Finalists and winners can count on being
seen by the librarians, booksellers, industry professionals, and book lovers that read Foreword Reviews and our weekly e-mail Foreword This Week.
Not exact matches
Strung together
by SFX - ridden set pieces, the rest of the plot
sees Tris and co. flee Kate Winslet's Aryan
librarian (libr - Aryan?)
That's why there's a new porcine - nostrilled billet grille (a flashier take on what we
saw introduced on the Rebel) also transmitting the «RAM» message loud enough to get shushed
by passing
librarians.
The number one pick
by librarians for February is I
See You,
by Clare Mackintosh (PRH / Berkley; Penguin Audio / BOT; OverDrive Sample).
If the prize is one that's highly valued
by a particular community — such as teachers,
librarians, professors, or professionals in a specific field — then the prize may help lead to better book sales and distribution or more opportunities to be
seen and heard
by those audiences.
Background: Based on the charge given them (
see below), the School Library Group for the Julie Todaro's ALA Presidential Initiative, Libraries Transform: The Expert in the Library, developed tools for use
by school
librarians to improve their professionalism in practical, philosophical and pedagogical ways.
Also check out the article
by Eva Volin, school
librarian, and
see what she has to say about manga for the Tween set.
How does Pacific Book Review help my book get
seen by agents, publishers, booksellers,
librarians and readers?
Personally, I can
see the points made
by Walshe, who is herself a
librarian, but I'm not sure she appreciates all that this new tool can be.
In a world that
sees hundreds of thousands of new academic titles published each year, keeping up and ordering books on a title -
by - title basis is a daunting task for time - strapped
librarians — even at the most affluent academic institutions not facing severe budget cuts or staff reduction.
The obvious benefits of «title -
by - title» (or «pick - and - choose») buying have been well documented in LIS literature: not only does it provide libraries with the flexibility to supplement their existing catalogs with targeted selections, it requires less initial investment of time and money; it is often
seen as the easiest way to select and purchase only what libraries need; and it is also the most intuitive to the library profession, because it places the art of curation front and center — something many
librarians still
see as an integral part of their professional identity.
I'm a school
librarian by training, and though I'm freelance writing now and not currently in a school library, that school -
librarian part of my brain gets excited when I
see books like this.
For this example, you would have to sell 179 copies of your book to make back your $ 399 fee to be in the IRIS program (keep in mind that your title will be getting
seen by over 37,000 book industry professionals, including retailers, reviewers,
librarians, and publishers).
Initially,
librarians largely
see e-book lending as a way to give more choices to existing members — and particularly to older members, who may want to access the service from home... It is possible that an exponential growth in e-book stocks would attract many more people, and would certainly be welcomed
by those who already borrow e-books (95 % of them would increase their borrowing if a broader range of titles were available).
What are
seen as core academic tools (certain books and journals and law reports)
by librarians, are mere assets to publishing houses and are often traded as such.
Admittedly, in the digital age, the demand for traditional library services is changing, so one would expect to
see equal change in the services offered
by county law
librarians.
[Law
Librarian Blog] It would be nice to
see them enhance it
by pulling in free Lexisone.com primary law content.
See State Law
Librarian Jennifer Frazier's blog post Kentucky State Law Library hit
by budget woes.
Some of the content is a tip to a longer article
by Erick Schonfeld on Techcrunch, but the Law
Librarian blog riffs off his ideas, and is worth
seeing as well.
What I have
seen has been forwarded to me
by our
librarian.
For those who might not have
seen it on the CALL email list, BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law
Librarians) has a new Handbook of Legal Information Management, published
by Ashgate and edited
by Loyita Worley.
I just
saw a post today
by Nancy K. Herther, a
librarian at the U. of Minnesota, that provides more background about MOOCs and online education and Google's recent involvement in this.
I tend, then, to favour the approach suggested
by Larsen, which essentially
sees the creation of a strong (er) research team available to the courts, ensuring that
librarian - researchers expert in statistics and scientific method can provide judges with the answers to legislative questions insofar as may be possible.
In response to the comments above, especially regarding «consistency» in citation formatting in databases, the reference
librarians here at Osgoode ran some tests in a few databases to
see whether search results would be affected
by the inclusion or exclusion of periods when running full - text searches using a citation as a phrase in the search string.