Booklist - a good source for new book ideas for your library.

Booklist online is a very good place to refer to when looking for new books for your library collection.
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Journal of Library Innovation

If you don't already know of this journal you can follow it online at:

http://www.libraryinnovation.org/

Caribbean literature

Here is an interesting article from one of the blogs I follow - Caribbean Book blog.
It poses the question: Why is our literature so different and why?

It features an excerpt from the writings of Antiguan Tim Hector who died eight years ago on Nov 12.

Read post here:

The International Journal of Bahamian Studies Call for papers

Librarians, students, researchers at home and abroad, submit your papers to the International Journal of Bahamian Studies.

"International Journal of Bahamian Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed research journal published by The College of The Bahamas.

The major purposes of the journal are to disseminate products of research and academic activity which are relevant to The College and The Bahamas, and to stimulate participation in such activity by members of The College and the national research community.

Each volume should present a mix of articles, based on scientific and sustained analytic enquiry, book or media reviews of scholarly interest and advocacy papers.

The journal will publish original research on The Bahamas or with significant Bahamian content as well as research of regional or comparative interest. Contributions may be in any field of knowledge, but should communicate effectively with readers who are not specialists in the field.

Scholars working in the the area of Bahamian studies - in any discipline - are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration to the International Journal of Bahamian Studies. Please use the manuscript submission module - or send the manuscript directly to the Managing Editor of the journal by e-mail."

Submission guidelines

"The International Journal of Bahamian Studies will produce one volume annually - typically in the month of October.
The deadline for manuscript submission is May 15th of each year. Extraordinary volumes may be published as the need arises (such as conference proceedings or issues on special topics)."

CHRISTIAN CAMPBELL WINS ALDEBURGH PRIZE

"Caribbean poet Christian Campbell has won the best first collection prizeat the Aldeburgh poetry festival for his book Running the Dusk, described by judge Neil Rollinson as "the clear stand-out" among all the volumes read for the award".


Read story from the Guardian.co.uk online here

SYLVIA LARAMORE-CRAWFORD......R I P

We remember one of our premier writers  - Sylvia Larrimore-Crawford who passed away in Cat Island on Thursday past.

What Books Are For

From the HarvardMagazine:

"The Radcliffe Institute was filled to capacity on October 29—not just by historians, literary critics, librarians, computer scientists, and sociologists, but also by graphic designers, publishers, writers, and marketers. [...]one of the goals of the Radcliffe Institute’s two-day conference asking the question “Why Books?” was to avoid the topic of the death of the book altogether. "

Read the article here

Two Bahamian Books to read

I have added two more books to my list of Bahamian books

Ivory  by Eboni Adderley -- a book of poems

Coral Tapestry  by Cheryl Albury -- a book of short stories

I spotted these on a visit to Chapter One Bookstore last week.

Do you have these in your library?

'I would be dead without libraries'-----Gary Paulsen

I came across this post in the LISNEWS discussion list today.

Gary Paulsen talk

It goes to show that we librarians ARE important even though many are saying that we don't need libraries any more.
Many an author can be discovered at the library!