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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;a larger multidimensional chess match being played among publishers, authors, agents and book retailers.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s an article about Stephen R. Covey doing an end-run around his print publisher and selling digital publishing rights to some of his backlist titles- including &#8220;The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People&#8221;- directly to Amazon.  If you, like me, are not that interested in reading about the Stephen R. Covey-Enriching Habits of Stephen R. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2183&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kirkus Reviews to Close, Librarians Scramble to Figure Out How They&#8217;re Going to Choose Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re surprised, sad, and not just a little appalled to report that Kirkus Reviews, for which a number of Stacked&#8217;s bloggers&#8211;well actually all of them&#8211;reviewed, is closing.  The demise of a critical voice that dates back to 1933 is terrible news for the same reason that many publishers are delighted by the news.  Kirkus cultivates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2176&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life cycles</title>
		<link>http://cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/life-cycles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nemo Wolfe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know some of your eyes glaze over when we carry on about bikes.  We understand.  You’re here for the book stuff.  But the bicycle stuff is important, not just because 50% of  the crack Mercantile staff arrive by bike, although that’s an extremely good reason.  What organization in town [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2171&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mercantile&#8217;s Online Catalogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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Thanks to the support of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services and the State Library of Ohio, and to the patience and work of employees of U.C. Libraries, Back Stage Library Works, and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, the Mercantile Library&#8217;s catalogue has gone digital and taken up residence on the servers of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2161&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explained: The Old Book Smell</title>
		<link>http://cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/explained-the-old-book-smell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do old books have that peculiar musty smell?  According to the burgeoning science of material degradomics, it is caused by &#8220;hundreds of so-called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released into the air from the paper.&#8221;  After determining the more culpable VOCs (&#8220;using headspace analysis after a 24 h predegradation procedure,&#8221; as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d already [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2153&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wolf Hall</title>
		<link>http://cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/wolf-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nemo Wolfe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For obvious reasons we were rooting for Toni Sue Byatt to take the Man Booker this year, but we became huge huge fans of eventual winner Hilary Mantel within five pages of picking up Beyond Black when that came out several years ago and which we strongly urged our colleagues to read.  And urged. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2148&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Klostermania!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before a Mercantile patron officially requested Chuck Klosterman&#8217;s new book, Eating the Dinosaur, giving me the green light to order a book I already wanted to order, I&#8217;d run into this Flavorpill piece on Klosterman&#8217;s unique position as a pop-culture critic whose career spans the ascent of bloggers.  Nobody else, Fernanda Diaz maintains, could have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2143&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confession</title>
		<link>http://cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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Just like the two Lexington, KY library employees in this story, I have been keeping what I believe is the naughtiest book in the Library&#8217;s collection out of circulation for the past year.  I consider it my moral duty to make sure no 11-year-old will ever get his or her grubby little hands on the 1873 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2134&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtue rewarded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norm De Plume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have made it clear countless times how very strongly we disapprove of logrolling and how we genuinely detest backscratching,  and we think most of you knew that without our having to be reminded.  Still, we cannot help feeling just a little squeamish about the recent citation of this modest but in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2132&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marvelous Metadata</title>
		<link>http://cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/marvelous-metadata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Scripsi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s interesting that we live in an age when getting rid of information seems to be as big a problem as acquiring it.  Witness those information management trucks (read: mobile shredding units) whirring away outside of downtown business institutions.  In the case of  a library that has just converted those cases of catalog cards to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cincinnatimercantile.wordpress.com&blog=401768&post=2118&subd=cincinnatimercantile&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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