Contents of February 2000 American Libraries

News Fronts

8  ALA

• Core Values Draft Ready for Comments
• President Long Debates
  Filtering Issue on MSNBC
• ALA’s 700+ Great Sites Cited in Top 10
• Chapter Report, by Christine Watkins

12  USA

• California Laws Force Trustees to
  Revisit Access for Minors
• Libraries Report Few Y2K Headaches
• Illinois Director Charged with $157,000 Theft
• Cost of Fixing San Francisco Public Library
  Main Put at $28 Million

22  International

• From Rubble to Reconstruction: Rebuilding Bosnian Libraries, by Ron Chepesiuk
• Global Reach

Features

34  Ha! Ha! Ha! E-Humor for Librarians

      It’s out there and we tracked some of it down.

38  Quotable Will Manley: 7 Years of Will’s World

      Quips, snips, and quotes from Libraryland’s most loved and hated humorist.

42  Tantalizing Tidbits from the Whole Library Handbook 3

      BY GEORGE M. EBERHART
      Library data, advice, lists, guidelines, quotations, and curiosa from a brand-new compendium for the millennium.

46  Remember All the Nifty Children’s Programs You Had? Programs Like

      BY RICHARD LEE

48  The Pros and Cons of Squelching Library Theft

      BY PAUL WARTENBERG
      All it takes is a little imagination to solve this endemic problem—but at a price.

50  The Joy of Junk Mail

      BY SALLY DECKER SMITH
      A library’s unsolicited postal plethora reveals hidden aspects of the building’s personality.

52  Cringing in the Dark: Book Abuse in the Movies

      BY SZILVIA E. SZMUK
      If it would end book abuse on the silver screen, would some prudent censorship be so bad?

56  Bibliophilately Revisited

      BY LARRY NIX
      The joys of collecting libraries and librarians on postage stamps.

59  On the Air and on Deadline at National Public Radio

      BY NANCY BOLT
      For NPR librarians, the emphasis is on preparation, accuracy, and immediacy.

Departments

7  ALA President’s Message

      “School Library Media Specialists Need Operational Dollars”
      BY SARAH ANN LONG

25  Money Matters

26  Thus said

28  Reader Forum

30  Editorial

      “A Sabbatical Leave and the Certainty of Change”
      BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

32  On My Mind

      “Diversity Isn’t Just about Race, Language, or Culture”
      BY AUDREY GORMAN

62  Currents

64  Technically Speaking

65  Librarian’s Library

66  Quick Bibs

      “Best Reads of 1999”
      BY BILL OTT

67  Internet Librarian

      “Patrons Do the Darndest Things”
      BY KAREN G. SCHNEIDER

68  Datebook

69  This Month

      “109 Years Ago”
      BY WAYNE WIEGAND

71  ALA 2000 Annual Conference Registration

82  Career Leads

103  Index to Advertisers

104  Will’s World

      “Catalogers, Cast Off Your Shackles”
      BY WILL MANLEY