Contents of January 2003 American Libraries

News Fronts

6  ALA

• Divisions and Others Pledge $250,000 for CIPA Suit
• ALA Questions Web Page Removals
• Divisions Support Job Shadow Day
• Support Staff to Be Focus of COPE III

10  Washington

• Homeland Security Bill Lets Libraries Turn Over Internet Records
• Justice Department Sets Date for Patriot Act Suit Response

14  USA and International

• Ralph Nader Rallies Forces to Rescue D.C. Public Library
• Referenda Roundup, 2002:  Statewide Successes, a Mixed Bag Locally
• Alaska State Library Staffer Charged with Embezzlement
• Kaiser Study: Filters Impede Health Research
• Digital Children’s Library Debuts; Media Buzz Ensues
• Global Reach

Features

44  Is More Always Better?

      BY STEVEN J. BELL
      When quality is the goal, access to everything may not be the user’s best bet.

48  Changing the Way We Do Business

      BY MARIE BLOSH
      Pressures to run libraries like a business are misguided and dangerous.

52  Chile’s Information Transformation

      BY CAROL A. ERICKSON and ENZO ABBAGLIATI BOILS
      A $9.2-million grant launches a nationwide project to expand access to electronic resources.

55  Conference Call: Pushing for Higher Library Salaries—Now or Never?

      Librarians LESLIE BURGER and BEVERLY LYNCH debate the issues surrounding pay equity for librarians and library workers.

Midwinter Preview

60  City of Brotherly Love Pictorial Preview

      Salaries, Career Issues to Top Key Midwinter Meeting Discussions in Philadelphia.
      Plus: Public Forums for Today’s Critical Issues, by Ann Heanue, Nancy Kranich, and Taylor Willingham.

72  Philadelphia: A Gastronome’s Delight

      BY LINDA CARROLL-PITTS
      ALA Midwinter visitors can have their palates pampered.
      Plus: A Jewel of American History, by Diana T. Loreman.

80  The Seeds of Prosperity: ALA in the 1970s

      BY ROBERT WEDGEWORTH
      A former executive director recalls some of the Association’s finest hours, in the first of a two-part feature.

Departments

5  ALA President’s Message

      “Mobilizing to Save America’s Libraries”
      BY MAURICE J. FREEDMAN

36  Thus Said

38  Reader Forum

40  Editorial

      “Change Is Good, and Other Tricky Theories”
      BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

42  On My Mind

      “How You Can Help Save Library Education”
      BY ELAINE YONTZ

84  Currents

89  Grassroots Report

      “Paying Your Dues . . . And Liking It”
      BY CHRISTINE WATKINS

90  The Crawford Files

      “What I Learned in Owensboro”
      BY WALT CRAWFORD

92  Internet Librarian

94  Technically Speaking

      “E-Books: Going, Going, Go. . . .”
      BY DAVID DORMAN

96  Working Knowledge

98  Librarian’s Library

100  Quick Vids

      “Culture Heroes and Heroines”
      BY GARY HANDMAN

102  Datebook

109  ALA Annual Conference 2003

127  Career Leads

143  Index to Advertisers

144  Will’s World

      “This Willie Winner’s Really a Saint”
      BY WILL MANLEY