Cites & Insights 13:10 (October 2013) available

[Walt Crawford]

*Cites & Insights* 13:10 (October 2013) <http://citesandinsights.info/> is
now available at http://citesandinsights.info

The issue is 48 pages long. The single-column 6x9 "online reading version"
is 65 pages long.

In fact, most of the regular version also fits into a 6" width; it's made
up of book samples that didn't reduce neatly to the narrow column of the
two-column version.

The issue consists of one big essay in six smaller portions plus an
introduction:

The Front: Books, Books and (Books?) pp. 1-48

It's all about books--specifically, Cites & Insights Books for libraries
and librarians: What may be happening with older books, two important new
books, one *potential* new book and two new combinations of old material.

 Weeding the Virtual Bookstore pp. 2-3

Some of the existing Cites & Insights Books may go out of print (that is,
be removed from potential production) shortly. This section explains why,
which books are involved and why--if you actually want one of them--you
need to act soon.

 Your Library Is...: A Collection of Public Library Sayings pp. 3-10

An inspiring and interesting tour through what America's public libraries
choose as their mottoes and slogans on their websites, based on a complete
scan of all 9,000+ libraries (or at least those for which I could find
websites). 1,137 unique mottoes and slogans, plus 88 mottoes and slogans
shared by 205 libraries. General comments, price and availability (this
one's available as an $8.99 PDF!) are followed by the Cs: Sayings from
libraries in California, Colorado and Connecticut, roughly 9.5 of the 157
text pages in the book.

 $4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets, Vol. 1, Libraries by Size
pp. 10-24

Designed as a tool to help librarians and Friends tell their library's
story to retain and improve funding, this book also provides a detailed
picture of public libraries in FY2011 and how usage changed from FY2009.
The section includes notes on how this study differs from *Give Us a
Dollar..., *followed by portions of Chapter 1 and all of Chapter 4.

 $4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets, Vol. 2, Libraries by State
pp. 24-38

This book does not yet exist. The section includes notes on what it would
include and the circumstances under which it will be completed (basically,
sales of the two books just mentioned), followed by the draft version of
what would be the first two of 49 state profiles (DC and Hawaii, with
single public libraries, get much shorter profiles), those for Alabama and
Alaska.

 The Compleat Give Us a Dollar... Vol. 1 pp. 38-44

This book provides the most in-depth discussion of public library benefits
and budgets you're likely to find, combining all but Chapter 20 of *Give Us
a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four* with graphs and commentary to flesh
out the discussion. After a brief introduction, there's an excerpt
consisting of roughly the first half of Chapter 4.

 The inCompleat Give Us a Dollar... pp. 44-48

This massive book (433 8.5" x 11" pages) combines all of the text from *Give
Us a Dollar... *with all of the graphs and commentary--except for
multicolor line graphs that won't reproduce well in a black-and-white book.
(There are no such graphs in Volume 2 of *The Compleat..., *so this volume
is a complete print replacement for that volume, but an incomplete
replacement for volume 1.) In addition to commentary and pricing, there's
an excerpt consisting of the section for Alabama.

Do note that there are two ways to acquire *Your Library Is...*: You can
buy the $8.99 PDF ebook (6x9, no DRM) or $16.99 paperback--or you can get a
special deluxe PDF version by contributing at least $50 to *Cites &
Insights.* <http://citesandinsights.info/> (What makes the special deluxe
version special? It adds the front and back mosaic covers from the
paperback edition as first and last pages.)

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