Contents of August 1999 American Libraries
News Fronts
6 ALA
- Long Sets Up education Task Forces
- National Library Week 2000 to Focus on Kids, the Arts
- AL Senior Editor Edith McCormick to Retire
- ALA Launches Millennium Project
- Special Report: Lessons Learned from Library School, Past and Future, by Peggy Sullivan
- Chapter Report, by Christine Watkins
16 Washington
- Filtering Mandate Added to Juvenile-Justice Bill
- Database Bill Advances; Alternative Introduced
- Legislators Introduce Library Construction Bills
18 USA
- State Library Funding Heats Up for Summer
- Dole Uses Library Sites to Blast Cyberporn
- Arson Destroys Library in California Synagogue
- Filter Advocate Blankets States with FOIA Requests
- Special Report: Medical Librarians Examine Their Future at Chicago Conference, by AL Senior Editor Beverly Goldberg
- Special Report: Special Librarians Mine Data in Minneapolis, by AL Associate Editor George M. Eberhart
32 International
- Booksellers Boost Canadian Library Association Meeting, by Martin Dowding
- NYPL Hosts International Virtual Libraries Conference, by GraceAnne A. DeCandido
- Global Reach
Features
44 Against All Odds: Refugees Coping in a Strange Land
BY ELISA MASON
Global awareness includes a commitment to the information needs of displaced people.
48 Keeping the Faith: Religion in the Professional Sense
BY RON CHEPESUIK
The varieties of religious library associations’ experience.
52 Building a Partnership: Library Service to Labor
BY ARTHUR S. MEYERS
Bargain for more users when you strive to serve organized workers.
56 A World of Difference: The Peace Corps Story
BY KAY ANN CASSELL
Serving in another land teaches global diversity through local commitment.
60 Words on the Street
CHRIS DODGE
Homeless people’s newspapers belong in the library as well.
63 Choose Freedom Read: Book Talks behind Bars
BY SHEILA CLARK AND BOBBIE PATRICK
An innovative program furthers reading among inmates.
65 “MyLibrary” Can Help Your Library
BY KEN WINTER
Personalization empowers patrons to get only relevant resources.
68 Libraries in South Africa: Extending the Reach
BY CHRISTINE WATKINS
A handful of librarians rewrites priorities for politicians’ wish lists.
Annual Conference is big and easy.
Departments
37 Money Matters
38 Reader Forum
39 ALA President’s Message
“Building Communities Is Our Business”
BY SARAH ANN LONG
40 Editorial
“Reader Survey Is a Vote for Moderation”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
43 On My Mind
“Moral Leadership: A Response to the Littleton Tragedy”
BY RICHARD SEVERSON
88 Technically Speaking
“New Products in New Orleans”
BY DAVID DORMAN
96 Currents
98 Internet Librarian
“Privacy: The Next Challenge”
BY KAREN G. SCHNEIDER
100 Librarian’s Library
101 Quick Bibs
“The Found Generation”
BY BILL OTT
103 This Month
“50 Years Ago . . . ”
BY WAYNE WIEGAND
105 Career Leads
135 Index to Advertisers
136 Will’s World
“Of Dummies and Idiots”
BY WILL MANLEY
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