Contents of April 1999 American Libraries

News Fronts

6  ALA

• Net Filter Firms Meet with Symons
• Teen Read Week Contest Winners Picked
• New Management System Installed
• Chapter Report, by Christine Watkins

12  Washington

• Senate Holds Hearing on Filtering Mandate
• Half of U.S. Classrooms Online, Announces Clinton
• NCLIS Guidelines Call for Local Internmet Controls
• Librarians Testify on LC and GPO Appropriations
• Commissioner Charges E-Rate Allocation Bias

14  USA

• San Diego Voters Trounce Library Sales Tax
• Michigan State University Protestors Take Library Books Hostage
• Consultant Calls West Virginia Library Funding a “Crisis”
• Fugitive Librarian Surrenders to Police

26  International

• Strike Closes British Library Reading Rooms
• Global Reach

Features

40  Reaching Critical Mass

      BY RON CHEPESIUK
      Off-site storage is the solution for many libraries coping with a paper explosion in the digital age.

44  Countdown to a New Library

      BY JENNETTE WOODWARD
      Choosing furnishings, flooring, and ambience is not for the fainthearted.

48  Moving Day: An Exercise in Mind and Matter

      BY ADAM BRUNS
      Moving and relabeling 2.1 million books is like a game of chess.

52  The Boom Goes On: A Facilities Showcase

      Highlighting recent construction and renovation.

70  Honoring Advances in Architecture: The AIA/ALA Buildings Awards

      BY ELIZABETH DREAZEN
      Winning buildings include two restorations and four new facilities.

76  A Choice of Futures

      BY BILL CROWLEY and BILL BRACE
      What the dispute over graduate education means for librarianship.
      Plus: Ken Haycock on the Congress on Professional Education

80  Remember All the Cool Stuff We Learned in Library School?

      BY RICHARD LEE

82  An Outsider’s Thoughts on the Education of Librarians

      BY ED QUATTROCCHI
      A “public” member of ALA's Committee on Accreditation discovers some challenging but disturbing trends.

Conference Preview

97  ALA in New Orleans

      Preliminary program for the 1999 ALA Annual Conference.

Departments

30  Money Matters

34  Reader Forum

35  ALA President’s Message

      “An Open Letter to Jeanne Thorsen and Cheryl Towne”
      BY ANN K. SYMONS

36  Editorial

      “Collection Development: Enemy of the Swift and Stingy”
      BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

38  On My Mind

      “Filtering Behavior Instead of Speech”
      BY JAMES HUFF

86  Currents

88  Internet Librarian

      “The Elements of Marvin” 
      BY KAREN G. SCHNEIDER

90  Technically Speaking

92  Librarian’s Library

93  Quick Bibs

      “Reading Poems”
      BY BILL OTT

94  Datebook

95  This Month

      “100 Years Ago . . . ”
      BY WAYNE WIEGAND

177  Career Leads

198  Index to Advertisers

200  Will's World

      “Book Drop Technology -- 10 Years Ahead of Its Time”
      BY WILL MANLEY