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Sunday, January 29th, 2012

The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

FICTION


NONFICTION

GRAPHIC BOOKS


To Be Published Week of Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, 2012:

Fiction


  • Groening, Matt – The Simpsons/Futurama Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis – 9780060897260
  • Hannah, Kristin – Home Front – 9780312577209
  • Harris, Robert – The Fear Index – 9780307957931
  • Laurens, Stephanie – The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae (Cynster Series)(mass market) – 9780062068620
  • Roberts, Nora – Bennett & Camilla: The Playboy Prince\Cordina’s Crown Jewel (mass market) – 9780373281558
  • Sala, Sharon – Next of Kin (mass market) – 9780778313120
  • Woods, Sheryl – The Summer Garden (mass market) – 9780778313090

    • Nonfiction

  • Isay, Dave – All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps – 9781594203213
  • Murray, Charles – Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:

    Ebook News:

    ALA To Meet With Top Executives of Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin on Ebook Lending

    OverDrive Reports 35 Million Digital Titles Checked Out in 2011, Page Views Up 130 Percent

    Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays

    Library e-Book Wars and Bundling

    Is Digital Rights Management NOT the way to go?

    Sesame Street launches digital series

    Social networks, privacy, etc.:

    New social network for book lovers

    Facebook’s IPO is coming

    Take a look at Google’s new privacy policy

    And all other things literary:

    How bestseller lists work

    Amazon makes a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    No wonder it’s hard to keep up; “there were more books published this week than in all of 1950.”

    Indie publisher Melville House turns 10

    Most Quoted Books of 2011

    Washington, D.C., the nation’s most literate city


    Professional Development Opportunities:

    Library Journal webcast: Meet the Power Patron

    How to use Pinterest


    Books on Screen

    Six of the nine best picture films are from books

    The obligatory Downton Abbey post

    Sweet Valley High, the musical!


    Awards

    2012 Oscar nominations are in!

    National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists

    Ayn Rand app wins prize

    Andrew Miller wins the Costa Award; now Short Stories have their own Costa Award as well

    All awards ALA, announced last week:

    2012 ALA Notable Books
    ALA Reading List Awards
    Newbery and other youth awards
    RUSA Listen List
    2012 odyssey award
    Sophie Brody Medal; Louis Shores Award (congrats Sarah Johnson!); Zora Neale Hurston Award; Stonewall Book Award


    Authors

    Charla Krupp: Obituary

    Newt Gingrich: SF author

    Charlotte Bronte, love letter writer

    Tolkien’s Middle-earth “family tree”

    Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day turns 50

    John Green on NPR


    Lists

    The 5 Books That Inspire the Most Tattoos

    Most Dangerous Novels of all time

    New York Times Editors’ Choice for Jan. 27


    Lighthearted Links of the Week

    Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak (video)

    Authors accessorize!

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION


    NONFICTION


    GRAPHIC BOOKS



    To Be Published Week of Jan 23-29, 2012:

    Fiction


  • Crais, Robert – Taken – 9780399158278
  • Dorsey, Tim – Pineapple Grenade – 9780061876905
  • King, Stephen – The Gunslinger – The Battle of Tull (graphic novel)
  • Mosley, Walter – All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid Mcgill Mystery – 9781594488245
  • Pelecanos, George – What It Was – 9780316209533

    • Nonfiction

  • Broadwell, Paula – All In: The Education of General David Petraeus – 9781594203183
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew – Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power – 9780465029549
  • Cain, Susan – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – 9780307352149

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:



    OverDrive reports 35 million digital copies checked out in 2011, a 130% increase from 2010; number of users exceeds 11 million

    Washington Post highlights library struggles to provide enough ebooks

    What happens when you stop reading books

    Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies results in pulling books from the curriculum–including The Tempest

    Another self-pubbed author hits the big time

    How to add GoodReads to your Facebook timeline

    Horror Writers of America announce new award: The Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century

    RomanceNews.net: the site devoted to romantic fiction for men

    Amy Einhorn’s knack for spotting bestsellers; will Alex George’s The Good American carry on the success of The Help, The Postmistress, and The Weird Sisters?

    Apple launches iBooks 2, a new multimedia textbook platform, and iBooks Author, a “a shockingly easy authoring tool to create them;” both are free

    Grand Central to launch a 4-title/month digital romance line

    Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us”

    A guide to understanding SOPA

    Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

    Study says no difference in children’s comprehension of print books vs. eBooks

    Supreme Court allows copyrights to be restored on foreign works previously in the public domain in the US

    Storytime not just for kids anymore


    Professional Development Opportunities:



    Beyond Books: Advanced Readers’ Advisory course begins March 13. $75 for Californians, $150 for others

    Books on Screen


    On the set of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    Movie tie-in edition of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is available from Mariner ($14.95, 9780547735023).

    Coriolanus movie companion volume: Coriolanus: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Press for It Books, $19.95, 9780062202574), includes the screenplay, a foreword by Ralph Fiennes, introduction and scene notes by screenwriter John Logan and 21 film stills and behind-the-scenes photos.

    Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 scene sneak peek offered by Target


    Awards



    NAACP Image Award for Literature nominees


    Authors



    Cormac McCarthy writes an original script

    Lists


    Oprah: 9 books that will help you change your life


    Lighthearted Links of the Week



    The alternate titles of famous books

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, January 15th, 2012

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION


    NONFICTION



    To Be Published Week of Jan 16-22, 2011:

    Fiction


  • Barr, Nevada – The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel – 9780312614577
  • Card, Orson Scott – Shadows in Flight (Ender) – 9780765332004
  • Clark, Mary Jane – The Look of Love – 9780061995569
  • Cornwell, Bernard – Death of Kings – 9780061969652
  • Dunn, Carola – Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery – 9780312675486
  • Leonard, Elmore – Raylan – 9780062119469
  • O’Connell, Carol – The Chalk Girl 9780399157745
  • O’Nan, Stewart – The Odds – 9780670023165

    • Nonfiction

  • Kranish, Michael, and Scott Helman – The Real Romney – 9780062123275

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:



    Resolved: Kick the Amazon habit in 2012

    Nancy Pearl to work with Amazon on getting favorite books back in print

    Michelle Obama reacts to The Obamas by Jodi Kantor, though she hasn’t read it (video), and some express surprise, feeling the book is positive. But others dig deeper.

    The ultimate discovery engine: patron driven acquisitions

    Author photographer extraordinaire: Marion Ettlinger

    Suggestion: the library license for digital works

    Was the Year of the Protestor also the Year of the Dystopian Novel?

    The business case for reading novels

    Trends in nonfiction: what editors are looking for in 2012…UK version

    Should publishers build audio apps for cars?


    Professional Development Opportunities:


    ALA Midwinter (Philadelphia) RA Programs


    Friday, January 20, 4pm – 5:30: ERT/Booklist Author Forum with Helen Schulman and Hillary Jordan

    Saturday, January 21, 2012 – 10am – 11am – Susan Cain, author of The Forthcoming Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Convention Center Theater

    Saturday, January 21, 9am – 5pm:
    Mystery Day, Convention Center Exhibit Hall: Pop Top Stage, middle of the 2500 Aisle

    Don’t Mess With Texas: Local authors
    9:00 am -9:45 am
    Rachel Brady, Robin Allen, Deborah Crombie, Laura Elvebak, moderator Harry Hunsicker

    Remember the Alibi: Traditional mysteries, a roundtable chat with the Women of Jungle Red
    10:00 am -10:45 am
    Hank Phillippi Ryan, Lucy Burdette, Deborah Crombie and Rosemary Harris, moderator Carol Fitzgerald, www.jungleredwriters.com

    My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys…and P.I.s and ex-cops and reporters…
    11:00 am -11:45 am
    Denise Hamilton, Cara Black, Martin Limon, Laura Elvebak, Moderator: Bill Crider

    Well, Slap My Knee: What’s so funny about murder?
    12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
    Joanna Slan, Rachel Brady, Maria Hudgins, Rosemary Harris, Moderator: Lucy Burdette

    Brownbag Interview with Charles (Caroline) Todd with Hank Phillippi Ryan
    1:00pm -1:45 pm

    Don’t Fence Me In: Mysteries Set in Foreign Countries
    2:15 pm-3:00 pm
    Cara Black, Deborah Crombie, Martin Limon,Charles (Caroline) Todd, Moderator: Maria Hudgins

    Big Roundup: How to Find Out More about What’s Happening in the Mystery Genre, Blogs, Websites, Conferences
    3:15 pm -4:00 pm
    Joanna Slan, Robin Allen, Harry Hunsicker, Denise Hamilton, Bill Crider, moderator Hank Phillippi Ryan

    Sunday, January 22, 10am – 11am John Green – Convention Center Theater

    Sunday, January 22, 10am – 5pm:
    Romance Day, Convention Center Exhibit Hall: Pop Top Stage, middle of the 2500 Aisle

    Historical Romance: From Dukes to Spies and Everything in Between
    10:00 am – 10:45 am
    Featuring: Elizabeth Essex and Lorraine Heath

    From Sweet to Sexy: What’s Happening in Contemporary Romance
    11:15 am – 12:00 pm
    Featuring: Jane Graves, Emily March, Francis Ray, and Lori Wilde

    Wild about YA Romance
    12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
    Featuring: Rosemary Clement-Moore, Trinity Faegen, and Rachel Hawthorne

    Spotlight on Romantic Suspense
    1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
    Featuring: Jo Davis, Diane Kelly, and Kay Thomas

    A Closer Look at Paranormal Romance
    3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
    Featuring: Shayla Black, Candace Havens, Kerrelyn Sparks, and J.D. Tyler

    Sunday, January 22 – 12:30pm to 1pm - ALA Masters Series: World Book Night – Convention Center

    Sunday, January 22, 5pm – 6:30: RUSA Book and Media Awards Reception, Oak Room at the Fairmont Hotel, 1717 North Akard Street

    Book Buzz Theater
    Saturday, January 21
    8 a.m. – 9 a.m………..Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
    11 a.m. – 12:00 noon …..Sterling
    ……………………………..Macmillan Adult Library Marketing Director Talia Sherer
    1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m…….Scottie Bowditch, School and Library Marketing Director for Penguin Young Readers
    4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m…….A Dark and Delectable Feast of Tor’s Upcoming Releases

    Sunday, January 22
    8 a.m. – 9 a.m……………Abrams Books for Young Readers
    11 a.m. – 12 p.m……….. Hachette Book Group and Perseus Books Group Spring Titles
    4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ….Bloomsbury/Walker and Kingfisher Books for Young Readers

    Books on Screen


    Warner Brothers to adapt A Discovery of Witches

    Le Carré Reprints Get a New Look As Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy Movie Gives Older Titles a Lift

    Ridley Scott to produce movie based on Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln

    Vote on who should play Jack Reacher (Hint: Tom Cruise comes in last.)


    Awards



    Story Prize finalists: Don DeLillo, Steven Millhauser, Edith Pearlman

    2011 National Jewish Book Award winners

    Man Asian Prize shortlist

    Coming February 7: 200th birthday of Charles Dickens; Naxos releases all his works on audio


    Authors



    Obituary: Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries

    Lists


    Ron Paul’s recommended reading list


    Lighthearted Links of the Week


    Famous writer dolls

    There’s Nothing Quite Like a Real Book (video)

    Golden Globe Nominees: The Books That Inspired the Films

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, January 8th, 2012

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION


    NONFICTION



    To Be Published Week of January 9-15, 2012

    Fiction


  • Barry, Dave, Zweibel, Alan – Lunatics – 9780399158698
  • Cole, Kresley – Lothaire – 9781439136829
  • George, Elizabeth – Believing the Lie – 9780525952589
  • Krentz, Jayne Ann – Copper Beach: A Dark Legacy Novel – 9780399157875
  • Parker, T. Jefferson – The Jaguar – 9780525952572
  • Preston, Douglas, Child, Lincoln – Gideon’s Corpse – 9780446564373

    • Nonfiction

  • Covey, Stephen M. R. / Link, Greg / Merrill, Rebecca R. – Smart Trust: Creating Posperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-trust World – 9781451651454
  • Hudson, Jennifer – I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down – 9780525952770
  • Krauss, Lawrence, Hitchens, Christopher, Dawkins, Richard – A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing – 9781451624458
  • Ratigan, Dylan - Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry – 9781451642223
  • Smith, Sally Bedell – Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch – 9781400067893

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:


    Brilliance Audio (now owned by Amazon) suspends sale of new audiobook titles to libraries

    When poets fight…bloodletting over an anthology

    Recently released papers show the 1961 Nobel jury snubbed Tolkien “the result has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality;” Graham Greene was in second place; third was Isak Dinesen; Robert Frost and E. M. Forster were passed over due to their “advanced years.” The winner: Yugoslav writer Ivo Andric

    Costco Pick for January: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

    Did you know that more books per capita are produced in Iceland than in most other countries?

    Artist inspired by the “erosion of cultures” carves landscapes out of books

    A private letter from Genre to Literature

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid gets restraining order for Diary of a Zombie Kid

    The future of publishing as envisioned by the CEO of Ingram

    HarperCollins v. Open Road: The Court Battle that Could Determine the Fate of the Book Industry

    The posthumous power of the literary estate

    The Literary Year 2012

    2012’s most anticipated entertainment events

    The Millions Meta-data 2011

    2011 in children’s books

    USA Today looks back at books in 2011

    The Year in Books – 2011 (audio)

    Kirkus Reviews: Best Covers of 2011


    Professional Development Opportunities:


    Call for Papers/Presentations: The Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012.

    The RUSA/CODES Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Committee invites submissions of presentations and/or papers for the 5th Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum to be held in Anaheim, CA during ALA’s Annual Conference. The Forum will take place on Saturday, June 23rd from 10:30-12:00.

    We invite papers or presentations on various responses to:

    Browsing for Pleasure Reading in the Digital Age

    All aspects of the topic, including information encountering, 2.0 applications, the intersection of human/computer guidance, ILS integration, the impact of ebook sites, and the implications for cataloging, reviewing, organizing, and searching data are welcome. As are other interpretations and approaches to the topic.

    The committee employs a blind review process and will select three projects for 20-minute presentations.

    To submit: Send an abstract of your paper or description of your presentation (up to 350 words) to: rusa.raforum@gmail.com by January 15, 2012. Please include on a separate cover sheet your name, title of presentation/paper, institutional affiliation, full contact information, and any technological needs. Include on your abstract ONLY the title of your presentation/paper.

    Notification of acceptance will be made by February 27, 2012.

    Books on Screen


    Screenwriter begins work on Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace


    Awards


    The 2011 Listen-Up Awards (for audiobooks) announced


    Authors


    Obituary: Simms Taback, children’s author and illustrator

    Obituary: Czech dissident Josef Škvorecký dies in Toronto

    Obituary: Romance writer Penny Jordan dies of cancer

    Self-published sensation Amanda Hocking hits the big time with her first St. Martin’s titles

    George R. R. Martin releases the first chapter of his next book The Winds of Winter for free

    Walter Dean Myers becomes the third national ambassador for young people’s literature, following John Scieszka and Katherine Paterson

    Nancy Pearl interviews Tamora Pierce (video)


    Lists

    10 Novels to Watch for in 2012

    February Indie Next List

    Top Books for Teens in Detention

    Glamour: 11 Can’t-Miss Books Recommended by an Obsessed Reader

    January Audiobooks


    Lighthearted Links of the Week


    Lord of the Fleas: Classic Book Covers Updated with Cats

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    RA Run Down

    Monday, January 2nd, 2012

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    HAPPY 2012!

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    Slow week, what with the holiday and all. The New York Times bestseller lists didn’t include any NEW fiction or nonfiction titles.


    To Be Published Week of Jan. 2-8, 2012:

    Fiction


  • Bear, Greg – Halo: Primordium
  • Evanovich, Janet, Kelly, Dorien – Love in a Nutshell
  • Grippando, James – Need You Now
  • Higgins, Jack – A Devil Is Waitin
  • Kellerman, Faye – Gun Games
  • Lescroart, John – The Hunter

  • Lively, Penelope – How It All Began

  • McDermid, Val – The Retribution
  • Paretsky, Sara – Breakdown: A V. I. Warshawski Novel

    • Nonfiction

  • Barry, John M. – Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Path to Liberty
  • Fitzpatrick, Robert / Land, Jon – Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down
  • Frank, Thomas – Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
  • Gibson, William – Distrust That Particular Flavor
  • Iyer, Pico – The Man Within My Head
  • Laqueur, Walter – After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent
  • Marr, Andrew – The Real Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Rosenblatt, Roger – Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. (Did you see the list of titles being published this week? Holy Cow!) Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011


    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:


    E-Readers and eBooks made most of the headlines this week:

  • Christmas Day the biggest ever for Kindle
  • eBook sales surge at the end of the year
  • Did you get an e-reader for the holidays? Check out Penguin’s free holiday e-sampler!
  • How about 10 free Kindle downloads?
  • Or try the e-reader cheat sheet from The Millions

    • Some social media news:

  • Can you guess where people spend their time online? See if you’re right: 2011’s Most-visited websites
  • Is GooglePlus growing by leaps and bounds?

    • Investor buys into Books-a-Million

    Amazon acquisitions continue: now they’ve got the team behind Quorus social shopping service

    Publishers vs. Libraries?

    Edward Champion looks at gender imbalance in reviewing

    Top 10 book stories of 2011 (at The Guardian

    20 Trends for Book Groups

    GalleyCat lists the book stories of the year, by month


    Professional Development Opportunities:


    New Booklist Webinars on offer: “New Year, New Reference” (Jan. 17) and “Connecting with Struggling Readers” (Jan. 31)

    Summer seem a long way off? It’s not, really. Get ready with YALSA’s webinar on summer reading (Jan. 19)

    Books on Screen

    Latest Sherlock Holmes doing well at the box office

    Hunger Games soundtrack coming together

    Adaptations of fairy tales and Dickens in the works

    Hobbit videos keep on coming


    Awards


    USA Today Author of the Year: George R. R. Martin!


    Authors


    The Guardian is posting free short stories for your reading pleasure

    Sara Paretsky’s new V.I. Warshawski book published during 30th anniversary year

    Can’t wait for the next George R. R. Martin book? Read a free excerpt from his next title!



    Lists

    2011 is SO two days ago:
    Here’s the books The Atlantic is looking forward to in 2012

    And the movies we’re looking forward to in 2012

    20 Nonfiction books to look forward to in 2012

    Flavorwire’s Most Anticipated books of 2012

    Also, for some lists a bit different from the Best Books lists currently making the rounds:
    10 Books for Your Man Cave

    10 YA books that make up for Twilight


    Lighthearted Links of the Week

    Kid literary characters and their grown-up counterparts

    Memoir quiz!

    Fiction opening lines quiz

    British book overdue for 123 years

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, December 4th, 2011

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION

  • Crichton, Michael – Micro
  • Evanovich, Janet – Explosive Eighteen

    • NONFICTION

  • Beck, Glenn, and Kevin Balfe – Being George Washington
  • Droyd, Ann – Goodnight iPad
  • Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson – Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson

    • GRAPHIC BOOKS

  • Bocquet, José-Louis – The Adventures of Herge
  • Green Lantern: War of the Green Lanterns
  • Johns, Geoff – Flash vol. 2
  • Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rodgers

    • To Be Published Week of Dec. 5-11, 2011:

    Fiction

  • Cornwell, Patricia – Red Mist – 9780399158025
  • Desai, Anita – The Artist of Disappearance – 9780547577456
  • McCall Smith, Alexander – The Forgotten Affairs of Youth – 9780307379184


    • Nonfiction

  • Dalai Lama XIV – Beyond Religion – 9780547636351
  • Weiner, Eric – Man Seeks God – 9780446539470
  • Shange, Ntozake – Lost in Language & Sound – 9780312206161

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:

    Book bloggers, have you been enjoying getting review copies? At least one publisher may be slowing down the bounty…

    Watch for your Dec. 15 Library Journal; CODES members have written an end-of-year Reader’s Shelf

    Byliner.com getting in on the fiction act

    Love those old books: check out this book-repair video

    Indie Bound releases mobile app to help readers find books

    A bests list of bookstores: America’s most beloved indies

    Fall into fantasy

    E-books yet to catch on in Japan?

    Even the President is getting more holiday shopping done than I am: Obama shops for books

    Seth Godin’s predictions on book publishing

    E-book selling tips (that could be adapted into e-books RA tips)

    Amazon wants to tell you they’re selling a lot of Kindles, but is coy about exactly how many

    They should be reading! More preteens watching TV

    Is Facebook offering IPO in 2012?


    Professional Development Opportunities:


    Nominations for the Margaret E. Monroe award close on Dec. 15

    RUSA’s Louis Shores award for excellence in book reviewing nominations close on Dec. 15

    Help us learn how readers read! Take the Citizen Reader Survey of 2011

    Books on Screen

    In the Garden of the Beasts optioned by Tom Hanks

    Light effects in latest Twilight film making people sick? No matter–it’s still made over half a billion bucks

    Another Austen mashup movie in the works

    Trailer for Pure (based on Juliana Baggott’s YA novel)

    Literary web videos, collected

    Harry Potter to Howl? Daniel Radcliffe to star as Allen Ginsberg

    William Faulkner: Coming soon to a small screen near you


    Awards


    Grammy nominations for Tina Fey and Betty White

    Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies wins Guardian first book award

    Nicanor Parra wins Cervantes prize


    Authors

    Lana Peters: obituary

    Archie Satterfield: obituary

    Christa Wolf: obituary

    Judy Blume: NPR interview

    Nicole Krauss: Interview

    Quentin Rowan apologizes for plagiarism

    Authors to watch? NY Literary Cubs

    Pippa Middleton to pen party planning book

    Real Housewife Taylor Armstrong to write abuse memoir


    Lists

    10 Books to give nonreaders

    Gift ideas for comic book readers

    New York Times Notable Cookbooks 2011

    Want to get those tweens reading instead of watching TV? Consider these 5 books


    Lighthearted Links of the Week

    Forty inspiring quotes about reading

    Famous authors’ rejection letters

    Scotland’s book sculptor returns!

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, November 27th, 2011

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION

    NONFICTION


    To Be Published Week of Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2011:

    Fiction


  • Connelly, Michael – The Drop (Harry Bosch) – 9780316069410 – 600,000

  • Daheim, Mary – Alpine Winter (Emma Lord) – 9780345502599
  • Gabaldon, Diana – The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel – 9780385337519
  • Lu, Marie – Legend (YA) – 978-0399256752

    • Nonfiction

  • Bublé, Michael – Onstage, Offstage – 9781451674712
  • Rhodes, Richard – Hedy’s Folly – 9780385534383

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the upcoming week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:



    Penguin says it will no longer license its new ebook titles to libraries…and orders OverDrive to pull Kindle availability for all titles; then they relent and put back the older titles, but forthcoming titles still aren’t available

    Huffington Post’s new series: “Why It’s Time to Speak Up for Our Libraries”

    Occupy libraries around the world in pictures

    The wondrous database that reveals what patrons checked out of the Muncie Public Library 100 years ago

    R. J. Julia booksellers develops book match program

    How Nora Roberts changed the romance genre

    Penguin’s Book Country adds self-publishing options


    Professional Development Opportunities:


    Deadline December 15: The American Library Assocation’s Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is seeking nominations for the Louis Shores Award recognizing an individual reviewer, group, editor, review medium or organization for excellence in book reviewing and other media for libraries. To nominate a colleague who you think deserves recognition, go to the RUSA website and fill out the nomination form and send it with the required attachments to Barry Trott, Louis Shores Award chair (contact info is on the nomination form).

    Take the Citizen Reader survey on reading habits

    Books on Screen


    Asa Butterfield, the star of the film Hugo, will play Ender Wiggin in the 2013 film Ender’s Game, based on the Orson Scott Card novel


    Awards



    Irish Book Award winners

    Martha Grimes chosen Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America

    Bad Sex in Literature Award short list


    Authors


    Neil Gaiman – on teen lit and being on The Simpsons

    Ann McCaffrey – obituary

    Ruth Stone – obituary

    Tom Wicker – obituary

    Sara Zarr – on realism in YA fiction


    Lists


    Finding a Hit Man at Your Public Library

    The 10 Weirdest Cookbooks

    December 2011 Christian bestsellers


    Lighthearted Links of the Week


    The Simpsons: The Book Job (video) with Neil Gaiman

    Play Literary Turducken: combine three classic titles into one, like The Art of War of the Worlds in 80 Days, or The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gone with the Wind in the Willows.

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, November 20th, 2011

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION

    NONFICTION

    GRAPHIC BOOKS

    BATMAN: NOEL      DOGS, VOL. 6
    by: Lee Bermejo     by: Shirow Miwa


    To Be Published Week of Nov 21-27, 2011:

    Fiction

  • Bolaño, Roberto, & Natasha Wimmer – The Third Reich – 9780374275624
  • Brennan, Allison- If I should Die: A Novel of Suspense – 9780345520418
  • Crichton, Michael, & Richard Preston – Micro – 9780060873028
  • Evanovich, Janet – Explosive Eighteen – 9780345527714
  • Garlock, Dorothy – Come a Little Closer – 9780446540155

  • Kingsbury, Karen – Longing – 9780310276340
  • Maron, Margaret – Three-Day Town – 9780446555784
  • Palmer, Diana- The Savage Heart – 9780373776207
  • Rankin, Ian – The Impossible Dead – 9780316039772

    • Nonfiction

  • Ablow, Keith R. – Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait -9781250009142
  • Bachmann, Michelle – Core of Conviction: My Story – 9781595230904
  • Beck, Glenn – Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man as You’ve Never Seen Him – 9781451659269
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. – Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History – 9780307593429
  • Richardson, Terry – Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson -9781455513895
  • Scottoline, Lisa & Francesca Serritella – Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter -9780312651633
  • Sondheim, Stephen – Look, I Made a Hat -9780307593412
  • White, Betty - Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo – 9780399157547

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011



    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:

    Read me an ebook

    Simba reports more adults buying books for children, and more categories of children’s books on the bestseller lists, but the outlook for 2012 is not so good, since “The bad news is this industry is heading into its first holiday shopping season in 40 years without Borders Group as a retail partner.”

    When Borders declared bankruptcy, more than half its stores were highly profitable. What went wrong?

    Occupy Wall Street Library update

    Poet Laureate Philip Levine on some good experiences in libraries…and some not so good

    The best book recommendation engine in Seattle

    How the page matters

    YA books heat up the charts because they’re not just for YAs anymore

    In the 21st Century university, we should ban paper books–for the sake of education

    How Richard Preston deciphered the late Michael Crichton’s notes and finished Micro

    New James Patterson novella available only at Barnes & Noble

    Espresso print-on-demand book machines making inroads at public libraries

    What we learned from 5 million books? (video)

    6 writers show their libraries—and list their top 10 favorite books

    Reading: one of the few necessary things to do every day


    Professional Development Opportunities:

    Webinar recording: Tips on Leading an Online Book Discussion by Al Oliveras

    Free webinar for PLA members: Nancy Pearl Presents: Books That Make Great Gifts – December 7, 2011 –
    1:00 p.m. CST – All PLA members will have complimentary access to the archived recording of the webinar.

    RUSA/CODES Zora Neale Hurston Award nomination deadline: December 15 This award honors ALA members who have demonstrated leadership in promoting African American literature through projects such as a program, display, collection building efforts, a special readers’ advisory focus, or innovation in service.
    The winner will receive $1250.00 in funds to attend the ALA Annual Conference, tickets to the Literary Tastes breakfast and the FOLUSA Author tea, and a set of the Zora Neale Hurston books published by Harper Perennial.

    To nominate yourself or someone you know, see details and download the nomination form. Questions? Contact the committee chair Cynthia Crosser: cynthia.crosser at umit.maine.edu.

    Books on Screen


    Hunger Games First Official Trailer

    Yikes! Ayn Rand wrote a novel about self-sacrifice? And it was made into a movie? Umm, no. If you bought the DVD, you qualify for a correction. The DVD of Atlas Shrugged shipped with this cover line: “Ayn Rand’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice.” Oops. From the resulting press release: “As we all well know, the ideas brought to life in Atlas Shrugged are entirely antithetical to the idea of ’self-sacrifice’ as a virtue. Atlas is quite literally a story about the dangers of self-sacrifice. The error was an unfortunate one and fans of Ayn Rand and Atlas have every right to be upset.”

    TNT announces launch of Mystery Movie Night, which features “original movies from your favorite best-sellers.” Scott Turow’s Innocent premiers Tuesday, November 29 at 9pm Eastern time. Other upcoming titles: Sandra Brown’s Ricochet; Hide by Lisa Gardner; Richard North Patterson’s Silent Witness; Good Morning, Killer by April Smith; and Deck the Halls by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark

    Columbia Pictures picks up film rights to Evan Mandery’s romantic novel Q

    How Hollywood decides what books will hit the silver screen

    Tim Burton may direct Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

    BBC2 and HBO producing a miniseries of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel


    Awards



    National Book Award winners plus,
    Watch the whole ceremony hosted by John Lithgow here (or scroll ahead to 16:10 for Nikky Finney’s amazing acceptance speech)

    Guardian First Book Award short list


    Authors


    Jonathan Lethem - on the constraints of putting on the writer’s persona


    Lists


    Seven Reasons Why Alexandre Dumas Will Never Die


    Lighthearted Links of the Week


    Jim Morrison and The Doors sing the Reading Rainbow theme (by Jimmy Fallon)

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, November 13th, 2011

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION

    Baldacci

    NONFICTION


    To Be Published Week of Nov 14-20, 2011:

    Fiction


  • Kinney, Jeff – Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever – 9781419702235 – 6,000,000 – (that’s not a typo)
  • Grafton, Sue – V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Series #22) – 9780399157868 – 1,000,000
  • Patterson, James – Kill Alex Cross – 9780316198738
  • Cussler, Clive & Graham Brown – Devil’s Gate (NUMA Files) – 9780399157820 – 600,000
  • DeLillo, Don – The Angel Esmeralda – 9781451655841
  • Mead, Richelle – Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy Series #6) (mass market) – 9781595144409

    • Nonfiction

  • Kinney, Jeff – Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever – 6,000,000 (that’s not a typo)
  • Ashton, Jeff – Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony – 9780062125323
  • Maher, Bill – The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass – 9780399158414
  • Beattie, Ann – Mrs. Nixon – 9781439168714
  • Giffords, Gabrielle – Gabby – 9781451661064 – 750,000
  • Keaton, Diane – Then Again – 9781400068784
  • O’Neal, Shaquille – Shaq Uncut – 9781455504411 – 150,000
  • Philbin, Regis – How I Got This Way – 9780062109750 – 500,000

    • This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.


    Best Books of 2011

    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:

  • Vote in PW’s Best Books of 2011 Poll
  • Could Amazon’s “Lending Library” end up in court? And will this make them appreciate libraries more?
  • Book covers of the future?
  • Little, Brown withdraws Assassin of Secrets by Q.R. Markham, saying “many passages and lines have been taken from a variety of classic and contemporary spy novels,” and asks that distributors and retail stores return any unsold copies for a full refund. Consumers should return the book to the place they bought it. The original paperback plagiarized from works by Robert Ludlum, Charles McCarry, and James Bond novels, according to the New York Times. Plus, what it feels like to have raved about, and been quoted on the cover of, the now withdrawn plagiarized thriller Assassin of Secrets
  • New Book Industry Study Group survey shows readers are more deeply committed to ebooks this year than last
  • John Scalzi on the Penn State scandal: Omelas State University (from the Ursula K. Le Guin short story)
  • A new edition of Betsy-Tacy greets fans old and new
  • A Family of Readers (video)
  • A brief history of time travel literature
  • Experts question factual accuracy of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln
  • Nook vs. Kindle, Round 3
  • The pleasures and perils of rereading
  • The end of Borders and the future of books
  • Bookstore staff sponsors public reading of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville at Occupy Wall Street
  • Are cookbooks obsolete?
  • Why now is the perfect time to read Dickens
  • All 50 State Librarians vote to form alliance with the Internet Archive’s Open Library for ebooks


    • Books on Screen


    The Hobbit Production Video #4 from Peter Jackson’s Facebook page

    Paradise Lost, the epic poem by John Milton, written in the mid-1600s will be an action movie

    First Look: Helena Bonham Carter As Miss Havisham in Great Expectations

    Robert De Niro may play Bernie Madoff in new HBO production based on The Wizard of Lies by Diana B. Henriques

    RKO buys rights to debut teen novel False Memory by Dan Krokos for a TV adaptation


    Awards


    Esi Edugyan wins the Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues

    Keith Richards wins the Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography

    IMPAC Dublin Literary Award long list

    Guardian First Book Award short list

    Run Down of the National Book Award finalists in Fiction (winner to be announced Wednesday evening)


    Authors


    Amanda Hocking - hits the Kindle million sellers list

    Stephen King – raising money to heat homes for low-income families

    Christopher Paolini – on the four turning points in his young life


    Lists


    10 Wonderful Fake Books from TV Characters


    Lighthearted Links of the Week

    The Onion: Book Don’t Take You Anywhere

    What’s on Nancy Drew’s iPod?

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    RA Run Down

    Sunday, November 6th, 2011

    The 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. TRY THE FREE RA DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at raoblog@lu.com. Also check out our free newsletter with more in-depth articles at Reader’s Advisor News.

    By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords

    New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:

    FICTION

    NONFICTION

    GRAPHIC BOOKS


    Yotsuba&!, Vol. 10
    By: Kiyohiko Azuma


    THE UNWRITTEN, VOL. 4
    By: Mike Carey and Peter Gross

    To see the best links to this week’s bestsellers, click here for the Most Wanted: Bestseller Links.


    To Be Published Week of Nov 7-13, 2011:

    FICTION

  • Eco, Umberto – The Prague Cemetery – 9780547577531 – 200,000
  • Gingrich, Newt, William R. Forstchen and Albert S. Hanser – The Battle of the Crater – 9780312607104 – 250,000
  • King, Stephen – 11/22/1963 – 1,000,000
  • Paolini, Christopher – Inheritance (YA)- 9780375856112 – 2,500,000
  • Sanderson, Brandon – The Alloy of Law – 9780765330420 – 150,000

    • NONFICTION

  • Clinton, Bill – Back to Work – 9780307959751 – 300,000
  • Gresh, Lois – The Hunger Games Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series – 9780312617936 – 150,000
  • Massie, Robert – Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman – 9780679456728
  • Pfarrer, Chuck – SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden – 9781250006356
  • Wills, David – Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis – 9780062036193

    • This is just a sample. Scroll down or click here for the complete list of our picks of the week, including ISBNs.

    Best Books of 2011

    It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.


    News of the Week:

    LJ survey shows that library users are some of the publishing industry’s best customers

    HarperCollins buys Thomas Nelson, already owns Zondervan

    Amazon Publishing picks up Deepak Chopra and Penny Marshall

    Costco Pick for November: Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation

    Read this article by a National Book Awards judge and substitute librarian for bookseller

    Booklist Online’s Corner Shelf

    Joyce Saricks: Valuing Paperbacks

    John Wood’s Room to Read has opened more libraries than Andrew Carnegie

    Here we go again. The old “genre is trash” argument. But poor Glen Duncan made a fool of himself with his transparently self-referent article in the NY Times: “A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star.” Huh? Glen, you want to try that again? But then he gets taken down by Charlie Jane Anders on io9. “Are you aware that ‘porn star’ is a job, not a class of person?” Ouch. Poor Glen.

    Roundup of links on Amazon’s new “lending library”:

  • Christian Science Monitor – It’s a good deal—for Amazon
  • Wall Street Journal – the big six publishers won’t participate
  • C|Net – another salvo in the digital readers war
  • Huffington Post – commentators don’t see it as a threat to public libraries


    • Professional Development Opportunities:


    Nominate colleagues for nine PLA awards and grants

    New book: Life Stories: a Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries by Maureen O’Connor

    Handouts from the Topeka and Shawnee County Library’s recent Readers’ Advisory Conference

    Notes on Nancy Pearl’s presentation from the same conference (courtesy of Sharon Moreland the lybrarian)

    Call for Papers/Presentations: The Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum
    Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012.

    The RUSA/CODES Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Committee invites submissions of presentations and/or papers for the 5th Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum to be held in Anaheim, CA during ALA’s Annual Conference. The Forum will take place on Saturday, June 23rd from 10:30-12:00.

    We invite papers or presentations on various responses to:

    Browsing for Pleasure Reading in the Digital Age

    All aspects of the topic, including information encountering, 2.0 applications, the intersection of human/computer guidance, ILS integration, the impact of ebook sites, and the implications for cataloging, reviewing, organizing, and searching data are welcome. As are other interpretations and approaches to the topic.

    The committee employs a blind review process and will select three projects for 20-minute presentations.

    To submit: Send an abstract of your paper or description of your presentation (up to 350 words) to: rusa.raforum@gmail.com by January 15, 2012. Please include on a separate cover sheet your name, title of presentation/paper, institutional affiliation, full contact information, and any technological needs. Include on your abstract ONLY the title of your presentation/paper.

    Notification of acceptance will be made by February 27, 2012.


    Books on Screen

    The Lorax trailer

    Martin Scorsese may direct The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

    Steve Carell to star in The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

    Scott Rudin, the producer who has two book-related movies for the upcoming Oscar season–The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close–now has rights to The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.


    Awards

    Man Asian Literary Prize long list

    World Fantasy Awards winners


    Authors

    Larry Haun – obituary

    Gregory Maguire on winding up the Wicked series

    Andy Rooney – obituary

    J. K. Rowling – nearly killed off Ron Weasley


    Lists


    The 10 Best Graphic Novels

    December 2011 Indie Next List


    Lighthearted Link of the Week

    10 Literary Trends That Need to Go Away

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