Contents of August 2003 American Libraries

News Fronts

6  ALA

• “NASA @ Your Library” Takes Flight
• Allied Professional Association Director Position Open 
• Patriot Act Defense Funds Sought 
• ALA and Oprah Partner Again 
• Plus: Carol Brey-Casiano Presidency to Center on Advocacy 

17  Washington

• Ashcroft: Feds Don’t Monitor "Ordinary" Patrons 
• GPO, OMB to Allow Use of Private Printers 
• Public Domain Sought for Federally Funded Research
• National Library of Education Hit with Staff Cuts
• Use of Uncredited Public-Domain Material Okayed

20  USA and International

• Recession, 2003: More Cutbacks and Closures 
• Reader Revolt Against Patriot Act Gains Steam
• Global Reach 

Special Reports

12  Supreme Court Upholds CIPA;
       Libraries to Revisit Their Bottom Limes

      BY BEVERLY GOLDBERG
      Plus: Let’s Begin the Discussion: What Now? by Karen G. Schneider
      The CIPA Ruling As Reality Therapy, by Ron McCabe

36  COPE: Delegates Define Sustainable
       Solutions for Support-Staff Issues

      BY AMY JORDAN
      A report on ALA’s third Congress on Professional Education.

Features

44  Family Trees on the Web

      BY DIANE K. KOVACS
      Librarians can help genealogical researchers navigate the best online resources.

46  History Is Its Own Reward
       Back Home in Indiana

      BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
      Attending to the needs of local-history buffs has paid off in America’ s heartland.

50  Tombs among the Tomes

      BY GRETA BEVER
      A boost for your library’s genealogical holdings is as close as your local cemetery.

56  Stories of War

      BY ELLEN McCULLOCH-LOVELL
      The Veterans History Project is preserving history, honoring our past, and calling on libraries to help.
      Plus: More Than Names, by Ed Rossman.

60  Surviving Annual, Returning Safely

      SARS scared off thousands, but couldn’t dampen the spirits of the 17,500 who came to Toronto
      and lived to tell about it. Plus: Council and Executive Board  coverage.

Departments

5  ALA President’s Message

      “Equity of Access—The Time Is Now”
      BY CARLA D. HAYDEN

38  Thus Said

40  Reader Forum

42  Editorial

      “Survey Says: Reading Is on Your Mind”
      BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

43  On My Mind

      “But It’s a Library”
      BY HARRY S. STEIN

76  Technically Speaking

      “Exhibitors Uniting in Their Desire to Provide Federated Searching”
      BY DAVID DORMAN

86  Currents

91  The Crawford Files

      “Time for a Privacy Audit”
      BY WALT CRAWFORD

92  Internet Librarian

      “Is Bob a Librarian?”
      BY JOSEPH JANES

94  Working Knowledge

      “Today’s Times: Surviving Job Loss”
      BY ELISA F. TOPPER

96  Librarian’s Library

      BY CATHLEEN BOURDON

98  Quick Vids

      “The View from Mid-Century”
      BY GARY HANDMAN

101  Datebook

110  Career Leads

119  Index to Advertisers

120  Will’s World

      “Interviews in a Phone Culture”
      BY WILL MANLEY