Best Books 

Library Journal's Best Books of 2001

Each fall, LJ staff set aside countless hours, burning plenty of midnight oil in order to attack a pile of best book possibilities that can reach 250 titles. This year, to make the process both faster and better, we divided ourselves into committees, each of which had three members and read intensively in fiction, social science, science, or the arts. The result was not only more enjoyable for us but, we feel, better for you, yielding a cornucopia of 61 distinctive and deeply considered choices that range from favorites like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and David McCullough's John Adams to a challenging anthology of major Manifestos to first novels by Donna Gershten and Manil Suri. [read more]

How many have you read?

Permanence 

Image Permanence Institute (IPI)

The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based, nonprofit research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation of visual and other forms of recorded information. IPI is the world's largest independent laboratory with this specific scope. IPI was founded in 1985 through the combined efforts and sponsorship of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T).