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Imre Kertesz is 2002 Nobel Laureate for literature

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:19:11 GMT

Hungarian Novelist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature. Imre Kertész, a Holocaust survivor with a small but devoted readership in Europe, today won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature. By Alan Riding. [New York Times: Arts]

Novels and poetry printed on toilet paper

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:04:02 GMT

Novels and poetry printed on toilet paper in Germany. Klo-Verlag [Toilet Publishers], a German company, has introduced toilet paper with novels and poems printed on the sheets. "We want our books to be used. That's our philosophy," said Georges Hemmerstoffer, head of the Klo-Verlag which publishes the toilet paper literature. [Exploding Cigar] • Toilet Publishers home page translated into English

Vivir Para Contarla [To Live to Tell It] by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:57:08 GMT

García Márquez, Fighting Cancer, Issues Memoirs. After three years of single-minded work, Gabriel García Márquez is poised to release what may be his most-awaited book, an emotional, bittersweet account of his early years. By Juan Forero. [New York Times: Arts]

You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:11:55 GMT

Travelers in a Giving Mood, But Agonizing on the Way. Dave Eggers's new book is a pastiche novel that borrows from myriad sources without ever quite knowing how to meld those borrowings into something new. … By Michiko Kakutani. [New York Times: Arts]

The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 23:07:50 GMT

Zimbabwe's Writers Explore Despair and Violence Under Black Rule. Once a silenced subject in Zimbabwe, recent novels confront the killings by black soldiers in the years after white rule ended in 1980. By Rachel L. Swarns. [New York Times: Arts]

Librarian shortage

Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:44:23 GMT

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Teaching the Next Generation of KM Leaders This article in Searcher Magazine discusses the changes taking place in Library and Information Science education and a study of current curricula at accredited institutions. It's written by a professor of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee.

By 2017, some 68 percent of today's librarians will have retired, according to recent estimates in the news (Lynch). President and Mrs. Bush have launched an initiative through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to recruit 'a generation of librarians.' Since schools of library and information science traditionally attract second or third career professionals, the aging of the information professions is a cause for concern. In addition, many new information-related jobs outside libraries now attract LIS graduates and compete with libraries as employers.

The rest of Terry Frazier's post is worth reading for its development of the problem and the analysis of potential responses.

[diJEST: a journal of extrapreneurial strategy and technology]

POPUP! 500 years of movable books

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 00:26:12 GMT

POPUP! 500 years of movable books. Aug. 24, 2002 - Jan. 12, 2003 SELECTIONS from the WALDO HUNT COLLECTION CENTRAL LIBRARY Getty Gallery Fifth & Flower Streets Downtown Los Angeles [L.A. Blogs]

Bookbrowse.com

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:56:39 GMT

Read excerpts of bestselling books and many of the best new fiction and non-fiction titles. No one has a better selection of excerpts from bestsellers and because each and every book is excerpted you can browse any book at your leisure. [[caught In between]]

British magazines in USA

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 22:04:53 GMT

British Publishers Attack U.S. and Take Young Male Readers. American publishers surrendered to the conventional wisdom that this was a post-literate generation, with little desire for cracking open a magazine. Then came the British publishers. By David Carr. [New York Times: International]

Philip Caputo on Tsavo lions

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:52:01 GMT

In Scientific Pursuit of Africa's Man-Eating Lions. Philip Caputo's book about the deadly Tsavo lions is as much an intellectual adventure as it is a physical one. By Richard Bernstein. [New York Times: Arts]

The Territory of Men by Joelle Fraser

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 05:11:41 GMT

A Flower-Power Childhood and Serial Daddys. Joelle Fraser's confident first book is an autobiographical effort to take stock of growing up with divorced parents, each who had a string of new partners. By Janet Maslin. [New York Times: Arts]