Cites & Insights 13:10 (October 2013) available

Cites & Insights 13:10 (October 2013) 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. (What makes the special deluxe version special? It adds the front and back mosaic covers from the paperback edition as first and last pages.)