Speaker thanks the American Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children for bestowing upon her the 1986 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. (DF)

Describes five mental blocks that prevent authors from completing a full-length book. (RB)

Discusses the small financial return most authors receive and criticizes teachers' and librarians' violation of authors' rights through use of copying machines. (RD)

Presents Alexander's acceptance remarks for the book award given to his book, "Westmark." (HOD)

Lists advantages of collaboration in writing a book, including coverage of more material, production of a technically better book, and the opportunity for an unpublished teacher to appear before the academic public. Lists such disadvantages as clashes between authors, loss of earnings to the originating author, and subordination of writers. (TJ)

Describes an agreement reached between CARL Corporation, operator of the UnCover database of magazine and journal articles, and the National Writers Union for the establishment of the first-ever transaction-based writers' royalty system in the new electronic media. It will operate at the Union's newly formed Publication Rights Clearinghouse.…

Examined individual eminence in counseling psychology through textbook citation analysis conducted on four current textbooks and three most recent Annual Review of Psychology chapters on counseling psychology. For 223 leading authors, data on individual research productivity in psychology and on subset of 8 journals of special importance for…

Naomi Shihab Nye focuses on connections in her writings and hopes to participate in books of a connecting spirit and kind. Naomi wants readers to know that appreciation of her work stating importance of its uniqueness is very exciting to her.

In this article, the life and writings of Antonia Forest, who died in 2003, are considered. An attempt is made to put her books into their literary, cultural and religious contexts, and to examine possible reasons for the critical reception of her books during the last 30 years of the twentieth century; from neglect and even disapproval to…

Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was the crossover publishing sensation of 2003. It has been the subject of widespread critical and commercial acclaim and has won prestigious UK prizes including the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize. It is still enjoying considerable commercial…

A street is named after her. Back-to-back conferences celebrate her. New books champion her. Hannah Arendt has joined the small world of philosophical heroes. During her life, she received honorary degrees from Princeton, Smith, and other colleges and universities. Denmark awarded her its Sonning Prize for "commendable work that benefits European…

Studies suggest that co-authorship results in a higher quality article. This study looks for evidence of this in the literature of academic librarianship. Using citation counts to articles from two important journals over a ten-year period, no evidence is found to support the superiority of co-authored articles.

This article is based on a study of hundreds of children's bible storybooks available in the United States from 1850 to the present and focuses on the way the biblical stories of Noah and Jonah have been retold for children. These children's bible storybooks lend insight into the American church's changing assumptions about the purpose of the…