ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ June 2002 / 447

N e w  P u b l i c a t i o n s G eorge M. Eberhart

Creating a W inning O nline Exhibition: A  
Guide fo r Libraries, Archives, and M use­
um s, by Martin R. Kalfatovic (117 pages, Janu­
ary 2002), offers excellent advice on  how  to 
develop, create, and launch a successful online 
presentation that showcases a special collec­
tion. Kalfatovic, digital projects librarian at the 
Smithsonian Libraries, emphasizes the practi­
cal aspects of getting ideas, writing the pro­
posal, selecting the staff, and preparing the text 
and images for what could turn out to be an 
award-winning (courtesy of RBMS) exhibition. 
Contains a good introduction to digital file for­
m ats and m arkup language. ALA Editions. 
$40.00. ISBN 0-8389-0817-9.

Food Festival, U.S.A., by Becky Mercuri (430 
pages, April 2002), describes 250 food festi­
vals, m any of them  featuring ethnic or re­
gional specialties, held in all 50 states. Some 
are well-known, such as the Gilroy (Califor­
nia) Garlic Festival or Milwaukee’s Polish Fest; 
but m any are know n only to locals, such as 
the Alligator Festival in Boutte, Louisiana; the 
N ational Baby F ood Festival in Frem ont, 
Michigan; the Lenexa (Kansas) Spinach and 
Trails Fest; the Race to Bake the Biggest Apple 
Pie in W e n a tc h e e , W a sh in g to n ; a n d  St. 
A nthony’s Lebanese Food Festival in Glen 
Allen, Virginia. Contact information is p ro ­
vided, as well as a directory of festivals by 
m onth and a specialty recipe for each. $24.95. 
Laurel G len Publishing. ISBN 1-57145-775-5.

M a kin g C o n n e ctio n s: C o m m u n ica tio n  
through the Ages, by Charles T. Meadow (365 
pages, February 2002), serves as a basic text 
on  the m ethods people have devised to ex­
change information, from simple speech and 
writing to speedy transportation technologies, 
the telephone and telegraph, radio and televi­
sion, satellites, and the Internet. Writing in a 
casual style for nonspecialists, M eadow covers 
the basics of each technology, showing how  it 
was invented, how  it works, and the effect it 
has had on society. Not all communication is

G eorge M. E b e rh a rt is se n io r e d ito r  o f  A m e ric a n  
Libraries; e-m ail: geberhart@ ala.org

high-tech, as the author demonstrates in the 
chapter on  visual signaling, which explores fires 
nd flares, sm oke signals, military flags, sema­
hores, and icons on the computer screen. The 
inal chapter offers 100 dates to remember, from 
ave drawings in 50,000 B.C. to the trend in 

2000 towards the convergence of computers, 
elephones, and TV. $47.50. Scarecrow. ISBN 
-8108-4233-5.

he R e gions o f Italy, by Roy Domenico (465 
ages, February 2002), surveys the 20 Italian 
eographic regions and describes the history, 
conom y, cuisine, politics, arts, and culture 
f each. Italy’s relatively recent unification in 

he m id-19th century allow ed local identities 
n d  traditions to persist into the present day. 
h is  v o lu m e  f o llo w s  t h e  f o r m a t o f 

G re en w o o d ’s previous regional studies of 
pain (1995) and France (1996) and will be 
f interest to geography a n d  history students 
s well as tourists. $60.00. G reenw ood. ISBN 
-313-30733-4.

R o m a n ia n s  in  th e  U nited S ta te s  a n d  
Canada: A  Guide to  Ancestry and Heritage 
R e se a rch , by Vladimir F. W ertsm an (225 

ages, April 2002), is a m uch-needed guide 
o genealogy for North Americans of Roma­
ian or Moldovan descent. Beginning with 
n overview of the culture that offers insights 
nto Rom anian costum e, cuisine, holidays, 

e d d in g s , b a p tis m s , re lig io n , a n d  arts, 
ertsm an goes on to list the best print re­

ources, archives, libraries, organizations, and 
eb sites for d ocum enting ancestors and 

ther personalities. A ppendices include m aps 
f Romania a n d  Moldova, the Romanian al­
habet and a short dictionaiy, com m on names 
nd nam e frequencies, and— no doubt b e ­
ause som eone w ould w o n d e r w hy it w asn ’t 
ncluded— a short section on w h o  the his­
orical Dracula was. A useful reference for an 
nderstudied group. $24.95- HeritageQuest. 
SBN 1-931488-87-8.

e lk ir k 's  Isla n d , by Diana Souhami (246 
ages, February 2002), is the true story of the 
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Daniel D efoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Alexander 
Selkirk, a Scotsman w ho was a bandoned in 
1704 on one of the Islas Juan Fernandez nearly 
400 miles off the coast off Chile, survived for 
m ore than four years by eating goats, fish, 
roots, berries, and birds’ eggs until rescued 
by a British ship com m anded by W oodes 
Rogers. Souhami describes Selkirk’s adven­
tures on the island and afterw ards, w hen 
Rogers’s b o o k  a b o u t his voyage inspired 
D efoe’s novel. She finishes with a glimpse of 
the island’s wildlife today. $24.00. Harcourt. 
ISBN 0-15-100526-5.

S u ffra g is t Sheet Music, by Danny O. Crew 
(404 pages, March 2002), d o cum ents the 
music published in the United States from 
1795 to 1921 that refers to w om en’s rights or 
the suffrage movem ent. Lyrics are provided 
in m ost cases, along with title pages or sheet 
music covers. The songs are arranged in or­
der of publication, so that the evolution of 
argum ents and attitudes can be readily ob­
served. Antisuffrage music is also included. 
An excellent and often overlooked way to un­
derstand the images and emotions of a great 
social movement is in its music, and these songs

d on’t disappoint. Among 
them are “The Bloomer’s 
C o m p la in t” (1 8 5 1 ), 
“Bother the Men!” (1868),
“T he G lorious C a u se ” 
(1 8 8 8 ), “W e a k  Little 
W oman” (1910), “Every­
b o d y  W orks But M a” 
(1 9 1 3 ), “S in c e  My 
Margarette-Become-a-da- 
Suffragette” (1913), “She’s Good Enough to Be 
Your Baby’s Mother (And She’s Good Enough 
to Vote with You)” (1916), and “You’d Better 
Be N ice to T h em  N o w ” (1918). $45.00. 
McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1298-4.

V o tin g R ights on Trial, by Charles L. Zelden 
(347 pages, February 2002), examines the his­
tory of vote denial and vote dilution in America 
since colonial times— or, put another way, the 
increasing em pow erm ent of citizens to near- 
universal suffrage in the current century. Top­
ics include the fall of the all-white primary, the 
one p e rso n /o n e  vote standard, the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965, and the implications of the 
Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision. $55.00. 
ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-57607-794-2. ■