Presents: (1) the 1997-1998 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List of 20 children's books; (2) the Texas Lonestar Reading List 1997-1998 of 20 children's books; and (3) essays by three Texas authors (Sherry Garland, G. Clifton Wisler, and Ida Luttrell) about why and what they write. (SR)

With the increasing importance of electronic publishing, publishers and writers are paying greater attention to electronic rights or "e-rights." This article examines Tasini v. New York Times Co. in which e-rights were not specifically granted by the writer to the publisher and yet were commercially exploited. Presents case analysis,…

Presents 10 short excerpts (translated from Italian) from Gianni Rodari's book "The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories." Addresses creative invention, the motif of the fantastic, word choice, recasting fairy tales, and comic effects. (PA)

Presents an author's personal reaction to participating in the Kentucky Authors Project at Holmes Junior High in Covington, Kentucky. Describes difficulties in overcoming anxiety about learning how to use the Internet. Finds the experience rewarding. (PA)

Describes the Author-On-Line (AOL) project that used asynchronous computer conferencing to support the teaching and learning of literacy with pupils aged 10-12 years from two schools in Ireland. Presents the AOL-APT model which summarizes the key components: Author, Pedagogy and Technology (APT); and discusses its value for online, social,…

Examines the loss of various collections, especially school libraries and the Ezra Library, in Cracow (Poland) during World War II. Highlights include Nazi policies toward Cracow's Jews; the destruction of libraries, archives, and collections; Jewish book collections in the Staatsbibliotek Krakau (state library); and the removal of books by Jewish…

Discussion of author cocitation analysis focuses on Pathfinder Networks (PFNET) where nodes represent authors and links represent weighted paths between nodes, the weights being cocitation counts. Highlights include remapping information science; comparison with principal components analysis; a correlation-based PFNET; and AuthorLink, a Web-based…

Presents a brief biography of Peter Sis, an author and illustrator of children's books. Includes awards he has won; extension activities; and annotated bibliographies of books written and illustrated by Sis, selected books illustrated by Sis, audiobooks, videorecordings, sources for biographical information, and information on the Web. (LRW)

Explores the creation of "An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly." Selects this book because of the unprecedented decision to give the 1998 Orbis Pictus Award to both the author and the illustrator for a work in which text and illustration melded together. Develops an event model, revealing the creation of this…

Successful symbolic capital formation in academia is commonly signified by the trappings of scholarly distinction or acknowledged status as a public intellectual. Compares three potential indices of symbolic capital: citation counts, Web hits, and media mentions. Findings, which are domain specific, suggest public intellectuals are notable by…

Describes a study that analyzed a sample of library and information science journal citations from 1985-88 to determine authors' institutional affiliations. Authors from the private sector, academic librarians, and library and information science faculty are discussed, and suggestions for further research are given. (eight references) (LRW)

Examines the frequency of coauthoring. Summarizes the issues confronting coauthors. Argues for the formation of business communication coauthorships within the discipline, interdisciplinary coauthorships, and coauthorships with academia and business. (RS)

Interviews Roald Dahl at his home near London to ask him about his early stories and discuss his ability to write for both adults and children. (MG)

Disputes assertions by some academics that Chaucer was the first technical writer in English. Suggests that numerous examples of technical prose predated Chaucer's works. Argues that technical writing historians will find it more profitable to investigate the tradition of English practical prose than to find further firsts for their field. (SG)

Describes a citation analysis of journal articles dealing with online catalogs to determine patterns in subject content, date, publication format, authorship affiliation, type of authorship, and how the cited publication was used in the article. It is concluded that this literature has many characteristics of a scholarly literature and indicates…