| | | December 15, 2016 |  Government Website Harvest Enlists Librarians, Educators, Students
By Lisa Peet
As the United States—and the world—prepare for the January 20, 2017 presidential inauguration, libraries, institutions, and citizens are joining forces to identify federal government websites to be captured and saved in the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive. |
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 VHS Copyright and Due Diligence | Field Reports
By Deg Farrelly
To take advantage of the right to duplicate VHS holdings provided by Section 108 of U.S. copyright law, a library must engage in a reasonable effort to determine that an unused copy cannot be obtained at a fair price. |
| |  From Revolutionary America to Saddam Hussein | History Previews, Jun. 1, 2017, Pt. 1
By Barbara Hoffert
Reviews of The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid; The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House; A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation; and more. | | |  Back Pocket RA: Poetry | Wyatt's World
By Neal Wyatt
Poetry kicks off the countdown to 2017 and a multiweek survey of titles not to miss. Suggest these books to anyone looking for a bit of space and reflection as the year fades away. | | |  Nonfiction on Citizen Science, Primatology, the Iran Deal, and the Beatles | Xpress Reviews
By LJ Reviews
Reviews of Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery; Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates; The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East; and more. |
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| BESTSELLERS | History of Science
By LJ Reviews
1. The Gene: An Intimate History
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Scribner
2016. ISBN 9781476733500. $32
2. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Lee Shetterly, Margot
William Morrow
2016. ISBN 9780062363596. $27.99
3. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Shah, Sonia
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2016. ISBN 9780374122881. $26 |
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Genetically Speaking | Science and Technology Reviews, December 2016
