April 2007 is the 30th birthday of the Library Suggestion Book. To celebrate this milestone, Hot Topics features books about books. We're also celebrating National Library week beginning April 15th, and hosting an exhibit of "altered books" -- art objects made by NOVA students that began their lives as normal books. Some of them even began their lives as library books. So take a moment to explore the history, scope, and promise of books. It's what we're all about.
April
2007
Arendt, Madeline.
Altered Art for the First Time. TT896.3 A74 2005
Atlas, James. Battle of the Books:
The Curriculum Debate in America. Z1039 C65 A74 1992
Basbanes, Nicholas. A Splenor of
Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World. Z4
B397 2004
Coon, Cheryl. Books to Grow With.
Z1037 C7676x 2004
Cowley, Malcolm. Books That Changed
Our Minds. Z1035 A1 C66
Crane, Walter. The Decorative Illustration
of Books Old and New. Z1023 C89 1984
Denby, David. Great Books: My Adventures
With Homer, Rousseau, Wolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western
World. CB245 D44 1996
Dirda, Michael. Bound to Please:
An Extraordinary One-Volume Education. Z1035 A1 D57 2005
Downs, Robert. Famous Books: Great
Writings in the History of Civilization. Z1035 A1 D69
Downs, Robert. Great Books since
1492. Z1035.9 D63
Frugoni, Chiara. Books, Banks, Buttons
and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages. T17 F7713 2003
Graubard, Stephen. Books, Bricks
& Bytes: Libraries in the Twenty-First Century. Z665 B698
1998
Halbegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid
Away in Books. PS1541 Z5 H32 2001
Howard, Nicole. The Book: The Life
Story of a Technology. Z4 H69 2005
Kelly, Stuart. The Book of Lost Books:
An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read.
Z1024 K45 2005
McCann, Donnarae. The Child's First
Books. Z1023 M25
McMurtrie, Douglas. The Book: The
Story of Printing and Bookmaking. Z4 M15
Olmert, Michael. The Smithsonian
Book of Books. Z4 O54 1992
Osen, Diane. The Book that Changed
my Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists.
Z1039 A87 B66 2002
Silvey, Anita. 100 Best Books for
Children. Z1037 S575 2004
Taylor, Terry. Altered Art: Techniques
for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards and More. TT857 T39
2004