To examine relationship between strength of book reviews in "Choice" and subsequent circulation of titles reviewed, authors drew sample of reviews from "Choice," ranked reviews according to reviewer's opinion of book, determined frequency of circulation in Purdue General Library, and correlated frequency with strength of…

Discusses the romance genre and provides guidelines for librarians with high school aged readers. Highlights include where to find information about the romance genre; the appeal of romance fiction; levels of sex and sensuality; reference tools; subgenres; and authors and titles that may be popular with young adult romance readers. (LRW)

Provides an annotated bibliography of titles on women, their history, and their achievements. Includes 37 titles for elementary students, with appropriate grade levels specified, and 34 titles for secondary students. (LRW)

"ARL Statistics 2006-2007" is the latest in a series of annual publications that describe collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities for the 123 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Of these, 113 are university libraries and 10 are public, governmental, and nonprofit research libraries. Data reported by…

"California Library Laws 2008" is a selective guide to state laws and related materials that most directly affect the everyday operations of public libraries and organizations that work with public libraries. It is intended as a convenient reference, not as a replacement for the annotated codes or for legal advice. The guide is organized…

The University of Denver's Penrose Library's Stacks Maintenance unit is a separately managed unit that works in collaboration with all library departments to ensure complete access to the library's print collections. This unit takes advantage of a variety of techniques and tools to fulfill its mission, including a fine-tuned tracer system for…

Young adult information needs related to HIV/AIDS persist. However, in recent years, little has been written in either the research or the professional literature in library and information science about the HIV/AIDS information needs of youth. This article reports on a content analysis of young adult novels written in English between 1995 and…

Some people learn better through viewing and listening, and some people simply do not like to read. In this society, there seems to be a move away from text, or, at least text as people have defined in the past. Moreover, mobile devices such as laptops, PDAs, and cell phones make video and audio incredibly easy to imbibe. So how do libraries…

Street lit is controversial stuff. Even though street lit is a huge hit with today's teens, one will not find the semiautobiographical novels of Vickie Stringer and Nikki Turner, the grandes dames of urban fiction, on many (if any) high school reading lists or, for that matter, on some public libraries' shelves. That's because street lit (aka…

Lists 44 new publications which would be of value to reference collections of small and medium-sized public and college libraries. (Author)

Reviews the 1987 literature on library materials preservation. The 145-item bibliography lists works on (1) advocacy groups; (2) cooperative preservation; (3) conferences; (4) funding; (5) training; (6) preservation materials; (7) environment and care of materials; (8) conservation treatments; (9) deacidification; (10) reformatting; (11) disaster…

Highlights of a letter from Randolph G. Adams to Lawrence Clark Powell, written in 1938, which distilled Adams' fifteen years experience as a bookman and administrator of one of the great collections of Americana in the United States are presented. (4 references) (Author/SJ)

The implications of reprints to libraries are discussed and some of the problems that accompany their production and distribution are indicated. (8 references) (Author/NH)