Gumshoes, Sleuths & Snoopers, at the University of Buffalo Libraries, is a database that offers “an in-depth look at 185 detective and mystery novels originally published during the period 1930-1960.” Included is cover art and extremely detailed information about plot, motives, setting, characters, weaponry, violence level, ethnicity, sexuality, gender roles, etc. They’re looking for volunteers [...]
Blake Carver’s launched a new website, LISWire, featuring up-to-the-minute press releases, announcements, and other news from all kinds of libraries. You can subscribe to the main feed via RSS, or subscribe to one of more topics here. There’s also an email option.
Booktrade announced today that UK newspaper The Times will serialise Patricia Cornwell’s latest novel, The Front, “in its entirety prior to UK publication” on 15 May 2008, starting with the first of ten daily instalments this Monday. The book, the second to feature Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano and only 208 pages, won’t be released [...]
If you’re starting from scratch and don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it, you might really appreciate this list of 110 books that constitute the ‘perfect library’: “From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world … we present the ultimate reading list.” Originally in the Telegraph. [...]
it’s that time again … Here are links to the first of the Spring Books Preview lists:
>> Washington Post: Lists about 35 fiction, mystery and suspense, and short story titles , and the same number of non-fiction titles, organised by topic (biography, the world, sports, memoir, etc.)
>> Village Voice: Features a review of Martin Amis’s [...]
Many e-handouts from the Public Library Association meeting that wrapped up last week, most in PDF or .doc format. Topics include Reaching Out to the LGBT Community; Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy; Creating Dynamic Library Atmospheres; The Digital Revolution and Libraries - What’s Next?; Public Libraries as Community Problem Solvers ; Market Driven [...]