a new more graphic version of fahrenheit 451

Bradbury has authorized his novel Fahrenheit 451 to be issued as a graphic novel by Tim Hamilton.  Copies of the graphic novel were received last week and should be appearing on library shelves soon.  NPR has several stories

“It killed my heart and killed my soul,” he says, “and the memory of Hitler burning the books caused me to sit down and write Fahrenheit 451.”  Ray Bradbury

Take a look at Hamilton’s vision of Bradbury’s classic.

posting by jim

CoMa Minute 2009.08.03 Examples of Print items to Mend

Hi, everyone.  I’m sorry that in July there was only one video

Thanks go to Tonya in Materials Processing for helping me to gather samples and to educate me on the anatomy of a book and repair methods.

The purpose of this video is to show you examples of items we would expect to see come in for mending.  Even though mending items are sent to the service center for Circulation Services using a blue slip, collection development librarians review all of those items.  We evalate them for condition and content to decide if the item should be mended or purged from the collection. 

So, make sure the items sent in for mending meet our content criteria and for the most part meet condition requirements.

Do you know the anatomy of a book?  Learn here

Here are 3 general categories of  items in the video. Remember this is just a sample of the mending.

1.  Housekeeping:  not a thing wrong with condition/content  but the barcode is missing/damaged, spine labels are missing/damaged/incorrect or the “new” dot is under the spine label tape

2.  Covers & Jackets:  dust  jacket or dust cover is really worn/soft/torn, the jacket itself is torn, the edges/corners on the book board are torn up.

3.  Bindings:

a.  Mass Markets are repaired if the title is exceptional for some reason.

b.  Trade paperback: solid text block is preferred

c.  Hardback:  hinge is damaged, hinge is completely separated and the text block is intact, or there is a single break in the text block.

Feel free to refer the mending documents on the Intranet or contact one of the collection development librarians.

Betsy, Tacy and Meg

Every three years, the Betsy-Tacy Society, a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 to preserve the legacy of Maud Hart Lovelace’s novels, holds a convention in Mankato, Minnesota.  The conventions are held to celebrate Lovelace and her books, especially the stories featuring Betsy Ray and friends in turn-of-the-century Deep Valley, Minnesota.

The convention was last week in Mankato and the keynote speaker on the closing day was Meg Cabot, author of numerous teen novels (Publishers Weekly: Betsy, Tacy, and Meg meet in Deep Valley).  Cabot says that she has been a huge fan of the Betsy-Tacy books since she read them at the age of 30.

She spoke of her love for the Betsy-Tacy books and compared them to her own books. She said, “The spirit of the books are kind of the same even though the Betsy Tacy books are set 100 years ago. They are still about girls that have problems with boys, problems with friends. So, it’s basically kind of the same spirit.”

SIL owns many of the Betsy-Tacy books and the High School titles (two novels in each volume) will be reissued in the fall by HarperCollins.   Cabot wrote the forward for Betsy was a Junior and Betsy and Joe.

via PW Children’s Bookshelf

posting by Lorraine (I joined the Betsy-Tacy Society in the early 90s but lapsed in my membership, I think that I might need to look into it again)

 

Guess we already knew this

Reading cuts stress levels by 68

marieclaire.co.uk

Monday 30 March 2009

Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds or 68%.

New research by consultancy Mindlab International at the University of Sussex says reading works better and faster than other methods to calm frazzled nerves such as listening to music, going for a walk or settling down with a cup of tea.

For more on this, go to http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/314426/reading-cuts-stress-levels-by-68.html

Maybe reading will help us beat the stress of this heatwave.

Posted by Becky