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
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
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
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