Publications
Michael Adams (Graduate Center) contributed the entries on Haruki Murakami and Mordecai Richler to Magill’s Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition (Salem Press. 2009) and the entries on audiobooks, Tom Cruise, DVDs, The Larry Sanders Show, Seinfeld, and major films of the 1990s to The Nineties in America (Salem Press. 2009).
Ellen Belcher (John Jay) published “Crime in the Library: The Special Collections of the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY” in Metropolitan Archivist 13.2 (2008): 25-28.
Monica Berger contributed the entry on James Brown to Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century (Oxford, 2008).
Jay Bernstein (Kingsborough) published “Nonknowledge: The Bibliographical Organization of Ignorance, Stupidity, Error, and Unreason: Part One” in Knowledge Organization 36.1 (2009): 17-29.
Laura Cobus (Hunter Health Professions) published “Using Blogs and Wikis in a Graduate Public Health Course” in Medical Reference Services Quarterly 28.1 (2009): 22-32.
Kathleen Collins (John Jay) contributed “Reality Television: Scholarly Treatments Since 2000” to Communication Booknotes Quarterly 40.1 (2009): 2-12. Also see Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows.
Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider (LaGuardia) published Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching (Neal-Schuman, 2009).
Austin Duffy (John Jay) published “Comparing Job Descriptions for Heads of Interlibrary Loan at Different Kinds of Libraries” in Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserve 19.1 (2009): 33-45.
Robert Farrell (Lehman) contributed the entries on Ice Cube, Notorious B.I.G., Prince, Schomburg Library, and Russell Simmons to Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century (Oxford, 2008).
Jennifer Oates (Queens) released, with James John, director of Queens’ choral program, a CD of Hamish MacCunn’s partsongs performed by the Queens College Vocal Ensemble. The project was partly funded by a PSC-CUNY grant.
Rona Ostrow (Lehman emeritus) published the second edition of The Fairchild Dictionary of Retailing (Fairchild, 2008)
Steven Ovadia (LaGuardia) published “Working without a Crystal Ball: Predicting Web Trends for Web Services Librarians” in Journal of Web Librarianship 2.4 (2008): 579-587.
Suzanna Simor (Queens) published “Academic Libraries, Visual Collections, and Campus Art Museums and Galleries: Joining Forces?” in Czech and Slovak Culture in International and Global Context: 23rd World Congress of Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (2008): 93-96.
Di Su (York) published “A Critical Review of Violin Solos Section of the NYSSMA Manuel” at ERIC document ED502952.
Larry Sullivan (John Jay) published “’Prison Is Dull Today’: Prison Libraries and the Irony of Pious Reading” in PMLA 123.3 (2008): 703-706.
Susan Thomas (Borough of Manhattan) published an interview with artist Chantel Foretich in the online art forum Artslant (August 2008).