SILS Library: New Books

New books for the week of November 16, 2009

2009-11-16T09:49:00.020-05:00

SILS Collection

Andler, Nicolai. Tools for project management, workshops and consulting : a must-have compendium of essential tools and techniques. Erlangen : Publicis, 2008. (HD69.P75 A53 2008)

Bartlett, Allison Hoover. The man who loved books too much : the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession. New York : Riverhead Books, 2009. (Z992.8 .B37 2009)

Goldsmith, Francisca. The readers' advisory guide to graphic novels. Chicago : American Library Association, 2010. (Z692.G7 G655 2010)

With energy and commitment born of professional experience and a deep love for graphic novels, Goldsmith provides the first guide to the genre aimed specifically at readers' advisors, while presenting an abundance of resources useful to every librarian.

Latrobe, Kathy Howard & Judy Drury. Critical approaches to young adult literature. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (PN1009.A1 L38 2009)

Pichler, Alois & Herbert Hrachovec (eds.). Proceedings of the 30. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2007. (Vol. 1: Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information) Frankfurt : Ontos ;Piscataway, NJ : [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, 2008. (HM851 .I577 2007 v.1)

Pichler, Alois & Herbert Hrachovec (eds.). Proceedings of the 30. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2007. (Vol. 2: Philosophy of the Information Society) Frankfurt : Ontos ;Piscataway, NJ : [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, 2008. (HM851 .I577 2007 v.2)

Warner, Julian. Human information retrieval. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. (ZA3075 .W375 2010)

Juvenile Collection

Ada, Alma Flor. I love Saturdays y domingos. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002. (JE Ada)

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Energy makes things happen. New York : HarperCollins, 2003. (J531 Bradley)

Breathed, Berke. A wish for wings that work : an Opus Christmas story. Boston : Little, Brown, c1991. (J Breathed)

Beinstein, Phoebe. Dora's book of words = Libro de palabras de Dora. New York : Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr., c2003. (JE Beinstein)

Chapra, Mimi. Sparky's bark = El ladrido de Sparky. New York : K. Tegen Books, c2006. (JE Chapra)

Cleary, Brian P. I and you and don't forget who : what is a pronoun? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2004. (J428.22 Cleary)

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of pronouns and their functions, from "he" and "she" to "anyone", "neither", and "which."

Cleary, Brian P. How much can a bare bear bear? : what are homonyms and homophones? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2005. (J428.11 Cleary)

Cleary, Brian P. Pitch and throw, grasp and know : what is a synonym? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2005. (J428.11 Cleary)

Cleary, Brian P. Dearly, nearly, insincerely : what is an adverb? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2003. (J428.22 Cleary)

Cleary, Brian P. Under, over, by the clover : what is a preposition? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2002. (428.22 Cleary)

Cleary, Brian P. To root, to toot, to parachute : what is a verb? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2001. (J428.2 Cleary)

Cleary, Brian P. Hairy, scary, ordinary : what is an adjective? Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2000. ( J428.2 Cleary)

Colato La�nez, Ren�. Playing loter�a. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Luna Rising, c2005. (JE Colato La�nez)

A boy goes to Mexico to visit his grandmother. While there he learns Spanish and helps teach his grandmother English through the game of La Loteria. A bilingual book.

Collins, Suzanne. Catching fire. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009. (J Collins)

Cooper, Susan. The dark is rising. New York, NY : Simon Pulse Paperbacks, 2007, c1973. (J Cooper)

Costales, A. Abuelita, full of life. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Luna Rising, c2007. (JE Costales)

Cumpiano, Ina. Quinito's neighborhood = El vecindario de Quinito. San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press, c2005. (JE Cumpiano)

Curlee, Lynn. Trains. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009. (J385.09 Curlee)

Curtis, Jamie Lee. Is there really a human race? New York, NY : Joanna Cotler Books, c2006. (JE Curtis)

Cuyler, Margery. From here to there. New York : Holt, c1999. (JE Cuyler)

De la Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade : a Blue Bloods novel. New York : Hyperion, c2007. (J De la Cruz)

Dorros, Arthur. Ciudades de hormigas. New York : Rayo, [2006], c1995. (J595.79 Dorros)

Donaldson, Julia. Stick Man. London : Alison Green, 2008. (JE Donaldson)

Gans, Roma. How do birds find their way? New York : HarperCollins, 1996. (J598.2 Gans)

Gantos, Jack. The nine lives of Rotten Ralph. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. (JE Gantos)

Goodman, Allegra. The other side of the island. New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, c2008. (J Goodman)

Hayes, Geoffrey. Benny and Penny in just pretend : a toon book. New York : Raw Junior, 2008. (JE Hayes)

Jim�nez, Francisco. Senderos fronterizos. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2002. (J Jimenez)

Lasky, Kathryn. She's wearing a dead bird on her head! New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 1997, c1995. (JE Lasky)

Mann, Gurinder Singh. Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America : a short history. New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. (J Mann)

Mikaelsen, Ben. Petey. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2000, c1998. (J Mikaelsen)

Moving to a new town is no fun for Trevor Ladd, and it only gets worse when he protects a nursing home patient from the neighborhood bullies. Walking home from school, he catches the bullies throwing snowballs at a withered old man named Petey. As he chases them off, he can't imagine that his life is about to change. Petey is a touching story of friendship, discovery, and the domination of the human spirit over physical obstacles.

Herbster Readers:

Minden, Cecilia & Joanne Meier; Bob Ostrom, illus. Fun on the playground. Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

In this simple story belonging to the first level of Herbster Readers, Herbie Bear and his classmates like to do all kinds of playground activities during recess. Readers can search for the hidden squares throughout the book's artwork.

Minden, Cecilia. Happy new year, Herbie Bear! Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The Halloween costume contest Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The fireworks show Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. A tree for the city Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Smile for the dentist Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Every drop helps! Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Recycling at Grandpa's store Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The best birthday ever Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The best cookies of all Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Postcards from all over Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. A walk across town Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Prepare for blastoff! Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Valentines for everyone Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Hospital helper Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The make-believe store Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The Thanksgiving play Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The aquarium adventure Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

In this simple story belonging to the third level of Herbster Readers, Herbie Bear learns about marine biology and has an imaginary adventure in a fish tank during a class field trip to an aquarium.

Minden, Cecilia. An energy expert at home Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The nice clean park Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The house of blocks Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Mom's birthday surprise Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Lots of stops Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. The drawing lesson Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Minden, Cecilia. Teamwork at Lotsaluck Camp : a storytime book Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, 2009. (JE Minden)

Morales, Yuyi. Nochecita. New Milford, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, 2007. (JE Morales)

Mortenson, Greg & Susan L. Roth. Listen to the wind : the story of Dr. Greg and Three cups of tea. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2009. (J Mortenson)

Myron, Vicki & Bret Witter. Dewey : there's a cat in the library! New York : Little, Brown, 2009. (JE Myron)

"When librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books."--Amazon.com.

Rivera Mar�n, Guadalupe. My pap� Diego and me : memories of my father and his art. San Francisco, Calif. : Childrens Book Press, 2009. (J759.972 Rivera)

Soman, David & Jacky Davis. Ladybug Girl. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2008. (JE Soman)

Soto, Gary. Worlds apart : traveling with Fernie and me : poems. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2005. (J811.54 Soto)

Stone, B. J. Ola's wake. New York : Henry Holt, 2000. (J Stone)

Weill, Cynthia & K.B. Basseches. ABeCedarios : Mexican folk art ABCs in English and Spanish. El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, 2007. (JE Weill)

Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner. What is the world made of? : all about solids, liquids, and gases. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. (J530.4 Zoehfeld)

Graphic Novels

Abel, Jessica & Gabe Soria. Life sucks. New York : First Second, 2008. (Graphic Abel)

Gaiman, Neil. Batman. Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader? : with other tales of the Dark Knight. New York : DC Comics, c2009. (Graphic Gaiman)

Holm, Jennifer L. & Matthew Holm. Babymouse : heartbreaker. New York : Random House Children's Books, c2006. (Graphic Holm)

Holm, Jennifer L. & Matthew Holm. Babymouse : the musical. New York : Random House Children's Books, c2009. (Graphic Holm)

Dust off your dancing shoes. Babymouse and the gang are taking center stage in the feel-good book of the season! Will Babymouse get the lead in the school musical or will Felicia Furrypaws steal the show? Find out in Babymouse:The Musical! Filled with highsteps and high jinks and starring the critically acclaimed, award-winning Babymouse as herself, this showstopper will have you tapping your toes and singing along!

Holm, Jennifer L. & Matthew Holm. Babymouse : puppy love. New York : Random House, c2007. (Graphic Holm)

Holm, Jennifer L. & Matthew Holm. Babymouse. [6], Camp Babymouse.New York : Random House, c2007. (Graphic Holm)

Holm, Jennifer L. & Matthew Holm. Babymouse : skater girl. New York : Random House, c2007. (Graphic Holm)

Holm, Jennifer L. & Matthew Holm. Babymouse : dragonslayer. New York : Random House, c2009. (Graphic Holm)

Medley, Linda. Castle waiting. Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ;London : Turnaround [distributor], c2006. (Graphic Medley)

Niles, Steve. Criminal macabre. [Vol. 1], A Cal Mcdonald mystery. Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, c2004. (Graphic Niles)

Niles, Steve. Criminal macabre. My demon baby. Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Books, c2008. (Graphic Niles)

Waller, Drake. It rhymes with lust. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2007.(Graphic Waller)

New books for the week of November 9, 2009

2009-11-09T09:20:00.009-05:00

SILS Collection

Aldrich, Clark. The complete guide to simulations and serious games : how the most valuable content will be created in the age beyond Gutenberg to Google. San Francisco : Pfeiffer, c2009. (LB1029.S5 A43 2009)

Berg, Bruce L. Qualitative research methods for the social sciences. Boston : Allyn & Bacon, c2009. (H61 .B4715 2009)

Jennex, Murray E. editor. Knowledge management, organizational memory, and transfer behavior : global approaches and advancements. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD30.2 .K63767 2009)

Lunde, Paul (general editor). The book of codes : understanding the world of hidden messages : an illustrated guide to signs, symbols, ciphers, and secret languages. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. (Z103 .B66 2009)

Before this book gets shelved away up in the stacks take a look at this fascinating book. From hieroglyphs and runes to DNA, the Zodiac Killer, "The Da Vinci Code," graffiti, and beyond, this lavishly illustrated encyclopedia surveys the history and development of code-making and code-breaking in all areas of culture and society.

McCarthy, Muriel & Ann Simmons, editors. Marsh's library--a mirror on the world : law, learning and libraries, 1650-1750. Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2009. (Z792.5.M37 M37 2009)

Moore, Mary Y. The successful library trustee handbook. Chicago : American Library Association, 2010. (Z681.7.U5 M66 2010)

Rahman, Hakikur editor. Social and political implications of data mining : knowledge management in e-government. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (JF1525.A8 S63 2009)

Sande, Warren & Carter Sande. Hello world! : computer programming for kids and other beginners. Greenwich, Conn. : Manning, c2009. (QA76.73.P98 S26 2009)

Great for anyone curious about programming! Sande, an electronic systems engineer, provides an introduction to computer programming for kids and others with no previous knowledge of programming. The book uses the Python programming language and covers the basics of topics such as memory, loops, input and output, types of data, sound, and graphics, as well as how to make games. Sande is joined by his son Carter, an elementary student, who gives comments throughout the book. Knowledge of basic computer use is needed.

Shariff, Shaheen & Leanne Johnny. Censorship!...or...selection? : confronting a curriculum of orthodoxy through pluralistic models. Rotterdam ;Taipei : Sense Publishers, 2007. (Z658.U5 C3924 2007)

Spencer, John & Christopher Millson-Martula, editors. Critical thinking within the library program. London : Routledge, 2009. (Z711.2 .C8 2009)

Tan, Albert Wee Kwan & Petros Theodorou, editors. Strategic information technology and portfolio management. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD30.2 .S7878 2009)

Walter, Virginia A. Twenty-first-century kids, twenty-first-century librarians. Chicago : American Library Association, 2010. (Z718.2.U6 W358 2010)

Juvenile Collection

Angelou, Maya ; & Edwin Graves Wilson, editor. Maya Angelou. New York : Sterling, c2007. (J811.54 Angelou)

Echols, Jennifer. The ex games. New York : Simon Pulse, 2009. (J Echols)

Brace yourself for the battle of the exes....Hayden and Nick used to be a hot item, but their brief affair ended with a highly publicized breakup. Now the two are "just friends," excluding the occasional flirtation.When Hayden wins the girls' division of a local snowboarding competition, Nick is unimpressed, claiming that Hayden wouldn't have a chance against a guy. Hayden calls Nick's bluff and challenges him to a head-to-head boarding contest. Their mutual friends quickly take sides, the girls on Hayden's and the boys on Nick's, making for an all-out battle of the sexes. This friendly competition is bound to get heated -- and they might end up igniting some old flames.

Emberley, Rebecca. My shapes = Mis formas. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c2000. (JE Emberley)

Hansen, Diane. Those are my private parts. Redondo Beach, CA : Empowerment Productions, c2007. (J362.76 Hansen)

Turner, Robyn. Georgia O'Keeffe. Boston : Little, Brown, c1991.(J92 O'Keeffe)

Graphic Novels

Cooke, Darwyn. The hunter : a graphic novel. San Diego : IDW Publishing; London : Diamond [distributor], 2009. (Graphic Cooke)

The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind - to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him! Richard (Donald Westlake) Stark's groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by Darwyn Cooke. The initial graphic novel brings to life the first Parker book, The Hunter, which introduces readers to the dangerous anti-hero's cold and calculated world of criminals, thugs, and drifters.

Kelly, Walt. Ten ever-lovin' blue-eyed years with Pogo. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1959. (Graphic Kelly)

Kibuishi, Kazu. Amulet (Book 2: the stonekeepers curse). New York : Graphix, 2008- (Graphic Kibuishi bk.2)

Morse, Scott. Magic pickle. New York : Graphix, c2008. (Graphic Morse)

Pekar, Harvey. Studs Terkel's Working : a graphic adaptation. New York : New Press; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2009. (Graphic Pekar)

Sievert, Tim. That salty air. Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, 2008. (Graphic Sievert)

Steinberg, David. The adventures of daniel boom a.k.a. loud boy. 1, Sound off! New York, N.Y. : Grosset & Dunlap, c2008. (Graphic Steinberg)

Being the new kid in town with no volume control on his voice, Daniel Boom discovers an even bigger problem: the evil Kid-Rid Corporation has silenced the entire world with their terrible Soundsucker LX machine! Daniel taps into his inner superhero to become Loud Boy, along with his new pals who have bad habits (aka superpowers) of their own. The unlikely heroes are able to turn the tables on the villains, restoring peace and un-quiet to the world once more! But is it the end of Kid-Rid?

New books for the week of November 2, 2009

2009-11-02T11:12:00.005-05:00

SILS Collection

Akoumianakis, Demosthenes editor. Virtual community practices and social interactive media : technology lifecycle and workflow analysis. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HM742 .V57 2009)

Boonin, David & Graham Oddie. What's wrong? : applied ethicists and their critics. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. (BJ1031 .B66 2004)

Byrne, David & Charles C. Ragin, editors. The SAGE handbook of case-based methods. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009. (H62 .S2745 2009)

Johnson, Sarah L. Historical fiction II : a guide to the genre. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2009. (PS374.H5 J64 2009)

This book is a fantastic resource for anyone who loves historical fiction. Each chapter covers a different type of historical fiction (epics, sagas, westerns, and Christian historical fiction). Within each chapter the books and series are divided by location and time period.

Kolawa, Adam. The next leap in productivity : what top managers really need to know about information technology. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009. (HD30.2 .K654 2009)

Konstant, Tina & Morris Taylor. Overcoming information overload. London : Hodder Education, 2008. (HD30.2 .K664 2008)

Mueller, Scott. Upgrading and repairing PCs. Indianapolis, Ind. : Que Pub., c2008. (TK7887 .M84 2008)

Ohsawa, Yukio & Katsutoshi Yada, editors. Data mining for design and marketing. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009. (QA76.9.D343 D3828 2009)

Editors Ohsawa (systems innovation and engineering, U. of Tokyo) and Yada (management information systems, Kansai U., Japan) have assembled this textbook on the integration of data mining tools and human thinking processes, with expert contributors exploring applications in software design, marketing, industrial design and web development. This book examines how data mining can be implemented to identify consumer patterns through such approaches as chance discovery, knowledge discovery, discourse analysis and the adjacency matrix. With its focus on using social data for marketing and design research, this volume is written for students and researchers headed for a career that includes website design, database retrieval, e-commerce and global teamwork projects. Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Roncevic, Mirela editor. The Library Journal guide to e-reference resources. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (Z711.45 .L53 2009)

Rosenstein, Bruce. Living in more than one world : how Peter Drucker's wisdom can inspire and transform your life. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2009. (HD6955 .R68 2009)

Schoechle, Timothy D. Standardization and digital enclosure : the privatization of standards, knowledge, and policy in the age of global information technology. Hershey : Information Science Reference, c2009. (T58.5 .S316 2009)

Siegel, Gretta editor. Libraries and graduate students : building connections. London; New York : Routledge, 2009. (Z711.92.G73 L48 2009)

Taniar, David editor. Progressive methods in data warehousing and business intelligence : concepts and competitive analytics. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD38.7 .P755 2009)

This book presents the latest trends, studies, and developments in business intelligence and data warehousing contributed by experts from around the globe. Consisting of four main sections, this book covers crucial topics within the field such as OLAP and patterns, spatio-temporal data warehousing, and benchmarking of the subject. (from back cover)

Thompson, Susan M. editor. Core technology competencies for librarians and library staff : a LITA guide. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (Z682.35.T43 C67 2009)

Wyatt-Haines, Richard. Align IT : business impact through IT. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2007. (HD30.213 .W86 2007)

Juvenile Collection

Carroll, Lewis ; original illustrations by John Tenniel ; introduction and notes by Martin Gardner. The annotated Alice : Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass. New York : Norton, c2000. (J Carroll )

Curtis, Jamie Lee. I'm gonna like me : letting off a little self-esteem. [New York, NY] : Joanna Cotler Books, c2002.(JE Curtis)

Martin, Gilles (photos); Philippe J. Dubois & Val�rie Guidoux (text). Birds. New York, N.Y. : H.N. Abrams, c2005. (J598 Oiseaux)

From fascinating facts to nesting practices and comparisons of beaks and songs, this informative book features a wide range of feathered friends. Stunning photography brings the birds to life, while the text includes an important message of conservation.

Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.) Rapture of the deep : being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, soldier, sailor, mermaid, spy. Boston : Harcourt, 2009. (J Meyer)

Milway, Katie Smith. One hen : how one small loan made a big difference. Toronto; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, c2008. (J Milway)

Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty.

Strachan, Bruce. Ancient Egypt : a first look at people of the Nile. New York : Henry Holt, 2006. (J932 Strachan)

Weeks, Sarah. Counting ovejas. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006. (JE Weeks)

Graphic Novels

Barnes, Bill. Unshelved. Seattle, Wash. : Overdue Media LLC, 2003. (Graphic Barnes)

Welcome to Unshelved, the world's only daily comic strip set in a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing since February 16, 2002. Some of the stories are made up, some of them are based on real life, and some are absolutely true stories sent to us from our readers. And the stranger the story, the more likely it is to be true.

Harper, Charise Mericle. Fashion Kitty. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, c2005. (Graphic Harper)

Morimoto, Yo. Seraphic feather : Crimson angel (v.1) Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2001-. (Graphic Morimoto v.1)

Morimoto, Yo. Seraphic feather : Target zone (v.3) Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2001-. (Graphic Morimoto v.3)

Morimoto, Yo. Seraphic feather : Dark angel (v.4). Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2001-. (Graphic Morimoto v.4)

Sfar, Joann. Vampire loves. New York : First Second, 2006. (Graphic Sfar)

The adventures of the vampire Ferdinand and his friends, as they flirt with, cheat on, break up, and make up with all manner of unearthly creatures, including ghosts, other vampires, tree-folk, and the occasional golem.

Sina, A. B. Prince of Persia : the graphic novel. New York : First Second, 2008. (Graphic Sina)

Yuki, Kaori. Angel sanctuary. v.2 & v.3 & v.4 San Francisco, Calif. : Viz, 2004-. (Graphic Yuki v.2) & (Graphic Yuki v.3) & (Graphic Yuki v.4)

New books for the week of October 26, 2009

2009-10-25T11:36:00.003-04:00

SILS Collection

Anderson, Janna Quitney & Lee Rainie. The future of the Internet. III, Ubiquity, mobility, security. Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2009. (HM851 .A64 2009)

Besnoy, Amy L. editor. Ethics and integrity in libraries. London; New York : Routledge, 2009. (Z682.35.P75 E84 2009)

Burgess, Stephen & Carmine Sellitto & Stan Karanasios. Effective web presence solutions for small businesses : strategies for successful implementation. Hershey : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD62.7 .B834 2009)

Chevalier, Max & Christine Julien & Chantal Soul�-Dupuy, editors. Collaborative and social information retrieval and access : techniques for improved user modeling. Hershey : Information Science Reference, c2009. (QA76.9.U83 C62 2009)

Erickson, Aaron. The nomadic developer : surviving and thriving in the world of technology consulting. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Addison-Wesley, c2009. (QA76.25 .E75 2009)

Learn the real secrets of succeeding as a software or IT consultant in any economic climate! Seriously though, this book has some good tips for anyone looking for a job.

Galliers, Robert D. & Dorothy E. Leidner, editors. Strategic information management : challenges and strategies in managing information systems. New York : Routledge, 2009. (T58.64 .G34 2009)

Groves, Robert M. [et al.]. Survey methodology. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009. (HA31.2 .S873 2009)

Hatzipanagos, Stylianos & Steven Warburton, editors. Handbook of research on social software and developing community ontologies. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HM742 .H36 2009)

Kahn, Randolph & Barclay T. Blair. Information nation : seven keys to information management compliance. Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2009. (HD30.213 .K34 2009)

Knapp, Kenneth J. Cyber-security and global information assurance : threat analysis and response solutions. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference 2009. (QA76.9.A25 C918 2009)

Of interest to academics and practitioners in computing and security, this collection of current international work explores solutions to problems in cyber security from both national and global perspectives. Chapters are in sections on risk and threat assessment, organizational and human security, emergency response planning, and security technologies. Specific subjects addressed include an attack graph-based approach for threat identification in an enterprise network, managing identity fraud, information attributes and their relative significance during catastrophic events, and introduction, classification, and implementation of honeypots. The underlying premise of the book stresses the global nature of cyber security problems. Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lacey, David. Managing the human factor in information security : how to win over staff and influence business managers. Chichester, England ;Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009. (HF5548.37 .L33 2009)

Laudon, Kenneth C. & Jane P. Laudon. Management information systems : managing the digital firm. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2010. (T58.6 .L376 2010)

Lee, Laurence Lock. IT governance in a networked world : multi-sourcing strategies and social capital for corporate computing. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD30.2 .L443 2009)

Lieb, Rebecca. The truth about search engine optimization. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2009. (TK5105.884 .L54 2009)

Through 51 "truths," this guide details methods for search engine optimization that can be used by marketers and webmasters. It outlines search concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics, including being site-specific, tags, links, types of searches, social networking, rankings, and search engine optimization management. There is no index or bibliography. Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

McElmeel, Sharron L. Picture that! from Mendel to Normandy : picture books and ideas, curriculum and connections--for 'tweens and teens. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited/ABC-CLIO, c2009. (LB1043.67 .M35 2009)

Miller, William & Rita M.Pellen, editors. Googlization of libraries. London; New York : Routledge, 2009. (Z674.75.I58 G67 2009)

Miller,William & Rita Pellen. Adapting to E-books. London : Routledge, 2008. (Z1033.E43 A43 2008)

Morrow, Lesley Mandel & Elizabeth Freitag & Linda B. Gambrell. Using children's literature in preschool to develop comprehension : understanding and enjoying books. Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2009. (LB1140.5.L3 M67 2009)

Newson, Alex. Blogging and other social media : exploiting the technology and protecting the enterprise. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2009. (HD30.37 .N49 2009)

Polette, Nancy. Reading the fifty states : booktalks, response activities, and more. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2009. (LB1584 .P65 2009)

Traditional instruction in the social studies has been content rather than process oriented, concentrating on the lower level thinking skills. Reading the Fifty States offers librarians and teachers the tools needed to encourage kids to use higher order thinking skills by discovering the culture and history of the fifty United States. That discovery takes place as kids read novels set in each of the states and participate in targeted reader-response activities that are process oriented, develop higher cognitive skills, and spark creativity. Helpful tools include 200 booktalks (4 for each state), lists of other recommended titles for each state, a fact sheet, a listing of the national standards covered, and a plethora of reproducible, reader-response activities directly linked to national standards in language arts and social studies. Grades 3-6
This would also be a good reference source for homeschoolers.

Reeb, Brenda. Design talk : understanding the roles of usability practitioners, web designers, and web developers in user-centered web design. Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008. (Z674.75.W67 R44 2008)

Shepard, Aaron. The business of writing for children : an award-winning author's tips on how to write, sell, and promote your children's books. Los Angeles : Shepard Publications, c2000. (PN147.5 .S54 2000)

Steiner, Sarah K. & M. Leslie Madden, editors. The desk and beyond : next generation reference services. Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008. (Z675.U5 D425 2008)

Turban, Efraim & Linda Volonino. Information technology for management : improving performance in the digital economy. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, c2010. (T58.6 .T765 2009)

Wendorf, Richard, editor. The Boston Athenaeum : bicentennial essays. Boston, MA : Boston Athenaeum ;Lebanon, N.H. : Distributed by University Press of New England, 2009. (Z733.B74 B67 2009)

Weill, Peter & Jeanne W. Ross. IT savvy : what top executives must know to go from pain to gain. Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2009. (HD30.2 .W4496 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Becker, Michelle Aki. Groundhog Day. New York : Children's Press, c2003. (J394.261 Becker)

Carter, Ally. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2007, c2006. (J Carter)

Smith, Nicole. Cody the allergic cow. [Colorado Springs, Colo.] : Jungle Communications, 2004. (JE Smith)

Cody the Allergic Cow helps children learn about milk allergies and how to recognize an allergic reaction. Cody explains milk allergies in a way that parents, teachers, and children themselves can talk about allergies and understand them better.

Graphic Novels

Justice League of America. New York, NY : DC Comics, 2006- (Graphic Justice no.11 (2007))

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. A drifting life. Montr�al, Quebec : Drawn and Quarterly ;New York : Fararr, Straus & Giroux [distributor], 2009. (Graphic Tatsumi)

Saavedra, Scott. Dr. Radium battles Phill, King of the pill bugs! San Jose, Ca : Slave Labor Graphics, 2004. (Graphic Saavedra)

Before Dexter! Before Jimmy! There was Dr. Radium, the last scientist left standing in the "perfect" world of tomorrow! Ignored by society and feared by his assistant, Dr. Radium pursues Science with happy disregard for knowledge, progress, or safety. Stuck with Penny, a girl from the present presently trapped in the future, Dr. Radium suffers distractions from giant scientist rats, screaming dinosaurs, and Phill, one very mad King of the Pill Bugs. Dr. Radium and the Planet of the Dinosaurs collects all five issues of Scott Saavedra's critically-approved Dr. Radium: Man of Science comic book series along with a spiffy unpublished adventure.

Spiegelman, Art. Be a nose! : three sketchbooks. [San Francisco] : McSweeneys, c2009. (Graphic Spiegelman v.1)

New books for week of October 19, 2009

2009-10-19T11:01:00.001-04:00

SILS Collection

Saffady, William. Managing electronic records. Lenexa, Kan. : ARMA International, c2009. (HF5736 .S19 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Carter, David A. & James Diaz. The elements of pop-up : a pop-up book for aspiring paper engineers. New York : Little Simon, c1999. (JE Carter)

Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up. Every aspect of the creation of a pop-up, known as paper engineering, is clearly and thoroughly covered. All types of parallel folds, angle folds, wheels, and pull tabs are accurately detailed verbally and visually, flat and in dimension. Also included is a history of pop-ups and a step-by-step photographic essay on how a pop-up is made from start to finish. This guided tour is perfect for aspiring pop-up creators, paper engineers, students, and appreciators of this unique art form.

Carlson, Lori Marie editor. Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States. New York : Henry Holt, c2005. (J811.008 Carlson)

Gomi, Tar?. Spring is here = Lleg� la primavera. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2006. (JE Gomi)

Lozano, Jos�. Once around the block = Una vuelta a la manzana. El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, 2009. (JE Lozano)

There's always a lot of action in the Mexican American neighborhood where Mr. Lozano lives. Amelia argues with Anita; Benito loves bean burritos but not bumblebees; Hortencia and Herminia hover around like hummingbirds; and Zacarias is catching some Zs on Zachary Street. Jos� Lozano's wacky little stories and illustrations combine Mexican culture with Sesame Street smarts to make for a wonderful read-aloud ABC book in Spanish and English.

Perkinson, Ruth. Vera's still point. Midway, FL : Spinsters Ink, 2006. (J Perkinson)

Graphic Novels

Arcudi, John [et al.]. MySpace Dark Horse presents. Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Books, 2008-. (Graphic Arcudi v.1)

This collection of the first six issues of "MySpace Presents Dark Horse" includes Whedon's complete rock 'n' roll saga "Sugarshock," The Christmas Spirit by Mignola, lushly illustrated by Guy Davis, Way's lost "Umbrella Academy" chapter, and a four-part story dedicated to Eric Powell's "The Goon."

Cammuso, Frank & Jay Lynch. Otto's orange day. New York : Toon Books, c2008. (Graphic Cammuso)

Goscinny (text) & Uderzo (drawings). Asterix and the Normans. London: Orion Books ; New York: Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co., 2004. (Graphic Goscinny)

Normans never feel fear?but they do believe that terror literally gives one wings, enabling a person to fly. Now they?re planning to test their theory on Vitalstatistix?s cowardly nephew Jusforkix by pushing him right off the edge of a cliff.

Higuri, Y?. Cantarella. (volume 5) [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Media Entertainment, 2006-. (Graphic Higuri v.5)

Higuri, Y?. Cantarella. (volume 6) [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Media Entertainment, 2006-. (Graphic Higuri v.6)

Marz, Ron. Sojourn : The Berzerker's tale. (Volume 6). Oldsmar, Fla. : CrossGeneration Comics, 2002-. (Graphic Marz v.6)

Neufeld, Josh. A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009. (Graphic Neufeld)

New books for the week of October 12, 2009

2009-10-12T11:17:00.004-04:00

SILS Collection

Advances in library administration and organization [serial]. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Inc., c1982-. (Z678 .A33 v.27 2009)

Amoroso, Donald Louis. Effectiveness of end-user developed applications in organizations : an empirical investigation. 1986. (QA76.9.E53 A46 1986a)

Ash, Russell & Brian Lake. Bizarre books. London : Pavilion, 1998. (Z1021 .A84 1998)

Need something to make you chuckle? Flip through this unique collection of the world's most unusual books and authors, completely revised and updated from the best selling original. These bizarre books fall into chapters such as "We have a book on it" (ex. The toothbrush: its use and abuse),"Dirty books" (ex. 'The gas we pass: the story of farts'), "In sickness and in health" (ex. 'Memoranda on noses' or 'How to become a Schizophrenic'), and "Deviant diversions" which is split into leisure, sports, cooking and travel (examples: 'Teach yourself alcoholism' & 'Catching a cannon ball' & 'The thermodynamics of pizza' & 'In dwarf land and cannibal country').

Baron, Dennis E. A better pencil : readers, writers, and the digital revolution. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. (Z45 .B37 2009)

Curley, Kathleen Foley. Word processing: first step to the office of the future?: an examination of the evolving technology and its use in organizations. 1981. (HF5548.115 .C87 1981a)

Griffin, Emory A. A first look at communication theory. Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2009. (P90 .G725 2009)

Nord,David Paul & Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson, editors. The enduring book : print culture in postwar America. Volume 5 in A History of the Book in America series. Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2009. (Z473 .E53 2009)

The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of book selling. The histories of government publishing, law and policy, the periodical press, literary criticism, and reading--in settings such as schools, libraries, book clubs, self-help programs, and collectors' societies--receive imaginative scrutiny as well.The Enduring Book demonstrates that the corporate consolidations of the last half-century have left space for the independent publisher, that multiplicity continues to define American print culture, and that even in the digital age, the book endures.

Pearlman, Mickey. What to read : the essential guide for reading group members and other book lovers. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, c1994. (Z1035.9 .P4 1994)

Proceedings of the international conference : using new technologies to explore cultural heritage ... = Atti del convegno internazionale : nuove tecnologie per la fruizione del patrimonio culturale. [Washington] (USA) : National endowment for humanities ; Roma : Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 2009. (In Italian & English) (CC135 .P756 2009)

Schank, Roger C. Tell me a story : a new look at real and artificial memory. New York : Scribner, c1990. (BF431 .S277 1990)

Stone, Dennis J. (compiler). Law library design & planning. Hartford, CT : University of Connecticut School of Law Library, 1994. (Z679.5 .L39 1994)

Tibbo,Helen R. [et al.] editors. Digital curation : practice, promise & prospects : proceedings of DigCCurr 2009, April 1-3, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Chapel Hill, NC : School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. (Z701.3.C65 D5 2009)

Walker, Margaret Geraldene Probert. A comparative evaluation and analysis of end-user search performance in an academic environment. 1988. (Z699 .W315 1988a)

Yousha, LaDonna. Teddy Bear storytimes : ready-to-go flannel and magnetic storyboard programs that captivate children. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (Z718.3 .Y68 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Barker, Clive. Days of magic, nights of war. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, 2004. (J Barker)

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the wondrous world of Abarat continue as the henchmen of the evil Christopher Carrion are in close pursuit. With the aid of his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, Carrion's plot is unfolding. Includes more than 125 full-color paintings by the author.

Cameron, Eleanor. The terrible churnadryne. Boston : Little, Brown, 1959. (J Cameron)

Curtis, Jamie Lee. Today I feel silly & other moods that make my day. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. (JE Curtis)

Graphic Novels

Barnes, Bill & Gene Ambaum. What would Dewey do? : an Unshelved collection. Seattle [Wash.] : Overdue Media LLC, c2004. (J Graphic Barnes)

Dewey and his fellow librarians confront the FBI, psychic fairs, poetry slams, crashed hard drives, identity theft, and of course each other. Features introduction by librarian, bestselling author, and action figure model Nancy Pearl plus pages of never-before-published comics.

Barnes, Bill & Gene Ambaum. Library mascot cage match : an Unshelved collection. Seattle : Overdue Media, c2005. (Graphic Barnes)

Sim, Dave. Church and state. Volumes 1 & 2. [S.l.]: Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1988. (Graphic Sim v.1 & Graphic Sim v.2)

New books for the week of October 5, 2009

2009-10-05T11:00:00.004-04:00

SILS Collection

Black, David A. Ruby for Rails : Ruby techniques for Rails developers. Greenwich, CT: Manning, c2006. (TK5105.888 .B525 2006)

This resource for Web developers provides an introduction to the Ruby programming language, viewed chiefly from the perspective of those working with the Ruby on Rails framework. Black begins with an overview of the programming environment of Ruby and Rails and then guides readers through a series of tutorials that cover all the basic programming techniques. Black is a director of Ruby Central and is the creator and maintainer of the Rails-based Ruby Change Request Archive (RCRchive). Annotation �2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Wood, Stephen, & Roberto Aiello. Essentials of UWB. Cambridge, UK ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. (TK5103.4 .W66 2008)

Juvenile Collection

Bianco, Margery Williams; illus. by William Nicholson. The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How toys become real. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [196-?]. (JE Bianco)

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl: the time paradox. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008. (J Colfer)

Curtis, Jamie Lee; illustrated by Laura Cornell. When I was little : a four-year-old's memoir of her youth. New York: HarperCollins, c1993. (JE Curtis)

The author captures a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years and observes how she has changed since she was a baby.

Graphic Novels

Colfer, Eoin & Andrew Donkin, adapters; art by Giovanni Rigano; color by Paolo Lamanna. Artemis Fowl : the graphic novel. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2007. (Graphic Colfer)

In 2001, audiences first met and fell in love with a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind named Artemis Fowl. Since then, the series has sold over seven million copies in the United States alone. Now, this phenomenally successful series is being translated into a graphic novel format. Eoin Colfer has teamed up with established comic writer Andrew Donkin to adapt the text. For the first time, rabid fans will be able to see what Foaly's tin hat looks like; discover just how Beet Root got his name; and of course, follow their favorite criminal mastermind as he plots and connives in action-packed, full-color panels.

New books for the week of September 28

2009-09-28T11:41:00.015-04:00

SILS Collection

American Association of School Librarians. Standards for the 21st-century learner in action. Chicago, Ill.: American Association of School Librarians, c2009. (LB2806.15 .S736 2009)

Bailey, Steve. Managing the crowd : rethinking records management for the Web 2.0 world. London: Facet Publishing, 2008. (QA76.9.D3 B25 2008)

Barchers, Suzanne I. & Charla R. Pfeffinger. Multi-grade readers theatre : picture book authors and illustrators. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Teacher Ideas Press, c2009. (LB1573.5 .B373 2009)

This volume contains 36 readers theater scripts relating to the lives of picture book authors, poets, and illustrators to help students become better readers. It has a script for each week of the school year, on individuals such as Margaret Wise Brown, Bill Peet, James Marshall, Bill Martin Jr., Beatrix Potter, Stan Berenstain, Shel Silverstein, and Tasha Tudor. The reproducible scripts, which are meant to take up a 30-minute class period, are aimed at different reading levels; half are for grades one to three and the other half are for grades two to four. They contain core vocabulary words, background information, presentation suggestions, and discussion questions, and include a large number of reading parts.

Bauermeister, Erica & Jesse Larsen & Holly Smith. 500 great books by women : a reader's guide. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1994. (HQ1150 .B38 1994)

Brown, Eric J. & William A. Yarberry, Jr. The effective CIO : how to achieve outstanding success through strategic alignment, financial management, and IT governance. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009. (HD30.2 .B79 2009)

Buskens, Ineke & Anne Webb, editors. African women and ICTs : investigating technology, gender and empowerment. London; New York : Zed Books; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre; Pretoria, South Africa : Unisa Press; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.(T58.5 .A396 2009)

Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr. The seven beauties of science fiction. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2008. (PN3433.5 .C75 2008)

Cvetkovic, Vibiana Bowman & Robert J. Lackie, editors. Teaching Generation M: a handbook for librarians and educators. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (Z718.5 .T43 2009)

Giudici, Paolo & Silvia Figini. Applied data mining for business and industry. Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, c2009. (QA76.9.D343 G75 2009)

Grossman, Mark. Technology law : what every business (and business-minded person) needs to know. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. (KF390.5.C6 G76 2009)

Grossman, an expert in technology law and a regular columnist for the Miami Herald, supplies an accessible and sometimes humorous overview of technology law for business people, law students, and lawyers. He explains issues related to copyright and intellectual property, venture capital and financiers, contracts, e-commerce, managing IT and software, and Web sites. He looks at the ways technology affects employees' rights, and discusses piracy and crime, privacy, and encryption. Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gupta, Jatinder N.D., & Sushil K. Sharma, & Mohammad Abdur Rashid, editors. Handbook of research on enterprise systems. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD30.213 .H354 2009)

Husband, Janet & Jonathan F. Husband. Sequels : an annotated guide to novels in series. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009. (Z5917.S44 H87 2009)

House, Ernest R. Regression to the mean : a novel of evaluation politics. Charlotte, N.C. : IAP/Information Age Pub., c2007. (PS3608.O863 R45 2007)

Kidd, Terry T. editor. Handbook of research on technology project management, planning, and operations. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD69.P75 H355 2009)

Liu, Ziming. Paper to digital : documents in the information age. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2008. (ZA3060 .L58 2008)

In this overview, Liu offers an overview of the issues that have arisen during the transition from a paper-based environment to the digital world of today--and issues that may arise in the future. The author explores topics such as trends in transforming scholarly communications, trust in the preservation of digital information, reading behavior in the digital environment, and user preference, perception, and use. In his chapter on the future of paper in the digital age, the author points out that new technologies do not always replace old ones. Paper will be with us for some time because of its numerous advantages, and because no one has invented an adequate substitute. Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Madden,Gary & Russel Cooper, editors. The economics of digital markets. Cheltenham, UK ;Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2009. (HD9696.A2 E36 2009)

Nobre, Farley Simon & Andrew M. Tobias & David S. Walker. Organizational and technological implications of cognitive machines : designing future information management systems. Hershey : Information Science Reference, c2009. (HD30.2 .N63 2009)

Raghavan,K.S. & K.N. Prasad, editors. Knowledge organization, information systems and other essays : Professor A. Neelameghan festscrift. New Delhi : Ess Ess for Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, 2006. (Z665 .K66 2006)

Reeves, Laura L. A manager's guide to data warehousing. Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2009. (QA76.9.D37 R44 2009)

St. Clair, Guy. SLA at 100 : from putting knowledge to work to building the knowledge culture : a centennial history of SLA (Special Libraries Association) 1909-2009. Alexandria, VA : Special Libraries Association, c2009. (Z675.A2 S8 2009)

Vogel, Brenda. The prison library primer : a program for the twenty-first century. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009. (Z675.P8 V645 2009)

Wilhite, Jeffrey M. A chronology of librarianship, 1960-2000. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009. (Z665 .W65 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Banks, Kate; pictures by Georg Hallensleben. The cat who walked across France. New York : Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. (JE Banks)

In lyrical prose and breathtaking images, Banks and Hallensleben take the reader on a journey across the Norman countryside, past ancient ruins, through bustling cities, to the sparkling ports of the Mediterranean Sea and a place an "orphaned" cat can call home.

Bulla, Clyde Robert; illustrated by Stacey Schuett. A tree is a plant. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001. (JE Bulla)

Hamilton, Virginia; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon. The girl who spun gold. New York : The Blue Sky Press, 2000. (J398.2 Hamilton)

Lindbergh, Anne; pictures by Kevin Hawkes. The worry week : a novel. Boston : David R. Godine, 2003. (J Lindbergh)

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw; photographs by Dan Hartman and Cassie Hartman. When the wolves returned : restoring nature's balance in Yellowstone. New York : Walker : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2008. (J599.773 Patent)

Yellowstone National Park?s majestic geologic wonders and remarkable wildlife draw millions of visitors each year. But there was a time when these natural treasures were in great danger, all because after years of unrestricted hunting, one key piece of the puzzle had been eliminated?the wolf. Now, more than a decade after scientists realized the wolves? essential role and returned them to Yellowstone, the park?s natural balance is gradually being restored. The informative dual-level text and spectacular full-color photographs show the wolves in the natural habitat that was almost lost without them. Readers of all ages will be inspired by the delicate natural system that is Yellowstone.

Pattison, Darcy. ; illustrated by Steven Salerno. 19 girls and me. New York : Philomel Books, c2006. (JE Pattison)

Pfeffer, Wendy; illustrated by Helen K. Davie. Dolphin talk : whistles, clicks, and clapping jaws. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. (J599.53 Pfeffer)

Rayner, Catherine. Harris finds his feet. Intercourse, PA : Good Books, c2008. (JE Rayner)

Wilde, Oscar. Complete fairy tales of Oscar Wilde. New York : Signet Classics, [2008]. (J Wilde)

Graphic Novels

Higuri, Y?. Cantarella. [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Media Entertainment, 2006- (Graphic Higuri v.4)

Sakai, Stan. Usagi Yojimbo. Book six. Seattle, Wash : Fantagraphics Books, 2001. (Graphic Sakai)

New books for the week of September 21

2009-09-21T11:50:00.005-04:00

SILS Collection

Armas, Armando. Public libraries and the wealth of nations : biblioeconomy of the Philippines. Pangasinan, Philippines : Manaoag Research House, c2008. (Z716.4 .P83 2008)

Brooks, Sam & David H. Carlson, editors. Library/vendor relationships. Binghamton, NY : Haworth Information Press, c2006. (Z716.6 .L5455 2006)

Butler, Rebecca P. Smart copyright compliance for schools : a how-to-do-it manual. New York, NY : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (KF3080 .B88 2009)

Copyright law is a thin line to toe in the world where money is tight - such as public schools. "Smart Copyright Compliance for Schools" is the educational administrator's guide to the confusing world of copyright law. With entertainment companies like the MPAA and RIAA going after suspected media pirates more fiercely than ever, not breaking these laws is key to avoiding a headache and a loss of much of the school's funds to lawsuits. Author Rebecca P. Butler explains the copyright laws a school will run into with much detail, and explains how to do everything the legal way while still doing what teachers want to do. "Smart Copyright Compliance in Schools" is enhanced with indexes and helpful quick references for readers, making it a must for any administrator not fully up to date with modern copyright law. (Amazon review by Midwest Book Review)

Hazel, Philip. The Exim SMTP mail server : official guide for release 4. Cambridge : UIT Cambridge, 2003. (HE7551 .H39 2003)

Kataria, Sanjay & B.S. Nigam & Rama Kant Shukla, editors. Emerging trends and technologies in libraries and information services. New Delhi : KBD Publications, 2009. (Z665 .I674 2008)

Page-Jones, Meilir. Fundamentals of object-oriented design in UML. New York : Dorset House Pub. ;Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c2000. (QA76.64 .P33 2000)

Raghavan, K.S. & K.N. Prasad, editors. Library and information systems : from Alexandrian heritage to social networking : essays in honour of Prof. S. Parthasarathy. New Delhi : Ess Ess Publications for Sarada Ranganathan Edowment for Library Science 2009. (Z845 .L537 2009)

Radcliff, Carolyn J. [et al.]. A practical guide to information literacy assessment for academic librarians . Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007. (ZA3075 .P73 2007)

This practical guide provides an overview of the assessment process: planning, selection and development tools, and analysis and reporting of data. An assessment-decision chart helps readers match appropriate assessment tools and strategies with learning outcomes and instructional settings. Various information literacy standards are referenced, with emphasis given to ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

Sietz, Brad [et. al], editor. Uncharted waters: tapping the depths of our community to enhance learning : Thirty-fifth National LOEX Library Instruction Conference proceedings, San Diego, California, May 3-5, 2007. Ypsilanti, Mich. : Published for the University Library, Eastern Michigan University, by LOEX Press, 2009. (Z711.2 .N37 2009)

Skonnard, Aaron. Essential WinInet : developing applications using the Windows Internet API with RAS, ISAPI, ASP, and COM. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1999. (QA76.76.A65 S56 1999)

Working together or apart : promoting the next generation of digital scholarship : report of a workshop cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington, D.C. : Council on Library and Information Resources, c2009. (AZ195 .W675 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Bunting, Eve. December. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1997. (JE Bunting)

Cat, Christopher & Countee Cullen. The lost zoo. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett Press, 1992. (J811 Cullen)

Galeano, Eduardo H. Historia de la resurrecci�n del papagayo. Barcelona : Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2008. (JE Galeano)

Grifalconi, Ann. Ain't nobody a stranger to me. New York : Jump at the Sun, 2007. (JE Grifalconi)

Two Caldecott Honor recipients join to bring you the incredible journey of one man, as he recounts the story of his passage on the Underground Railroad to his granddaughter. His message is one of cheer, for although he and his family found troubles during their escape, he found that folks, black and white, "helped lift us up when we was down." How, then, could he ever turn his back on another human being?

Hesse, Karen. The stone lamp : eight stories of Hanukkah through history. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2003. (J811.54 Hesse)

Rockwell, Anne F. What's so bad about gasoline? : fossil fuels and what they do. New York : Collins, c2009. (J665.5 Rockwell)

S�enz, Benjamin Alire. The dog who loved tortillas = La perrita que le encantaban las tortillas. El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, c2009. (JE S�enz)

This is a bilingual book for kids and dogs and even their parents. Like all kids, Little Diego and his big sister Gabriela argue over their new dog Sofie. She belongs to me, says Diego. No, she�s mine, says Gabriela. It's only when Sofie gets really sick that they find out who their tortilla-loving pup really belongs to.

Steig, William. When everybody wore a hat. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2003. (JE Steig)

Stone, Tanya Lee. Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009. (J629.450092 Stone)

When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had as much of the right stuff as men to be astronauts, but their way to space was blocked by prejudice, insecurity, and a scrawled note written by one of Washington's most powerful men. This is the true story of the Mercury 13 women.

Wells, Robert E. Is a blue whale the biggest thing there is? Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1993. (J530.8 Wells)

New books for the week of September 14, 2009

2009-09-14T11:51:00.009-04:00

SILS Collection

Crawford, John Buyers. An investigation of strategies for supporting and controlling user development of computer applications. 1986. (QA76.9.E53 C73 1986a)

Flanagan, David. Java in a nutshell . Beijing; Sebastopol, CA ; O'Reilly, c2005. (QA76.73 .J38 F553 2005)

The second edition contains an introduction to key Java concepts, descriptions of all classes in the core Java 1.1 API, and a description of the syntax of the Java language. It also includes an advanced introduction to Java for C and C++ programmers; an overview of all the new features in Java 1.1, both on a package-by-package basis and in terms of overall functionality; a tutorial on inner classes, explaining how to use all the new types of inner classes; and a quick reference for all classes, methods, and variables in the core Java 1.1 API. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hertz, John A., & Richard G. Palmer, & Anders S. Krogh. Introduction to the theory of neural computation. Redwood City, Calif. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1991. (QA76.5 .H475 1991)

James, Edward. Science fiction in the twentieth century. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. (PN3433.8 .J36 1994)

Jones, Karen Sparck, editor. Information retrieval experiment. London; Boston : Butterworths, 1981. (Z699 .I458 1981)

Kang, Shin Cheol. An empirical analysis of causal relationships among quality of work life factors in end user computing. 1994. (QA76.9.E53 K36 1993a)

Kopp, Wendy. One day, all children : the unlikely triumph of Teach for America and what I learnt along the way. New York : PublicAffairs; Oxford : Oxford Publicity Partnership, 2003. (LB1776.2 K67 2001)

Krentz, Jayne Ann, editor. Dangerous men & adventurous women : romance writers on the appeal of the romance . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992. (PS374.L6 D3 1992)

In this seamless, ultimately fascinating and controversial book, Krentz and the contributors - all best-selling romance novelists - explode the myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances; they dispute some of the notions that plague their profession and they discuss posititve, life-affirming values inherent in all romances. Several of the essays also discuss the issue of reader identification with the characters, a relationship that is far more complex than most critics realize.

Lakhanpal, Bharat. Determinants of technological innovation : middle managers and microcomputers. 1988. (HD30.2 .L35 1988a)

Lee, Linda. How to write & sell romance novels : a step-by-step guide. Edmonds, WA : Heartsong Press, 1988. (PN3377.5.L68 G66 1988)

Moore, Ellen & Kira Stevens. Good books lately : the one-stop resource for book groups and other greedy readers. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2004. (LC6619 .M66 2004)

Oram, Andy & John Viega, editors. Beautiful security . Sebastopol, CA :Farnham : O'Reilly, 2009. (TK5105.59 .B423 2009)

Editors Oram (editor, O'Reilly Media) and Viega (CTO, McAfee) have collected articles and essays from experts that address fascinating and creative security solutions for criminals who focus on computer fraud, hacking and wireless networking breaches. Written for anyone involved in computer security, this volume addresses such topics as developing security metrics by analogy and example, securing online advertising, the evolution of PGP, log handling and better defense practices for desktop security. Contributors also address popular trends such as social networking and cloud computing and detail how these innovations compromise online security. All royalties of this book will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Orlikowski, Wanda J. Information technology in post-industrial organizations. 1988. (T58.5 .O75 1988a)

Osen, Diane, editor; introduction by Neil Baldwin. The book that changed my life : interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists. New York : Modern Library, 2002. (Z1039.A87 B66 2002)

Richardson, Leonard & Sam Ruby. RESTful web services. Farnham : O'Reilly, 2007. (TK5105.88813 .R53 2007)

Juvenile Collection

Meyer, Donald J. editor ; illustrated by Cary Pillo. Views from our shoes : growing up with a brother or sister with special needs. Bethesda, Md. : Woodbine House, 1997. (J362.1 Meyer)

In Views From Our Shoes, 45 siblings share their experiences as the brother or sister of someone with a disability. The children whose essays are featured here range from four to eighteen and are the siblings of youngsters with a variety of special needs, including autism, cerebral palsy, developmental delays, ADD, hydrocephalus, visual and hearing impairments, Down and Tourette syndromes. Their personal tales introduce young siblings to others like them, perhaps for the first time, and allow them to compare experiences. A glossary of disabilities provides easy-to-understand definitions of many of the conditions mentioned.

Perkinson, Ruth. Breaking spirit bridge. Midway, Fla. : Spinsters Ink, 2008. (J Perkinson)

Perkinson, Ruth. Piper's someday. Midway, Fla. : Spinsters Ink, 2007. (J Perkinson)

Graphic Novels

Scott, Norm. Hsu and Chan : too much adventure. San Jose, CA : SLG Pub., c2004. (Graphic Scott)

Smith, Jeff. Bone: ghost circles . New York : Graphix, <2005>-. (Graphic Smith v.7)

In Ghost Circles, volume 7 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins -- Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone -- Gran'ma Ben, Thorn, and their loyal rat creature cub venture on a journey through the mysterious ghost circles to Atheia, the old city of the royal family. One wrong step could change the valley's fate forever...

Smith, Jeff. Bone: treasure hunters. New York : Graphix, <2005>-. (Graphic Smith v.8)

Smith, Jeff. Bone: crown of horns. New York : Graphix, <2005>-. (Graphic Smith v.9)

Thompson, Kim, editor. E.C. Segar's Popeye. [Volume 2], "Well, blow me down!" . Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books ;[New York] : Distributed in the USA by W.W. Norton, c2007. (Graphic Segar)

This second volume (of six) of the entire collection of E.C. Segar's original Popeye (a.k.a.Thimble Theatre) comic strips features work from 1930 to 1932, and most notably includes the debut of Segar's second greatest character: J. Wellington Wimpy. Wimpy stands as a one-of-a-kind icon some 70 years after his creation, the most likeable lowdown cad ever to grace the comics page. E.C. Segar blended complex narratives, slapstick traditions, brilliant characterization, and an inimitable cartooning style to create the most exciting and profound humor of his era, rivaling the great film comics of his era, such as Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers.

Waid, Mark. Ruse. Oldsmar, Fla. : CrossGeneration Comics, 2002-<2003>. (Graphic Waid v.1)

New books for the week of September 7, 2009

2009-09-07T11:45:00.005-04:00

SILS Collection

Croft,W. Bruce; Donald Metzler; & Trevor Strohman. Search engines : information retrieval in practice . Boston : Addison-Wesley, c2010. (TK5105.884 .C765 2010)

Writing in a conversational tone, Croft overviews key issues in information retrieval (IR) and shows how they affect the design and implementation of search engines. Coverage is based primarily on the search technology commonly used on the Web, but because search engines are used in many other applications, there is a strong emphasis on the information retrieval strategies and concepts underlying all search engines. Coverage progresses from architecture of a search engine through processing text, retrieval models, evaluating search engines, and social search. Annotation �2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Juvenile Collection

O'Reilly,Nadine ; [illustrations by Joelle Geisler]. Peter can't eat peanuts. Harrington Park, NJ : O'Reilly Pub., c2005. (JE O'Reilly)

Showers, Paul ; illustrated by Edward Miller. A drop of blood. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Trophy, c2004. (J621.11 Showers)

A vampire and his henchman give a fun and simple introduction to the composition and functions of blood.

Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner ; illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. What's alive? New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995. (J577 Zoehfeld)

Graphic Novels

Aronzo, Aranzi ; translation by Jessica Hatakeda. The complete Aranzi hour. New York : Vertical Inc., c2008. (Graphic Aronzo)

Aranzi Aronzo is back with another crowd-pleaser,The Complete Aranzi Hour, their ninth book to appear in English. Great for quality time with the family, rainy days, and long car rides, Aranzi Hour guarantees hours of fun. Loaded with 250 tummy-twisting giggles, Aranzi Hourgives readers more of what they want! Filled with comics, photos, games, puzzles, and character interviews, Aranzi Houris sure to entertain even those without a funny bone.

Brunetti,Ivan ; with an introduction by the author's therapist. Misery loves comedy. Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2007. (Graphic Brunetti)

Rogers, Boody Gordon. Boody : the bizarre comics of Boody Rogers. Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics : distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton, 2009. (Graphic Rogers)

Urushibara, Yuki; translated and adapted by William Flanagan. Mu shi shi. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2007- (Graphic Urushibara v.1 - v.5)

New books for the week of August 31

2009-08-31T11:43:00.034-04:00

SILS Collection

Hardesty, Larry L. editor. The role of the library in the first college year. Columbia, SC : National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2007. (Z711.25.C65 R65 2007)

Jerrard, Jane; foreword by Denise Davis, Office for Research and Statistics. Crisis in employment : a librarian's guide to helping job seekers. Chicago : American Library Association, 2009. (Z711.92.U53 J47 2009)

Syr�, Ludger. Dichternachl�sse : literarische Sammlungen und Archive in den Regionalbibliotheken von Deutschland, �sterreich und der Schweiz. Frankfurt am Main : Klostermann, 2009. (PT155 .D534 2009)

Martin, Barbara Stein. Fundamentals of school library media management : a how-to-do-it manual. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009. (Z675.S3 M27345 2009)

Matsumoto, Yukihiro ; with translated text by David L. Reynolds, Jr. Ruby in a nutshell : a desktop quick reference. Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, c2002. (TK5105.888 .M44 2002)

Ruby is a genuine attempt to combine the best of everything in the scripting world. Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby and author of this book, designed Ruby with the strengths and capabilities of all the major scripting languages in mind. Ruby in a Nutshell covers all of Ruby's built-in features and standard bundled libraries. It address everything from command-line options, syntax, built-in variables, and functions to the many commonly used classes and modules.

NSF Workshop on Information Seeking Support Systems (2008 : Chapel Hill, N.C.) Information seeking support systems : an invitational workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation ; June 26-27, 2008, Chapel Hill, NC USA. [Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Information and Library Science, 2009]. (ZA3075 .N79 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Andersen, Hans Christian; adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. The nightingale. New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books, c2002. (JE Pinkney)

Branley, Franklyn M.; illustrated by Molly Coxe. The Big Dipper. New York : HarperCollins, 1991. (J593.8 Branley)

Branley, Franklyn M.; illustrated by James Grahm Hale. Down comes the rain. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997. (J551.57 Branley)

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker ; illustrated by Paul Meisel. Forces make things move. New York : HarperCollins, c2005. (J531.6 Bradley)

Bunting,Eve ; illustrated by David Diaz. December. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1997. (JE Bunting)

Cox, Judy. Go to sleep, Groundhog!. New York : Holiday House, c2003. (JE Cox)

Poor Groundhog just can't sleep. He tosses. He turns. Finally, he gets out of bed and goes exploring. Outside his burrow he finds amazing sights he has never seen before: glowing jack-o'-lanterns, gobbling turkeys, and sparkling holiday lights. But shouldn't Groundhog be in bed? With no sleep how will he be able to get up for his big day?

Doyle, Malachy; illustrated by Nicoletta Ceccoli. The Barefoot book of fairy tales. Bath : Barefoot Books, 2005. (J398.2 Doyle)

Greenwald, Kellie. Kellie's book : the art of the possible. Windsor, CA : Rayve Productions, c2008. (J362.1 Greenwald)

Greive, Bradley Trevor. Friends to the end for kids : the true value of friendship. Kansas, Mo. : Andrews McMeel ;[London : Simon & Schuster [distributor], c2006. (J177.62 Greive)

Ellen Jackson ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley. Cinder Edna. New York : Mulberry Books, 1998, c1994. (J Jackson)

Kipling, Rudyard ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. The jungle book : the Mowgli stories. New York : William Morrow, c1995. (J Kipling)

Mowgli's days are filled with danger, wonder, and excitement. He learns the ways of the jungle from the bear, Baloo, and is rescued from the Monkey-People by the mighty python, Kaa. Yet, someday he must face his enemy--Shere Khan the tiger. Here are all of Kipling's Mowgli stories, plus the tale of Rikki-tikki-tavi.

Lowell, Susan; illustrated by Jane Manning. Cindy Ellen : a wild western Cinderella. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. (JE Lowell)

Maestro, Betsy; illustrated by Loretta Krupinski. Why do leaves change color? New York, NY : HarperCollins, 1994. (J582.16 Maestro)

McCully, Emily Arnold. The ballot box battle. New York : Knopf, 1998. (J324.6 McCully)

McNaughton, Colin. We're off to look for aliens. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008. (JE McNaughton)

Orgel, Doris; illustrated by Meilo So. The cat's tale : why the years are named for animals. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008. (J Orgel)

Otto, Carolyn; illustrated by Megan Lloyd. What color is camouflage? New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996. (J591.57 Otto)

Patricelli, Leslie. Higher! higher! Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick; London : Walker [distributor], 2009. (JE Patricelli)

Pfeffer, Wendy; illustrated by Holly Keller. From tadpole to frog. New York : HarperCollins, c1994. (J597.8 Pfeffer)

Pinkney, Gloria Jean ; illustrations by Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, and Myles C. Pinkney. In the forest of your remembrance : thirty-three goodly news tellings for the whole family. New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books, c2001. (J277.3 Pinkney)

In a personal journey of remembrances, Gloria Jean Pinkney shows how she came to recognize the many miraculous events in her life. This heartfelt work offers an inspiring call for her readers to enter their own "Forest of Remembrance." A book to be shared with the whole family, this spiritual memoir is also a family project. Ms. Pinkney's husband, Jerry, and two of their sons, Brian and Myles, provide illustrations, with each artist using a different medium.

Rockwell, Anne F. Clouds. New York : Collins, c2008. (J551.57 Rockwell)

Thimmesh, Catherine. Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. (J609.22 Thimmesh)

In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?

Uribe, Ver�nica; translated by Susan Ouriou. Little book of fairy tales. Toronto : Groundwood Books, c2004. (J863 Uribe)

Wong, Janet S. This next New Year. New York : Frances Foster Books, 2000. (JE Wong)

Graphic Novels

Carrillo, Tony. F minus. Kansas City [Mo.] : Andrews McMeel Pub., c2007. (Graphic Carrillo)

Pastis, Stephan. Nighthogs : a Pearls before swine collection. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel, c2005. (Graphic Pastis)

Pastis, Stephan. Sgt. Piggy's lonely hearts club comic : a Pearls before swine treasury. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel, c2004. (Graphic Pastis)

Sgt. Piggy is full of surprises. Cartoonist Stephan Pastis takes readers on a VIP backstage tour of one of the most successful new comic strips in newspapers today.In Sgt. Piggy, Pastis explains the genesis of Pearls (hint: it didn't begin at an artist's easel), why he was initially reluctant to show it to newspaper syndicates (and the surprising reason he changed his mind), the unexpected responses from readers to his work (oh, the letters), which Pearls strips worked and which ones didn't (and how he would have corrected the ones that didn't). The result is a rare and revealing glimpse into the world of Rat and Pig, Goat and Zebra. Full of humor and insight, sardonic asides and unexpected truths, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic is a book that comics fans everywhere can enjoy anytime-even when they're 64.

Pastis, Stephan. The ratvolution will not be televised : a Pearls before swine collection. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel, c2006. (Graphic Pastis)

Pastis, Stephan. The crass menagerie : a Pearls before swine treasury. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel, c2008. (Graphic Pastis)

Pastis, Stephan. Lions and tigers and crocs, oh my! : a Pearls before swine treasury. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel, c2006. (Graphic Pastis)

Seth. George Sprott : 1894-1975 : a picture novella. Montreal : Drawn and Quarterly ;New York : Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009. (Graphic Seth)

Spiegelman, Art & Fran�oise Mouly editors. Folklore & fairy tale funnies. New York : HarperCollins, c2000. (Graphic J Spiegelman)

Innovative cartoonist and renowned children's book artists from around the world have gathered to bring you the magic of fairy tales through the wonder of comics. The stories range from old favorites to new discoveries, from the profound to the silly. A treat for all ages, these picture stories unlock the enchanted door into the pleasures of books and reading!

Stearn, Ted. Fuzz & Pluck : Splitsville. Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, c2008. (Graphic Stern)

Tomorrow, Tom. The future's so bright I can't bear to look. New York : Nation Books, 2008. (Graphic Tomorrow)

Tomorrow, Tom. Hell in a handbasket : dispatches from the country formerly known as America. New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2006. (Graphic Tomorrow)

Van Hamme, Jean ; illustrated by Aymond. Here's to Suzie! Ashford : Cinebook, 2008. (Graphic Van Hamme)

Ware, Chris. The ACME Novelty Library. Fall/winter 2008, number 19. Oak Park, Ill. : ACME Novelty Library ; Distributed in the United States by Drawn & Quarterly Books, c2008. (Graphic Ware)

Yokoyama, Yuichi. Travel. Brooklyn, NY : PictureBox, c2008. (Graphic Yokoyama)

New books for the week of 10 August, 2009

2009-08-17T10:00:00.004-04:00

SILS Collection

Balkin, Al. Tune up to literacy: original songs and activities for kids. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009. (Z718.3 .B35 2009)

Cannataro, Mario. Handbook of research on computational grid technologies for life sciences, biomedicine, and healthcare. Hershey, PA: Medical Information Science Reference, 2009. (QH324.2 .H3576 2009)

Chang, Leah L. Into print: the production of female authorship in early modern France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. (Z305 .C543 2009)

Cardoso, Jorge & Wil van der Aalst. Handbook of research on business process modeling. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009. (HF5548.2 .H3626 2009)

King, William R. Planning for information systems. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2009. (HD30.213 .P53 2009)

Koh, S.C. Lenny & Stuart Maguire. Information and communication technologies management in turbulent business environments. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009. (HD30.2 .K646 2009)

Maret, Susan L. & Jan Goldman. Government secrecy: classic and contemporary readings. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. (JK468.S4 G68 2009)

Messner, Patricia A. & Brenda S. Copeland. Every day reading incentives. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. (LB1573 .M453 2009)

Popular authors and presenters, Pat Messner and Brenda Copeland provide worksheets, reproducible patterns and related reading based activities linked to school curriculums to get students interested in reading and in reading more every day. All ideas have been kid tested and work to encourage reading through easy every day activities rather than huge school wide projects.

Nancy, Jean-Luc. On the commerce of thinking: of books and bookstores. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. (Z278 .N3613 2009)

Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Working with Anglo-saxon manuscripts. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009. (Z106.5.G72 E43 2009)

Piper, Andrew. Dreaming in books: the making of the bibliographic imagination in the Romantic age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Z286.L58 P57 2009)

Smith, Henrietta M. The Coretta Scott King awards, 1970-2009. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009. (PS153.N5 C674 2009)

Song, Ronggong; Larry Korba; & George Yee. Trust in E-services: technologies, practices and challenges. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Pub., 2007. (HF5548.32 .T745 2007)

Song (National Research Council Canada) provides readers with an overview of trust in e-services, with work on the latest research and practices in trust management, evaluation approaches, mechanisms for building trust in e-services, and trust design methodologies. A section on trust concepts and challenges contains a unified taxonomy framework of trust, a survey of trust use and modeling in real online systems, and a discussion of legal challenges of online reputation systems.

Zhang, Xiaoling & Yongnian Zheng. China's information and communications technology revolution: social changes and state responses. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. (HC430.I55 C455 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Branley, Franklyn M. & Giulio Maestro. Sunshine makes the seasons. New York: Crowell, 1985.

Branley, Franklyn M. & True Kelley. What makes a magnet? New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1996.

Clack, Barbra. The Pledge of Allegiance. Albany, Tex.: Bright Sky Press, 2005.

Dorros, Arthur. Ant cities. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987.

Dorros, Arthur. Feel the wind. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1989.

Evans, Walker & Cynthia Rylant. Something permanent. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994.

The photographs of Walker Evans tell stories of ordinary people living in America in the extraordinary time of the Great Depression. Cynthia Rylant's poetry about the photographs offers a new voice in the telling, celebrating the beauty of life lived in extreme circumstances.

Gardner, Sally. The red necklace: a story of the French Revolution. New York: Dial Books, 2008.

Gelber, Lisa & Jody Roberts. P is for peanut: a photographic ABC. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.

Hughes, Langston & Charles R. Smith Jr. My people. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ginee seo books, 2009.

Langston Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.

Hurwitz, Johanna & Jerry Pinkney. New shoes for Silvia. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1993.

Jacques, Brian & David Elliot. High Rhulain. New York: Philomel Books, 2005.

Kipling, Rudyard & Jerry Pinkney. Rikki-tikki-tavi. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1997.

Lester, Julius & Jerry Pinkney. Black cowboy, wild horses: a true story. New York: Dial Books, 1998.

Nye, Naomi Shihab. What have you lost? New York, N.Y.: HarperTempest, 1999.

This collection of 140 poems reflect on the provocative question posed by the title of this book, and includes poems by a shoe, a house, a father, innocence, and more.

Riggs, Stephanie & Bill Youmans. Never sell yourself short. Morton Grove, Ill.: Albert Whitman and Co., 2001.

Ritter, John H. Over the wall. New York: Philomel Books, 2000.

Showers, Paul & Loretta Lustig. Where does the garbage go? New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974.

Sullivan, Otha Richard. African American women scientists and inventors. New York: Wiley, 2002.

Sullivan once headed Detroit's program to infuse African American history into the public school curriculum. Here he profiles 25 black American woman who have made significant contributions to science and technology, explaining that many, many more are utterly unknown because first of legal bans on granting patents to slaves and later because of social constraints on women. His message to black school girls is that just because they have not heard of black women scientists does not mean that the profession is closed to them.

Walburg, Lori & James Bernardin. The legend of the candy cane. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Pub., 1997.

Graphic Novels

Casarosa, Enrico. The Venice chronicles: a travelogue in pencil, watercolor and varying shades of silliness. United States: Ateli�r Fio; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Adhouse Books, 2008.

The Venice Chronicles - a travelogue in pencil, watercolor and varying shades of silliness. Hardcover,144 full-color pages, by Pixar artist Enrico Casarosa. Take a stroll through the side streets and canals of Venice in this colorful graphic novel, meeting at the intersection between Carnet De Voyage and Love Story.

Freeman, Don. Skitzy: the story of Floyd W. Skitzafroid. Montr�al: Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.

Jacques, Brian & Bret Blevins. Redwall: the graphic novel. New York: Philomel Books, 2007.

It was meant to be: The classic fantasy adventure that began the Redwall phenomenon is finally available in a cool graphic format. Illustrated by renowned comics artist Bret Blevins, Redwall: The Graphic Novel brings to life all the battles, all the heroes, and all the villains in a fun new format perfect for reluctant readers, those just entering the Redwall world, or the countless existing fans of the series.

Vasquez, Jhonen. Squee's wonderful big giant book of unspeakable horrors. San Jose, CA: Slave Labor Graphics, 1998.

New books for the week of 3 August, 2009

2009-08-10T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Abrams, Rhonda & Paul Barrow. The successful business plan: secrets & strategies. Chichester, UK; Hoboken, NJ: Capstone, 2008. (HD62.5 .A344 2008)

Abresch, John. Integrating geographic information systems into library services: a guide for academic libraries. Hershey: Information Science Pub., 2008. (Z688.G33 I58 2008)

Map librarians, once the keepers of large flat files and fat books, have also become the shepherds of the new technologies that have created a digital and global spatial information structure. Along with the many opportunities come technical, legal and institutional challenges in collection development, reference and research services, cataloging, accessibility and standards.

Gallagher, Kelly. Readicide: how schools are killing reading and what you can do about it. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, 2009. (LB1050 .G25 2009)

Goodall, Deborah. Browsing in public libraries. Loughborough, Eng.: Library and Information Statistics Unit, 1989. (Z711 .G66 1989)

Hartley, John & Kelly McWilliam. Story circle: digital storytelling around the world. Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. (QA76.76.I59 S785 2009)

Hawamdeh, Suliman; Kimberly Stauss; & Franz Barachini. Knowledge management: competencies and professionalism. Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2008. (HD30.2 .I5566 2008)

Hsu, Cheng. Service science: design for scaling and transformation. Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2009. (TA174 .H78 2009)

What is the big story about service? What are the main research problems in service? What does "a connected world" mean? Does service require a different kind of design science? What will be the next waves of the Web? How to support universal value co-creation? How to unite Cyberspace wilt physical space? Is it feasible to connect information resources everywhere? To answer these questions, the book presents and substantiates a digital connections scaling (DCS) model, complete with a population-oriented design paradigm and a new class of microeconomic production functions to explain the paths of transformation into the future - one of the most original results today.

Mortensen, Dennis R. Yahoo! Web analytics: tracking, reporting, and analyzing for data-driven insights. Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Pub., 2009. (TK5105.885.Y34 M67 2009)

Ndalianis, Angela. The contemporary comic book superhero. New York: Routledge, 2009. (PN6725 .C65 2009)

Quinn, Michael J. Ethics for the information age. Boston: Pearson Addison Wesley, 2009. (QA76.9.M65 Q56 2009)

Stead, Alan. Information rights in practice: the non-legal professional's guide. London: Facet, 2008. (KD3756 .S74 2008)

Yate, Martin. Knock 'em dead 2009: the ultimate job search guide. Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, 2008. (HF5383 .Y38 2008)

Yate, Martin. Knock 'em dead cover letters: great letter techniques and samples for every step of your search. Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, 2008. (HF5383 .Y378 2008)

Yate, Martin. Knock 'em dead r�sum�s: smart advice to make your online and paper r�sum�s more productive. Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, 2008. (HF5383 .Y38 2008)

Juvenile Collection

Bloom, Steve & David Henry Wilson. Elephants: a book for children with 80 color photographs. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008.

A glorious visual safari for children by best-selling photographer Steve Bloom. From Babar to Dumbo, the elephant has long fascinated children as well as their parents. Here, eighty stunning photographs encompass every aspect of the elephant's life and world: elephants big and small, African and Asian, in the wild and domesticated, at play and at rest.

Branley, Franklyn M. & Arthur Dorros. What makes day and night. New York: Crowell, 1986.

Carter, David A. & James Diaz. The elements of pop-up: a pop-up book for aspiring paper engineers. New York: Little Simon, 1999.

Harper, Charley. ABCs. Los Angeles: AMMO Books, 2008.

Hawes, Judy & Mary Ann Fraser. Why frogs are wet. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

Lasky, Kathryn. The coming of Hoole. New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Marzollo, Jean & Jerry Pinkney. Pretend you're a cat. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1990.

Morrissey, Tricia & Kong Lee. Hiss! pop! boom!: celebrating Chinese New Year. San Francisco, CA: ThingsAsian Press, 2006.

O'Neill, Peggy & Denise Freeman. Little Squarehead. Bellevue, WA: Illumination Arts Pub., 2001.

Sands, Emily. Egyptology: search for the tomb of Osiris: being the journal of Miss Emily Sands, November 1926. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2004.

Shakespeare, William. The taming of the shrew. New York: Workman Pub., 2001.

Graphic Novels

Lapp, Dave. Drop-in. Montreal: Conundrum Press, 2008.

McCay, Winsor. Little Sammy Sneeze. Palo Alto: Sunday Press, 2007.

Ware, Chris. The Acme novelty library: number 18. Chicago, IL: Acme Novelty Library; distributed in the U.S. by Drawn and Quarterly Books and Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007.

Warren, Adam. Empowered. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2007.

Not only is costumed crime fighter "Empowered" saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she wears a skintight and cruelly revealing "supersuit" that only magnifies her body-image insecurities. Worse yet, the suit's unreliable powers are prone to failure, repeatedly leaving her in appallingly distressing situations... and giving her a shameful reputation as the lamest "cape" in the masks-and-tights business.

New books for the week of 27 July, 2009

2009-08-03T10:00:00.001-04:00

SILS Collection

Abel, Jessica & Matt Madden. Drawing words & writing pictures: making comics: manga, graphic novels, and beyond. New York: First Second, 2008. (NC1764 .A24 2008)

"Drawing Words and Writing Pictures" is a course on comic creation - for college classes or for independent study - that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered - each complete with homework, extra credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions - provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics.

Avila, Salvador. Crash course in serving Spanish-speakers. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2008. (Z711.92.H56 A95 2008)

Coverage includes an overview of the cultural characteristics that shape the Spanish-speaking community; who is obligated to provide services to Spanish-speakers; when, where, why and how libraries should provide services to Spanish-speakers; outreach; essential services; examples of successful programs from around the U.S.; marketing and public relations efforts; Internet resources for Spanish-speakers; and findings from surveys of Spanish-speakers about their perspectives on reading.

Carlson, Chris & Ellen Brosnahan. Guiding students into information literacy: strategies for teachers and teacher-librarians. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. (ZA3075 .C3557 2009)

Salisbury, Martin. Illustrating children's books: creating pictures for publication. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 2004. (NC965 .S23 2004)

"Illustrating Children's Books" shows you how to create beautiful artwork for children. It examines the approaches taken by advanced-level students and leading artists, and describes how their ideas evolve from start to finish. Sketches and annotations reveal the techniques of successful children's illustrators and explain how to tackle fantasy, fairytale, realism, and nature drawings.

Juvenile Collection

Sabuda, Robert. America the beautiful: a pop-up book. New York: Little Simon, 2004.

Master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has interpreted the classic American anthem "America the Beautiful" in dazzling dimension. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to the Statue of Liberty, America has never looked more spectacular. This stunning keepsake masterpiece will be shared and admired by generations to come; indeed it is a national treasure in and of itself.

Graphic Novels

None.

New books for the week of 20 July, 2009

2009-07-27T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Johnson, Kathleen A. & Steven R. Harris. Teaching literary research: challenges in a changing environment. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009. (Z674 .A75 no. 60)

Srivastava, Pushplata. Copyright in academic libraries in digital environment. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications, 2008. (Z594 .S68 2008)

Todaro, Julie. Emergency preparedness for libraries. Lanham, Md.: Government Institutes, 2009. (Z679.7 .T63 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Bruchac, Joseph & Anna Vojtech. The first strawberries: a Cherokee story. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993.

Drawn & quartered: reshuffle the history of art 234,256 ways! Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1997.

Killeen, Debra. Legacy of the Archbishop. Rockford, IL: Helm Pub., 2009.

Kushner, Tony & Maurice Sendak. Brundibar. New York: Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.

L'Engle, Madeleine. The moon by night. New York: Square Fish, 2008.

Skargon, Yvonne & Oscar Wilde. The importance of being Oscar. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 1991.

Steig, William. When everybody wore a hat. New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 2003.

From the beloved author and artist--who celebrated his 95th birthday in 2002--comes this picture book autobiography of his childhood in which he describes life in the early 1900s. A Junior Library Guild Selection. Full color.

Yu, Chun. Little green: growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005.

I was born in a small city near the East Sea, when the Great Cultural Revolution began. My name is Little Green, my country Zhong Guo, the Middle Kingdom. When I was ten years old, our leader died and the revolution ended. And this is how I remember it. When Chun Yu was born in a small city in China, she was born into a country in revolution. The streets were filled with roaming Red Guards, the walls were covered with slogans, and reeducation meetings were held in all workplaces. Every family faced danger and humiliation, even the youngest children. Shortly after Chun's birth, her beloved father was sent to a peasant village in the countryside to be reeducated in the ways of Chairman Mao. Chun and her brother stayed behind with their mother, who taught in a country middle school where Mao's Little Red Book was a part of every child's education. Chun Yu's young life was witness to a country in turmoil, struggle, and revolution -- the only life she knew. This first-person memoir of a child's view of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is a stunning account of a country in crisis and a testimony to the spirit of the individual -- no matter how young or how innocent.

Graphic Novels

Lynch, Brian. Spike: after the fall. San Diego, CA: IDW Publishing, 2009.

Takahashi, Shin. The manga guide to statistics. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2009.

"The Manga Guide to Statistics" uses manga to introduce the reader to the world of statistics.

Urushibara, Yuki. Mu shi shi 6. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2008.

V�h�m�ki, Amanda. Drawn & Quarterly showcase 5. Montr�al: Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.

New books for the week of 13 July, 2009

2009-07-20T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Academic library building renovation benchmarks. New York, N.Y.: Primary Research, 2008. (Z679 .A32 2008)

Bajgoric, Nijaz. Continuous computing technologies for enhancing business continuity. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009. (HD30.2 .B3474 2009)

Barrett, Nina. Deering Library: an illustrated history. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2008. (Z733.N8686 N67 2008 c. 2)

Featuring beautiful illustrations--primarily historic photographs--this book traces the history of the Deering Library at Northwestern U., Evanston, Illinois. Contributions from the Library's faculty explore the collections, changes through the decades, and prospects for the future.

Bose, Indranil. Breakthrough perspectives in network and data communications security, design, and applications. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009. (HD30.37 .B736 2009)

Connor, Elizabeth. An introduction to instructional services in academic libraries. New York: Routledge, 2008. (Z711.25.C65 I58 2008)

Earp, Paul W. & Adam Wright. Securing library technology: a how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009. (Z674.73 .E19 2009)

Gamble, Nikki & Sally Yates. Exploring children's literature. Los Angeles; London: SAGE, 2008. (LB1575 .G36 2008)

Graaf, Maurits van der & Kwame van Eijndhoven. The European repository landscape: inventory study into the present type and level of OAI-compliant digital repository activities in the EU. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. (ZA4081.86 .G73 2008)

Gupta, Manish & Raj Sharman. Handbook of research on social and organizational liabilities in information security. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009. (QA76.9.A25 H365 2009)

Hunt, Fiona & Jane Birks. More hands-on information literacy activities. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2008. (ZA3075 .H86 2008)

Mann, Ian. Hacking the human: social engineering techniques and security countermeasures. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Gower, 2008. (HM668 .M36 2008)

McGuire, Beth. Active reading: activities for librarians and teachers. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. (LB1573 .M3916 2009)

Olson, Jack E. Database archiving: how to keep lots of data for a very long time. San Francisco, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann; Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2009. (QA76.9.D32 O47 2009)

With the amount of data a business accumulates now doubling every 12 to 18 months, IT professionals need to know how to develop a system for archiving important database data, in a way that both satisfies regulatory requirements and is durable and secure. This important and timely new book explains how to solve these challenges without compromising the operation of current systems.

Phillips-Wren, Gloria; Nikhil Ichalkaranje; & Lakhmi C. Jain. Intelligent decision making: an AI-based approach. Berlin: Springer, 2008. (T58.62 .I58 2008)

Roam, Dan. The back of the napkin: solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. New York: Portfolio, 2008. (HD30.29 .R625 2008)

When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and- spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers. Used properly, a simple drawing on a humble napkin is more powerful than Excel or PowerPoint. It can help crystallize ideas, think outside the box, and communicate in a way that people simply �get�. In this book Dan Roam argues that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, even those who swear they can�t draw. Drawing on twenty years of visual problem solving combined with the recent discoveries of vision science, this book shows anyone how to clarify a problem or sell an idea by visually breaking it down using a simple set of visual thinking tools � tools that take advantage of everyone�s innate ability to look, see, imagine, and show.

Survey of academic & research library journal purchasing practices. New York: Primary Research Group, 2008. (Z692.S5 S87 2008)

Zaphiris, Panayiotis & Chee Siang Ang. Cross-disciplinary advances in human computer interaction: user modeling, social computing, and adaptive interfaces. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009. (QA76.9.H85 C82 2009)

Researchers in the human-computer interaction community are developing new methods for describing user behavior, analyzing user needs and expectations, and designing and evaluating user-friendly computer systems. This book collects recent work in the field, 24 chapters in all, on major themes including computer mediated communication, online communities, computer-augmented environments, and computer-based learning.

Juvenile Collection

Adler, David A. & Robert Casilla. A picture book of Jackie Robinson. New York: Holiday House, 1994.

Alvarez, Julia & Ruddy N��ez. El mejor regalo del mundo: la leyenda de La Vieja Bel�n. Miami, Fla.: Alfaguara: Santillana, 2009.

Ayarbe, Heidi. Freeze frame. New York: Laura Geringer Books/HarperTeen, 2008.

Beccia, Carlyn. The raucous royals: test your royal wits : crack codes, solve mysteries, and deduce which royal rumors are true. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Berne, Jennifer & �ric Puybaret. Manfish: a story of Jacques Cousteau. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008.

Before Jacques Cousteau became an internationally known oceanographer and champion of the seas, he was a curious little boy. In this lovely biography, poetic text and gorgeous paintings combine to create a portrait of Jacques Cousteau that is as magical as it is inspiring.

Brashares, Ann. 3 willows: the sisterhood grows. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009.

Brashares, Ann. Forever in blue: the fourth summer of the Sisterhood. New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

Demi. Happy, happy Chinese New Year! New York: Crown Publishers, 1997.

Haskins, James & Kathleen Benson. The rise of Jim Crow. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2008.

Hirahara, Naomi. 1001 cranes. New York: Delacorte Press, 2008.

Twelve-year-old Angela Kato arrives in L.A. and is put to work in her granmother's flower shop, folding origami and creating 1001 cranes. As her skills improve and her relationships grow, Angela is able to cope with her parents' impending divorce.

Keene, Carolyn & Jan Naimo Jones. The Chinese New Year mystery. New York: Pocket Books, 2000.

Li, Moying. Snow falling in spring: Coming of age in China during the cultural revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Liu, Jae Soo. Yellow umbrella. La Jolla, CA: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2002.

The perfect book for a rainy day (obviously) but also for an art lesson, a lazy afternoon, or a quiet classroom, Yellow Umbrella tells the wordless story of one umbrella's morning journey. Accompanied by a CD of original and evocative piano music, this is a book meant to be enjoyed by all people, connecting us through music and art and transcending language and cultural barriers.

Lupica, Mike. Miracle on 49th Street. New York: Philomel Books, 2006.

Lupica, Mike. Summer ball. New York, NY: Philomel Books, 2007.

Lupica, Mike. The big field. New York, NY: Philomel Books, 2008.

Ly, Many. Roots and wings. New York: Delacorte Press, 2008.

Nyeu, Tao. Wonder Bear. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Randall, Alison L. & Bill Farnsworth. The wheat doll. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2008.

Rockwell, Anne & S.D. Schindler. Honey in a hive. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2005.

S�enz, Benjamin Alire. He forgot to say goodbye. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Seuss, Dr. & James Stevenson. I am not going to get up today! New York: Beginner Book, 1987.

Seuss, Dr. & Roy McKie. My book about me, by me myself. I wrote it! I drew it! New York: Beginner Books, 1969.

Shea, Bob. Dinosaur vs. bedtime. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2008.

Nothing can stop little Dinosaur--not grown-ups, nor bathtime. But what happens when he faces his biggest challenge of all--bedtime? With spare text and irresistible dinosaur roars, this book is an ideal read-aloud for bedtime and will have youngsters wanting more.

Sheth, Kashmira & Yoshiko Jaeggi. Monsoon afternoon. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2008.

Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the real world. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.

Tafolla, Carmen. The holy tortilla and a pot of beans: a feast of short fiction. San Antonio, Tex.: Wings Press, 2008.

Williams, Karen Lynn; Khadra Mohammed; & Doug Chayka. Four feet, two sandals. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2007.

Two young Afghani girls living in a refugee camp in Pakistan share a precious pair of sandals brought by relief workers.

Yoo, Paula. Good enough. New York: HarperTeen, 2008.

Graphic Novels

Preston, Greg. The artist within: portraits of cartoonists, comic book artists, animators, and others. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2007.

The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.

New books for the week of 6 July, 2009

2009-07-13T10:00:00.001-04:00

SILS Collection

Kuyvenhoven, Johanna. In the presence of each other: a pedagogy of storytelling. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. (LB1042 .K89 2009)

Johanna Kuyvenhoven follows a group of children in grades four and five as they forge an inclusive learning environment that respects linguistic, social, and ethnic diversity by sharing stories out loud. She traces the positive effects that oral storytelling has on children's vocabularies, writing skills, as well as for problem-solving abilities and empathetic responses that are essential to learning across the disciplines.

OCLC cataloging service user guide. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 2000. (Z674.82.O15 O175 2000)

Schon, Isabel. Recommended books in Spanish for children and young adults, 2004-2008. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. (Z1037.7 .S387 2009)

Juvenile Collection

Buron, Kari Dunn. When my worries get too big!: a relaxation book for children who live with anxiety. Shawnee Mission, Kan.: Autism Asperger Pub. Co., 2006.

More than any other issue, "losing control" can cause major problems for children. Through the irresistible character of Nicholas, this books gives young children an opportunity to explore with parents or teachers their own feelings as they react to events in their daily lives while learning some useful relaxation techniques. Children who use the simple strategies presented in this charming book, illustrated by the author, will find themselves relaxed and ready to work or play.

Goodall, Jane & Alexander Reichstain. The eagle & the wren: a fable. New York; London: North-South Books, 2002.

Who can fly the highest? "I can," claim the lark & the dove, the vulture & of course the mighty eagle. With a great flapping of wings & squawking & calling, the birds take to the air. It is a glorious contest, but the outcome surprises them all especially the mighty eagle! Jane Goodall retells a beloved story from her own childhood, a fable for all times that illustrates how we depend on each other for help & support throughout our lives.

Pinkney, Jerry & Jane H. Buxton. Undersea animals: a dramatic dimensional visit to strange underwater realms. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2008.

From renowned picture book illustrator Jerry Pinkney comes a dramatic and beautifully painted pop-up compendium of sea creatures. From crabs to seahorses to hammerhead sharks to octopi to corals, the animals in this volume literally jump off the page at you.

Pinkwater, Daniel & Calef Brown. The Neddiad: how Neddie took the train, went to Hollywood, and saved civilization. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Young Neddie goes on a life-changing and epic journey in this original and hilarious story. Neddie Wentworthstein, three good friends, a shaman, a ghost, and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

Tan, Shaun. The red tree. South Melbourne, Vic.: Lothian, 2008.

A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling, threatening to quietly overwhelm her. As she wanders around a world that is complex, puzzling and alienating, she is overtaken by a myriad of feelings. Re-released in New Edition paperback format, these moving and exquisitely illustrated tales by brilliant author/illustrator Shaun Tan are still the perfect gift for people of all ages.

Graphic Novels

None.

New books for the week of 29 June, 2009

2009-07-06T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Crane, Beverley E. Using WEB 2.0 tools in the K-12 classroom. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009. (LB1044.87 .C74 2009)

Eyob, Ephrem. Social implications of data mining and information privacy: interdisciplinary frameworks and solutions. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009. (Reference QA76.9.D343 S64 2009)

Hunter, M. Gordon & Felix B. Tan. Handbook of research on information management and the global landscape. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009. (Reference HD30.2 .H36427 2009)

Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi. Best practices and conceptual innovations in information resources management: utilizing technologies to enable global progressions. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009. (Reference T58.64 .B47 2009)

Koren, Marian. Working for five star libraries: international perspectives on a century of public library advocacy and development. Leidschendam, Netherlands: Biblion Uitgeverij, 2008. (Z789 .W47 2008)

Koth, Michelle S. Uniform titles for music. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press; Middleton, WI: Music Library Association, 2008. (ML111 .K67 2008)

For beginning and experienced catalogers who deal with music materials and have some musical background, Koth, a catalog librarian at Yale U., details how to establish uniform titles, explaining the rules and concepts, with examples. Instead of following the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., she moves from generic to distinctive titles and covers initial title elements, medium of performance, numeric identifying and additional elements, and collective titles or those by unknown authors. She omits popular music, liturgical music entered under a corporate body heading for a church, and series title headings.

Lee, In. Emergent strategies for e-business processes, services, and implications: advancing corporate frameworks. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009. (Reference HF5548.32 .E48 2009)

OCLC-MARC code lists. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1993. (Z699.4.M2 O16 1993)

Ramaiah, L.S. & G. Sujatha. Preservation of library, archival and digital documents: problems and perspectives. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications, 2008. (Z701 .P735 2008)

Schochow, Werner. B�cherschicksale: die Verlagerungsgeschichte der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek: Auslagerung, Zerst�rung, Entfremdung, R�ckf�hrung: dargestellt aus den Quellen. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 2003. (Z802.P7 S359 2003)

Sherman, Josepha. Storytelling: an encyclopedia of mythology and folklore. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. (Reference GR35 .S76 2008)

Westkamp, Guido. Emerging issues in intellectual property: trade, technology and market freedom: essays in honour of Herchel Smith. Cheltenham, Glos, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007. (K1401 .E47 2007)

Juvenile Collection

Ambrose, Stephen E. The good fight: how World War II was won. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001.

Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the finest historians of our time, has written an extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers.

Fletcher, Christine. Ten cents a dance. New York: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books: distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.

Gonz�lez, Luc�a & Lulu Delacre. The storyteller's candle. San Francisco, Calif.: Children's Book Press, 2008.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole: a guide book to the Great Tree. New York: Scholastic, 2007.

London, Jonathan & Gregory Manchess. Giving thanks. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2005.

A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it becomes a habit and makes one feel good.

Marsden, John & Shaun Tan. The rabbits. Vancouver: Simply Read Books, 2003.

The Rabbits is an allegory about colonization, told from the perspective of animals.

Nicholls, Sally. Ways to live forever. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008.

Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.

Orgel, Doris & Meilo So. The cat's tale: why the years are named for animals. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.

Smith, Jeff. Little Mouse gets ready. New York: RAW Junior, 2009.

Graphic Novels

Davis, Eleanor. Stinky: a toon book. New York: Little Lit Library, 2008.

Moore, Richard. Boneyard. New York: NBM Pub., 2001.

Michael Paris has inherited a plot in the remote town of Raven Hollow. As he arrives, he gets to find out what a doozie that is. He's basically inherited a cemetery that the villagers want razed! Why? It's haunted with apparently frightening creatures putting a curse on the whole town! But when Paris actually gets to meet some of the denizens of his inherited headache, it turns out they ain't all that bad (the vamp, in fact, is quite cute) and maybe the evil is not where it may seem...

Vaughan, Brian K. Ex machina. La Jolla, CA: WildStorm, 2005.

New books for the week of 22 June, 2009

2009-06-29T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Adult Reading Round Table of Illinois. The ARRT genre fiction list: a self-evaluative bibliography for fiction librarians. Illinois: Adult Reading Round Table of Illinois, 2003.

Adult Reading Round Table of Illinois. The ARRT young adult genre list: a self-evaluative bibliography for fiction librarians. Illinois: Adult Reading Round Table of Illinois, 2003.

Aggarwal, Charu C. & Philip S. Yu. Privacy-preserving data mining: models and algorithms. New York: Springer, 2008.

Balleste, Roy; Sonia Luna-Lamas; & Lisa Smith-Butler. Law librarianship in the twenty-first century. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Battles, David M. The history of public library access for African Americans in the South, or, Leaving behind the plow. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

African Americans' long struggle to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented, as is the story of the public library movement in the America. This book tells the story of the African American struggle to access public libraries in the South, from the 1820s to the 1960s and beyond, bringing together three distinct fields: Southern studies, African American studies, and library studies.

Bird, Elizabeth. Children's literature gems: choosing and using them in your library career. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Debons, Anthony. Information science 101. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Diacritics and special characters. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 1991.

Distad, Merrill. The University of Alberta Library: the first hundred years, 1908-2008. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Libraries, 2009.

Forcier, Jeff; Paul Bissex; & Wesley Chun. Python Web development with Django. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2009.

Forcier, Bissex, and Chun--all experienced Django and Python developers--offer a practical guide for Web developers on the use of the Python-based Django framework to build powerful Web solutions. Coverage includes an introductory overview of Python, Django, and Web development concepts, followed by the basic components of the framework--models, views, templates--and how they work together; discussion of four distinct Django applications; and advanced Django techniques and features. A companion website contains a large amount of auxiliary material and is referenced throughout the text.

Gebali, Fayez. Analysis of computer and communication networks. New York; London: Springer Science+Business Media, 2008.

Harris, Lesley Ellen. Licensing digital content: a practical guide for librarians. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Hill, Chrystie. Inside, outside, and online: building your library community. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Holley, Pam Spencer. Quick and popular reads for teens. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Hope, Brian & Ben Walther. Web security testing cookbook: systematic techniques to find problems fast. Farnham: O'Reilly, 2009.

In this book for Web application developers and quality assurance testers rather than security specialists like the authors, 'recipes' are given for using free and customizable tools for building and testing secure software. Progressively more difficult problems with the tools and techniques needed for a solution and discussion are presented on setting up these tools and basic concepts such as data encoding, ways to bypass client-side input validation, and advanced techniques (for detecting both unintentional design flaws and attacks using AJAX technology).

Jansen, Bernard J.; Amanda Spink; & Isak Taksa. Handbook of research on web log analysis. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009.

Kanjilal, Joydip & Sriram Putrevu. Sams teach yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 hours. Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams, 2009.

Karimi, Hassan A. Handbook of research on geoinformatics. Hershey: Information Science Reference, 2009.

Geoinformatics is the science and technology of gathering, analyzing, interpreting, distributing, and using geospatial information. It encompasses a broad range of disciplines brought together to create a detailed but understandable picture of the physical world and our place in it.

Kornegay, Rebecca S.; Heidi E. Buchanan; & Hildegard B. Morgan. Magic search: getting the best results from your catalog and beyond. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

LaPerriere, Jenny & Trish Christiansen. Merchandising made simple: using standards and dynamite displays to boost circulation. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

In this brief, well-organized volume, librarian LaPerriere and merchandising professional Christiansen (both with the Denver Public Library) introduce principles and practices for branding and creating appealing displays to attract readers and boost circulation in libraries. In chapters supported by examples illustrated in b&w photos, the authors discuss the use of collection presentation standards as well as ideal locations for displays, the use of fixtures and furniture, props, detailed steps for aesthetic and practical display-building, and upkeep. They also discuss techniques for enlisting and educating staff and for assessing success. The final chapter suggests about 50 themes for library displays and the collections (not specific titles) and props that should accompany each.

Luenberger, David G. & Yinyu Ye. Linear and nonlinear programming. New York: Springer, 2008.

Meghabghab, George & Abraham Kandel. Search engines, link analysis, and user's Web behavior: a unifying Web mining approach. Berlin: Springer, 2008.

Moore, Chris. Sunday opening: an investigation into accessible opening hours and Sunday opening in UK public libraries. Leicestershire: Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, 2008.

Rainey, David. Faith reads: a selective guide to Christian nonfiction. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Reynolds, Nancy Thalia. Mixed heritage in young adult literature. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Saricks, Joyce G. The readers' advisory guide to genre fiction. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Traynor, Patrick; Patrick McDaniel; & Thomas La Porta. Security for telecommunications networks. New York: Springer, 2008.

Union list user guide. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Library Computer Center, 1994.

Warner, Dorothy Anne. A disciplinary blueprint for the assessment of information literacy. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Zhang, Yan-Qing & Jagath C. Rajapakse. Machine learning in bioinformatics. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2009.

Zhang, Zhongfei & Ruofei Zhang. Multimedia data mining: a systematic introduction to concepts and theory. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009.

Juvenile Collection

Brannen, Sarah S. Uncle Bobby's wedding. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.

Bobby and Jamie are getting married, but Bobby's niece Chloe is worried that she won't be his favorite person anymore. Will Uncle Bobby still think she is special? Sarah Brannen's warm story is set in an alternative family as Uncle Bobby marries his boyfriend. "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" embraces Bobby?s relationship with Jamie, but keeps its focus where it truly belongs: on an uncle and niece's love for each other. Beautifully told and charmingly illustrated, this simple yet moving story begs to be read time and again.

Cowan, Jennifer. Earthgirl. Toronto; Berkeley: Groundwood Books; House of Anansi Press, 2009.

Ellis, Deborah. Children of war: voices of Iraqi refugees. Toronto; Berkeley: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2009.

Gower, Catherine & He Zhihong. Long-Long's New Year: a story about the Chinese spring festival. Boston: Tuttle Pub., 2005.

Ka, Olivier & Luc Melanson. My great big mamma. Toronto; Berkeley: Groundwood Books: House of Anansi Press, 2009.

Size matters, according to this groundbreaking picture book - and in a good way. Here, a young boy describes his large mother in caring terms - her softness, her warmth, how comfortable and reassuring it is to sit on her lap on the bus. But when she goes on a diet "because of what people say," he becomes a picky eater himself to show her how foolish she's being. This remarkable book offers a charming and timely picture of a special relationship between a loving mother and the little boy who understands that people should be appreciated for who they are. Luc Melanson's vibrant illustrations add resonance to this sweet story.

Katz, Karen. My first Chinese New Year. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

Khan, Rukhsana. Wanting Mor. Toronto; Berkeley: Groundwood Books; House of Anansi Press, 2009.

Jameela and her family live in a poor, war-torn village in Afghanistan. Even with her cleft lip and lack of educational opportunities, Jameela feels relatively secure, sustained by her Muslim faith and the love of her mother, Mor. But when Mor dies, Jameela's father impulsively decides to start a new life in Kabul. Jameela is appalled as he succumbs to alcohol and drugs, then suddenly remarries, a situation that soon has her a virtual slave to a demanding stepmother. After she's discovered trying to learn to read, Jameela is abandoned in a busy market, eventually landing in an orphanage run by the same army that killed so many members of her family. Throughout it all, the memory of her mother sustains her, giving Jameela the strength to face her father and stepmother when fate brings them together again. Inspired by a true story, and set in a world far removed from that of Western readers, this powerful novel reveals that the desire for identity and self-understanding is universal.

Levert, Mireille. Tulip and Lupin forever. Toronto: Groundwood Books; Berkeley: House of Anansi Press, 2009.

Tulip the watering fairy and her best friend Lupin, a honey-making dog-bee, cultivate their fields and make delicious honey. When Lupin grows old and dies, Tulip is bereft. After a long journey, and the help of a river, the sea, and a friendly tortoise, Tulip is finally ready to start living again. When she returns home, a puppy-bee is waiting for her; eager for his turn in the field. This sensitive, beautifully illustrated story never minimizes the loss of a loved one, but shows that with time, a person can continue not only to live, but can find a new way to enjoy life.

Pottle, Jean L. & Lois Leonard Stock. Herons, frogs, and cranberry bogs: a wetlands unit for science and language arts. Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, Pub., 1994.

Graphic Novels

None.

New books for the week of 15 June, 2009

2009-06-22T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Calhoun, Karen. Online catalogs: what users and librarians want: an OCLC report. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 2009.

Dow, Elizabeth H. Electronic records in the manuscript repository. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

"Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository" defines the problems related to electronic records and digital documents, describes the steps the curator should take to manage those electronic records and digital documents, and suggests ways to learn the specific skills and perspectives needed to do the job well.

Hartl, Michael & Aurelius Prochazka. RailsSpace: building a social networking Website with Ruby on Rails. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2008.

International survey of library & museum digitization projects. New York: Primary Research Group, 2008.

Wildemuth, Barbara M. Applications of social research methods to questions in information and library science. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2009.

Juvenile Collection

Bang, Molly Garrett. Tye May and the magic brush. New York: Mulberry Books, 1992.

Rumford, James. Silent music: a story of Baghdad. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.

Graphic Novels

None.

New books for the week of 8 June, 2009

2009-06-15T10:00:00.001-04:00

SILS Collection

Robertson, Randy. Censorship and conflict in seventeenth-century England: the subtle art of division. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.

Supplementary list of subject headings. Mena, Ark., 1938.

Juvenile Collection

Godbersen, Anna. The luxe. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

Thomas, Garen. Yes we can: a biography of president Barack Obama. New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2009.

Garen Thomas takes us through the life of Barack Obama, from his struggle to fit in with his classmates, and concern about not knowing his biological father, through his term as an Illinois senator, and the long campaign for president, to his historic victory.

Wing, Natasha & Robert Casilla. Jalape�o bagels. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996.

Graphic Novels

Azzarello, Brian. 100 bullets. New York: DC Comics, 2000.

The collection also features the tale of Jack Daw, a lowlife vagabond who comes across a roadside zoo during his cross-country travels. The inmates in this prison are marked for execution, and their rare pelts bound for the black market. Unless, that is, Daw choose to save them.

Silvestri, Marc. Witchblade. Los Angeles: Top Cow Productions, 2008.

Go back to the beginning and see how NY police detective Sara Pezzini was first chosen by the mystical Witchblade to be its next bearer. Collecting Witchblade #1-8 by writers David Wohl and Christina Z, and superstar artist Michael Turner, this trade paperback introduced Pezzini, the Witchblade, Kenneth Irons, and Ian Nottingham to the world of comics.

New books for the week of 1 June, 2009

2009-06-08T10:00:00.002-04:00

SILS Collection

Carson, Ewart; Fiona Harvey; & Mike Hughes. eHealth: a futurescope: proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in the Delivery of Healthcare, 4th to 6th April 2001, City University, London. London: City University, 2001.

Gistelinck, Frans & Luc Knapen. Early sixteenth century printed books, 1501-1540, in the library of the Leuven Faculty of Theology. Supplement: ten years of acquisitions, 1994-2004. Leuven: Bibliotheek Godgeleerdheid; Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2004.

Elegantly produced in an oversize format (9x13"), with 56 woodcut reproductions (a few in color), this catalogue lists some 330 editions from the period 1501-1540, housed in the library of the Leuven Faculty of Theology and acquired since the first catalogue was published in 1994.

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of pure reason. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2003.

King, Kathleen P. & Mark Gura. Podcasting for teachers: using a new technology to revolutionize teaching and learning. Charlotte, NC: IAP, 2007.

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation: (PEPM'09): January 19-20, 2009, Savannah, Georgia, USA. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2009.

Juvenile Collection

Magorian, Michelle. Just Henry. London: Egmont, 2008.

Graphic Novels

Marz, Ron. Scion: royal wedding. West Carrollton, Ohio: Checker Book Pub. Group, 2007.

Moore, Alan. Alan Moore's Hypothetical lizard. Rantoul, IL: Avatar Press, 2007.

Finally collected, here is one of Alan Moore's greatest works and his most critically acclaimed novella of all time, painstakingly adapted to comic books. Moore's frequent collaborator Antony Johnston has carefully preserved the story as it is presented in sequential form with stunning grey-painted art by sensations Lorenzo Lorente and Sebastian Fiumara. What would you pay to learn the innermost secrets of wizards? Young prostitute Som Som has made the ultimate sacrifice; literally sworn to secrecy by cosmetic surgery, the two halves of Som Som's brain have been severed, leaving her able to hear and see... but not speak or act. Now Som Som's unique attributes will put her firmly in the center of an impossible dilemma, as an old friend return to The House Without Clocks, and a deadly game of domination begins.... This collected volume contains the entire four issue series, the full text of the original story, and both artist's original design sketches. Limited to 750 copies.

Pekar, Harvey. The beats: a graphic history. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.

Sadowski, Greg. Supermen!: the first wave of comic-book heroes 1939-1941. Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics; London: Turnaround, 2009.

New books for the week of 25 May, 2009

2009-06-01T10:00:00.001-04:00

SILS Collection

Jones, Barbara M. Protecting intellectual freedom in your academic library: scenarios from the front lines. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Jones, Ella W. Start-to-finish YA programs: hip-hop symposiums, summer reading programs, virtual tours, poetry slams, teen advisory boards, term paper clinics, and more! New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009.

Nelson, Sandra. Implementing for results: your strategic plan in action. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Scales, Pat. Protecting intellectual freedom in your school library: scenarios from the front lines. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Singer, Paula M. Developing a compensation plan for your library. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

Juvenile Collection

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2009.

Six years after Cassie and Lia resolved to become the skinniest girls in their school, Cassie dies. Unable to bear the sadness and guilt following Cassie's death, Lia spirals deeper into her own eating disorder. Elijah, the last person to see Cassie alive, helps Lia find the strength to face her own demons and enter recovery.

Balian, Lorna & Lecia Balian. Sometimes it's turkey, sometimes it's feathers. New York: Star Bright Books, 2004.

Boritzer, Etan & Nancy Forrest. What is death? Santa Monica, CA: Veronica Lane Books, 2000.

What Is Death? introduces children to the concept of death with examples of customs and beliefs from different religions and cultures. While addressing children's natural curiosity about the subject, the book also challenges them to reflect on the themes of tolerance, identity, and generosity. Using a gentle and comforting tone, and an honest approach, What Is Death? encourages children to embrace the positive in life. This book is the third in author Etan Boritzer's popular series, following the success of What Is God? and What Is Love?

Giovanni, Nikki & Bryan Collier. Lincoln and Douglass: an American friendship. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.

Katcher, Brian. Playing with matches. New York: Delacorte Press, 2008.

Meldrum, Christina. Madapple. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Graphic Novels

Barry, Lynda. What it is. Montr�al: Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.

How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember.

New books for the week of 18 May, 2009

2009-05-26T10:00:00.005-04:00

SILS Collection

Altree, Ann & June Palmer. Treasures of the Morrab: a Penzance library that has more than books. Penzance: Penwith Local History Group, 2005.

Basole, Rahul C. Enterprise mobility: applications, technologies and strategies. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Washington, DC: IOS Press, 2008.

Griebel, Rolf & Klaus Ceynowa. Information, Innovation, Inspiration: 450 Jahre Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. M�nchen: Saur, 2008.

Heijden, Hans van der. Designing management information systems. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Sauers, Michael P. Searching 2.0. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009.

Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission, provides a guide for librarians, including beginners, that demonstrates effective strategies for integrating new Web 2.0 tools and technologies into their daily duties. He discusses the structure of Web 2.0 and its effects on searching, and tools such as bookmarking, tagging, and Delicious; the features and functions of search engines like Google and Yahoo! Search; Wikipedia; and online multimedia content like Youtube, Flickr, and Podscope. Other chapters cover maps, Google's Book Search, resources for finding historical information using the Google cache or the Wayback Machine, OpenSearch plug-ins and desktop search tools, and cutting-edge search engines. Screen shots and instructions are incorporated, and all links to resources are available on the companion website.

Juvenile Collection

Alalou, Elizabeth; Ali Alalou; & Julie Klear Essakalli. The butter man. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2008.

Becker, Bonny & Kady MacDonald Denton. A visitor for Bear. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008.

Caletti, Deb. The fortunes of Indigo Skye. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Coville, Bruce & John Clapp. The prince of butterflies. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.

Cutbill, Andy & Russell Ayto. The cow that laid an egg. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2008.

Marjorie the cow wishes she had a special talent. One morning, thanks to a bunch of scheming chickens, Marjorie discovers that she's laid an egg. But does the baby inside the egg belong to Marjorie? Emotions soon run high in this hilarious farmyard tale. Full color.

Foley, Greg. Don't worry Bear. New York: Viking, 2008.

Immacul�e, Uwimana. Ubutungutungu. Kigali: Editions Bakame, 2004.

Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas & Alex Pardo DeLange. Pepita talks twice = Pepita habla dos veces. Houston, Tex.: Pi�ata Books, 1995.

Betsy Lewin, Ted & Betsy Lewin. Horse song: the Naadam of Mongolia. New York: Lee & Low Books, 2008.

Manushkin, Fran & Holly Berry. How Mama brought the spring. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2008.

Ray, Deborah Kogan. Wanda G�g: the girl who lived to draw. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2008.

Wanda G�g (pronounced "Gog") is well known as the author and illustrator of Millions of Cats, one of the best-loved children's books ever published. But not many people know how interesting and inspiring her life was.Following in the footsteps of her beloved artist father, Wanda led an idyllic childhood, drawing and listening to old-world fairy tales. But when her father died, it was teenage Wanda who worked hard to keep her seven younger siblings fed, clothed, and laughing. She never lost sight of her love of art, however, and her tremendous willpower won her a coveted scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City and then led to a gallery show of her artwork - where an editor of children's books got an idea for a book. The rest, as they say, is history!

Shusterman, Neal. Antsy does time. New York, NY: Dutton Children's Books, 2008.

Fueled by friendship and sympathy, Antsy Bonano signs a month of his life over to his "dying" classmate Gunnar Umlaut. Soon everyone at school follows suit, giving new meaning to the idea of "living on borrowed time." But does Gunnar really have six months to live, or is news of his imminent death greatly exaggerated? When a family member suffers a heart attack after donating two years to Gunnar, Antsy wonders if he has tempted fate by playing God. Fans of "the Schwa" will welcome favorite and new characters in this wholly fresh tale, which is as touchingly poignant as it is darkly comical.

Venkatraman, Padma. Climbing the stairs. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.

Graphic Novels

None.