ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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N e w  P u b l i c a t i o n s George M. Eberhart

The Beast o f Chicago: The Murderous Ca­
reer o f H. H. Holmes, by Rick Geary (80 
pages, August 2003), is the sixth in a series 
of graphic novels on Victorian-era murders 

by California artist 
Geary, whose art has 
appeared in N ational 
Lampoon, Marvel and 
Dark Horse comics, 
Mad, American Librar­
ies, and the Los A n­
geles Times. Geary is 
in fine form with this 
tale of Chicago’s no­
torious murderer of 
the 1890s, who may 

have tortured and killed as many as 100 
guests in his multi-room lodging house near 
the grounds of the World’s Columbian Ex­
position. The black-and-white artwork con­
tains little graphic violence, and Geary tells 
the story of America’s first known serial killer 
with a matter-of-fact curiosity. $15.95. NBM 
Publishing. ISBN 1-56163-362-3.

Citizen Labillardière: A  Naturalist's Life in 
Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834),
by Edward Duyker (383 pages, June 2003), de­
scribes the life and voyages of Jacques-Julien 
Houtou de Labillardière, a French scientist who 
became one of the first to describe the plants, 
animals, and indigenous peoples of Australia. 
Duyker paints an intriguing picture of science 
during the revolutionary and Napoleonic peri­
ods, as seen through Labillardière’s eyes. His 
experiences as one of Napoleon’s commission­
ers to examine and confiscate some of the trea­
sures in Italian libraries and museums are in­
structive, but his Novae Hollandiae p la ntarum 
specimen (1804-1806), recognized as the first 
general flora of Australia, ensured him a place 
in scientific history. $44.95. Melbourne Univer­
sity. ISBN 0-522-85010-3.

Historical Aspects o f Cataloging and Clas­
sification, edited by Martin D. Joachim and

G eorge M. E b e rh a rt is s e nio r e d ito r  o f A m e ric a n  
Libraries, e-m ail: geberhart@ ala.org

published simultaneously as Cataloging & Clas­
sification Quarterly, vol. 35, nos. 1-4 (604 pages, 
June 2003), offers some unusual tidbits of bib­
liographic history for the curious cataloger 
seeking insight into the origins of librarianship. 
Included are essays on the original 73 cata­
loging rules of the British Museum, the devel­
opment of book and manuscript cataloging 
in Iran, the M and K classification in the Li­
brary of Congress system, and 23 others. 
$69.95. Haworth. ISBN 0-7890-1980-9.

H o w to  Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, by
Mark Collier and Bill Manley (179 pages, 
August 2003), is a practical guide to the 
hieroglyphs and structure of ancient Egyp­
tian. A revision of the authors’ bestseller pub­
lished by the British Museum in 1998, this 
grammar is far easier to understand than 
those by E. A. Wallis Budge (1910) and 
Gunther Roeder (1920). Collier and Manley 
describe the language in its historical con­
text and give many examples of inscriptions 
found on stelae, tombs, and king lists. The 
appendices provide a classified guide to 
signs, reference tables, and an Egyptian-En- 
glish vocabulary. $24.95. University of Cali­
fornia. ISBN 0-520-23949-0.

Introduction to  Reference Work in the Digi­
ta l Age, by Joseph Janes (211 pages, July 
2003), takes the reader on a guided tour of 
the changes and challenges in current refer­
ence service. Sections of particular interest 
include guidelines for asynchronous refer­
ence (by e-mail or Web forms), the chang­
ing nature of the reference interview, the 
challenge of serving the “evaporating pa­
tron,” and a ten-step process for introduc­
ing a new reference service. A good mix of 
thoughtful speculation and practical advice. 
$59-95. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 1-55570-429-8.

Kappler Revisited: An Index and Biblio­
graphic Guide to  American Indian Trea­
ties, by Charles D. Bernholz (121 pages, July 
2003), remedies the limitations of Charles 
Kappler’s In d ian  Affairs: Laws a n d  Treaties 
(1904), a standard source for Native Ameri­

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can law and culture. This supplement inte­
grates the 375 treaties recognized by the U.S. 
Department of State with nine other resources, 
and provides indexes to original sources by 
treaty number and tribal group. $45.95. Ep­
och Books, 22 Byron Ave., Kenmore, NY 
14223. ISBN 0-9629586-4-6.

Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruc­
tion o f Books and Libraries in th e  Twenti­
e th  Century, by Rebecca Knuth (277 pages, 
July 2003), argues that government-authorized 
book-burning often precedes or accompanies 
genocide, since the obliteration of a people 
cannot be accomplished without destroying 
its printed history. Knuth offers the case stud­
ies of Nazi Germany, the Croatian and Bosnian 
Serbs, Iraq in Kuwait, the Chinese Cultural 
Revolution, and China’s takeover of Tibet as 
examples of extremist ideologies that attempted 
to eradicate competing cultural resources. 
$39.95. Praeger. ISBN 0-275-98088-X.

Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too: 
Essays on Academic Librarianship, edited by 
Martin H. Raish (195 pages, July 2003), con­
sists of 19 chapter-length, informal rumina­
tions on the disquieting problems that threaten 
to change academic librarianship as we know 
it— primarily the escalating need to teach criti- 
cal-thinking skills and information literacy to 
students, and the transformative effect of in­
formation technology on the profession. Con­
tributors include Barbara Fister, David 
Isaacson, Ilene Rockman, Diana Shonrock,

C"Integrating . . co n tin u ed  fr o m  p a g e  669)
2. Toolkit f o r  a c a d e m ic  a n d  research li­

braries (Chicago: ACRL, 2003): 4.
3. Outsell, Inc., “Outreach and informa­

tion resources outreach services study,’’ Cus­
tom R eport (April 4, 2003): 3.

4. Ibid., 6.
5. Outsell, Inc., “The changing roles of con­

tent deployment functions: Academic infor­
mation professionals” In form ation  a b o u t In ­
fo r m a t io n  B rie fin g  6, no. 20 (September 
19, 2003): 6.

6. Ibid., 12.
7. Ibid., 24.
8. Laurie A. Machining, “The information 

commons: The academic library of the fu­

and Tony Amodeo. $24.95. Scarecrow. ISBN 
0-8108-4767-1.

October 1962: The "Missile" Crisis As Seen 
fro m  Cuba, by Tomás Diez Acosta (333 pages, 
O ctober 2002), presents the flip side of 
Kennedy’s showdown with Khrushchev from 
the perspective of the Cubans, who often get 
forgotten in accounts of 
the struggle between the 
superpow ers. Acosta 
was a 15-year-old lit­
eracy worker in the Cu­
ban army at the time, 
and since 1987 he has 
been a historian at the 
Institute of Cuban His­
tory in Havana. The 
author sees the drama 
as the Cuban revolu­
tionary governm ent’s 
firm stand against both U.S. plans to over­
throw Castro and the Soviets’ Operation 
Anadyr, which called for the deployment of
42,000 Russian troops on the island. Supple­
mented with many little-seen photographs and 
documentation. $24.00. Pathfinder. ISBN 0- 
87348-956-X.

Also from the same publisher is M arianas 
in Combat, by Teté Puebla (101 pages, March 
2003), the highest-ranking woman general in 
the Cuban army, who in a series of interviews 
describes the women’s platoon in the Cuban 
revolution and the role of women in the armed 
services. $14.00. ISBN 0-87348-957-8. ■

ture” Portal: Libraries a n d  the A cadem y  (April 
2003): 243.

9. Connie Vinita Dowell, “Signs of student 
dedication” San D iego Union Tribune, Opin­
ion Section, September 4, 2002.

10. Ibid.
11. For more information on the Infor­

m atio n  C o m p e te n c e  W o rk sh o p , visit 
www. calstate. edu/ls/Meetings. shtml.

12. Interview with Patrick Sullivan, busi­
ness librarian at San Diego State University, 
September 18, 2003-

13. Evan Färber, “Faculty-librarian coop­
eration: A personal retrospective” Reference 
Services Review (Bradford, 1999), vol. 27, chap. 
3:229. ■