[PW] disappearing web site

[Elizabeth L. Brown]

Hi,

The Internet Archive has several versions of the Picturing Books 
site: < 
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/  
 >.  There's a note on this August 2007 version that says this:

"Portions of Picturing Books have been removed due to copyright 
abuse. Users seeking information that has been removed may email 
Picturing Books to make a request. As always, all comments and 
queries will receive a prompt response."

Perhaps that's why the site was taken down?

Anyway, there's an email link in there to: dimatulka at alltel.net .

The "about" page also indicates that the site (in 2007, anyway) was 
owned by Denise Matulka.  The bio there says "Denise has a B.A. in 
English and Children's Literature from the University of 
Nebraska-Lincoln and a M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

Via Google:
There's a bio of a Denise Matulka, who also is a librarian with a 
degree from UIUC, here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/A29/278 .  She 
also has interests in children's literature.  This page has a 
"contact" link.  If the email address, above, doesn't work, maybe 
this contact link will.  I suspect she's your key to solving the riddle.

It also looks like D.M. has published a book (in 1997) on the 
subject, _Picture This: Picture Books for Young Adults A 
Curriculum-Related Annotated Bibliography._
Here's its record in the Library of Congress catalog: 
<http://lccn.loc.gov/97002234>http://lccn.loc.gov/97002234
Here's its Amazon page: < 
http://www.amazon.com/Picture-This-Curriculum-Related-Annotated-Bibliography/dp/0313301824  
 >.
Barnes & Noble: 
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ATH=Denise+I.+Matulka

I assume one could also reach her through her publisher, Greenwood 
Press < http://www.greenwood.com/ >.

I hope this helps.  Good luck.

Elizabeth


At 12:29 PM 5/15/2008, you wrote:
>Does anyone know what became of the following web page.
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>Picturing Books: A Website About Picture Books
><http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/>
>http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/
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>We used to link to it and recommend it to pre-service teachers and
>librarians, but the links seems to have died.  I am not sure who
>originally created the site and would like to find out if it has just
>changed addresses or if it is truly defunct.
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>Thanks, Barb
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>barbara-campbell at uiowa.edu
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