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                  For Immediate Release

                      News Release


Book Launch: Hot, Hotter, Hottest: The Best of YA Hotline

June 2002. The School of Library and Information Studies is very pleased
to announce the publication of Hot, Hotter, Hottest: The Best of YA
Hotline, edited by Prof. Vivian Howard. This new book will be officially
launched at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, 20th June during the annual conference
of the Canadian Library Association at the World Trade and Convention
Centre, Halifax. The public is invited to visit the School of Library and
Information Studies booth in the exhibit hall at the conference where
Prof. Howard will be autographing copies of her new book during the
launch.

Hot, Hotter, Hottest contains a generous cross section of the best
articles published in YA Hotline, a unique newsletter begun at the School
of Library and Information Studies 25 years ago. YA Hotline is produced
entirely by graduate students enrolled in the Young Adult Literature and
Media Interests course offered in the Master of Library and Information
Studies program. To produce this volume Prof. Howard, current editor of YA
Hotline, drew from the extensive number of articles that feature topics
and issues of timeless importance to young adults. Hot, Hotter, Hottest is
a diverse, accessible collection of articles which explore subjects like
environmental consciousness, youth and athletics, multiculturalism, along
with literary genres such as science fiction, graphic novels, and
biography. This volume is relevant and valuable for anyone who works with
youth in a school or public library or directly in a classroom.

Hot, Hotter, Hottest is published by The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham
Maryland, and is no. 3 in the Dalhousie University School of Library and
Information Studies series.  Besides Prof. Howard's introduction and
updated list of resources, Dr.  Larry Amey, who initiated YA Hotline, has
written the Forward.

  Vivian Howard, editor. Hot, Hotter, Hottest: The Best of YA Hotline.
  Lanham, Maryland and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. xiv, 208
  p., ill. (Dalhousie University School of Library and Information Studies
  series, no. 3) ISBN 0-8108-4240-8. Paper. $48.75 CAN ($32.50 US).

Contact:

Bertrum H. MacDonald, Director
School of Library and Information Studies
Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5
phone: (902) 494-3656    e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: (902) 494-2451             web: http://www.mgmt.dal.ca/slis