findings The results show that awarded books cover a vast variety of subjects of interest to Jewish Studies collections. Since many of them are also published by academic presses...

...Kay Neville This is a compact, easy‐to‐read book with eight short chapters that cover a number of topics related to boys and reading. Chapter 6, “Honouring boys' literature”, examines the different genres of books that will most appeal to young males. There is a growing trend for popular adult...

...Rebecca L. Mugridge Historical studies are addressed in the second section of this book. Joachim describes the availability of books and other reading material in early nineteenth century Indiana, concluding that reading material was generally available to individuals in what...

... --> Literature Readers Reading Books Addressing many aspects of reading and literature, this book is written by practitioners and presents other practitioners, including authors, librarians, bookseller and more, with new ideas and advice on how to connect readers with books. It begins with a chapter...

...Bradford Lee Eden Edited by Byron   Anderson (under the auspices of the Alternatives in Publication Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association) . Alternative Publishers of Books in North America (6th ed.) . Duluth, MN : Library...

...Eleonora Dubicki Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide librarians with an approach to weeding, which reduces librarians' fears and concerns of withdrawing books from an academic collection. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a case study. Findings The paper...

...Marcie Beard Purpose Many bibliographies of books about C.S. Lewis' works and life have been compiled in the past, but a bibliography of recent literary criticism addressing Lewis and his work is hard to come by. The purpose of this paper is to provide a bibliography of the best works recently...

...Nicola McDowell Sharon   McQueen . In‐house Bookbinding and Repair . Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press   2005 . 119 pp. , ISBN: 080852241   $35.00 (soft cover) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Books Library management In‐house Bookbinding...

...Bradford Lee Eden This book provides excellent, well‐researched and documented evidence from three large digitization projects on time, effort, and cost related to obtaining copyright permission to digitize and provide web access to books. Denise T.   Covey . Acquiring Copyright...

...Matt Barnes; Jon Clayborne; Suzy Szasz Palmer Purpose This paper proposes addressing the need for a dialogue among three different institutional forces – publishers, vendors, and libraries – at play in the world of book publishing. Design/methodology/approach The paper stems from a panel...

...Colin Steele Books John Baxter's delightful A Pound of Paper is a combination of autobiography and exposition of bibliomania. Baxter has had a fascinating life from his youth in a remote small town in New South Wales, Australia to his current upper level apartments near Boulevard...

...Mary A. Osorio Readers of the Hit List will find it divided into 20 chapters. Each chapter covers a contemporary book written for and read by young adults. In this edition one work by each of 20 different authors is presented. Every chapter begins with a detailed summary of the content...

...Rhonda Harris Taylor; Nancy Larson Bluemel Provides an introductory guide to basic print and Web resources about pop‐up books. Includes information on paper engineers, producers of pop‐up books, exhibits of pop‐up books, collecting pop‐up books, and “how‐to” guidance for making pop‐up books. ©...

...Roberta A. Stevens Reports on the National Book Festival held on 8 September 2001, at the East Lawn of the US Capitol and in the Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Buildings of the Library of Congress, in the USA. States that as the first‐ever celebration in the capital it attracted between 25,000...

...Sheau‐yueh J. Chao The introduction describes various criteria for consideration of book repair, such as: the physical needs of the item; the desired outcome of the repair; time available; personnel available; funds available; expertise in the area; durability of the item...

... was and was not selected from ARBA, then this book certainly is not a required acquisition! RRB is for those of us with limited time and expertise who nevertheless have a good sense about what our patrons should have available when they come into our libraries. The book is arranged in four parts...

...Paul O. Jenkins Compares the results of a faculty survey regarding importance of book reviews to the selection process to the actual percentage of reviewed titles requested. The survey found that faculty recognize the importance of book reviews to the selection process, but sometimes must recommend...

... coverage for most subject categories in American history. AHR reviewed the fewest books in most categories and contained the least number of unique titles. Although numbers of titles reviewed in each category differed, percentage of coverage was similar within most categories in all three journals...