LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Biographies interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:53:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://wplbookclub.blogspot.com/2016/04/louis-riel-comic-strip-biography-by.html In 1869, the Red River Settlement area, home to the French-speaking Metis, is sold to the Canadian government. Louis Riel, the de facto leader of the Red River Settlement, demands that they be granted the right to govern themselves. Not suprisingly, the government refuses this. This story relates Riel's resistance to the Canadian government's mistreatment of the Metis community.Louis Riel - Wikipediahttps://owa.fibrehost.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_RielLouis Riel - rethinking Riel (CBC Archives)Louis Riel - Trivial Pursuit (CBC Archives) Place a hold on a WPL copy of the book here. (Source: WPLBOOKCLUB) Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0100 377637 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/celebrate-black-history-month.html February is Black History Month. Test your knowledge of Civil Rights heroes by taking this interactive quiz.To learn more about the contributions of African Americans in history, try these great websites:African VoicesThis Smithsonian online exhibit celebrates Africa's diversity and long history.African American WorldSponsored by PBS, this website features a large collection of classroom resources for teachers and students.Black HistoryHere you can find an interactive timeline, biographies, and a collection of video clips. (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 819509 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/celebrate-black-history-month.html February is Black History Month. Test your knowledge of Civil Rights heroes by taking this interactive quiz.To learn more about the contributions of African Americans in history, try these great websites:African VoicesThis Smithsonian online exhibit celebrates Africa's diversity and long history.African American WorldSponsored by PBS, this website features a large collection of classroom resources for teachers and students.Black HistoryHere you can find an interactive timeline, biographies, and a collection of video clips. (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 815254 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/31/new-year-reading Whether you want to improve yourself or simply get your brain going again after Hogmanay excess, it pays to choose the year's first book carefullyIf you're like me and tend to use literature as a kind of How-to guide to navigate life, then the book one chooses to read at the start of a New Year requires some careful consideration. Perhaps this book will be something worthy to get the brain working again after the excesses of the night before … Or an old favourite to welcome in the new year on a friendly, comforting note … Or perhaps something inspiring to set the tone for the upcoming 12 months and strengthen one's resolve to change and do better … Here then are just a few of the titles you might consider opening up on the first of January.Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John LahrOK, so it doesn't end happily, but Orton's journey from abject failure to dizzying success is utterly inspiring and compellingly told. Lahr's admiration and enthusiasm for his subject is contagious, and if his critical dissections of Orton's work occasionally have the air of the study-note about them, there's always the sparkling wit of the diaries to turn to – or even the plays themselves. A one-off talent triumphing against overwhelming odds.The Memory Chalet by Tony JudtPublished earlier this year (sadly posthumously), historian Tony Judt's memoir was written under the most arduous of conditions: paralysed from a neurodegenerative disorder, Judt composed these warm and intelligent essays in his head during what must have been near-unbearable hours of insomnia and dictated them back the next day. The result is a remarkably positive, life-affirming read, and about as far away from the realms of "misery memoir" as one can get.Lucky Jim by Kingsley AmisAnd so to fiction. ... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:00:03 +0100 895783 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/question-of-the-year-does-amazon-have-too-much-power/ Amazon is probably the largest bookseller, dollar-wise, in America and the world. Certainly, it is the largest ebook seller in America. And Amazon has spread its tentacles so that it is not only a bookseller, but it competes with publishers as a publisher. Amazon has positioned itself so that, with the exception of the big publishing houses like Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Random House, authors and publishers believe their books must be available for sale on Amazon or they will never make it. I have yet to hear of anyone cry, for example, that the failure of Barnes & Noble or Sony ebookstores to carry their ebook is a crisis. But we do hear and feel that panic when it comes to Amazon. The result of this concentration of power is that Amazon is given the opportunity to censor. I grant that Amazon is free to decide what products it wants to sell or not sell; after all, it is not a governmental agency that must be neutral in the marketplace. But saying that begs the question because by agreeing with that proposition (i.e., Amazon is free to sell or not sell a particular book or genre of books), we are also saying that Amazon is free to dictate what an author writes, a publisher publishes, and a reader reads — at least if you are an author or publisher who believes that not being sold by Amazon is tantamount to writing death or a consumer who believes that the only place to buy a book is from Amazon. Amazon’s Kindle has changed the worlds of reading, writing, and publishing. Although the change has been largely for the good — more books are being sold (and hopefully read) — there is also a dark side to the Kindle world. The dark side begins with a proprietary format that is designed to lock the average consumer into buying books only at Amazon. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:34:19 +0100 895512 http://southlakelibrary.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html#9021876522383787082 1400 Main Street, Suite 130Southlake, Texas 76092Phone: (817) 748-8243http://www.southlakelibrary.org/"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits." ~Author UnknownWe at Southlake Public Library want to wish you a Happy New Year. May it be filled with happiness, friends, and lots of good reading! FEATURED NEW RELEASEUNBROKEN This extraordinary tale from the author of “Seabiscuit” tells the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who became a POW in a series of Japanese prison camps during WWII. Zamperini started out in Torrance, California as a bit of a hoodlum, stealing pies from kitchens and pulling pranks on teachers. He found focus in running, thanks to his brother’s encouragement, and soon became the high school track star to beat. He began training for the 1936 Olympics and was able to gain a spot on the team headed for Berlin. He did extremely well there, considering his age and experience, and vowed to return to the next Olympics and take gold. He also wanted to be the first man to run a four-minute mile (thought to be physiologically impossible by many at the time). Zamperini’s big plans were interrupted by WWII, and he was drafted into the Air Force. He and his crew completed several dangerous missions in the Pacific, narrowly avoiding disaster. However, on one mission, they were not so lucky, and he and two other crew members ended up in a life raft, with little provisions, surrounded by sharks. The rest of the story is filled with nail-biting moments. In fact, I found that I had to put the book down occasionally when I became too tense or upset. This book truly is a story about a man that manages to remain “unbroken,” even after all of the unimaginable horror he endures. I do not want to spoil the ending – suffice it to say it shows what an amazingly kind and good man Zamperini is and how he refused to give in to his inner demons. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895776 http://sterlingmortonlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/leafing-through-pages-2011.html The nominations have been presented! The ballots have been cast! The votes are in! During 2011, participants in Leafing Through the Pages, the book/film discussion group of the Sterling Morton Library, will be viewing, reading and discussing the following works:January 13 – The Curious Mister Catesby – Viewing of the film will begin at 10 a.m. with the discussion to follow.February 10 – Egan, Timothy. The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, 2010.March 10 – Muir, John. A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf, 1916.April 14 – Lisle, Laurie. Portrait of an artist: a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1997.May 12 – Biggers, Jeff. Reckoning at Eagle Creek : the secret legacy of coal in the heartland, 2010.June 9 – Freinkel, Susan. American chestnut : the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect trees, 2007.July 14 – Carson, Rachel. Silent spring, 1962.August 11, 2011 – Wulf, Andrea. The brother gardeners : botany, empire and the birth of an obsession, 2009.September 8 – Lewis, Charles. Green nature/human nature : the meaning of plants in our lives, 1996.October 13 – Plotkin, Mark J. Tales of a shaman’s apprentice : an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest, 1993.November 10 – Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the hundredth meridian : John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the west, 1954.December 8 – Greenfield, Amy Butler. A perfect red : empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire, 2005.Meeting the second Thursday of each month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. in the Sterling Morton Library of The Morton ArboretumJoin us for a morning of spirited conversation, discussion and dialogue! (Source: Library Notes) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895630 http://www.readersclub.org/reviews/tresults.asp?id=7791 by Ohno, Apolo“Zero regrets. It’s a philosophy not just about sport but also about life” that fuels Apolo Anton Ohno, the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time. Both sport and life are intertwined in this autobiography as Ohno traces the path that led from a single parent childhood through difficult teen years to the Olympic podium in three consecutive Winter Olympic Games. He also discusses the rigors of his Dancing with the Stars season and victory. Even though deeply personal, this book offers an informative and entertaining insider view of short-track speed skating, competitive sports training, sports psychology, and instant Olympic fame. Ohno’s story is sure to motivate rising young athletes as well as inspire anyone to live a life of purpose with zero regrets. - reviewed by Kim, University City Regional, PLCMC (Source: Reader's Club's Latest) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:10:05 +0100 895384 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/98BFeFf5vjY/national-archives-launches-online.html "The National Archives and Records Administration's new Online Public Access prototype is being made available to the public. The National Archives' flagship initiative in our Open Government plan is to develop online services to meet the 21st century needs of the public. It is also a key component of our agency's Transformation Plan, to be customer-focused and ensuring our nation’s heritage is accessible to all. The Online Public Access prototype is the public portal that provides access to digitized records, and information about our records. It also provides a centralized means of searching multiple National Archives resources at once. Currently, researchers perform separate searches in the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) for catalog descriptions, histories and biographies; Access to Archival Databases (AAD) for electronic records; and Archives.gov. The new interface illustrates a streamlined search experience for users, searching across all of these resources" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:37:55 +0100 895325 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/dTJJL/~3/98BFeFf5vjY/national-archives-launches-online.html "The National Archives and Records Administration's new Online Public Access prototype is being made available to the public. The National Archives' flagship initiative in our Open Government plan is to develop online services to meet the 21st century needs of the public. It is also a key component of our agency's Transformation Plan, to be customer-focused and ensuring our nation’s heritage is accessible to all. The Online Public Access prototype is the public portal that provides access to digitized records, and information about our records. It also provides a centralized means of searching multiple National Archives resources at once. Currently, researchers perform separate searches in the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) for catalog descriptions, histories and biographies; Access to Archival Databases (AAD) for electronic records; and Archives.gov. The new interface illustrates a streamlined search experience for users, searching across all of these resources" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895662 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/26/julian-assange-book-deals WikiLeaks founder says he had to sell rights to autobiography to cover legal costs and keep website afloatThe founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, has said he expects to earn more than £1m from book deals.Assange, who achieved global notoriety after his whistleblower website began releasing more than a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, said he would use the money for legal costs.The 39-year-old is fighting extradition to Sweden, where two women have accused him of sexual misconduct. He denies the allegations.Since being released on bail earlier this month pending extradition proceedings, Assange has been living under virtual house arrest at Ellingham Hall, a Norfolk country mansion, from where he regularly gives media interviews.He told the Sunday Times that he was forced to sign a deal worth more than £1m for his autobiography due to financial difficulties. "I don't want to write this book, but I have to," he said. "I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat."He will reportedly receive $800,000 dollars from Alfred A Knopf, his American publisher, while a British deal with Canongate is said to be worth £325,000. An estimated £1.1m will be generated from the deal, including serialisation, he said.Previously Assange told the Guardian that WikiLeaks does not have enough money to pay its legal bills, even though "a lot of generous lawyers have donated their time to us".Legal costs for WikiLeaks and his own defence were approaching £500,000, he said. The decisions by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to stop processing donations have cost the organisation £425,000, enough to fund WikiLeaks' publishing operations for six months. At its peak the organisation was receiving £85,000 a day, he said. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:17:49 +0100 895076 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/451 High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips — I actually had little notion of or interest in Mackenzie Phillips, but I love drug addict memoirs, so I picked this up when it rotated through the library. It comes with the special added bonus of being an incest memoir. It may well not be up your alley. [reread] The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein — It’s possible that I reread this book too often. But not probable. Nobody’s Girl by Antonya Nelson — I ran across this in our collection and picked it up because I used to love a song of the same name sung by Bonnie Raitt. When I read the blurb and discovered this was about a young woman from the Chicago suburbs who decides to move to a small desert town in New Mexico, I figured I’d better read it. It took me a long time to get through it, but it was pretty good, though not really similar to my own experience except in feeling. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser — For our Wyoming Humanities Council book discussion series of biographies of American cultural icons. I ended up spending a lot of time talking about the history of the civil rights movement and its various strands and bringing in a whole stack of books, which just goes to show I guess that one’s extracurricular collecting habits do eventually play some role. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen — I love Franzen’s essays most of all, but I liked this quite well — perhaps even better than The Corrections. Despite what you may have read about it plot-summary-wise, it’s really a novel about falling in love and out of love and trying to figure out how to differentiate who you are from who you want to be. [reread] The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley — When in danger or in doubt, reread. [reread] The Rooms of Heaven by Mary Allen — Reread shortly after I accepted my new job. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:18:44 +0100 895631 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/26/kate-horsley-fancy-dress William has everything he ever wanted. Sophie, lying beside him, is expecting their first child. She is perfect, it is Christmas, so why does he feel so awful? An exclusive short story by Kate HorsleyWilliam woke up earlier than he would have liked. It was the morning of Christmas Day, but it was still dark outside. He thought about trying to go back to sleep, but even though he felt tired, he knew he wouldn't be able to. He got out of bed and walked over to the window. The blind had been lowered and he edged his body between the material and the glass. He looked down at the road running adjacent to the house. The streetlamps were still lit; grey parking meters stood at intervals along the pavement. The families in the row of houses opposite didn't appear to be up: the windows were dark and each building gave the impression of great stillness. He could hear some wind in the trees, but apart from that it was very quiet, as though there'd been a large fall of snow. He walked back over to the bed and he sat down on the nearest corner. Sophie had always been a good sleeper; she could sleep anywhere – in the back of a car, curled up on a sofa at a party. Since she'd become pregnant, she'd started having lie-ins too. Over the last few months William had grown more sensitive to his wife's habits because he'd been having trouble sleeping himself. It was a similar pattern every night. He'd go to sleep for a few hours and then he'd wake up, very suddenly. Sometimes he was still awake at six or seven the following morning. It all felt quite out of character. William liked to think of himself as a steady sort of man, the type of person who didn't let things get the better of him. He hadn't mentioned what had been happening to anyone – he didn't want to worry Sophie – until a few nights ago when he'd had a conversation with his brother on the phone. John had said something about it being a difficult time of year. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:05:12 +0100 894999 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/musikki.html Musikki. This is a nice search engine for musicians and bands. Nicely laid out, with comprehensive biographies, concert lists, map, Twitter references, similar/related artists, discography, photographs. Slightly odd not to see any MySpace references though - has that fallen so far? No links to individual songs or lyrics either, and no ITunes links either, which I thought was odd. Also no links to official sites or fanclubs. So it's ok, but not by any stretch of the imagination comprehensive. (Source: Phil Bradley) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894814 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/dec/23/gordon-brown-anthony-seldon-book Brown at 10 is chock-full of revelationsAnthony Seldon's instant history factory is a national treasure. He has written a political biography of John Major, two about Tony Blair and recently he published one about Gordon Brown. It's got about the worst title of any political book published this year – Brown at 10, which makes Brown sound like a news bulletin, rather than a prime minister – but it's a must-read for anyone who wants to know what really happened in the final three years of the Labour government. Seldon, who wrote this book with Guy Lodge, has probably managed to interview more primary sources (particularly civil servants) than anyone else writing about Brown and what makes the book remarkable is not the analysis (which is intelligent and judicious, but not particularly surprising), but the rich array of behind-the-scenes detail.There has already been quite a lot about the book in the papers already. The Daily Mail published extracts covering the 2010 ministerial plot against Brown, (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:38:02 +0100 894612 http://bhplnjbookgroup.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-ten-books-of-2010-at-bhpl.html Fiction published in 2010 with the most checkouts so far at BHPL:1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson 2. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich 3. Worst Case by James Patterson 4. 61 Hours by Lee Child 5. Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci 6. 9th Judgment by James Patterson 7. Deception by Jonathan Kellerman 7. Private by James Patterson 9. Innocent by Scott Turow 10. Postcard Killers by James Patterson 11. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Yup, the top ten is 40% James Patterson. That's why I threw in Sarah Blake, for some variety.Nonfiction published in 2010 with the most checkouts at BHPL:1. The Big Short by Michael Lewis2. Game Change by John Heilemann 3. Oprah : a biography by Kitty Kelley 4. This Time Together by Carol Burnett 5. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler 6. Steinbrenner by Bill Madden 7. Making Toast : a Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt 8. Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush 8. War by Sebastian Junger 8. Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth If The Big Short isn't enough for you, Henry Paulson's On the Brink and Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall were next most popular on the list. (Source: Berkeley Heights Public Library Book Blog and Buzz) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894720 http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=4725&BlogID=61&BlogPostID=8156 "Who spins the elaborate web that entraps the timid spirit?" This is a fictionalized beginning biography about Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who became a Nobel prize winner. As a boy, Neftali Reyes (his real name) was extremely shy, timid, and sensitive - not the strong boy his father hoped would one day become a doctor or dentist, or even businessman. His overbearing father continually belittled him and left Neftali questioning his inquisitive nature and passion for words and the natural world around him. Luckily, he was surrounded by a supportive, though meek, mother and an uncle whose more humanitarian views toward the indigenous people and nature help Neftali shape his opinions, Unfortunately, these views drew the attention of an extremely suppressive government to both uncle and, eventually, Neruda. The text is beautifully accompanied by black and white illustrations by Peter Sis. One thing I appreciated about the book was that is showed Neruda as a questioning boy, but also an obedient one who respected his father and tried his best not to embarrass him. Even if we don't agree with his parenting skills, his father's actions are well-intentioned, and although Neftali is pretty sure in his gut that he will not be a doctor ("How did Father know what Nefali would become when he did not know himself?") and he knows he will continue to write poetry in college despite his father forbidding it, he finds a way to do so in a way so as not to humiliate him. Large print and illustrations will be encouragement for reluctant readers. Recommended for readers in grades 4-8 who enjoy biographies, or who are also dreamers. It's a slow book without a lot of dialogue and action, but full of emotion. An author's note is included providing more information about Neruda, as well as some of Neruda's poetry. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:20:02 +0100 894422 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/22/nikesh-shukla-top-10-anglo-asian-books From Hanif Kureishi to Helen Walsh, the novelist celebrates books that find room for naked raves and Bruce Springsteen as well as wrangles over arranged marriagesNikesh Shukla is a writer, performance poet and filmmaker. His writing has appeared on radio and television and his film The Great Identity Swindle, co-directed with Videowallah, won best short film at the Satyajit Ray Foundation awards in 2009. He lives in north London. His first novel, Coconut Unlimited, is shortlisted for this year's Costa first novel award."If we've been told anything ever in our lives ever, it's that Anglo-Asian books will cross swords with themes of cultural identity and dual heritage, repressed marriages and there will be at least one mystical encounter in a mangrove swamp. Probably with mist. Anglo-Asian books are more than these stereotypes."Writing my own debut meant doing the entire opposite of all those things, throwing them out and doing a Hornby, or a Coe, filling the soundtrack with Public Enemy and steeping the drama in suburban nausea. These books deal with the diversity of Anglo-Asian themes and take us to communes, squats, concerts, Mumbai, even Tunbridge Wells. Not a banyan tree in sight. And it's not just the brown boys and girls getting involved. Multiculturalism is so embedded in our culture that writers like William Sutcliffe are considering themes of racism and spiritualism. Anglo-Asian books are beyond being about Asians in England. They're about the marrying of cultures, about understanding of the world we live in and its changing boundaries.1. Hanif Kureishi - The Black Album (Faber)While The Buddha of Suburbia is a masterfully comic tale of rise and fall that loves its characters, there's something a lot more sinister about The Black Album, making it the oddball in his output. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:17:38 +0100 894377 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/dec/22/jesus-buddha-japan-manga-novel A new manga novel lightheartedly depicting the two as everyday young men may inadvertently raise interest in religion in JapanWhat would Jesus and Buddha do if they were suddenly thrust into contemporary society, and how would they react to what they found?Japanese author-illustrator Nakamura Hikaru has sketched an answer to this provocative question in a very popular manga, or illustrated serial novel, entitled Saint Young Men (Seinto oniisan).Nakamura (her surname) depicts the adventures of the two religious founders as they room together in Tachikawa (a suburb west of Tokyo) while vacationing in Japan.Humour, rather than veneration, sets the tone for the series, which is replete with visual gags and puns. For example, when the roommates discover that the prizes they have won at a shrine festival are cheap imitations of coveted handheld videogames, Nakamura quips: "The two were enlightened as to the true flavour of Japanese festivals," playing on a double sense of the word daigomi, which can either mean sublime Buddhist teaching or – more colloquially – the "true charm" of something.Similarly, quirky interactions that juxtapose episodes from Jesus' ministry with hilarious social faux pas provide opportunities to chuckle. When Jesus says that he "just wants to wash his [disciples'] feet," a local gangster who overhears him misinterprets this phrase in its figurative sense as an indication of one's desire to start afresh after a life of crime. Jesus, oblivious to this misunderstanding, unwittingly gains notoriety among the mob as a particularly tough villain.Nakamura's protagonists, though saintly, are hardly infallible. Jesus' all-encompassing love makes him excessively enthusiastic (Nakamura portrays him as a compulsive shopaholic), while Buddha's ascetic tendencies make him seem – as the back of one volume states – like "the parsimonious lady next door". ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0100 894378 http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/dec/21/1 What we enjoyed readingJoshua Rozenberg, columnistThe Life of Hersch Lauterpacht by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (Cambridge University Press, £85)This 500-page biography, with copious source material, charts the Jewish immigrant who arrived in London in 1923 with little more than his towering intellect and who, just over 30 years later, was elected by the United Nations to be Britain's representative at the most important international tribunal in the world. Eli Lauterpacht, himself a distinguished international lawyer, reveals how his father was supported by the Foreign Office for appointment to the International Court of Justice, even though a junior minister, Selwyn Lloyd, thought that "owing to his origins", Lauterpacht "would not perhaps be what we should regard as entirely sound from our point of view on matters of human rights" – and even though the Attorney General, Sir Lionel Heald, thought it was desirable that "our representative at The Hague both be, and be seen to be, thoroughly British; whereas Lauterpacht cannot help the fact that he does not qualify in this way either by birth, by name or by education".Editor's note: Hersch Lauterpacht is Philippe Sands' legal hero.Gill Phillips, director of Guardian Editorial Legal ServicesReputation in a Networked World: Revisiting the Social Foundations of Defamation Law (pdf) by David S Ardia A thought-provoking article about what is reputation, whether a party has been defamed and if so to what degree, and who should be the judge of that - the complainer, or their relevant community. It also offers a fascinating analysis of the possible harms that defamatory speech can cause. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:16:38 +0100 894247 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/20/anthony-howard-obituary Former editor of the New Statesman and deputy editor of the Observer, he was one of Britain's foremost political commentatorsAnthony Howard, who has died aged 76 following heart surgery, was among the most acute political commentators of his generation, a familiar face and voice on television and radio, and a distinguished editor of the New Statesman. But, in the view of many contemporaries, and perhaps his own, he never quite achieved the heights of which he was capable.In his writing and broadcasting, as in his editing, he delivered sharp and definite judgments. His assessments of a politician's chances of high office or party leadership were instantaneous and nearly always right. Once Margaret Thatcher resigned, he declared, Michael Heseltine's hopes of becoming Tory leader were finished. Denis Healey, he predicted, would not become Labour leader. The SDP's success would be fleeting, he said. His interest was in politicians, and the political process, not in policy or political philosophy. His books were about people – he wrote biographies of RA Butler, Richard Crossman and, finally, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster Basil Hume – and his last full-time job, as obituaries editor of the Times, was one that he requested, and which gave him special pleasure.From university, where he chaired the Labour Club before being elected (at the second attempt) president of the Oxford Union, he was a firm Labour supporter who in the 1950s was briefly a prospective parliamentary candidate. As a young reporter on the Guardian, he was reprimanded by the then editor, Alastair Hetherington, for turning in copy that "reeked of anti-Tory prejudice". Yet he became respected by and friendly with many Tory politicians – he "helped" Heseltine write his memoirs – and a presenter, reporter and political pundit on BBC news and current affairs programmes. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:51:00 +0100 894013 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-5-favourite-books-for-this-year.html Well, another list post of favourites for the year.1. The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-playing Machine That Fooled the World by Tom Standage. I had read Standage's other book The Victorian Internet, and found that fascinating. The mechanic turk looked at the eighteenth century wooden 'robot' that could play chess and win. Its interest inspired Charles Babbage to start work on a computer and even played Napoleon I. 2. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky. Again I read his previous book on Salt: A World History and Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. Its the year of my birth, so I was interested to see what events did occur.3. A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. A really interesting book looking at the social, political and economic history of 6 beverages. These being, beer, wine, spirits, tea, coffee and coke. 4. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky. Shirky again looking at the impact of the digital generation sharing information online for the social good. Bit big society for my liking, but some interesting points none the less.5. Replay: the History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan. A fascinating read on the impact of video games worldwide (and not just the USA and Japan), as many others have followed.Anyhow, thats my reading list. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894437 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/20/praise-alan-bennett-diaries For all of his work's sharpness about personal lives, Bennett can be a (pleasingly) opaque figure"19 April", begins an entry, which records the transport chaos caused by Iceland's volcanic ash, and wearily notes "the inevitable outbreaks of Dunkirk spirit". "It's a reminder of how irritating the Second War must have been, providing ... almost unlimited opportunities for bossy individuals to cast themselves in would-be heroic roles," writes Alan Bennett. "'Brits' – so much of what is hateful about the world since Mrs Thatcher in that gritty hard little word." The second world war was "irritating", and "Brits" is a Thatcherite endearment; this is the stuff that keeps you coming back to a Bennett diary – the headlines a launch pad for a long historical swoop that ends in a surprise judgment delivered with talons bared. But the dramatist's annual chronicles are more than real-time news and views: when he began publishing them in the London Review of Books in the early 80s, Bennett promised that he also ran to "gossip and notes on work and reading". So we get snippets about Russell Harty and other friends, and reportage from play rehearsals. For all of his work's sharpness about personal lives, Bennett can be a (pleasingly) opaque figure, yet his annual LRB outings show both political anger and physical frailties (varicose veins feature in the latest one). Then are the timeless entries, such as this from 27 January 1999: "A woman writes to me saying ... she asked at the library for something on Larkin but seeing his photograph gave the book straight back: 'He looked too much like Sergeant Bilko.'"Alan BennettBiographyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:01:38 +0100 893899 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/19/lampedusa-letters-london-europe-review These shrewd and witty dispatches from a travelling aristocrat to his friends are a complete joyThese are rackety and uncertain times for writers. They go from one literary festival to the next, hoping to shelter in great houses full of fine books and they rely on the kindness of patrons. So it's as refreshing as a jug of freshly made Sicilian lemonade to contemplate the heroically languid career of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of The Leopard.The Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, to give him his full handle, had great houses and fine books of his own and his only experience of patronage was in all probability of watching it dispensed by his noble, if straitened, family. His masterpiece, about an exhausted aristocratic line in his Mediterranean homeland, was published posthumously, after several rejections, and provoked outrage with its imputation of island-wide indolence: "Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them, even in order to bring them the most wonderful of gifts."Lampedusa's successfully quelled industriousness saw him publish a bare handful of articles for scholarly journals during his life. This triumphant negation of ambition is well captured in a newly discovered note to an editor, chasing up the whereabouts of one of these contributions – if "chasing up" is really the term. "If it happens to be published, I should like to know if more articles are needed... so that I shall be forced to work – otherwise I wouldn't do anything." (The italics are the prince's own.)One capacity in which Lampedusa did exert himself was as a correspondent. The best and happiest part of his marriage to his beloved Alessandra appears to have been in their voluminous correspondence: 400 love letters have turned up, and counting. ... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:04:01 +0100 893726 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/12/18/reference-question-of-the-week-121210 Here’s a good example of why having some readers advisory background is very helpful when doing reference - and how not taking shortcuts can save the patron’s time. A young patron came to the desk and says, I’m looking for a book - I borrowed it from a friend of mine, but only got like 25 pages into it, and then he took it back. Can you find it for me, because I want to finish it. She couldn’t remember the author, but she was sure the title was The Alchemist. No problem, I thought, as I walked her down to Y/Fic/Coelho - but after skimming the first few pages, she said it wasn’t the right book. Then I took her to Y/Fic/Scott, thinking she might have meant The Alchemyst instead of The Alchemist, but that wasn’t the right one either. Nor was it Fullmetal Alchemist. So we walked back up to the desk to search the catalog, and on the way she told me what she remembered from the story: a guy walks into a private detective’s (or a psychiatrist?) office and tells her his life story, and that he has been alive for hundreds of years. Since she’d only gotten twenty pages into the book, the only real detail she could remember is that the guy was described has having very engaging colorful eyes, that changed color sometimes. She texted her friend to ask him who the author was, while I searched our catalog for The Alchemist. However, she didn’t recognize any of the covers and the book records didn’t include descriptions. Since she kept talking about the guy telling his life story in the office, I thought we might hit on it by searching the internet. We tried searching online for things like “the alchemist” detective “life story” and alchemist “life story” -Coelho -fullmetal and “life story” book eyes change color but weren’t getting anywhere. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:46:59 +0100 893666 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/dec/18/frank-capra-bfi-season-review It's A Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition – and the film that has preserved Frank Capra's popularity. It is too easy to dismiss his work as sentimental, prudish and politically naive, argues Michael Newton. Many of his movies are still magicalOf all Hollywood directors, Frank Capra is the most loved and the least respected. From the early 1930s to the mid 40s, as the maker of such classic movies as It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), he achieved fame, won Oscars and found huge audiences. Yet for every film-fan who warms to his work, there's a hard-nosed critic eager to pounce on this purveyor of "Capra-corn". He offers a personal vision, but it's one that has been judged suspect, offering up a sentimental and duplicitous Americanism. To those on the left, he has seemed a fascist; to those on the right, a communist. In their own minds, it's plain that the new Tea Party representatives see themselves as acting out a Capra movie, though of course one purged of any taint of socialism. It's meant to seem a small step from Jimmy Stewart playing Jefferson Smith to Sarah Palin.To dislike the work is to distrust the man, for Capra's films were emphatically his own creation. His motto was "one man, one picture", his movies marked by his unusual insistence that his name appear above the title, possessing the enterprise – it was always "Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life". This advocate of American democracy spearheaded the vision of the autocratic film director, making personal films despite the compromises of collaboration or the confines of the studio system. Bossiness came naturally to him; reading his autobiography, his vanity astounds you. For a moment, you can only catch the complacency in his films. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:07:26 +0100 893554 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/18/john-milton-biography-review The definitive biography of our second-greatest poetYou will, of course, remember the massive national celebrations of Milton's 400th birthday at the end of 2008 – the speeches from a grateful parliament, the prayers of thanks from the Protestant pulpits, and the BBC's epic, CGI-rich adaptation of Paradise Lost, our rich literature's greatest single poem.Oh, wait . . . that was in an alternative universe, one in which Milton is appreciated. I remember once noticing a sign to Milton's home in Chalfont St Giles and, on a whim, went to see it. I was, depressingly, the only visitor.I wonder why this should be the case. There is, of course, the matter of Milton's defence of regicide – nothing wrong in killing a tyrant, he said. I suppose there is also something intimidating about the work, its sheer scale; some people have suggested that this was why Paradise Lost escaped the censorship to which manuscripts were so severely subject at the time. The authors here suggest that different standards applied to creative writers.And is there some lingering distaste for anti-Catholicism? Although apparently even today the Vatican fears that it wouldn't take much for the British to rise up and murder Catholics in their beds, we are a long way from playing football with the decapitated head of a fugitive RC priest, as happened in Dorchester in 1642. That incident doesn't make it here, but the authors remind us of Milton's scorn for popery: "Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars . . . Cowls, hoods and habits with their wearers tossed / And fluttered into rags, then relics, beads, / Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, the sport of winds . . ." Thus are the trappings of idolatry blown away by the wind of heaven, and Milton's scorn.This biography – which was originally published to celebrate Milton's anniversary – takes us right back to Milton's times. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:07:10 +0100 893560 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/18/steven-poole-nonfiction-choice-reviews The God Instinct by Jesse Bering | Zero-Sum World by Gideon Rachman | Adonis to Zorro: Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion by Andrew Delahunty & Sheila DignenThe God Instinct, by Jesse Bering (Nicholas Brealey, £16.99)Is the idea of God an invention maliciously hammered into the heads of the innocent young, or is it innate? Bering, an evolutionary psychologist, thinks the latter. Theism stems, he writes, from a cluster of brain adaptations that lead to cognitive biases and illusions. Useful abilities – such as our theory of mind, our "person-permanence thinking", or our perception of patterns and causes – work not wisely but too well, so that we intuit a big watcher, an engineer of coincidence ("encrypting information in [. . .] events"), a guarantor of immortality, or a designer of our life's purpose.God, in sum, is a "sort of scratch on our psychological lenses", hard to get rid of completely. Disarmingly, Bering tells stories of his own superstitious moments, and references to Sartre and Gide add a patina of literary class. The deep-historical theses, as usual in this field, are plausible to varying degrees but always unprovable. Did the idea of God solve the problem of gossip among early humans by inhibiting reputation-harming behaviour? Maybe, but we'll never know. Bering also downplays the role of culture excessively: indoctrination and tradition do exist, and they work. First-cause deists, meanwhile, will be serenely untroubled by it all, as they usually are.Zero-Sum World, by Gideon Rachman (Atlantic, £20)Since the financial crisis hit, we are living in an "Age of Anxiety", which follows the "Age of Transformation" (1978-91: Reaganomics) and the "Age of Optimism" (1991-2008: the "end of history"). ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:07:09 +0100 893561 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/18/music-books-christmas-roundup David Sinclair finds not just rock'n'roll, but sex and drugs too, in this year's music booksThe memoirs of a wizened rock god turned out to be one of the publishing sensations of the year. Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20) by Keith Richards with James Fox is a startlingly candid account of one man's largely successful attempt to indulge in hitherto unimagined extremes of narcotic excess while somehow holding down a job in the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world. With such a fund of dramatic material at his disposal, Richards does not disappoint in the telling of his tale. Run-ins with law enforcement agencies on the one hand, and drug dealers on the other, are described with a nonchalant swagger. Unexplained car crashes, mysterious fires in hotels and houses, lurid sexual betrayals, fights, shootings and deaths occur against a rolling backdrop of epic drink and drug binges. There is also a lot of serious consideration given over to the subject of music – everything from fascinating insights into the songwriting process that produced so many monumental hits to more specialised explanations of the minutiae of open-tuning guitar techniques.Lucid and unusually well researched for this kind of book, Life is a compelling read on every level. It is also revealing in unintended ways. Richards is nothing if not comfortable in his own skin, and the way in which he blithely recounts so many troubling, even macabre episodes, as if they were simple mishaps that occurred through no real fault of his own, becomes faintly jarring after a while. Sleeping with a loaded gun under his pillow? Threatening a taxi driver with a knife? Turning up blind drunk to meet his prospective in-laws for the first time and smashing a guitar on their dinner table? Hey, that's Life.The latter part of the memoir is driven to an unhealthy degree by his antipathy towards Mick Jagger, his songwriting partner of almost 50 years. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:06:52 +0100 893566 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/video/LC-LAW_20101015_Katrina_Sharman.flv 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis 2010 Animal Law Conference – Katrina Sharman Keynote Address October 15, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need – Keynote Address on Friday Katrina Sharman, Corporate Counsel for Voiceless, the Animal Protection Institute (Australia) Introductions and welcome: Stefan Heller – 3L, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund co-director, Lewis & Clark Law School Kathy Hessler – Clinical Professor of Law & Animal Law Clinic Director, Lewis & Clark Law School Aurora Paulsen – 2L, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund conference coordinator, Lewis & Clark Law School Katrina Sharman is the Corporate Counsel for Voiceless, the animal protection institute. Prior to assuming that role in 2004, she worked as a Senior Associate at Minter Ellison Lawyers. Sharman is a former Chair of NSW Young Lawyers Animal Rights Committee and a former member of the Animal Research Review Panel (NSW) and the National Health & Medical Research Council, Animal Welfare Committee. Sharman has spoken about animal law issues at numerous conferences including the ‘Future of Animal Law Conference’ (Harvard Law School, 2007). Sharman has also contributed to numerous publications including ‘Animal Law in Australasia’ (The Federation Press, 2009) and ‘Animal Law in Australia and New Zealand’ (Thomson Reuters, 2010). In 2009, Sharman was included in Australasian Legal Business Magazine’s showcase of top 20 in-house Lawyers. She has also previously been shortlisted as Australian Corporate Lawyers Association In-house Lawyer Young Achiever of the Year The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 15th, 2010. View This Video Full Screen (Source: Lewis) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:05:46 +0100 894232 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/madreads/index.php/2010/12/17/hos-make-the-best-librarians/ Why?  Because they know “how to be sweet but they will bust yo a#$@ if you get out of line.” That is just one of many great lines in Avi Steinberg’s new memoir Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, a both entertaining and enlightening look at what happens in the locked down world where over two million of our country’s population live and breath and yes, ocassionally even read.  Fresh from Harvard and a strict Jewish religious education and upbringing, Steinberg decides to forgo a more formal post graduate education and immerse himself in the school of hard knocks at one of Boston’s correctional facilities.  Like many, Steinberg had never stepped inside a prison, let alone work at a library so the whole experience was rich material for his literary ambitions (his former job was obituary writer). The memoir starts off describing how Steinberg came to find himself working at the facility, then goes on to detail his relationship with both prison staff and the prison population.  After starting a creative writing group with a few prisoners he finds himself wrapped up in inmate Jessica’s story who in a surprising twist of fate finds out her long lost son is an inmate at the facility also.  One of the most touching scenes in the book is when Steinberg describes her watching longingly out the window as the boy she’s never touched since he was a baby plays basketball only yards away. Steinberg’s sympathetic voice in his memoir makes us see past these individual’s crimes and see the humanity of our prison system and reminds us we may all be a few bad decisions or an unlucky situation away from being there ourselves. Two things really stuck with me about this book. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:21:59 +0100 893593 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/15/my-life-mars-colin-pillinger On Christmas Day seven years ago Beagle 2 failed to signal its arrival on the surface of the Red Planet. My Life on Mars is Colin Pillinger's personal account of the mission he led and the aftermath of its failureThe story of Beagle 2 is so extraordinary that even a bad book about the adventure would be worth reviewing, and this is not a bad book. Consider the initial conditions. In the 1960s, the British were as excited as anybody else by the Apollo programme and the slow exploration of the distant planets. But in 1971 one British satellite went up on one British rocket (Black Arrow) and that was the end of the adventure. British university scientists clung on to space research in deals with the military, or contracts from Nasa, or by joining European Space Agency teams, and even these connections looked precarious during the years of Thatcherism, when ministers slashed science budgets, closed laboratories and picked fights with Europe.And then, seemingly out of nowhere, Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University, an unapologetic member of the Awkward Squad, began promoting a British lander that would piggyback on a European orbiter, parachute to Mars, spring open, burrow into the Martian rock, sniff for evidence of bygone life and relay its discoveries back to Britain.Beagle 2 (the echo of Darwin's great voyage was deliberate) had to be pretty small to stowaway on Mars Express. Camera, microscope, robot arms, drill, communications and power source had to fit inside the space occupied by a pair of dustbin lids banged together and still leave a shoe-box worth of room for the mass spectrometer and gas chromatograph.The necessary initial millions had to be generated from private sources (at this stage the UK government still behaved as if there could be nothing of value for Britain in space) and the reluctant European hierarchy had to be persuaded to fly the impertinent little passenger. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 893356 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/17/keith-richards-literary-life-biography If only more stars hired decent novelists to ghost their memoirs, celeb-lit could really start rockingIn light of the recent rumblings about the Costa judges only finding three biographies "enjoyable" enough for nomination, I can only assume that the panel are not fans of rock'n'roll. Because for sheer, blissful enjoyment, few biographies – few books – can rival Keith Richards's helter-skelter trip through sex, drugs and chord progressions. Of its kind, it's unrivalled: a sustained, enthusiastic and anecdote-fuelled life that takes in some of the key moments of the latter part of the 20th century from a unique perspective. It might not have the literary bravura of The Hare With Amber Eyes – my tip for the main prize, for what it's worth – but it is hugely "enjoyable". And for that, Keef has had a lot to thank to his co-writer James Fox, author of White Mischief. I have to confess to having been surprised to see Fox's name on the title page. White Mischief – the true-life tale of the murder of a leading member of Kenya's colonial community – was well-received on publication, and thanks in part to the 1987 film of the same name, remains well-known and still in print. Fox is a writer of some reputation, which set me wondering what would happen if all celebrity autobiographies were penned by "proper" authors. Whom would the "stars" line up to collaborate with?With her memoirs now rivalling Dirk Bogarde's in quantity if not quality, Katie Price could look to trade up in terms of literary merit. No stranger in how to handle a ghostwriter ("I talk in a tape and say the stories I want," she commented once, before her manager added the priceless, "and then they write it into book words.") Price could turn to her long-standing admirer, Martin Amis. Amis would be an ideal and sympathetic companion for the publicity-shy Jordan. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:33:26 +0100 893350 http://www.readersclub.org/reviews/tresults.asp?id=7766 by Leavy, JaneRather than tell a traditional biography, Leavy focuses on twenty days in Mantle's life and uses those days as a way to give us a meandering and thematic look at his life. This is effective because we already know so much about Mantle. He’s part of our national psyche. What she aims for here is more of an understanding of Mickey Mantle the person. She takes us inside his head so we will empathize with him. I already knew the numbers and the achievements and the mystique. Now I feel I know a lot more about the man.- reviewed by Ed, Morrison Regional, PLCMC (Source: Reader's Club's Latest) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:55:04 +0100 893224 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/madreads/index.php/2010/12/16/like-reading-about-other-people/ Try a biography!  There are many “best of” lists out there, including the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year.  Below are a few biographies from a new, upcoming library booklist– Recommended Biographies – 2010. BIOGRAPHIES – ART & MUSIC Huang, Yunte.  Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History. W.W. Norton, c2010. Kaplan, James.  Frank: The Voice. Doubleday, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – CURRENT EVENTS/HISTORY Chernow, Ron.  Washington: A Life. Penguin Press, 2010. Korda, Michael.  Hero: The Life And Legend Of Lawrence Of Arabia. Harper, c2010. Norris, Michele.  The Grace of Silence. Pantheon Books, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – LITERATURE Gordon, Lyndall.  Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson And Her Family’s Feuds. Viking, 2010. Schenkar, Joan.  The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life And Serious Art Of Patricia Highsmith. St. Martin’s Press, 2009. Spurling, Hilary.  Pearl Buck In China: Journey To The Good Earth. Simon & Schuster, 2010. MEMOIRS Caldwell, Gail.  Let’s Take The Long Way Home : A Memoir Of Friendship. Random House, c2010. Cash, Rosanne.  Composed: A Memoir. Viking, 2010. Mason, Martha.  Breath: A Lifetime In The Rhythm Of An Iron Lung: A Memoir. Bloomsbury, 2010. Smith, Patti.  Just Kids. Ecco, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – RELIGION Dalrymple, William. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred In Modern India. A.A. Knopf, 2010. Telushkin, Joseph.  Hillel: If Not Now, When?. Nextbook : Schocken, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – SCIENCE Harman, Oren Solomon. The Price Of Altruism: George Price And The Search For The Origins Of Kindness. W.W. Norton, 2010. Skloot, Rebecca.  The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks. Crown Publishers, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – SPORTS Leavy, Jane.  The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle And The End Of America’s Childhood. Harper, c2010. Roberts, Randy. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:41:45 +0100 893265 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/new/index.php/2010/12/16/like-reading-about-other-people/ Try a biography!  There are many “best of” lists out there, including the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year.  Below are a few biographies from a new, upcoming library booklist– Recommended Biographies – 2010. BIOGRAPHIES – ART & MUSIC Huang, Yunte.  Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History. W.W. Norton, c2010. Kaplan, James.  Frank: The Voice. Doubleday, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – CURRENT EVENTS/HISTORY Chernow, Ron.  Washington: A Life. Penguin Press, 2010. Korda, Michael.  Hero: The Life And Legend Of Lawrence Of Arabia. Harper, c2010. Norris, Michele.  The Grace of Silence. Pantheon Books, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – LITERATURE Gordon, Lyndall.  Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson And Her Family’s Feuds. Viking, 2010. Schenkar, Joan.  The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life And Serious Art Of Patricia Highsmith. St. Martin’s Press, 2009. Spurling, Hilary.  Pearl Buck In China: Journey To The Good Earth. Simon & Schuster, 2010. MEMOIRS Caldwell, Gail.  Let’s Take The Long Way Home : A Memoir Of Friendship. Random House, c2010. Cash, Rosanne.  Composed: A Memoir. Viking, 2010. Mason, Martha.  Breath: A Lifetime In The Rhythm Of An Iron Lung: A Memoir. Bloomsbury, 2010. Smith, Patti.  Just Kids. Ecco, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – RELIGION Dalrymple, William. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred In Modern India. A.A. Knopf, 2010. Telushkin, Joseph.  Hillel: If Not Now, When?. Nextbook : Schocken, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – SCIENCE Harman, Oren Solomon. The Price Of Altruism: George Price And The Search For The Origins Of Kindness. W.W. Norton, 2010. Skloot, Rebecca.  The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks. Crown Publishers, c2010. BIOGRAPHIES – SPORTS Leavy, Jane.  The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle And The End Of America’s Childhood. Harper, c2010. Roberts, Randy. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:15:01 +0100 893202 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/madreads/index.php/2010/12/15/attention-book-groups/ Get a head start on your 2011 book group reading.  Book Discussion Kits for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot are currently available for check out at the library.  This is the story of a young African American woman who dies from cervical cancer in the 1950s.  Her cells “survive” and are used for scientific research without the consent or knowledge of her family.  There’s much to discuss about the impact of her cells on the scientific community and implications for future research. This popular UW-Madison Go Big Read book has been featured on numerous notable books lists for 2010 including: New York Times Notable Book 2010 Amazon Best Books of 2010 NPR’s Best Conversation Starters 2010 Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2010 Discover Magazine Must Reads 2010 Check the availability of this kit and others by calling 266-6300.  Happy reading! (Source: MADreads) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:09:33 +0100 893008 http://146.74.224.231/archives/2010/12/happy_birthday_5.html Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. - Jane Austen Born December 16, 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire, England, Jane Austen changed the face of English literature with her six novels of love and everyday life amongst the gentry. Her sharp wit and keen powers of observation both describe and satirize the world in which she lived, and resulted in some of the most memorable characters in literature. Nearly 200 years after after the publication of her first book, Sense & Sensibility, her novels are still widely read and much beloved, inspiring countless sequels, spin-offs, re-writes, and film and television adaptations. Still haven't read Austen? Want to find out what all the fuss is about? Check out her books at any Santa Clara County Library! Sense & Sensibility: The story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two sisters of opposite temperament left relatively impoverished by the death of their father. Elinor, the "sense" of the title, is rational and reserved, while Marianne, "sensibility," is passionate and impulsive. With this novel of love, heartbreak, and horrible relatives, Jane Austen began to make a name for herself. Pride & Prejudice: The love story between the spirited Elizabeth Bennet and the snooty Mr. Darcy is truly one of the most beloved stories ever written. Austen's humor and insight into the human character are spot-on. Mansfield Park: Another strong, relatable heroine navigates life, love, and class differences in Austen's third published work. Fanny Price is the poor cousin of the fabulously wealthy Bertrams, who took her in as a child. Continually made to feel inferior, Fanny does not dare to dream that her cousin Edmund could ever return her love. But her quiet life takes an interesting turn with the arrival of the unconventional and mischievous Crawfords. Emma: Emma is a spoiled, bored young woman who decides to busy herself by matchmaking amongst her friends. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:18:42 +0100 892991 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kobo-holding-50-off-ebook-sale-today/ Kobo Books is having a massive sale today only where you can take 50% off any of 183 books, many of them new releases, with the coupon code 1stbirthday. The discount is taken off the standard Kobo price (listed in green), so you can end up with some great deals if you choose carefully. Update: You can only use the code once, so make sure you select all the books you want before making your purchase. If you do all your ebook reading on a Kindle, you might want to skip this post and save yourself the heartbreak, because Kobo’s EPUB files won’t work on the Kindle–blame Amazon for that–and its web interface doesn’t display correctly on the Kindle browser. However, if you use an Apple device, laptop/PC, or an ebook reader that does support Adobe DRM (like the Nook and others listed on this page) then you’ll be fine. Here are some of the better deals I found on the Kobo list this morning: Under $4: “Tinkers” by Paul Harding “Unraveled” by Gena Showalter “Let The Great World Spin” by Colum McCann “Water For Elephants” by Sara Gruen Under $5: “Mockingjay” by Suzanne Collins “Decoded” by Jay-Z “Entice” by Carrie Jones “Decision Points” by George W. Bush “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters” by Barack Obama “The Autobiography of Mark Twain” by Mark Twain and others “The Confession” by John Grisham “Great House” by Nicole Krauss “Packing For Mars” by Mary Roach “Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart “Mr. Peanut” by Adam Ross “The Imperfectionists” by Tom Rachman Under $8: “C” by Tom McCarthy “A Visit From The Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan “Kraken” by China Mieville “Nerd Do Well” by Simon Pegg And now a warning! Do not buy “The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition” from Kobo, even with this coupon code. It’s currently selling for less than $4 on the Amazon Kindle store, which is the lowest price I’ve seen anywhere. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:11:23 +0100 892897 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/default.aspx Click on the links below to read biographies of the CILIP Councillors for 2011. A link at the bottom of each biography will take you to that Councillor's manifesto and nominating statements relating to the year in which they were elected. Judy Broady-Preston John Crawford Andy Dawson John Dolan Isabel Hood Gareth Johnson Jill Lambert Dion Lindsay Emma McDonald Nick Poole Bruce Royan Katy Wrathall           (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:37:40 +0100 893039 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_royan.aspx Bruce Royan (to serve until 31 December 2011) Postnominals: BA MBA FSA(Scot) HonFCLIP Email: Bruce.Royan@cilip.org.uk BiographyBruce Royan has worked in Public, Academic, National, and Government Libraries and is now a Principal Consultant at Concurrent Computing Ltd, whose clients have included Cumbria Libraries, the British Council, Tate Galleries, the Department of Health and the BBC. He has served as University Librarian and Director of Information Services at the University of Stirling, and Interim Director of Knowledge and Information at Robert Gordon University. His earlier career in Librarianship and Information Technology has included British Telecom, the London Borough of Camden, The British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Department of Trade and Industry, and as founding Director of the Singapore Library Network (SILAS). Outside Singapore, he may be best known for founding SCRAN, a networked multimedia learning resource base of millions of objects, digitised from libraries, museums, archives and the built heritage, and licensed for educational use. Bruce has provided library networking consultancy to clients in Japan, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Philippines, and has lectured on library management issues in 40 countries across 6 continents. He has served on the boards of several educational charities, as well as the Councils of the Library Association of Singapore, the Institute of Information Scientists, and the Library Association. He was Chair of the LA IT Group for several years, facilitating its evolution into MMIT. Bruce has been awarded the Royal Charter Centenary Medal and the Jason Farradane Award, and is an Honorary Fellow of CILIP. He serves on the Art Libraries Standing Committee of IFLA and is Chairman of the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations and Visiting Professor in the School of Creative Industries, Napier University. Read Bruce Royan's 2009 Candidate Election Manifesto. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:36:22 +0100 893040 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_poole.aspx Nick Poole (to serve until 31 December 2012) Postnominals: BA MA Email: Nick.Poole@cilip.org.uk  BiographyNick Poole is Chief Executive of the Collections Trust, an independent UK charity working with libraries, archives and museums. He also represents the UK at the Member States Expert Group for Digitisation at the European Commission and is responsible for advising a number of European agencies and Governments on digital priorities in Culture and libraries. Prior to joining the Collections Trust in 2005, Nick held a number of roles at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), including responsibility for Regional policy development and as a National ICT Adviser. Before this, he worked in the financial services sector. In addition to his role within CILIP, Nick is a Councillor of the Museums Association and a Trustee of the UK part of the International Council of Museums. Nick is a regular lecturer at several Universities and has published on subjects ranging from the economics of cultural services to international Copyright and Cultural Property law. He studied Languages at Cambridge University and holds postgraduate qualifications in Historical Linguistics and Fine Art & Illustration. He also studied the History and Philosophy of Science at Birkbeck College. In his spare time, Nick enjoys reading, spending time with his family and hosting a successful regular music and poetry event. He also works with a number of HE and FE providers in an advisory capacity on the implementation and use of eLearning systems and Virtual Learning Environments. He was previously compere of a successful comedy club in London’s West End.   Read Nick Poole's 2010 Candidate Election Manifesto. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:35:35 +0100 893041 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_McDonald.aspx Emma McDonald (to serve until 31 December 2012) Postnominals: BA Email: Emma.McDonald@cilip.org.uk   BiographyI grew up in Crewe and spent much of my freetime at school helping in the school library.   This gave me an early taste of many aspects of librarianship and helped ignite a passion for the profession.  While studying English at Cambridge University, I worked in the Peterhouse library as a Library Assistant.   After graduating I spent a year working a law costs draftsman, before getting a job as a Graduate Trainee Librarian at Exeter University. A fun year at Exeter convinced me that librarianship was what I wanted to do and I applied for a masters course at Loughborough University.  Since graduating from Loughborough, I've been working in West Sussex as a Trainee Librarian.   I served on the South East branch committee as one of the newsletter editors for roughly a year and the positive nature of this experience was what encouraged me to stand for election as a trustee. Read Emma McDonald's 2010 Candidate Election Manifesto. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:31:41 +0100 893042 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_lindsay.aspx Dion Lindsay (to serve until 31 December 2011) Postnominals: BA DipLib MCLIP Email: Dion.Lindsay@cilip.org.uk BiographyI was born and brought up in the west of Northern Ireland in the 50s and 60s, and went to university in glorious Aberystwyth in the mid 70’s. So glorious that I stayed an extra year to study librarianship at CLW (1977-78). Then 23 years in Government Departments in London (Agriculture, Cabinet Office and Health), moving towards running high value-added information units for specialists. I spent 1997-2001 as Senior Librarian in various posts in Department of Health, then made the big move away from the Civil Service and London - to Northampton as Knowledge Manager for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. I had a great time there introducing formal and informal km techniques (we invented some of the latter on the fly – that’s what a creative, motivated group can do!). In 4 years we grew from a £6m to a £9m organisation. I realized that the best bit was internal consultancy - intervening to make a sustainable difference, and decided my skills and experience were robust enough to become a full time consultant. Now I'm consulted mainly by medium sized organisations in London and the Midlands who want knowledge management to help them in their learning and growth aspirations. I'm delighted to have been elected as a CILIP Trustee to the end of 2008. I'm enjoying playing my part in ensuring that society and the workplace grasp the opportunities we as professionals offer. I believe that a refreshed CILIP and a committed membership provide us with power to create a new and powerful impact. Read Dion Lindsay's 2009 Candidate Election Manifesto. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:30:40 +0100 893043 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_lambert.aspx Jill Lambert (to serve until 31 December 2011) Postnominals: BSc MA FCLIP Email: Jill.Lambert@cilip.org.uk Biography Jill Lambert began her career as a weekend assistant at Ilkeston Public Library in Derbyshire. After a science degree at Bristol University, she worked for the Paint Research Association, subsequently taking a post graduate diploma in librarianship at Liverpool John Moores University.Her first professional post was with the University of Westminster, followed by the appointment as Science and Technology Librarian at Northumbria University. During a career break for two children, Jill studied for an MA in Librarianship. For several years, she was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Studies at Birmingham City University. On returning to academic libraries, she worked at Birmingham City and Staffordshire Universities, before moving to Aston University. In the Library & Information Services (LIS) at Aston she was responsible for public services and academic liaison for life science and engineering for 10 years until retiring as Assistant Director in autumn 2007. She is a Fellow and Life Member of CILIP. Her interests centre around 3 areas: • Developing and managing services to users. This has included implementing an access control system, improving services for users with additional needs, and introducing “walk-in” access for visitors. She was instrumental in achieving Charter Mark, a government award for customer excellence, for LIS at Aston University in 2007. • Incorporating IT developments into practice. She was involved in the early development of CD-Rom, beta testing databases for OCLC Europe, later publishing a review on the management of CDs in academic libraries. In 2001 she initiated the first e-book service at Aston University, also greatly expanding the provision of e-journals. • Scientific, technical and medical information. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:29:23 +0100 893044 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_crawford.aspx John Crawford (to serve until 31 December 2012) Postnominals: BA MA PhD FCLIP FRSA Email: John.Crawford@cilip.org.uk  BiographyJohn Crawford has worked in public, school and academic libraries. He was formerly the director of the Scottish Information Literacy Project. He became interested in information literacy in 2002 and it has been his main focus of activity since then. He served on the Concil of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) from 2002 to 2007 and during this time served as chair of its Professional Practice Committee and was a member of its Executive Board. He also serves on the CILIP Disciplinary Committee. He is former chair of the Library and Information History Group, is still a committee member and has a strong interest in membership activism. He has written extensively in professional and academic journals and has authored two books. He serves on the editorial board of two scholarly journals and regularly referees journal submissions to a number of refereed journals.   Read John Crawford's 2010 Candidate Election Manifesto. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:19:08 +0100 893045 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_broadypreston.aspx Judith Broady-Preston (to serve until 31 December 2011) Postnominals: BA MA PhD AlMgt MCLIP ILTM Email: Judy.Broady-Preston@cilip.org.uk BiographyDr. Judith Broady-Preston is Senior Lecturer, Chair of the Management Research Group and a member of the Senior Management Team (2000-) at the Department of Information Studies (DIS), Aberystwyth University, where she has been employed since January 1990. From July 2000 to October 2007 she was Departmental Director of Learning and Teaching. Prior to 1990, she worked at Leeds Metropolitan and Sheffield Universities. Before becoming a full-time academic, Judith worked originally as a health services librarian and subsequently as an academic librarian. Her research interests are value, quality, impact, performance measurement and services marketing. She has published extensively in a range of international journals, presented numerous conference papers and undertaken national and international consultancy projects. Regional Editor of two international journals, Library Management and Journal of Education, Media & Library Sciences, she is also a member of the editorial boards of Library and Information Research and Performance Measurement and Metrics. A regular reviewer of journal and conference papers, Judith has been a member of numerous national and international conference planning committees, and assesses new monographs for five commercial publishers. Secretary of BAILER (1997-2004) she has also been involved actively in professional associations, beginning with election to the IIS Southern Region Committee in 1994, being a member of the final General Council of the IIS. On the inauguration of CILIP, she was firstly Honorary Treasurer of CILIP Cymru/Wales, then Vice-Chair and Chair of CILIP Cymru/Wales (2006-December 2007) until election to the new model CILIP Council in December 2007. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:18:13 +0100 893046 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_hood.aspx Isabel Hood (to serve until 31 December 2012) Postnominals: BA (Hons) LLB FCLIP Email: Isabel.Hood@cilip.org.uk BiographyMy career has been a mixture of circumstance, luck and planning – as with many people’s! BeginningsHaving spent a lot of my childhood in libraries they seemed the natural place to go career-wise. I did the SCOTVEC National Certificate in Library and Information Science at Telford College in Edinburgh, loved it, and went straight on to do the undergraduate degree level course at RGU in Aberdeen. Law The fact that I have become a law librarian was initially part-accident, but quickly then a chosen career choice which I have actively followed. I wrote to all the Special Libraries in Glasgow looking for holiday work and ended up at The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow. And after the initial terror of not knowing anything of specific relevance I really enjoyed it and it started me out on my current path which has involved professional legal society, court and law firm libraries and led to all kinds of time-intensive decisions later on like doing a law degree. Professional doing’s Just over a decade ago I had my first and only part-time job for a wee bit. I got bored and allowed myself to be talked onto Career Development Group (Scottish) Committee and somehow I came out of the pub an hour later as three different Officer posts and the learning curve started. Thus my second simultaneous parallel professional life was born, though I didn’t know it. Ever since I’ve done more and more CILIP-related doing’s (everything from CDG President to Governance Review to CILIPS Council) and it does take over life, but I’ve discovered I really believe in progressing things (not good at doing nothing), and I quite like tilting at professional windmills and the unknown, I’m interested to see what will happen and what’s on the other side. Read Isabel Hood's 2010 Candidate Election Manifesto. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:17:22 +0100 893047 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_wrathall.aspx Katy Wrathall (to serve until 31 December 2013)   Postnominals: BA (Hons) Email: Katy.Wrathall@cilip.org.uk Biography  Prior to entering the library and information profession Katy had over 15 years experience in the IT industry, working in local and central government and as a consultant. She progressed from programmer to Project Manager. Latterly she led mixed economy teams of civil servants, consultants and private sector staff delivering IT systems for DSS. This gave her a lasting interest in management issues.  Katy then went to Manchester Metropolitan University, undertaking the BA (Hons) Library and Information Management degree. After graduation she worked in the Lancashire County Schools Library service as temporary Project Loans Team Leader. The opportunity arose to return to Manchester Metropolitan for one semester as a lecturer on Information Users and Providers. This renewed Katy’s interest in LIS education and the changes in the profession brought about by advances in technology. Katy then moved to Herefordshire College of Technology where she remained for several years, becoming Learning Resources Centres Manager. She became increasingly involved in information literacy teaching for students at all levels . She believes everybody needs these skills as information is more easily available in a wider range of media than ever before and that librarians and information professionals are ideally skilled and trained to deliver training in, and development of, these skills. Katy was Project Manager for the Study Methods and Information Literacy Exemplars blended learning project at University of Worcester, part of the JISC RePRODUCE programme. She is currently completing a consultancy with Glasgow Caledonian University on SMILE. She believes there is a growing need for advocacy and a strong unifying presence on behalf of a varied and diverse profession and wants that to be CILIP. For that reason she decided to stand for Council. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:45:57 +0100 893048 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_johnson.aspx Gareth Johnson (to serve until 31 December 2013) Postnominals: BSc MSc F.HEA MCLIP Email: Gareth.Johnson@cilip.org.uk BiographyWith an original background in biomedical science, retail and Web design Gareth switched to working in and for Yorkshire and the Midlands Higher Education libraries in the late 1990s.  During this time he has served as a subject specialist, research & innovation officer, open access advocate and project manager.  Currently he manages the document and distance learning supply, course packs and copyright and institutional repository teams at the mutli-award winning David Wilson Library University of Leicester, UK.  Previous to this he was part of the SPARC Europe award winning SHERPA team at Nottingham. Professionally Gareth has served on a number of local and national committees, including the CILIP Editorial Panel, UCRG National & Forum for Interlending Committees; and as well as being a CILIP Councillor is Vice-Chair of the Forum for Interlending (FIL).  He has published around 20 publications, over 30 book reviews and has also contributed to three other academic texts.  He is also a frequent, popular and engaging workshop facilitator speaking passionately on a broad range of professional issues whenever the opportunity arises. Gareth is an active engager with new technologies, especially those related to the semantic web.  He maintains and interacts with professionals around the world through a range of online presences, generally under his Llordllama handle.Having worked on and with a number of JISC funded projects over the years, Gareth continues to be involved in a number of internal and externally funded activities and initiatives. His notable professional passions include advocacy, copyright, edutainment, communication, leadership, inter-lending, intrepreneurship, open access, and public speaking. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:24:52 +0100 893049 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_dolan.aspx John Dolan (to serve until 31 December 2013)   Postnominals: OBE BA MCLIP Email: john.dolan@cilip.org.uk Biography  As a child in Manchester I went to Harpurhey Library recently replaced by North City Library.  At 13, wise teachers sent me on my first quest to Central Library for a history project. Learn to learn was the real purpose – and that’s how I’ve felt about libraries ever since. I read Spanish at Leeds including a year in (Franco’s) Madrid. In Manchester I worked reshaping library services in the diverse inner city, addressing literacy, reading, learning, community information. Supporting cohesion from within the community, we 60’s kids had become committed community librarians. 1986 to St Helens, to manage libraries, archives and museums in a refreshed community leisure service. Great colleagues who knew the place, its needs and the legacy of a closing coal industry. In Birmingham from 1990, eventually taking responsibility for the city’s huge and elaborate library and archive services, we were responding to a youthful, dynamic city of a million people. Brilliant experience. Latterly I oversaw adult education, youth service, early years, family and lifelong learning. I was seconded to the LIC (1997) with fantastic leadership and a great team, to devise what became The People’s Network. Subsequently implemented by MLA, this was the most transformative intervention in public libraries for decades. From 2000 I started to plan the Library of Birmingham. Not merely big, this would be a new library model for learning, heritage, cultural and community services, in spatial design, digital technologies, partnership, staff and community engagement. From 2006 I headed library policy at MLA but chose to move on in the 2008 restructuring. While there I was privileged to assist with national developments in Bulgaria and India – unique, gratifying experiences. Recently, consultancies include library and regeneration projects. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:13:11 +0100 893050 http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/people/council/Pages/bio_dawson.aspx Andy Dawson (to serve until 31 December 2013) Postnominals: BA MCLIP Email: Andy.Dawson@cilip.org.uk   BiographyAndy is a Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL, where he is Programme Director of the MSc Information Science and MA Electronic Communication and Publishing programmes, and Director of International Relations and Projects for the Department of Information Studies. He originally studied English and Linguistics before working for a year in Lambeth Libraries and then going on to do postgraduate study in LIS at Loughborough. Once qualified he spent 15 years in industry running information and library services for large multinational companies such as Phillips Petroleum and Taylor Woodrow, where he also became a qualified lead assessor for QA and led the Taywood Information Service to gain the first independent BS5750 (ISO9000) quality accreditation for library and information services in the UK. Active in Aslib for many years, he served on Aslib’s council from 1986-1993 and worked for over 20 years on the Aslib Computer Group committee, including long spells in all its executive roles. He was one of the founders of the Information For Energy Group of the Energy Institute and has served as its treasurer since 1986.  He is a chartered member of CILIP and was previously a member of both the LA (since 1982) and the IIS (since 1987). His professional interests focus around information retrieval, human-computer interaction and  systems design, and quality systems, and he is an advocate of drawing together the different strands within the information professions, focusing on commonalities rather than differences, and encouraging hybridisation. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:11:50 +0100 893051 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/14/year-s-worst-books Forget for a minute about goodwill to all men, and vent your spleen against the authors responsible for 2010's worst offences against literatureRejoice! 'Tis the season to be merry! Garland the tree with sprigs of holly! The angels are singing! Father Christmas is coming! Take a break from the rush and the fuss to reflect quietly on your love for your fellow man! Most importantly make declarations of that love, and for whatever your fellow man hath produced, all over the internet. Be it books, films or moments on the X-Factor, there's an internet list waiting for you and … Time for a reality check. We've got a Tory government. The economy is broken. Spike Milligan is still dead. We're one year closer to the day our sun explodes. Banging on about how much you enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's Freedom isn't going to cheer anyone up or change anything. Except maybe making them worry about how much closer they're going to be to death by the time they've waded through its 600-odd pages.What will actually make you feel better is to release some of that tension. Instead of trying to fight the karmic balance and find some fun in this horrible year, just go with the flow. Tell us about the books you really didn't like. It should be a far easier job than telling us about the ones you did. After all, 97.3% of what is published is rubbish.Having said that, as far as this blog goes, I'm disappointed to note that it's been a pretty strong year for English language fiction. The Booker prize went to a fine writer. The shortlist was pretty good too. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, there were decent novels not only by Jonathan Franzen but also by Philip Roth and Bret Easton Ellis. If Martin Amis hadn't published something this year I'd be worrying about novels generating any bile at all.Luckily there have been plenty of genuinely awful books elsewhere. There's been the usual glut of celebrity biographies, for a start. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:51:46 +0100 892699 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/dec/13/george-solomos-obituary Editor of the literary journal Zero which he co-founded in Paris, where he became a social lion of the Left BankGeorge Solomos, who has died aged 85, was the co-founder and editor – under his pen name, Themistocles Hoetis – of the magazine Zero, the first English-language literary journal to be published in Paris after the second world war. The expatriate Left Bank scene in which George quickly established himself as a "social lion", in the words of one friend, included his co-editor Asa Benveniste and the American writers Herbert Gold, Richard Wright and James Baldwin. Also present was a young Norwegian woman, Gidske Anderson, who was known among their circle as Baldwin's "fiancee" but eventually tied the knot with George instead, despite the fact that both men were predominantly homosexual. George claimed that he had changed his name to Hoetis "to save the family honour".The first issue of Zero (in spring 1949) included Baldwin's essay Everybody's Protest Novel, still regarded as a classic critique of the inadequacy of protest fiction. The piece ended with an attack on Wright's novel Native Son, by then a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. As if to illustrate each of Baldwin's critical points, George and Asa also included a "protest" story by Wright. "I wanted to place the old black writer side by side with the new black writer," George told me. "But Wright was furious. He thought we'd set him up."The second issue of Zero contained one of Paul Bowles's most famous stories, The Delicate Prey. George visited Bowles in Tangier, Morocco and they remained friends for many years. When George founded Zero Press in the mid-1950s, the list included Gore Vidal's collection of stories A Thirsty Evil and the first US edition of Ivy Compton-Burnett's Brothers and Sisters. Unfailingly optimistic, George took Jean-Paul Sartre out to lunch to persuade him to write for Zero. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:26:13 +0100 892437 http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/dec/13/heda-margolius-kovaly My mother, Heda Margolius Kovály, who has died aged 91, was a fighter who sought justice and truth all her life. She was born Heda Bloch, into a Jewish family in Prague, and had a carefree life in Czechoslovakia until the German occupation in 1939. Two years later, she and her husband, Rudolf Margolius, together with her parents, were transported to the Lodz ghetto in Poland. She and Rudolf survived, but Heda lost her parents in Auschwitz.With optimism my parents began their postwar life in Prague. Rudolf became a member of the Communist party and, with reluctance, Heda joined too. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, Rudolf became deputy minister of foreign trade. As the economy was failing, scapegoats were being sought. Heda feared for Rudolf's safety and tried to make him leave his post, but he was arrested along with the Communist leader Rudolf Slánský. Accused of "anti-state conspiracy" and sentenced in a show trial, he was executed in December 1952.Heda survived through her determination and managed to look after us both. She translated into Czech the books of well-known German, British and American authors and also designed dust jackets, passing them on to publishers under pseudonyms. In 1955 she married her second husband, Pavel Kovály, using his name to submit her later work.In August 1968, the Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia and Heda fled the country. By then I was living in London and Pavel was lecturing in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined Pavel and subsequently worked at the Harvard Law Library.Heda wrote her biography, Prague Farewell (which was published as Under a Cruel Star in the US), in the early 1970s. It was so well respected that Clive James included a chapter about Heda in his book Cultural Amnesia (2007), a survey of significant personalities of the 20th century.Pavel died in 2006. Heda is survived by me and five grandchildren.Czech RepublicSecond world warguardian.co. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:23:01 +0100 892438 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/13/celebrity-memoirs-bestsellers-autobiography-christmas One celebrity memoir made our reviewer cry – but the rest just bored him to tears. What would reading 11 of them in four days do to his brain?Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas famously begins: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." The first sentence of The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, goes like this: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."But never mind all that. Life & Laughing is the autobiography of Michael McIntyre, the 34-year-old comedian who is now arguably as successful as any standup has ever been. At the time of writing, it has sold 169,210 copies. People like it; at my local WH Smith, it seems to be selling like cut-price gold. It starts: "I am writing this on my new 27-inch iMac. I have ditched my PC and gone Mac . . . It's gorgeous and enormous and I bought it especially to write my book (the one you're reading now)."While we're here, consider also the enticing kick-off passage of My Story, by Dannii Minogue: "Having a baby; joyful, a quiet celebration with family. An intimate and magical moment of discovery shared with your partner. Hmmm . . . I wish!" She goes on: "The car is stuck in rainy London traffic and, as usual, I'm running on what some of my closer friends would call 'Minogue Time', which basically means I'm late." This does not quite get me hooked, though I persevere. But more of that later.To begin The Woman I Was Born To Be, that blessed national treasure Susan Boyle goes for a gnomic statement of the obvious: "My name is Susan Boyle." Cheryl Cole's Through My Eyes commences no less prosaically – "In 2009, we decided to take a break from Girls Aloud. During this time an opportunity came for me to make a solo album" – but it's essentially a picture book, so maybe I should leave off. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:59:01 +0100 892432 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62551 Via the Readex Blog: Readex hosted a special breakfast event focusing on the use of digital resources for historical research at the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference on Sunday, June 27 in Washington, D.C. Our speakers were James McGrath Morris, author of the acclaimed new biography Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:16:40 +0100 892250 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-for-chapters-marketing-methods-for.html Call for Chapters: Marketing Methods for LibrariesSeeking Submissions from U.S. Practicing LibrariansMarketing Methods for LibrariesBook Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.Co-editor: Carol Smallwood, MLSWriting and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, American Library Association 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2646Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook, American Library Association, 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2774Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians, McFarland, 2008http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3Co-editor: Roxanne Myers Spencer, MSLS, MAEd; Associate Professor and Coordinator, Western Kentucky University Libraries' Educational Resources Center. Spencer also teaches in WKU's Library Media Education, reviews for School Library Journal, and belongs to several professional organizations.Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing practical know-how about alerting the public what libraries contribute, why they deserve support even in tight economic times.Possible topics: working with the media; National Library Week Activities; library newsletters; community outreach; service organization participation; holding political office; online promotion; working with elected local/state officials; holding open house.Concise, how-to chapters using bullets, headings, based on experience to help colleagues promote their library. No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. Up to three co-authors/one complimentary copy per chapter as compensation; 3,000-4,000 words.To receive a Go Ahead, please e-mail 2-3 topics each described in 2-3 sentences by February 28, 2011 with your biography sketch. You will be contacted which of your topics are not duplications, inviting you to e-mail your submission. Please place MARKETING/your name on the subject line: smallwood@tm.net (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/11/etcetera-reviews-roundup-steven-poole Disconnect by Devra Davis, Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran by Annabelle Sreberny & Gholam Khiabany and Enter Night: Metallica, the Biography by Mick WallDisconnect, by Devra Davis (Dutton, £18.99)When you talk on your mobile phone, do you hold it an inch away from your ear? No, me neither. So why exactly do all phones sold today come with a tiny warning buried somewhere in the documentation not to hold them too close to the body? (I checked mine: it says at least 15mm away, which rules out carrying it in a pocket.) And why won't insurance companies insure phone makers against health lawsuits? You don't need to be wearing a tinfoil hat to find epidemiologist Davis's story very interesting. She interviews many scientists who claim their work showing harmful effects of mobile-phone radiation was suppressed, accused of fraud, or followed quickly by obscurantist industry-sponsored "research".According to Davis's description of various studies, mobile-phone radiation kills reproductive cells in fruit-flies and breaks DNA in rats' brains. Analyses show heavy mobile-phone use in humans to be correlated with increased rates of brain and face tumours. Davis won't say "mobile phones cause cancer", but she makes a persuasive case – despite the emotive inclusion of individual case studies that, as she knows, prove nothing – for caution. Ladies and gentlemen, don your headsets.Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran, by Annabelle Sreberny & Gholam Khiabany (IB Tauris, £14.99)Western pontificators called it a "Twitter revolution" when disaffected young Iranians took to the net in the wake of the 2009 election results, but the authors of this excellent study are sceptical: "Twitter functioned mainly as a huge echo chamber of solidarity messages from global voices that simply slowed the general speed of traffic [. . .] the 'real' action remained on Iranian streets and rooftops. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:06:39 +0100 891873 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/11/celebrity-memoirs-christmas-roundup John Dugdale discerns some palpable hits among the dudsLast year's showbiz autobiographies brought the genre into disrepute: the public sensibly shunned insipid efforts from TV stars they were assumed to adore; booksellers complained sales too often failed to match the hype because the market had been flooded with mediocrity; and the high dud-to-hit ratio forced chastened publishers to reassess the merits of flinging money annually at a handful of B-listers in the hope that one will produce a book that matches the million-selling success of Peter Kay's The Sound of Laughter.Expectations (and no doubt advances) are accordingly lower for the class of 2010, who have come up with a variety of responses to the perennial problem: how do you write about fame and other celebrities?Pre-fame only. Problem solved: you don't. A popular tactic, since it worked for Kay, which is this year best represented by Paul O'Grady. Even though The Devil Rides Out (Bantam, £20) is his second memoir, he's only just started to drag up as Lily Savage in its closing pages; yet he writes so well, and takes you so skilfully into disparate Merseyside and London subcultures, that few readers will feel cheated.Frustration is more likely with Michael McIntyre's chatty Life and Laughing (Michael Joseph, £20), as accepting that a book is confined to cataloguing youthful blushes and blunders is easier when that's a positive choice, not a disconcerting recourse. He says he aimed to include the years after his breakthrough but eventually realised that "writing about success is actually dull, so I deleted it". Simon Pegg should have taken the same decision in Nerd Do Well (Century, £18.99), as the film-obsessed comic's gushing when he meets Spielberg, Lucas et al in the second half swiftly becomes trying.Protracted press release. You Only Live Once (Century, £18. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:06:26 +0100 891882 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/11/stocking-fillers-ian-sansom-reviews Ian Sansom on little gifts that can mean so muchTime once again to choose those books best suited as gifts for fathers, uncles, aunts and other "hard-to-buy-fors". The Atheist's Guide to Christmas (Friday Books, £8.99) features essays by Richard Dawkins, Derren Brown, Charlie Brooker, Brian Cox, Ed Byrne and other TV people. The gist of most of the pieces is best summed up by the late Claire Rayner's contribution in which she announces "Pooh to Deep Meanings". And wee to them also. Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere (Aurum, £10.99) is an A-Z of useful urine facts: the German artist who injected bananas with urine; the uses of pig wee and urine bombs. The book is compiled by Sally Magnusson, who presents Songs of Praise. It's as if Thora Hird had written The Biography of Malcolm X.Life of Pee is of that sub-genre of books that one might call quirky reference. There are many contenders for the crown of best QR, but the undisputed heavyweight of the lightweight remains QI, the BBC panel game. QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance (Faber, £12.99), edited by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, contains everything one might wish for and expect, including a snuggly "Forethought" from Stephen Fry. Fry fans might also enjoy Mrs Fry's Diary (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99). Or they might not. A spin-off from the spoof Twitter character, it is dedicated to "Stephen and the bills". 1 January: "Made our New Year's resolutions. Mine is to be even more patient and understanding than I already am and Stephen's is to give up swearing. And kebabs. And karaoke. And tequila. And her at number 38."Other celebrities with bills to pay include Clare Balding, whose delightful Britain By Bike (Batsford, £16.99) is based on a TV series, and Roger Sterling, with Sterling's Gold (Grove Press, £12.99), though Sterling isn't strictly speaking a celebrity. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:06:23 +0100 891884 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/10/keith-richards-kills-orchid Rolling Stones guitarist reportedly kills rare flower in New York Public Library with second-hand smokeWhen Keith Richards encountered a library plant, only one of them walked away. The Rolling Stone has been blamed for killing an orchid at a library in New York, sending it to its death with a few puffs of cigarette smoke.The orchid, a Phalaenopsis amabilis, resided at the main branch of the New York Public Library, where Richards spoke on 29 October. The guitarist had been given a tour of the premises, finishing with an invitation to sit "backstage", in the office of Marie d'Origny, deputy director of the library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. When D'Origny returned a little while later, Richards was smoking a cigarette, the office window open, and according to the library's blog, "between the cold and the smoke, the little orchid never stood a chance".It took four days for the orchid's 12 white flowers to tumble from the stem, the New York Daily News reports. But there was no rescuing it. RIP Phalaenopsis amabilis. Luckily for the library workers, Richards was "very much a gentleman", according to D'Origny, and not at all "the devilish rock star". As if sensing his influence on the orchid, Richards even autographed the clay saucer it was sitting in, which he had used as an ashtray. "He extinguished the cigarette in the sign of the cross and signed it, 'Thanks, Keith Richards, 2010,'" D'Origny said.Richards was at the library to read from his new memoir, titled, er, Life.Keith RichardsThe Rolling StonesPop and rockBiographySmokingPlantsLibrariesSean Michaelsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:33:48 +0100 891693 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/09/judging-pop-lyrics-without-music Mocking a song by looking at its lyrics without the music is like judging a painting on a section you've cut outIn a piece published on this website last Friday, Johnny Sharp diagnosed a phenomenon he calls DAMPE, or, the "Deep and Meaningless Pop Epic". To support his theory, Sharp picks out a selection of "vaguely triumphant, vaguely uplifting" lyrics from (some hard targets coming up) bands such as Boyzone, Westlife, Duran Duran and Take That.But Sharp's sights are a little off, and his conceit – that we can sensibly judge songs largely on the basis of their lyrics in isolation – is nonsense.The lyrics he mentions, for the most part, seem to bear all the hallmarks of the sort of widescreen vacancy indicated by the withering DAMPE label. We read of the familiar long roads, lost loves, analogical flowers, and such other platitudes. But as any reader prepared to exercise a little judgment or a little charity will know, lyrics were not composed to be read in this detached way, nor are they received as such under normal conditions of convenience. When words are set to music their syntax is captured and drastically decoded. Everything depends on context. We are moved when Robert Johnson sings, on repeat, "Oh, baby don't you want to go", both because we know the weighty biography attached to that artist, and because we hearken to the grain and the tremor with which they are delivered.The musical elevates the lyrical here, which latter in any case simply can't occur without the former. Lacking music, they would simply be words. In a different setting, the Robert Johnson lyrics could sound gauche. Similarly, it is conceivable that the line "Christmas night, another fight", could be the site of some sort of deep and meaningful musical communication. At the head of Coldplay's new single, however, charged with such a limp delivery and such a stale and pale harmonic setting as these words are, they simply sound annoying. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:07:09 +0100 891568 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4032 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis 2010 Animal Law Conference: Dr. Sheri Speede Keynote Address October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need – Keynote Address on Saturday Dr. Sheri Speede – Founder, In Defense of Animals – Africa Introductions and welcome: Jessica Su Johnson - 3L, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund co-director, Lewis & Clark Law School Robert Klonoff – Dean and professor of law, Lewis & Clark Law School Pamela Frasch – Assistant dean, Animal Law Program; executive director, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School Natalie Calta – 3L, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund volunteer coordinator, Lewis & Clark Law School In 1995 Dr. Sheri Speede sold her interest in a large veterinary practice in Portland, Oregon so she could commit her time to animal activism. As Northwest Director of In Defense of Animals, a non-profit organization based in Mill Valley, California, Dr. Speede advocated for companion animals, as well as victims of biomedical research, factory farms and circuses. In addition, she was able to provide veterinary care to animals in sanctuaries, including primates in Cameroon, Africa. Her two trips to Cameroon in 1997 soon changed the course of her life. Since 1998 Dr. Speede has lived in Cameroon. With a mission to ensure that endangered chimpanzees survive in their natural habitats, she founded the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center and In Defense of Animals-Africa (IDA-Africa). At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, located in Cameroon’s Mbargue Forest, Dr. Speede and her staff currently provide sanctuary for 69 chimpanzees orphaned by the illegal ape meat trade. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:03:04 +0100 891582 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=3970 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis No Dog Left Behind – Hospice Patients & Their Companion Animals October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page No Dog Left Behind – Hospice Patients & Their Companion Animals Mark Cushing – Chair, Government Relations and Public Policy Practice Group, Tonkon Torp LLP Dianne McGill – Executive Director and CEO, Banfield Charitable Trust The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:46:34 +0100 891583 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4056 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need –  New Voices in Animal Law October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need –  New Voices in Animal Law Alberto Arguello – Senior legal advisor, La Fundacion AMARTE (Nicaragua) Michael Hemker – Deputy district attorney, Shasta County District Attorney’s Office Cara Hunt – Articled student, The Law Centre Community Legal Aid Clinic (Canada) The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:22:12 +0100 891584 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/08/simples-template-literary-ad-spinoffs With The Simples Life clearing up at the Christmas tills, get ready for more books based on advertising campaignsSurely the most dispiriting entry in the ranks of celebrity biogs massing on the periphery of the Christmas shopping battlefield – and now set, seemingly, to top the charts this Christmas – must be The Simples Life: The Life and Times of Alexandr Orlov. While Orlov's celebrity status is hard to deny, the arrival of a fake biography of a puppet character from a car insurance advert seems to be accompanied by the sound of several nails being hammered in all kinds of coffins. Of course, at this time of year, we've come to expect a slew of books about entertainers, and even books by fictional characters – witness the new book "by" Mad Men's Roger Sterling – but there's something depressingly 21st-century about a biography of a Russian meerkat who doesn't even advertise an actual product – he's the face of insurance comparison website comparethemarket.com.Companies hitting commercial gold with their ad characters isn't anything massively new – McDonald's spawned toys and books about their Hamburglar and Mayor McCheese characters, Vauxhall had a minor hit with the (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:13:18 +0100 891266 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62456 From a BBC Article: A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes. The document was found after a journalist came across a reference to it in a Leonardo biography, the library said. It was among 5,000 manuscripts donated by [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:31:50 +0100 891204 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4037 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis The Equine Victims of the Recession – Economic Hardships Resulting in Horse Abandonment & Neglect October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page The Equine Victims of the Recession – Economic Hardships Resulting in Horse Abandonment & Neglect Laura Allen - Founder and executive director, Animal Law Coalition The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. NOTE: This was originally recorded on tape and ran longer than the tape so it ends abruptly. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:02:24 +0100 891585 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/07/just-my-type-simon-garfield-review Jonathan Glancey comes face to face with the old masters of typographySimon Garfield tells the seemingly crackpot story of Cyrus Highsmith, a New York type designer who decided to live without Helvetica for a day. Helvetica is the Alpine-clear, sans-serif Swiss typeface designed by Max Miedinger in 1957. When he woke up, Highsmith had virtually nothing to wear: the washing instructions in most of his clothes were set in Helvetica. He forsook his regular breakfast yoghurt: Helvetica label. Hungry, he dashed to the subway unable to pick up a copy of the New York Times because it employs Helvetica. So does the New York subway. No train ride. The menu in his regular Chinese restaurant was printed in Helvetica. No lunch. It was hard to buy anything as his credit cards and the new dollar bills in his wallet were also set in you know what. Back home and flopped in front of the TV, Highsmith was unable to switch on and relax because the remote control was a typographical hell of Helvetica, too.Type, as Highsmith proved, matters. How much of it, or how many typefaces we need, is one thing; the fact that they have become inescapable and fast-breeding parts of everyday life is another. Wherever Roman lettering prevails, some typefaces, such as Helvetica, Times New Roman, Gill Sans and Comic Sans, are all but universal, while others, including the divine Doves Type, cut by Edward Prince for Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, artist and bookbinder for William Morris, are not so much rare as extinct. Having set his covetable Doves Press Bible in this peerless font in 1902, Cobden-Sanderson was haunted by the idea that it might be used for less worthy books in future. Before he died, he made more than 100 trips to Hammersmith Bridge to dump every last bit of Doves into the Thames.Type is evidently the stuff of passion. Strange passions, too. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:16:16 +0100 891022 http://ricklibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/edge-of-maine-by-geoffrey-wolff.html When I met Bonnie in 1981, she had recently visited the coast of Maine with her family. The rocky shores, woods, and water sounded beautiful to me. For thirty years now it has been one of the places that I have wanted to go but have not. Luckily, I have books. Looking for novelist Geoffrey Wolff's new biography of Captain Joshua Slocum, I discovered his 2005 book of personal travel essays The Edge of Maine.Wolff has been summering with his family in Maine for decades, usually approaching the state from the water. If they do not arrive in their boat Blackwing, they rent a boat and sails among the many small islands and up the navigable rivers. From this viewpoint Wolff has seen many changes since the 1960s, most of them for the better. Polluting factories have closed, threatened developments have been stopped, and dams have been removed. The result is that many of the dead zones are again teeming with life. Some endangered birds and fish have reappeared where they once thrived. There are still environmental problems (especially overfishing), but the shores and waters are much cleaner now than when the Corps of Army Engineers and manufacturers were making most of the shoreline decisions.Local interests now support a clean environment, but it has not always been so. Factories were once courted by the many waterside towns to provide jobs and tax revenue, but most of the manufacturers have taken their business abroad to countries with lower wages and fewer regulations. Tourism and retirement living are now more important to the Maine economy, and both require natural beauty restored.Boating is the interest that draws Wolff to Maine. As he tells it, the waters of Maine are quite challenging for amateur sailors. His hair-raising story about losing his way in unexpected fog while trying cross a treacherous bit of open water makes me certain that if I ever go, I'll stay on shore. Until then, I'll enjoy my armchair and continue read adventurous travel memoirs. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891172 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=8685 The following changes were made to the PubMed Limits screen in November 2010. Subsets Two subsets were added: Dietary Supplement Veterinary Science Publication Types Two new Publication Types were added to the Limits menu Autobiography Video-Audio Media Header change The header over the selections Male and Female were changed from “Gender” to “Sex.” Follow this link to read about the changes in the NLM’s Technical Bulletin: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd10/nd10_diet_vet.html   [rb]   (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:38:28 +0100 890905 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/06/bookselling-merry-christmas For all the kvetching about the digital era, the books world's vital signs are looking very healthyAt the end of a week in which Google announced the launch of its long-awaited e-reader, and at the end of a year in which the digitised text swept all before it (sales of ebooks in the USA now approach $1,000m (£638m) you might think that the game was up for traditional publishing, or that the conventional book was history.Not a bit of it. Three items of current, unrelated book news suggest that now – as never before – the printed word remains in rude good health, despite the merchants of doom.First, there's World Book Night, the great book giveaway scheduled for 5 March 2011, and masterminded by Canongate's Jamie Byng. Put aside the inevitable carping that such a bold and imaginative scheme is bound to excite. The headline news is that the reading public will be getting tens of thousands of free (rather good) books courtesy of Seamus Heaney, John le Carré, Philip Pullman, Sarah Waters, and several others. What's not to like?Next, I note that Random House is currently cleaning up in the British non-fiction bestseller list with the ghosted autobiography of a little furry animal of Russian extraction, the meerkat Alexsandr Orlov, star of the meerkat.com TV advert. Nothing new here. JR Hartley, the old chap who starred in the 1983 Yellow Pages advert in search of a book about Fly Fishing later became a genuine bestseller when an enterprising publisher commissioned a faux-fishing classic. Again, an example of consumer preferences for the quasi-literary entertainment in book form.Finally, on a slightly more elevated note, Hilary Mantel, 2009 Booker-winner has written Ink in the Blood, a short memoir of her recent terrifying post-operative hospital experience last summer. ... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:17:28 +0100 890761 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/06/unknown-philip-larkin-poem-found-shoebox Address to the poet's secretary and lover Betty Mackereth surfaces among old university papersA missing piece in the portrait drawn by Philip Larkin of his secretary and lover, Betty Mackereth, has been filled in with the discovery of a previously unpublished poem, "Dear Jake".Discovered in a tatty envelope for internal Hull University communications among a shoebox full of letters, the poem is a touching address to a woman who brought some happiness to the latter period of Larkin's life.The poem was found by the producer Simon Pass during the making of a documentary about the poet's relationship with Mackereth, due to be shown on BBC4 tomorrow night, to mark 25 years since his death in 1985. According to Pass, the fact that the poem was typed is a signal that this should be considered "a completed piece".Pass said that the manuscript was enclosed with a card from Larkin saying, "This is for you. You can sell it later on," and explaining that it should be read in conjunction with "Posterity", his 1968 poem imagining a cynical biographer misunderstanding his life.The former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, who first revealed the relationship in a biography of Larkin published in 1993 and who presents the programme, said that while the poem is "not absolutely premier division Larkin", it is a marvellous discovery."It's a little, new piece of the jigsaw," he said, "which gives a very sweet and touching picture of this episode of his life". Larkin's relationship with his secretary changed in 1976 after the poet suggested she should invite him in for coffee, he explained, though as she had been his secretary for 19 years "he didn't exactly pounce". "Dear Jake" dates from this year. ... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:32:42 +0100 890759 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/05/decoded-jay-z-review Jay-Z's memoir is scrappy but it succeeds in demonstrating that he should never be underestimatedIf one moment can be identified as the one in which Jay-Z – product of a Brooklyn housing project turned hip-hop impresario – crossed over to the mainstream in this country, it was surely his appearance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross last year. Introducing the rapper and his fellow guest David Attenborough, Ross dispatched a camera-carrying robot to their respective dressing rooms, which fed back footage to a computer on his desk."What did we expect?" mein host asked as shots of a suited man making a phone call appeared from Jay-Z's room. "It's business-like, professional, they're doing worldwide deals." Then into the great naturalist's room snuck the camera and to general hilarity revealed half-a-dozen figures in gorilla suits, jumping up and down and swigging champagne, each sporting a gold chain seemingly identical to the one that Jay, back in the green room, was wearing himself.Perhaps it's understandable that the 83-year-old Attenborough should have missed the racially charged undertones of this gag. Nor, given everything we know about Ross, is it surprising that he should think it amusing to let viewers draw the conclusion that rappers are, well, nothing more than party-hardened apes. But what Jay-Z really made of it was impossible to tell: better than most pop performers he understands the power of a metaphor, but he simply laughed, too, and put his own gold chain around Attenborough's neck. Not for anything would he give himself away, or be anything less than gracious.This episode isn't retold in Decoded, which is not an autobiography but rather a scrappy memoir, containing much of the Jay-Z creation myth, but nothing, for example, about his relationship with his wife and rival performer Beyoncé. ... Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:04:01 +0100 890354 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/04/fernando-pessoa-portuguese-writer-multiple-faces Through nearly 80 literary alter egos, the Portuguese writer created an imaginative space that resonates todayThe melancholy writer Fernando Pessoa, who died 75 years ago this week, was likely unaware of the effect he would have on Portugal decades later. Pessoa is still read by new students of literature, and older readers who constantly rediscover his work. He has been immortalised in statue form outside Lisbon's beautiful Brasileira cafe, and performances, exhibitions, and films pay him consistent tribute. There is even a table football in his old house-turned-museum – 11 wooden Pessoas competing against a cast of artistic and literary figures.The cult of personality surrounding Pessoa is captivating, because he was relatively unknown while alive, and revealed himself as the most multifarious of writers after his sudden death. In a trunk of more than 25,000 pages of manuscript discovered after he died were writings by nearly 80 people, or "heteronyms", created in Pessoa's lifetime. These were literary alter egos that all had differing views on the big subjects: life, death, modern tedium; and the conflict between rational thought and human emotions.Each heteronym was given a biography, psychology, politics, religion, even physical description, and the main characters were interconnected. Alberto Caeiro, for example, was an uneducated, unemployed man of the country who was seen by Ricardo Reis – a doctor and classicist – and Álvaro de Campos – a naval engineer, dandy and traveller – as a master writer. All three men were poets, and wrote with their own styles and beliefs, contradicting each other and together forming a kind of manifesto for the variations of self internalised through the act of writing.Bernardo Soares was another major persona; a clerk who detailed in prosaic resignation the tediousness of work, life, the city and the futility of desire. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0100 890286 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/dec/04/ibsen-master-builder-toril-moi An older man is insensitive to his wife and takes up with a younger woman. He is desperate to keep death at bay. No Ibsen play is more autobiographical than The Master Builder, argues Toril MoiIn the autumn of 1891, the 32-year-old Knut Hamsun plastered Kristiania with posters announcing that he would give three lectures on Norwegian literature. This was in part a money-raising publicity stunt, in part a genuine attempt to challenge the literary establishment. The previous year he had published Hunger, a remarkable novel about a young writer starving in the streets of Kristiania. Immediately recognised as the voice of a new generation, Hamsun was the rising star of Norwegian letters. Today, Hunger is acknowledged as one of the first masterpieces of European modernism.Hamsun knew how to create a buzz. On 7 October the lecture hall was filled to overflowing. In the front row sat the greatest names of contemporary Norwegian culture: Fridtjof Nansen (the polar explorer), Edvard Grieg and, above all, Henrik Ibsen. Undaunted, Hamsun launched into a blistering attack on every venerated writer in Norwegian literature, including Ibsen. His plays lacked psychological depth, Hamsun declared, partly because Ibsen was a bad thinker and a bad writer, and partly because the theatre was a doomed art form, unsuited to subtle psychological analysis. Whenever Ibsen tried to be profound, Hamsun claimed, the result was wooden, unclear, overly symbolic and plain boring. Ibsen was fascinated: two days later, he returned for the second lecture.The 63-year-old Ibsen attended Hamsun's lectures with Hildur Andersen, a 27-year-old concert pianist, the daughter of family friends. His wife Suzannah had left for Italy, and would not return until January. According to Ivo de Figueiredo's biography (unfortunately not yet available in English), Ibsen's marriage had recently taken a dramatic turn for the worse. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:48 +0100 890159 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/fela-bitch-life-carlos-moore-review by Aimee ShalanApparently the name of legendary Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, means "the one who emanates greatness, who carries death in his quiver and who cannot be killed by human entity". Tough to live up to, but remarkably he somehow managed it. This unique biography, first published in 1982 and based on hours of conversation with the subject, is an intriguing concoction of Fela's first-person vernacular, interviews with 15 of his 27 wives and Carlos Moore's personal voice in a poignant epilogue. It offers an intimate insight into a musician, mystic and political activist of extraordinary vision, chauvinism, principle and contradiction, as well as the suffering of his "queens", who were the victims of a brutal attack by police on his compound. Controversy continues to dog Fela's story, with Moore starting court proceedings against the American producers of the musical about his life (which recently transferred to the National Theatre), claiming they used his biography to develop the show without his consent.Fela KutiAimee Shalanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:44 +0100 890160 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/life-times-nadine-gordimer-review Two new collections map Nadine Gordimer's engagement with the moral dimension of her art. By Mark Gevisser"The moment when I am no longer more than a writer, I will cease to write." This statement by Albert Camus is Nadine Gordimer's credo, she tells us in a 2006 essay collected in Telling Times, (Telling Times: Writing and Living 1950-2008, Bloomsbury, £35), the magisterial anthology of her non-fiction written since 1950, which serves as a companion to Life Times, a new collection of her short stories.Camus's statement helps to explain the vitality of this extraordinary writer and the moral gaze she has cast – arch and rigorous – over literature and politics in the past 60 years. It explains why she took herself off to Israel/Palestine well into her 80s to give a lecture on the need to bear witness. It also surely explains why, at the age of 87, she recently decided to lead South African writers in protest against the moves towards restricting press freedom by the ruling African National Congress, the movement she has long supported.In early essays Gordimer noted the lack of a Camus-like figure, the philosopher-novelist, in anglophone literature. These new collections demonstrate how assiduously she has set out to establish for herself such a role, from her "beautiful old tin-roofed house with room for my books", with Johannesburg's mine-dumps and tough black townships just beyond. She is intensely conscious of her position as a white South African who saw, early on, the evil being done in her name and thus became a "minority-within-a-minority". She has taken what she believes to be her primary burden and turned it into a lifelong moral quest: to be a writer by being more than a writer. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:37 +0100 890149 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/tea-lords-hella-haasse-review Julian Evans welcomes the arrival, at long last, of a story of Dutch colonialismHella S Haasse's novels have been familiar to her Dutch readers for decades, but she has almost never made the transition into English. There's no obvious explanation, unless it is that her work is not flashy enough and too difficult to make a fuss of. We have been the losers: it is exactly her unflashy quality that is remarkable, the way her stories derive an unostentatious strength from her steady, irresistible immersion in her characters' lives.The Tea Lords, published in the Netherlands in 1992 and now well rendered into English by Ina Rilke, is Haasse's first appearance here for 15 years. It is one of her largest-scale exercises in fictional sympathy: a portrayal of three generations of Dutch colonial experience in the East Indies, and altogether more forgiving than Multatuli's classic 1860 novel, Max Havelaar, which sweepingly denounced his country's abuses. (Multatuli appears in Haasse's narrative as a distant cousin-by-marriage and is given fair, if mocking, treatment for his vanity and egotism, especially where women were concerned.) Haasse's intention in The Tea Lords is not to slay the monster of colonialism again, but to seek out a representative family's story – a product of its time rather than its greediest architect or blackest sheep.Rudolf Kerkhoven is a well educated, honourable, keen young prig from Delft, a victim of his own conservatism who often "behave[s] more stiffly than he would have wished". Bitten by the East Indies adventure in the early 1870s, he takes ship for Java and plunges into the uncleared jungle foothills of the mountains of west Java to follow his father as a tea planter. Rudolf is reticent, determined, thrifty, always aspiring to virtue; only many years later, and on silent slippered feet, do the consequences of that character steal, devastatingly, into the picture. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:28 +0100 890169 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/levi-strauss-patrick-wilcken-review David Lan welcomes a biography of the man once hailed as the world's most famous academicIt had been pouring with rain. The hard, red soil of the Zambezi valley had turned to mud. All around me people were hurrying to their fields, taking advantage of this deluge to cut trenches with their hoes to prepare for the sowing of next season's crop. And suddenly I understood everything that had been puzzling me about the origin myth of these people among whom, as a student anthropologist, I'd been doing fieldwork for the past year.The mythological "first man" was said to have come from the south, from where that day's rain clouds were also riding. His name was Mutota, which means "the wet one". The contradiction I had to account for was this: when local people answer the question "who brings the rain?", they always say that it's under the control of the ancestral spirits of the people who lived in this territory before Mutota, their ancestor, arrived and conquered it. And yet, at the same time, it's an uncontested fact that "Mutota brings the rain".If you're not tantalised by this paradox, Patrick Wilcken's biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss – the first in English – is probably not for you. But for me, and for thousands of students of social anthropology in the 1970s and 80s, Strauss, Lévi and Claude were the most intoxicating words in any language.And this despite the fact that very few of us, I'd bet, actually read his books. We whizzed through introductions and maybe an early chapter or two, but his major works – the four-volume Mythologiques and The Elementary Structures of Kinship – are not for the faint-hearted.Yet he was telling us something important: that all societies are as complex, as sophisticated, as rule-bound and as interesting as our own. The conventional comparative indicators of success were (are) wealth accumulation and levels of technology. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:24 +0100 890170 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/sue-arnold-audiobook-reviews Handling Edna by Barry Humphries, Livin' the Dreem by Harry Hill and A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn FrenchHandling Edna, written and read by Barry Humphries (4hrs abridged, Orion, £18.99)Here's a conundrum. Barry Humphries makes me laugh; Dame Edna Everage, his alter ego, doesn't. Or at least not as much as the author describing how a suburban housewife took over his life. I'm not sure how it comes across in print. Without Humphries switching from Edna's famously strangulated falsetto to his own more often than not bewildered voice, surely most of the jokes are lost. Then again, what makes me laugh won't necessarily amuse you, though I defy anyone not to crack up at the description of the nativity play in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, in 1954, where he first saw her onstage: "A limp red curtain hung athwart the small stage, and as the lights convulsively dimmed it was thus to the tune of 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus' that the curtain parted to reveal a bustling square in old Jerusalem. The stage swarmed with people – an effective use, I noticed, had been made of bath towels, dressing gowns and burnt cork. The players threw themselves enthusiastically into the roles of beggars, rabbis and non-specific Arabs . . ." But none is as enthusiastic as Mary Magdalene, who erupts onstage in a scarlet (if biblically inauthentic) muumuu and addresses a weary Jesus with the immortal lines: "Christ, your feet look awful. Let me give them a little TLC." How the two team up and how Dame Edna's meteoric rise to superstar status eventually eclipsed Humphries's own solo stage career is curiously unsettling. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:22 +0100 890172 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/04/ivana-lowell-father-memoir Ivana Lowell's childhood was punctuated by disaster, including sexual abuse. But worst of all, she says, was finding out that her father wasn't who she'd thoughtHad Ivana Lowell decided to turn her life into a novel, so far-fetched and brimming with disaster would it be that nobody would have believed it. Even a new therapist who asked Ivana to summarise significant events in her life – maternal neglect, sexual abuse, a near fatal childhood accident, losing her father, stepfather and sister before the age of 13, marriage to a drug addict, years of alcoholism and rehab, and finding out that the man she thought was her father was not – looked at her and said: "Oh my God, that's one of the worst stories I've ever heard."As Ivana's mother liked to say every time some new tragedy befell the family: "This is too bad, even for us." Then they would laugh about it, which is how they always got through."In the cab on the way back from the shrink," remembers Ivana, sitting straight-backed in a hotel bar in London, her wide eyes a little nervy, "I remember thinking: You know what, I think I am pretty amazing to have survived that. I had never thought of myself in those terms before." It was partly that realisation a few years ago that made Ivana decide to write her memoir, Why Not Say What Happened? (the title comes from a line in a poem by her stepfather, the American poet Robert Lowell), which is bookended by the discovery – and then the truth – that her real father might not be the man she thought he was. It begins at lunch in February 1996, in New York, the day after her mother had died, when her mother's friend says to Ivana, somewhat out of the blue: "Of course, you do know who your real father was, don't you?"She was born Ivana Citkowitz in 1966 in New York. ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:05:20 +0100 890173 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/madreads/index.php/2010/12/03/caldecott-gold-2011-predictions-anyone/ Last year, around this time, I reviewed some picture books which I believed were strong contenders for the Caldecott Medal.  The Caldecott Medal is “awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.”  Yet in past years the committee has chosen not only picture books for this distinction but also highly illustrated non-fiction books and even a highly illustrated work of children’s fiction (The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures).   This year amongst the others, two noteworthy contenders are non-fiction books. In the Wild, by David Elliott, illustrated by Holly Meade.  Elliott’s collection of poems highlighting individual species of animals is wonderfully complimented by Meade’s illustrations.  Using woodblock prints and watercolor Meade has beautifully illustrated each featured animal and it’s habitat.  Meade’s work is representational and yet supplies lots of detail, and she allows the reader to see the textures that can come through using woodblock printing as a medium.  Her use of light and shadow adds detail, and her lines evoke each animals movement and attitude. Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow, by Gary Golio, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe.  Golio has written a biography of Jimi Hendrix, from his childhood in Seattle, to his early years as a professional musician.  Steptoe’s mixed media illustrations are vibrant, loud, reflective of their subject, and highly original.   In fact, original is the word that most quickly comes to my mind as I pour over Steptoe’s illustrations. Chalk, by Bill Thomson.  This wordless picture book is a marvel, combining highly realistic illustrations with a storyline that is pure fantasy.  Three friends are out walking on a rainy day and come across some chalk. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:47:09 +0100 890242 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/dec/03/alan-bennett-first-book-award In the week of the Guardian first book award 2010, we go to the ceremony at London's Victoria and Albert Museum to listen in on the announcement. We hear from the winner, Alexandra Harris, about how she reshaped a doctoral thesis into a prize-winning book. She explains why she is so fascinated by English culture between the wars, and how cooking and gardening are as much a part of the artistic landscape for her as art and literature.In a rare interview with Alan Bennett, we hear how having cancer put a new energy into his writing, how he is finally happy to talk about his sexuality, and why he couldn't have done so before his parents died.We also discover what a group of Bristol sixth formers thought of Russell Hoban when they came to hear him talk to the Guardian book club about his 30-year-old classic of speculative fiction, Riddley Walker. Reading list Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (Bloomsbury)Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris (Thames & Hudson)A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett (Faber)Claire ArmitsteadTim Maby (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:30:41 +0100 890152 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=3937 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Animal Law Academics Workshop – Using the Classes We Have, Getting the Classes We Need October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies Animal Law Academics Workshop – Using the Classes We Have, Getting the Classes We Need Carter Dillard – Director of litigation, Animal Legal Defense Fund Pamela Frasch – Assistant Dean, Animal Law Program; Executive Director, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School Joyce Tischler – founder and general counsel, Animal Legal Defense Fund Janice Weis – Associate dean and director, Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program, Lewis & Clark Law School The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:41:56 +0100 890192 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4001 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Animal Advocacy Approaches – Movements Moving Forward October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Animal Advocacy Approaches – Movements Moving Forward Lee Hall – Vice president of legal affairs, Friends of Animals Paul Shapiro – Senior director, Factory Farming Campaign, The Humane Society of the United States The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:21:32 +0100 890193 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4005 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need - Using Environmental Laws to Crack Down on Animal Agriculture October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need - Using Environmental Laws to Crack Down on Animal Agriculture Kathy Hessler – Professor of law and clinic director, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School Bruce Myers – Senior attorney, Environmental Law Institute The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:18:46 +0100 890194 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4010 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Non-Native Species Management Strategy – What is the Answer? October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Non-Native Species Management Strategy – What is the Answer? Kathy Hessler – Professor of law and clinic director, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School Daniel Simberloff - Nancy Gore Hunger professor of environmental studies, University of Tennessee The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:15:31 +0100 890195 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4021 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis MCLE Ethics – Breakfast for Lawyers October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page MCLE Ethics – Breakfast for Lawyers Steve Johansen – Professor of law, Lewis & Clark Law School Russ Mead - General counsel, Farm Sanctuary The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:10:48 +0100 890196 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4015 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Federal Subsidies & CAFOs – The Government’s Love Affair with Animal Agriculture October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Federal Subsidies & CAFOs – The Government’s Love Affair with Animal Agriculture Paul Shapiro – Senior director, Factory Farming Campaign, The Humane Society of the United States Paige Tomaselli – Staff Attorney, Center for Food Safety The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:08:03 +0100 890197 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4041 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need –  Survival of Wild & Domesticated Animals in Natural & Man-Made Disasters October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need –  Survival of Wild & Domesticated Animals in Natural & Man-Made Disasters Russ Mead - General counsel, Farm Sanctuary Carla Boreham - Legislative Affairs Manager, World Society for the Protection of Animals The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:04:27 +0100 890198 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4026 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need – Student Breakfast October 17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need – Student Breakfast Nicole Pallotta - Student liaison, Animal Law Program, Animal Legal Defense Fund Nancy Perry – Vice president of government affairs, The Humane Society of the United States Josh Soper – Editor-in-chief, Animal Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law School The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 17th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:38:10 +0100 890199 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4049 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Hot Topics in Animal Law – Legislation & Litigation October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Hot Topics in Animal Law – Legislation & Litigation Matthew Liebman - Staff attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund Nancy Perry - Vice president of government affairs, The Humane Society of the United States The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. This segment is not available. (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:34:44 +0100 890200 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4463 2010 Animal Law Conference Animals in Crisis: Using the Laws We Have, Getting the Laws We Need – Agenda October 15-17, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies THIS CONFERENCE POSTING IS IN PROGRESS. KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR UPDATES. Welcome Reception & Keynote Address Katrina Sharman Introductions and Welcome: Stefan Heller Kathy Hessler Aurora Paulsen Dangerous Waters: Animals in the Wake of the Gulf Oil Spill William Eubanks Bob Sallinger Liberty & Justice for All: The Nonhuman Rights Project Steven M. Wise Moderator: Keith Mosman Veterinarians Identifying Animal Abuse: Laws That Mandate & Prohibit Reporting Madeline Bernstein Dr. Gail Golab, director Scott Heiser Human See, Monkey Do: The Suffering of Primates in Captivity Dr. Mel Richardson Bruce Wagman Animals Effecting Climate Change & Climate Change Affecting Animals Daniel Rohlf Dr. Robert Goodland Will the Animal Rights Movement Ever Succeed? Looking to the Past to Predict the Future Pamela Frasch Joyce Tischler Regulation, Enforcement & Definition of Humane Labeling Carter Dillard David Wolfson New Voices in Animal Law Alberto Arguello Michael Hemker Cara Hunt Hot Topics in Animal Law: Legislation & Litigation Matthew Liebman Nancy Perry Survival of Wild & Domesticated Animals in Natural & Man-Made Disasters Russ Mead Carla Boreham The Equine Victims of the Recession: Economic Hardships Resulting in Horse Abandonment & Neglect Laura Allen Keynote Address Dr. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:19:35 +0100 890201 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4076 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Will the Animal Rights Movement Ever Succeed?  Looking to the Past to Predict the Future October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Will the Animal Rights Movement Ever Succeed?  Looking to the Past to Predict the Future Pamela Frasch - Assistant dean, Animal Law Program; executive director, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School Joyce Tischler - Founder and general counsel, Animal Legal Defense Fund The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:11:50 +0100 890202 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4060 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need –  Regulation, Enforcement & Definition of Humane Labeling October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need –  Regulation, Enforcement & Definition of Humane Labeling Carter Dillard - Director of litigation, Animal Legal Defense Fund David Wolfson - Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:08:10 +0100 890203 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4140 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Human See, Monkey Do – The Suffering of Primates in Captivity October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Human See, Monkey Do – The Suffering of Primates in Captivity Dr. Mel Richardson – Veterinarian Bruce Wagman – Partner, Schiff Hardin LLP The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:57:20 +0100 890204 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4144 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Veterinarians Identifying Animal Abuse – Laws That Mandate & Prohibit Reporting October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Veterinarians Identifying Animal Abuse – Laws That Mandate & Prohibit Reporting Madeline Bernstein, president, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Los Angeles Dr. Gail Golab – Director, Animal Welfare Division, American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), Animal Welfare Division Scott Heiser – Director, Criminal Justice Program, Animal Legal Defense Fund The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:39:08 +0100 890205 http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/?p=4148 2010 Animal Law Conference: Animals in Crisis Liberty & Justice for All – The Nonhuman Rights Project October 16, 2010 Animal Law Conference web page | Speaker Biographies | Animal Law Conference Program | email the Center for Animal Law Studies | Agenda Page Liberty & Justice for All – The Nonhuman Rights Project Steven M. Wise – Author; founder and president, Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights Moderator: Keith Mosman - 2L, Lewis & Clark Law School The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 16th, 2010. View presentation here (Source: Lewis) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:30:18 +0100 890206