LISNews: Librarian News

Sue, Bob, and Jen all pointed to
This NYTimes Story on the end of the Partisan Review.
The quarterly journal of culture and politics that emerged from the ideological ferment of the 1930's to become the house organ for a generation of brilliant American intellectuals and writers, is ceasing publication after 66 years. The journal's final issue, a tribute to its co-founder and editor in chief, William Phillips, who died in September at 94, is being mailed to subscribers this week.

Robin from over at In My Book sent along This NYTimes Story on Book, a magazine filled with book reviews, author interviews and effusive features.
Book and Barnes & Noble have restructured their partnership to cut costs and more closely integrate the magazine with the chain. Starting with the May/June issue, the magazine will be called Barnes & Noble Presents Book. The circulation promised advertisers will be cut to 150,000 from 750,000, and the magazine will be more prominently displayed in the chain's more than 600 stores.
The magazine about the book world burned through $700,000 in the first two years as it struggled to find readers and advertisers.

Jack Stephens passed along one of the Punniest stories I've read in a long time. The Macon Telegraph reports that guys who wouldn't know a Dewey decimal from a Mountain Dew are after the SI swimsuit models and their barely covered, um, reference sections.

"I would say that of the group of people who are normally not interested in it, the biggest group of people who look at it are the librarians themselves," she said. "Just out of curiosity, to see what's gonna be in it this year that we need to be aware of, and how bad is it this year, and how ridiculous these girls look ... how ludicrous."

jen Young passed along This NYTimes Piece on trying to keep up with your magazine subscriptions.

\"Every few months, I load a bag with magazines from three months ago or longer. No wistful glances at the cover, no flipping through the pages. I don\'t want to know that the Sept. 30 New Yorker has an article by Adam Gopnik titled, \"Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli: How We Got to Be so Busy.\" I am too busy to read about how I got this way.\"