Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle

from Friday’s Shelf Awareness:

“Queen guitarist Brian May will take part in a signing session in California next month, but it won’t be records and pictures he’ll be putting his John Hancock on; the rocker will be autographing copies of his latest book, Bang! The Complete History of the Universe [Johns Hopkins University Press, $29.95, 9780801889851/0801889855]. Fresh off receiving his Ph.D. in astrophysics, May co-wrote the tome with legendary astronomer Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Chris Lintott. The book covers the history of the universe from the Big Bang to Heat Death and touches on evolution and how the world will end. It includes photographs, timelines and a glossary, and Brian will be signing copies of it on May 6th at Book Soup in L.A.”

Time magazine begins with a headline asking if Stephenie Meyer is the new JK Rowling, but goes on to point out the differences in their writing.  “The Host” did get a favorable review from PW, so i will bite my tongue.

Randy Pausch writes about his final lecture and his life when he discovers he is dying of pancreatic cancer.  This title has become very popular.  Unfortunately, the large type edition went into the catalog before the regular print edition.  The large type edition captured many holds before I found out we did not own the regular print edition. 

I have bought many more copies of the regular print edition. We are not going to try and move all the holds to the large print edition.  We hope patrons will soon find the regular print edition and put their holds there.

We try avoid this problem.  Acquistions labels the edition so patrons can tell which version of a title we are ordering.  Sometimes it just goes wrong.

Becky Buckingham