PBS to go, PL gardens grow, cake for Picasso
LJXpress |  | October 23, 2007 |  |  |  | | | Results for Last Week's Poll
Will your library expand e-learning programs in 2008?
| Yes | 35% | | No change from 2007 | 33% | | No, we'll offer less | 32% |
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Quills Awards Presented in New York
Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe, Laura Lippman's What the Dead Know, and Nora Roberts's Angels Fall, voted Book of the Year by readers, were among the winners of the Quill Awards presented October 22.
OverDrive Offering Downloadable PBS Programs
OverDrive has cut distribution deals with PBS and with Janson Media for downloadable videos including American Experience and Frontline.
USC Buying Burns Archive
The University of South Carolina is pumping up its leading collection of Scottish poet Robert Burns through the $135,000 purchase of a major manuscripts archive.
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Wyatt's World: Happy Birthday Picasso - Picasso: Style and Meaning, Elizabeth Cowling (Phaidon)
- Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon, Gijs van Hensbergen (Bloomsbury)
- The Ultimate Picasso, Brigitte Leal, Christine Piot, and Marie-Laure Bernadac (Abrams)
- A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906; A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916; and A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, John Richardson (Knopf)
- Picasso, Carsten-Peter Warncke (Taschen)
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Movers & Shakers 2007 Nominations Wanted
Going places? LJ seeks to identify rising stars among librarians, support staff, and vendors for inclusion in the next Movers & Shakers supplement.
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 Kirby, Jack.
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus, Vol 2.
DC Comics. 2007. 396p. illus. ISBN 978-1-4012-1357-2. $49.99. GRAPHIC NOVEL
This second volume (of four) lovingly presents the next 14 stories in Kirby's cosmic opera, Fourth World, a stellar war among the New Gods. Unlike today's dark graphic novels whose clenched-jaw heroes appear to be eternally constipated, these tales from the early 1970s are—dare we say it—fun to read! The only criticism is that there are too many ideas introduced. Unbridled imagination explodes out of Kirby's #2 pencil faster than a speeding bullet. But ideas are what separate merely talented illustrators from visionaries. Comics' veteran Walt Simonson, who has worked with Kirby's New Gods in subsequent years, provides a thoughtful introduction. Former Kirby assistant Mark Evanier (author of the forthcoming Kirby: King of Comics) provides insight into the creation of the original stories collected here and points out that this volume contains what "many have called the best single full-pager of Jack's career." As a bonus, 18 pages of raw Kirby penciled pages are included for the reader to compare to the final inked versions found in the volume. Highly Recommended.
—William Rogers, Norwalk, CT
|  |  | | FICTION | - The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
- The Overlook
Michael Connelly
- Evening
Susan Minot
• Full List
| | NONFICTION | - The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
- Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
• Full List
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|  | | • Learning Gardens
The Horticultural Society of New York's GreenBranches program helps libraries better commune with nature—and their patrons!
• DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Open Source Metasearch
Tennant says LibraryFind, a free open-source federated search tool coming in '08, shows promise but still needs work.
• LJ Design Institute 2007: Going Green
Join architects, library consultants, designers, and vendors December 11 in Chicago for Design Institute 2007: Going Green, a free, full-day seminar where panelists share the latest developments in sustainable design and offer cutting-edge solutions. Participants also will break out into smaller groups led by architects to focus on specific design challenges based on real-life projects attendees submit. Limited to 100 invitees, the seminar is for those considering a new building project or renovation, in the fundraising or pre-bond stage, or in the early building process. Register now!
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