Contents of November 2000 American Libraries

News Fronts

8 ALA

Haycock and Sannwald Seek ALA Presidency
Year 2001 Council Nominees
Banned Books Week Organizers Laud
Harry Potter Defenders
Office for Information Technology Releases
Report on the Digital Divide
Chapter Report, by Christine Watkins

12 Washington

Bush Calls for Internet Filters for Libraries, Schools
COPA Commission Issues Report
NCLIS Completes Library Internet Study
President Clinton Names New NCLIS Members

14 USA

The Fire This Time: Detroit Public Library
Closed Again
Jacksonville Voters OK $150 Million for Libraries
LC Gets $60 Million for Study Center, Prize
NYPL Withdraws Salary Offer;
City Seeks Givebacks
Electrical Fire Closes Hamline University Library

26 International

Internet Access for All German Libraries
School Library Is Pawn in Nova Scotian Dispute
Armed Robbers Seize Maps in South Africa
Global Reach

Theme Features

35 ILL: Peering into the Future

Guest Editor WALT CRAWFORD introduces five articles on the brave new world of resource sharing.

36 After the Flood, Colorado State Reaps a Harvest of Invention

BY JULIE WESSLING AND TOM DELANEY
A new system gives users quick interlibrary access to journal articles.

38 Separate Systems, Common Cause: How Three Networks Have Fared

BY ANITA COOK
Successes in Ohio, three north-central states, and California exceed all expectations.

41 “Get It Fast, and Get It Cheap”—What’s an ILL Librarian to Do?

BY ROBERT KRALL
New solutions to the problems of rising demand and multiple systems.

43 Meet the Implementors (They’re Concerned with Protocol)

A roundtable interview with 12 members of the standards-building ILL Protocol Implementors Group.

47 Looking Back and Looking Ahead: The Best Is Yet to Come

BY MARY E. JACKSON
Resource sharing will see major, positive changes in the next five to seven years.

Other Features

50 Great American Public Libraries: HAPLR Ratings, 2000

BY THOMAS J. HENNEN JR.
Once again, it’s time to crunch the numbers and find out how public libraries measure up.

56 I Faced Dr. Laura—and Survived!

BY MICHAEL WESSELS
Tips on how to hold your own from a Pentecostal minister, intellectual-freedom warrior, and (now) talk-show veteran.

58 Breaking Out of the Box: Reinventing a Juvenile-Center Library

BY VERONICA A. DAVIS
Deploying space and services to best advantage is the key to unlocking confined minds.

Departments

7 ALA President’s Message

“Libraries As Civic Spaces”
BY NANCY KRANICH

30 Reader Forum

31 Thus Said

32 Editorial

“Ban Bawdy Behavior, Not Bytes”
BY BEVERLY GOLDBERG

33 On My Mind

“And We Wonder About Our Image!”
BY MARK Y. HERRING

62 Currents

64 Internet Librarian

“The Distributed Librarian: Live, Online, Real-Time Reference”
BY KAREN G. SCHNEIDER