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Hernon, Peter; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1993
Examines characteristics of authorship, editorial decisions, and reviewer assessments for accepted and rejected papers for "College and Research Libraries" based on over a decade of private correspondence and reviewer assessments. Comparisons with the wider literature on publishing in refereed journals are made, and directions for future research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authors, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
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Hamilton, Virginia – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1993
Provides a 1993 speech given by the children's book author Virginia Hamilton. She describes how she has absorbed her personal history as well as African-American history within the broad context of U.S. history and transformed them into her writing. (nine references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature
Kurtz, Jane – Book Links, 1998
An author relates memorable experiences of living in Ethiopia and describes how her brother's friendship with a poor boy in the city of Addis Ababa who cared for pigeons led to a children's book. Includes a descriptive list of books on pigeons, Africa, pets and wild animals, and cities, and a list of books by the author. (AEF)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness
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Zainab, Awang Ngah; De Silva, Sharon Manel – Journal of Information Science, 1998
Presents the results of an analysis of CD-ROM reference sources and review-article bibliographies to identify trends, focus of studies, authorship patterns, and expressive quality of publications covering expert-systems applications in library and information services. The study retrieved 679 references: journal articles, conference proceedings,…
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliographies, Citation Analysis, Expert Systems
Atkins, Helen; Lyons, Catherine; Ratner, Howard; Risher, Carol; Shillum, Chris; Sidman, David; Stevens, Andrew; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Lagoze, Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Krichel, Thomas; Nelson, Michael L.; Hochstenbach, Patrick; Lyapunov, Victor M.; Maly, Kurt; Zubair, Mohammad; Kholief, Mohamed; Liu, Xiaoming; O'Connell, Heath; Kingma, Bruce R.; Pritcher, Lynn – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Includes five articles that discuss publishers' metadata hyperlinks with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) on the Internet; the Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives initiative (Oai) that promotes author self-archiving; the Universal Preprint Service; costs of digital, microfiche, and print access; and an online database of old print…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Authors, Comparative Analysis
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O'Connor, Steve – Library Hi Tech, 2000
Examines both the current state of scholarly communication and its future prospects. Topics include the relationship between author, publisher, and librarian; ownership of published material; traditional role of the library in scholarly communication; fair use; new paradigms with electronic publishing; and libraries as scholarly communication…
Descriptors: Authors, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Fair Use (Copyrights)
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Giorgis, Cyndi – New Advocate, 2000
Interviews children's author and illustrator Rosemary Wells. Discusses writing and illustration as a "gift"; writing as a lonely profession; collaborating with others; researching and writing historical fiction; illustrating Mother Goose rhymes; and her recent endeavor to encourage parents to read to their children, called "Read to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Books, Childrens Literature
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Bishop, Kay; Bishop, Jennifer – Knowledge Quest, 2000
This action research study looks at a sample of 30 juvenile computer books from the past 30 years and analyzes the illustrations for evidence of gender and racial bias as well as career depiction. Examines the gender of authors and illustrators and discusses library media implications. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Action Research, Authors, Childrens Literature, Computer Science Education
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Royer, Sharon E. – ALAN Review, 1998
Discusses author Roald Dahl's view of society as revealed through his books for children and adolescents. Describes Dahl's three major works for intermediate readers ("The BFG,""The Witches," and "Matilda"). Discusses Dahl's view of the world and its place in his books. Notes Dahl's positive impact on adolescent readers; and discusses critics'…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Intermediate Grades
Smuda, Janice; Brodie, Carolyn S. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1998
Eve Bunting is an award-winning author of 167 books for children and young adults. After a series of interview questions and responses, activities are suggested to accompany several Bunting picture books. (AEF)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Awards, Childrens Literature
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Chelliah, Shobhana L. – World Englishes, 2001
Follows the approach developed in Dendrinos (1992) for English-as-a-foreign-language textbook analysis and presents a content analysis of 11 Indian "Common Errors in English" (CEIE) guidebooks to illustrate how access to English is institutionally withheld from large parts of the Indian population. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Authors, Content Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Brodie, Carolyn S. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2001
Discusses author Karen Hesse's books for children and young adults; suggests ideas for related activities that include appropriate Web sites; and presents an annotated bibliography for books for young readers, books for older readers, audio, video, Web biographical information, print biographical information, and additional sources. (LRW)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiotape Cassettes, Authors
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Williams, Shawn D. – Thresholds in Education, 1996
The history of black women's social reform work remains unrecognized in the academy and the general culture. The contributions of courageous black feminist authors such as bell hooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Audre Lorde are important for all students. Hooks works with educators to denounce sexist and racist stereotypes, Giovanni stresses the concept…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Blacks, Educational Change
Ditlea, Steve – Technology Review, 2000
Focuses on the "real" e-books. Discusses Stephen King's novella released exclusively for electronic publication, and discusses experiences of another author writing on a specialized subject. Presents a brief background of e-books. Examines the differences between Portable Document Format (PDF) technology and the new Open eBook (OEB)…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Computer Oriented Programs, Electronic Publishing
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Kilgour, Frederick G.; Moran, Barbara B.; Barden, John R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Reports the findings of an experiment using a simulated title page, author surnames, and title words, one-third of which were selected by each of the three authors, to determine the frequency of one-screen displays when used to search for known items in an implied Boolean retrieval system. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authors, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
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