ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 8 0 / C&RL N e w s ■ N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 3 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 mailto:geberhart@ala.org C&RL News ■ N o v e m b e r 2003 / 681 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. ■