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Title: Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 Editor: Julia Eichelberger Cloth: ISBN 978-1-61703-187-8; $45 Imprint: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013

 

Generally we reserve our book of the week for titles related to libraries and publishing but we couldn’t resist posting this book by a member of the [...]

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Title: Web Analytics Strategies for Information Professionals: A LITA Guide Authors: Tabatha Farney & Nina McHale Softcover: ISBN-13: 978-1-55570-897-9, $70 Imprint: Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2013

 

“Whether you’re gathering information for a department report or planning a website redesign, easy access to meaningful, actionable data is critical. Farney and McHale address the [...]

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Title: THE TECH SET® #11-20 Editor:  Ellyssa Kroski Paperback: ISBN: 9781555708092, $59.95 ea. $600 for set
Imprint: Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2012

 

Now TECH SET® series editor Ellyssa Kroski brings you the field’s hottest tech gurus as they provide practical instructions and advice on everything from planning and development to marketing and metrics. [...]

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Title: From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Editor: Anouk Lang Cloth: 978-1-55849-952-2, $80
Paper:978-1-55849-953-9, $28.95 Imprint: Amhurst: Univ. of Massachusetts, 2012

 

“The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, [...]

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 Title: The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family Author: Josh Hanagarne Hardcover: ISBN 9781592407873; $26 ebook: 9781101621776; $12.99 Imprint: New York: Gotham, 2013.

“Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn’t officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman [...]

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Title: Fully Booked – Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications Editors: Robert Klanten, Matthias Hübner, and Andrew Losowsky Hardcover: 978-3-89955-464-9, $65 Imprint: Berlin: Gestalten, 2013

 

“Digital media are disappointing for books. All books look the same on an iPad, for example. On a monitor, a book isn’t thick [...]

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