Hi LM_netters,
Here's another possibility for anyone interested in reviewing...please reply
to Carolyn Karis (blueslibrary@gmail.com)
best,
debbie Abilock
Knowledge Quest, Editor-in-chief
kq@abilock.net
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The
learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists." --Eric Hoffer
Hi all,
If any of you are on another school librarian listserv, please forward this
message to other potential reviewers.
More books available free in exchange for writing a review. Remember if
interested in reviewing, please send me your choice AND snail-mail address.
The deal-- books are available free if you will write a review for Knowledge
Quest, the Journal of the American Association of School Librarians. To make
the deal sweeter, I list the value per word written -- based on the
assumption that you will write at least 1000 words. More details about
review writing once you accept the assignment.
For the middle to high school group:
Does the curriculum at your school have a course focused on the American
Civil War? Are you trying to get studentsto make personal connections with
history? Then try the 2 volume American Civil War: Gale Library of Daily
Life edited by Steven E. Woodworth and published in 2008 by Gale. The 700
pages deal with topics such as clothing, education, child soldiers, Native
Americans and African Americans, popular culture, diaries, labor (child,
page, slave, and women), gambling and other vices, and children's
literature. There's an eBook version available to which you could have
access when writing the review making the $211 print copy worth more than
$.21 per word.
Interested in literary criticism with a multicultural appeal? Try Black
Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 (one set of
the Gale Literary Criticism Series) edited by Jelena O. Krstovi´c. Just
published (2008) by Gale, the 3 volume set includes Achebe to Dumas,
Ellison to Lorde, and Mackey to Zobel. Again access to an eBook version
increases the value of the per word $.46 for the print set priced at $459.
Want your collection to incorporate resources for the modern world's
involvement with Biotechnology, then review the 2007 U-X-L Gale publication
(suitable for middle school researchers) of Biotechnology: Changing Life
through Science. Each of the 3 volumes, all edited by K. Lee Lerner and
Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, is devoted to a specific topic. Volume 1 = Medicine,
Volume 2 = Agriculture, Volume 3 = Industry. All volumes include color (to
appeal to the younger crowd) images and diagrams and extensive indexes. The
set is priced at $170 or $.17 per word. Again an eBook version is available.
Something older (2005) publication but the most recent in the World Authors
series is priced at $170 (or $.17 per word) for the 800-page volume. World
Authors: 2000-2005 was edited by Jennifer Curry, David Ramm, Mari Rich and
Albert Rolls. Some authors included: Joan Didion, E.L. Doctorow, Chris
Abani, Margaret Atwood, John Barth, Harold Bloom, Stephen Booker, Dan Brown,
Augusten Burroughs, Martín Espada, Carlos Fuentes, David Halberstam, Ursula
Le Guin, and Salman Rushdie.
Do you like the Reference Shelf series as a guide for student research? Then
take 3 to review: International Perspectives on Education edited by Albert
Rolls, 2007, $50; Celebrity Culture in the United States edited by Terence
J. Fitzgerald, 2007, $50; and Water Supply edited by Richard Joseph Stein,
2008, $50. A total of $150 or $.15 per word for this great set. Adding
detailed personal knowledge (case study) of the uses of this series by
student researchers in your library would enhance this review.
Another guide for evaluating and developing your reference section--the 2008
edition of American Reference Books Annual (vol. 39) sells for $135. Within
the 724 pages you'll find detailed information about the latest reference
books in all categories. Published by Libraries Unlimited; edited by Shannon
Graff Hysell. Review at $.14 per word.
If anyone is interested in working on editing of written reviews, please
contact me. Join the KQ team. I also have need for help in co-ordinating the
acquisition of images to accompany the reviews and the notification to
publishers about published reviews of their resources.
Looking forward to working with you....
Sincerely,
Carolyn Karis
Wearing my Knowledge Quest Associate Editor for Resources hat
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