A few of our states have a history of supporting their native authors by helping people identify who they are. Here are a few of the resources. Do you know of any more?
Ohio Authors
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Archive for October, 2009
States Support Their Authors
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Ohio Authors
Let’s Talk Lit Blogs: ShelfRenewal
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009If you haven’t seen Shelf Renewal yet, be sure to take a look. Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk, two Chicago area readers’ advisory librarians, started their blog recently with the purpose of highlighting older books that deserve to be pulled out of the stacks and displayed for current readers.
They typically take a current bestseller and highlight other books that tie in to the same theme. A couple of recent examples include Welcome to ZombieLand, Bootleg Love, and It Was All a Hoax.
What a great idea…especially in these days of huge budget cuts…bring out the good old stuff and recycle it to new readers!
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RA Run Down
Sunday, October 25th, 2009The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at rablog@lu.com.
By Cindy Orr
This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup
There are five titles new to the bestseller lists this week:
Fiction:
Non-Fiction:
To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup look to the righthand column.
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There are some really big names among our New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries this week, including several biographies:
And more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list of noteworthy books to be published in the next seven days, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is Sail Away. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list of really good reads about sailing—fiction and nonfiction.
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And now on to the news of the week:
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Books on Screen
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Awards
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Authors
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Lists
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Lighthearted Link of the Week
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New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Readers will see these titles in bookstores for the first time this week.
Fiction
Non-Fiction
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Most Wanted Mashup: Hottest Books of the Week
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Fiction
Nonfiction
- Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
- Michael Connelly –
Nine Dragons - Vince Flynn – Pursuit of Honor
- Diana Gabaldon – An Echo in the Bone
- Charlaine Harris – A Touch of Dead
- Nick Hornby – Juliet, Naked
- Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
- Nicholas Sparks – The Last Song
- Kathryn Stockett – The Help
- Jeannette Walls – Half Broke Horses
Nonfiction
- Mitch Albom – Have a Little Faith
- Richard Dawkins – The Greatest Show on Earth
- Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns – The National Parks
- Michael Jackson – Moonwalk
- Edward M. Kennedy – True Compass
- Jon Krakauer – Where Men Win Glory
- Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn – Half the Sky
- Christopher McDougall – Born to Run
- James Patterson & Martin Dugard – The Murder of King Tut
- Chesley B. Sullenberger & Jeffrey Zaslow – Highest Duty
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Under the Radar: Sail Away
Sunday, October 25th, 2009- Tania Aebi & Bernadette Brennan – Maiden Voyage
- Charles Henry Dana – Two Years Before the Mast
- Tracy Edwards – Living Every Second
- Robin Lee Graham – Dove
- John Hersey – Under the Eye of the Storm
- Thor Heyerdahl – Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft
- Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
- Robert Manry – Tinkerbelle
- Peter Matthiessen – Far Tortuga
- Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons
- Joshua Slocum – Sailing Alone Around the World
- Ernest Shackleton – South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
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Changes in Publishing—Seriously This Time
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Perseus Books has partnered with The Daily Beast website to form Beast Books, an imprint that will publish books on timely topics with a greatly accelerated timetable.
A typical book schedule today gives the author a year or so to write the book, and then the publisher takes nine months to a year to get it to the shelves. At Beast Books, the writer will get one to three months to write the book, and it will be produced as an e-book within a month, and a paperback shortly thereafter. Authors in this model will receive significantly more money than they would in the old model, and prices will be set in different ways as well, as the people who own the website eyeballs move into the driver’s seat.
One question for the industry (including libraries), is what this kind of schedule will do to the review cycle. Publishers Weekly currently wants to see galleys four months before publication. Some major bookstores want to know about new books six months early. Now what? Everything is changing folks. We’ll just have to keep up somehow.
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Allie Beth Martin Award: Call for Nominations
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009PLA’s Allie Beth Martin Award Committee has begun working on the selection of the next Award winner.
The Allie Beth Martin Award is given each year by PLA to provide recognition and a $3,000 honorarium to:
a librarian (defined as possessing a Master of Library Science degree) who, in a public library setting, has demonstrated:
(1) extraordinary range and depth of knowledge about books or other library materials, and
(2) distinguished ability to share that knowledge.
To nominate a colleague, go to the PLA Online Award Nomination site and submit the application online. The awards committee considers only the material submitted when making the awards, so it’s worth it to spend a little time on the background of your nominee. Deadline is December 1.
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Marginal Notes
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009I’m sure you’ve run across marginal notes in library books. Many times they’re inane, or simple reactions like !!!, but not always. Here’s the story of someone who found marginal notes from an eyewitness that gave him the impression of reading the book with another earlier reader looking over his shoulder.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge invented the term “marginalia” to describe what he did extensively in the margins of almost all of his books. In fact, several volumes of just his marginalia have been published.
Professor Heather Jackson spent more than 15 years studying marginalia, and says that notes in the margins of books reveal a lot about the culture of a society and the reading habits of the past. She wrote a book about the subject: Marginalia: Readers’ Notes in Books, 1700 – 2000.
Have you come across any fascinating marginalia in your library’s books? I have to admit that I have not found anything profound. I did find a piece of bacon once, though. I guess it made a good bookmark. Keep on looking!
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RA Run Down
Sunday, October 18th, 2009The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online, the subscription database based on Libraries Unlimited’s Genreflecting Advisory series. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at rablog@lu.com.
By Cindy Orr
This Week In Books
New Titles on the Most Wanted Mashup This Week
Fiction:
Charlaine Harris – A Touch of Dead
Jonathan Kellerman – Evidence
Robert B. Parker – The Professional
Jeannette Walls – Half Broke Horses
Nonfiction: Nothing new this week
To see the entire Most Wanted Mashup look to the righthand column.
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Lots of New, Noteworthy, and No-Brainer entries again this week including:
And many more. Scroll down to the next entry to see the whole list of noteworthy books to be published in the next seven days, or click here.
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Our Under the Radar list this week is Rainy Day Comfort Reads. Look in the righthand column just under the Most Wanted Mashup for this list.
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And now on to the news of the week:
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Books on Screen
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Awards
Anthony Awards
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Authors
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Lists
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Lighthearted Link of the Week
Enter Your Pet In the Critterati Literary Character Costume Contest
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