May  2003

Featured Topic:  Food Fear  Since September 11, 2001 Americans have become more sensitive to the issue of bioterrorism.  One concern is the safety of the food supply.  Is it likely to be a target of terrorists?  Many recently published books tap into this concern, but they ask different and more troubling questions: How safe is our food now?  Who is responsible for keeping it safe and how well are they protecting us?  If we are what we eat - what ARE we?  Schlosser, Eric.  Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal                                   394.10973/SCH   Ever wonder what was in your hamburger?  Maybe you don’t want to know.  Schlosser’s book is an expose reminiscent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.  He looks behind the golden arches and lets readers see what lies behind the slick facades, at an industry shockingly lacking in federal regulation. Fox, Nicols.  Spoiled: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.                               615.954/FOX Fox exposes the threats that current methods of food manufacture and distribution pose to health: Advances in transportation and storage technology which allow us to consume foods grown very far away and at all seasons, and strains of bacteria that are evolving despite efforts to contain them.  According to the Center for Disease Control food poisoning accounts for more than 81 million cases a year in the United States . What have you eaten lately? Critser, Greg.  Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World                                        362.196398/CRI About 61% of Americans are now overweight and 20% are defined as obese. How did this happen?  According to Crister, the cycle starts with Earl Butz, who encouraged the over-production of corn, which resulted in the invention of high-fructose corn syrup, which was adopted by food manufacturers and incorporated into everything from bread to soda pop.  Combine that with the use of saturated fats like palm oil and you have a recipe for fat. Nestle, Marion .  Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health                   363.85/NES How the food industry--through lobbying, advertising, and the co-opting of experts--influences our dietary choices to our detriment. Nestle shows how the free market system and a desire for ever-increasing profits by food producers leads them to encourage us to eat more than is healthy for us.   According to nutritionists, our mantra should be "eat less, move more." Nestle, Marion.  Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. Nestle maintains that it is about politics and control. Who decides when a food is safe? Nestle demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose safety regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer protect our food supply. Jacobson, Michael F.  Restaurant Confidential : The Shocking Truth About What You're Really Eating When You're Eating Out           613.2/JAC What really goes in your meal when you eat in a restaurant?  Did you know that a typical restaurant meal to may contain 1,000 calories, not counting appetizers or dessert, each of which could run another 1,000?  This book from the Center for Science in the Public Interest offers a practical list of the best and worst meal choices, according to calorie, fat and sugar content, and offers alternatives in a section called "The Bottom Line."

In This Issue: On Display in the Library Looking for Book Reviews? Try Infotrac New Movies @ GPL Teens Write Poetry for National Library Week GPL on Television Forthcoming Books Literary Events This Month     On Display in the Library Look for these displays in the library in May: Poland As Crime Goes By Mysteries Amazing Vase  Flower Gardening Kings and Queens Authors named King  and Queen Look for these author displays: Walt Whitman Janet Dailey Theodore White James Lehrer

New Movies @ GPL ON VHS About a Boy  Austin Powers in Goldmember  The Banger Sisters  Barbershop  Bourne Identity  The Devils Backbone Forbidden Planet  The Good Girl  The House of Mirth  Igby Goes Down  The Importance of Being Earnest  Insomnia  K-19  Last Orders  Men In Black II  Minority Report  My Horrible Year  Nine Queens  The Piano Teacher  Signs  Sunshine State  Unfaithful  The Wind Will Carry Us XXX Y Tu Mama Tambien  ON DVD 8 Women  24 Hour Party People 40 Days and 40 Nights Back to the Future 1, 2, 3  The Banger Sisters Barbershop  China Moon City By the Sea  The Collector  The Devils Backbone  Full Frontal  Igby Goes Down  Imitation of Life  The Importance of Being Earnest Lagaan  Minority Report  My Big Fat Greek Wedding One Hour Photo  Our Song  Possession  Project Greenlight  Saturday Night Fever Serving Sara  Sling Blade  The Thin Man  Time Out Unfaithful  XXX  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea  Wit

Looking for Book Reviews?  Try Infotrac! Looking for book reviews?  One of the best places to find book reviews is Infotrac, an online database available from the library's workstations and your home computer using your Glenview library card.  The library subscribes to a collection or group of Infotrac databases.  Using Infotrac, you can find magazine and journal articles about health, business, current events, and much more.  Many of the articles in Infotrac are available in full-text, and you can limit your search results to include only full-text articles if you desire.   The best Infotrac database for book reviews is General Reference Center Gold.  Search for a book review by keyword, view the full text of the article, and then print it out or email it to yourself or someone else.   To use Infotrac from a library computer in Adult Services, click on the link for Magazines and Journals from the library's internal home page. Then choose Infotrac.  Click on the link for General Reference Center Gold.   From your home computer, go to our home page (http://www.glenview.lib.il.us), choose Online Resources from the lower right of the screen, click on the link for Magazines and Journals, and then choose Infotrac.  You will be asked for your 14-digit Glenview Public Library card number.  Enter it with no spaces.  Choose General Reference Center Gold.   Once you're in General Reference Center Gold, choose "keyword search" from the blue box on the left hand side of the screen.  Click in the search box and type in a few keywords from the title of the book you want to find a review for.  For example, typing in "miss Julia speaks" in the search box retrieves book reviews for the title Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross in the magazines Library Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly.   You can also use Infotrac to find author interviews or biographical information.  Try typing in the first and last names of an author and see what you get. Don't worry about capitals or whether last name comes first.   Of course, there are other places besides Infotrac to find book reviews, and we'll be covering some of them in future issues of "Read All About It."   Teens Write Poetry for National Library Week  In honor of National Library Week and National Poetry Month, the Glenview Public Library sponsored a poetry contest for teens in April.  We were fortunate enough to have two great teen panel judges to pick the winners based on originality, style, and content. With 64 entries in the contest, it was a hard choice but we congratulate each of our winners. Teens were very creative, putting much thought into their work. Entries came from Springman Middle School, Glenbrook North, and New Trier High Schools. Subjects ranged from nature to love to statements on social issues. Winning entries are posted in the library’s Teen Corner and on the library's web site at http://www.glenview.lib.il.us/poetrywinners.html   And the winners are… Porcelain by Eleanor Russell The Lonely Old Man by Nick DiLallo Troubled Days by Emily Schonberg Beggar by Julia Kite

Glenview Public Library on Television Glenview Cable TV will be airing a 55 minute program on the March 23rd Authors Reception held at the Glenview Public Library beginning May 9th at 3, 7 and 11 pm. It will also be shown on May 10th, May 11th and May 12th at 11am and at 3, 7, and 11 pm, and on May 13th at 11 am and 3 pm .  The 55 minute program has great footage and interviews.  See yourself, your friends, and your library staff in action!  Later on, the station will be airing interviews with individual Glenview authors.  Stay tuned! Copies of the tape are available for free to anyone who is in the program—if you provide a new VHS tape.  If you would like a copy but are not it the program, it is $10.00 if you provide the tape, $20.00 if you would like Glenview TV to provide the tape.  Stop by the Glenview TV Station offices at the Village of Glenview office 1225 Waukegan Road to order your copy.   A thirty minute program on the space needs and over-crowded conditions at the library will air at various times this week (May 5-12). The program includes a "walk around" the library building, and  interviews with Reference and Youth Services staff. VHS copies of the program will be available at the library, should you wish to take one home to view it. The Village of Glenview operates a cable access channel which provides coverage of Village meetings, local events, and programs to keep residents informed on local issues. This channel is operated largely by Glenview residents who donate over 5,000 hours annually. For more information call (847) 904-4380.

Forthcoming Books Look for these titles coming this month: FICTION The Kalahari Typing School For Men Alexander McCall Smith,  The continuing story of Botswana's first female private detective, Precious Ramotswe, that began with the book The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The Sinister Pig  Tony Hillerman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes back from retirement to join Sgt.Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police in solving a reopened murder case. Oryx and Crake  Margaret Atwood The author of The Handmaid's Tale revisits the future in her latest novel. Fox Evil Minette Walters A contemporary suspense novel set in the English countryside.   NON-FICTION A Short History of Nearly Everything  Bill Bryson Bryson writes of his quest to seek out the answers to the biggest questions in the scientific world.

Literary Happenings in May @ the Library Monday May 5 GPL Conference Room, 1:00 pm The Monday Afternoon Book Discussion Group to discuss To Dance With the White Dog by Terry Kay. Monday May 12 GPL Conference Room, 7:00 - 9:00 pm The Monday Evening Book Discussion Group meets to discuss Elegy for Iris by John Bayley, about the life and work of Iris Murdoch. Around Chicagoland Thursday May 8  Chicago Public Library, Auditorium, 6:00 pm Reading and Book Signing.  Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito. Call (312) 747-4050. Monday May 12 CPL Chicago Authors Room, 5:30 pm Discussion and book signing.  Iris Chang, The Chinese in America. Call (312) 747-4050.   Tuesday, May 13 Museum of Contemporary Art, 7:30 pm WBEZ Stories on Stage: The Love of a Good Dog: Besotted by Rover Animal magnetism in its purest sense is at the heart of these —shaggy or not — dog stories.  http://www.wbez.org/storiesonstage or (312) 948-4704 Tuesday May 13 Uncommon Ground Coffeehouse, 1214 W. Grace, 8:00 pm Uncommon Storytelling featuring Susan O'Halloran. Info: Jim at 773-271-3417 or jpfitzer@mindspring.com Thursday May 15 Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Kendall College, Evanston, 2:00 pm Book club discussion of The Man Who Killed Deer by Frank Waters (847) 475-1030 or http://www.mitchellmuseum.org Continuing Now— July 12 Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago Exhibit: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Sherlock Holmes An exhibit that explores the life and adventures of the man behind the master detective, including magazines, first editions, pirated editions, original illustrations, handwritten correspondence, posters, photographs and artifacts. Free. Call for hours and information: (312) 255-3700. Saturday June 7 & Sunday June 8 South Dearborn Street, Congress to Polk, 10 am to 6 pm Printer's Row Book Fair 190 Booksellers; New, Rare and Used Books; Literary Programs on Seven Stages For Children and Adults.  Free Admission. For more information call (312) 222-3986.

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