ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ June 2002 / 447 N e w P u b l i c a t i o n s G eorge M. Eberhart Creating a W inning O nline Exhibition: A Guide fo r Libraries, Archives, and M use um s, by Martin R. Kalfatovic (117 pages, Janu ary 2002), offers excellent advice on how to develop, create, and launch a successful online presentation that showcases a special collec tion. Kalfatovic, digital projects librarian at the Smithsonian Libraries, emphasizes the practi cal aspects of getting ideas, writing the pro posal, selecting the staff, and preparing the text and images for what could turn out to be an award-winning (courtesy of RBMS) exhibition. Contains a good introduction to digital file for m ats and m arkup language. ALA Editions. $40.00. ISBN 0-8389-0817-9. Food Festival, U.S.A., by Becky Mercuri (430 pages, April 2002), describes 250 food festi vals, m any of them featuring ethnic or re gional specialties, held in all 50 states. Some are well-known, such as the Gilroy (Califor nia) Garlic Festival or Milwaukee’s Polish Fest; but m any are know n only to locals, such as the Alligator Festival in Boutte, Louisiana; the N ational Baby F ood Festival in Frem ont, Michigan; the Lenexa (Kansas) Spinach and Trails Fest; the Race to Bake the Biggest Apple Pie in W e n a tc h e e , W a sh in g to n ; a n d St. A nthony’s Lebanese Food Festival in Glen Allen, Virginia. Contact information is p ro vided, as well as a directory of festivals by m onth and a specialty recipe for each. $24.95. Laurel G len Publishing. ISBN 1-57145-775-5. M a kin g C o n n e ctio n s: C o m m u n ica tio n through the Ages, by Charles T. Meadow (365 pages, February 2002), serves as a basic text on the m ethods people have devised to ex change information, from simple speech and writing to speedy transportation technologies, the telephone and telegraph, radio and televi sion, satellites, and the Internet. Writing in a casual style for nonspecialists, M eadow covers the basics of each technology, showing how it was invented, how it works, and the effect it has had on society. Not all communication is G eorge M. E b e rh a rt is se n io r e d ito r o f A m e ric a n Libraries; e-m ail: geberhart@ ala.org high-tech, as the author demonstrates in the chapter on visual signaling, which explores fires nd flares, sm oke signals, military flags, sema hores, and icons on the computer screen. The inal chapter offers 100 dates to remember, from ave drawings in 50,000 B.C. to the trend in 2000 towards the convergence of computers, elephones, and TV. $47.50. Scarecrow. ISBN -8108-4233-5. he R e gions o f Italy, by Roy Domenico (465 ages, February 2002), surveys the 20 Italian eographic regions and describes the history, conom y, cuisine, politics, arts, and culture f each. Italy’s relatively recent unification in he m id-19th century allow ed local identities n d traditions to persist into the present day. h is v o lu m e f o llo w s t h e f o r m a t o f G re en w o o d ’s previous regional studies of pain (1995) and France (1996) and will be f interest to geography a n d history students s well as tourists. $60.00. G reenw ood. ISBN -313-30733-4. R o m a n ia n s in th e U nited S ta te s a n d Canada: A Guide to Ancestry and Heritage R e se a rch , by Vladimir F. W ertsm an (225 ages, April 2002), is a m uch-needed guide o genealogy for North Americans of Roma ian or Moldovan descent. Beginning with n overview of the culture that offers insights nto Rom anian costum e, cuisine, holidays, e d d in g s , b a p tis m s , re lig io n , a n d arts, ertsm an goes on to list the best print re ources, archives, libraries, organizations, and eb sites for d ocum enting ancestors and ther personalities. A ppendices include m aps f Romania a n d Moldova, the Romanian al habet and a short dictionaiy, com m on names nd nam e frequencies, and— no doubt b e ause som eone w ould w o n d e r w hy it w asn ’t ncluded— a short section on w h o the his orical Dracula was. A useful reference for an nderstudied group. $24.95- HeritageQuest. SBN 1-931488-87-8. e lk ir k 's Isla n d , by Diana Souhami (246 ages, February 2002), is the true story of the h ip w re c k e d m an w h o w as th e basis for a p f c t 0 T p g e o t a T S o a 0 p t n a i w W s W o o p a c i t u I S p s mailto:geberhart@ala.org 448 / C&RL News ■ June 2002 Daniel D efoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, a Scotsman w ho was a bandoned in 1704 on one of the Islas Juan Fernandez nearly 400 miles off the coast off Chile, survived for m ore than four years by eating goats, fish, roots, berries, and birds’ eggs until rescued by a British ship com m anded by W oodes Rogers. Souhami describes Selkirk’s adven tures on the island and afterw ards, w hen Rogers’s b o o k a b o u t his voyage inspired D efoe’s novel. She finishes with a glimpse of the island’s wildlife today. $24.00. Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-100526-5. S u ffra g is t Sheet Music, by Danny O. Crew (404 pages, March 2002), d o cum ents the music published in the United States from 1795 to 1921 that refers to w om en’s rights or the suffrage movem ent. Lyrics are provided in m ost cases, along with title pages or sheet music covers. The songs are arranged in or der of publication, so that the evolution of argum ents and attitudes can be readily ob served. Antisuffrage music is also included. An excellent and often overlooked way to un derstand the images and emotions of a great social movement is in its music, and these songs d on’t disappoint. Among them are “The Bloomer’s C o m p la in t” (1 8 5 1 ), “Bother the Men!” (1868), “T he G lorious C a u se ” (1 8 8 8 ), “W e a k Little W oman” (1910), “Every b o d y W orks But M a” (1 9 1 3 ), “S in c e My Margarette-Become-a-da- Suffragette” (1913), “She’s Good Enough to Be Your Baby’s Mother (And She’s Good Enough to Vote with You)” (1916), and “You’d Better Be N ice to T h em N o w ” (1918). $45.00. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1298-4. V o tin g R ights on Trial, by Charles L. Zelden (347 pages, February 2002), examines the his tory of vote denial and vote dilution in America since colonial times— or, put another way, the increasing em pow erm ent of citizens to near- universal suffrage in the current century. Top ics include the fall of the all-white primary, the one p e rso n /o n e vote standard, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the implications of the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision. $55.00. ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-57607-794-2. ■