Book Shelf
Penn State Intercom......May 1, 2003

Paige Andrew, maps cataloging librarian.

Cataloging Sheet Maps: The Basics, Haworth Press.

The book is a "how-to" manual for librarians needing to learn how to catalog sheet maps or as a ready-reference tool. In addition, professors and instructors teaching cataloging will be able to use this manual as a textbook in the classroom. It is a step-by-step guide toward creating bibliographic records for sheet maps and includes many illustrations, including sample bibliographic records, maps and tables of information.

John W. Bagby, professor of information sciences and technology.

Cyberlaw Handbook for eCommerce, published by West Publishing Co.

Examining the legal and business issues of e-commerce, Bagby explores the transformation of traditional behaviors and processes to new e-business practices. The book also highlights the issues that need new perspectives from legislation and regulation to public policy and private contracting.

Jeff Edmunds, cataloging specialist in the University Libraries.

La ressemblance suivi de La feintise, a book of short stories published by Les Impressions Nouvelles in Paris, France.

Award-winning French fiction writer Jean Lahougue and Edmunds question the concepts of authorial identity and textual authority in these companion tales of deception, murder and misappropriation.

Ian Marshall, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona.

Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature and Need, published by University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Taking as his starting point psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Marshall explores how his own experience of deep satisfaction in nature may or may not fit Maslow's theory. In chapters focused on the needs identified by Maslow, Marshall finds evidence for the healing power of nature in literature and in his own experiences in the wild.

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