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Letter from the Editor
Sabbatical Musings
Irving E. Rockwood
This is being written on the eve of a four-month sabbatical that will take me away from the Choice office through September. This promises to be a novel experience. It’s a wonderful prospect, but also a terrifying one. How will Choice get along without me? What if things go better during my absence? What if they don’t want me back?
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Our Readers Speak: How I Use CRO
Recently we asked our readers to tell us how they use ChoiceReviews.online (CRO) and share with us any novel ways they use CRO features and content. We were pleased to receive responses from a wide range of readers from diverse institutions and geographic areas, not only in the U.S. and Canada, but from as far away as Sweden and Israel.
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American Literary Biography: History of the Genre, 1950-2000, by Carl Rollyson
In the second half of the twentieth century, American literary biography came of age. Although lives of American writers appeared before 1950, most of them tended to be scholarly studies aimed at presenting the facts of a literary figure’s life and the sources writers used to create their prose and poetry. Literary biography meant, in other words, a reliable account of a writer’s life, often incorporating long extracts from the subject’s letters and from other documents. Few biographers probed their subjects’ psychology.
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Forthcoming Performing Arts & Mass Media Titles, 2009
As with others in Choice’s popular forthcoming series, this list of selected performing arts and mass media titles is designed to provide information about new and soon-to-be-released publications that support academic curricula, particularly at the undergraduate level. The titles included here are scheduled for publication from July 2009 into 2010. We selected 200-plus titles, based on their potential relevance for academic library collections.
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Win a Choice Travel Mug!
Write and tell us how you use Choice Reviews Online (CRO), and if your submission is selected for publication on CRO, you will receive a free Choice travel mug.
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Recent Bibliographic Essays
Click on the link below to see a linked list of bibliographic essays from recent issues of Choice.
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U.S. College Book Price Information, 2008
Frederick C. Lynden
The much anticipated “U.S. College Book Price Information, 2008” feature, compiled by Frederick Lynden, is being made available online in advance of publication in the April 2009 print issue of Choice as a convenience to readers, particularly those beginning to prepare materials budgets for the next fiscal year.
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USING CRO--DID YOU KNOW?
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To view the 2008 Outstanding Academic Titles List with full-text reviews, click on the 2008 OAT List link in the left column. From here you can select your sort order to view records (e.g., LC class, publisher, format). You can also create lists and print and e-mail selected records. Keep in mind you can also view the January feature article listing all the Outstanding titles or find OAT titles by using Advanced Search and selecting the Outstanding Academic Titles box as one of your limiters.
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Key Reading on Job Loss & Insecurity
Baumol, William J. Downsizing in America, by William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, and Edward N. Wolff. Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. 321p bibl index afp ISBN 0-87154-094-0, $29.95. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2004mar CHOICE.
41-4146 HD58 2002-36740 CIP
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To highlight the wide range of publications reviewed in Choice, each month Choice editors feature some noteworthy reviews from the current issue.
Academic Earth: Video Lectures from the World's Top Scholars. Internet Resource. http://www.academicearth.org/ Reviewed in 2009jul CHOICE. 46-5926
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Significant Resources for Brain Science Collections
Boden, Margaret A. Mind as machine: a history of cognitive science. Oxford, 2006. 2v bibl indexes afp ISBN 0-19-924144-9, $225.00; ISBN 9780199241446, $225.00. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2007jul CHOICE.
44-6202 BF311 2006-11795 CIP
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Choice has moved to a new location! Click here for the new address.
Visit Choice at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Booth #3430, July 9-15.
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August 2009
* Online Resources for Academic Libraries* Recent & Forthcoming Internet Publications * Health Information on the Internet
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