Who else writes like: a readers� guide to fiction authors. 3rd edition.
Ropy Huse and Jeanne Huse, editors. LISU, Loughborough University, 1999. ISBN 1-901786-28-5. �16.99 (post paid UK) Paperback.

This is a substantially revised edition of this popular guide to fiction writers, which answers the frequent question: "I have read all the books by my favourite author; who else writes like that?" It now covers 1,626 authors, and turned up some new authors for the writer of this annotation. Most UK public libraries provide a copy for the staff and for the users at each service point, and booksellers find it helpful too.

Marketing/planning library and information services. 2nd edition.
Darlene E. Weingand. Libraries Unlimited, 1999. ISBN 1-56308-612-3. Unpriced.

Weingand has updated the first edition of this title which was well received. The text is important for it stresses the importance of merging marketing and planning into a single interactive process, and at a time when services need to move beyond surviving to a status of thriving. Chapters cover the relationship between marketing and planning; forming a marketing/planning team; developing a mission and vision; the marketing audit; goals, objectives and action strategies; the library�s products; the price; the place; promotion; evaluation; and designing a preferred future. Written for a North American market, it has much of value to other parts of the world.

Grantsmanship for small libraries and school library media centers.
Frank W. Hoffman, editor. Libraries Unlimited, 1999. ISBN 1-56308-484-4. �25.50. Softback.

With the need to seek external support for services of increasing importance, this handbook provides a readable and practical guide to the process. Chapters cover: planning; project design; project narrative; project personnel; budget development; project evaluation, and after the proposal. Four experienced US librarians contribute to the text which has a bibliography and useful glossaries.

Effective document management: unlocking corporate knowledge.
Bob Wiggins. Gower, 2000. ISBN 0-566-08148-2. �95.

Bob Wiggins is well known to special librarians and information scientists in the UK and he has brought his considerable experience of working in the field to the production of a sound basic guide to effective knowledge management. He describes how different technologies can support the life cycle from creation, indexing, retrieval and communication to disposal or storage. It includes case studies and has good diagrams. It will be of value to senior managers, information professionals, systems designers and users who want to exploit the benefits of the system.

Handling groups in action: the use of distinctions in facilitation.
Dale hunter, Anne Bailey and Bill Taylor. Gower, 1999. ISBN 0-566-08272-1. �25. Paperback.

The authors present a fresh approach for facilitators who find themselves working with a group that gets stuck, caught in a loop and unable to agree on anything, working too slowly, or is unfocused. They focus on the key skill of noticing what is missing in a group�s interaction and finding a way of introducing the missing elements or �distinctions� while the group is in action. Useful for trainers and those developing teams.

Patricia Layzell Ward
Library Link Editor
Updated 21st December 1999

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