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
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
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