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
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.
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
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
110 Career Leads
119 Index to Advertisers
120 Will’s World
“Interviews in a Phone Culture”
BY WILL MANLEY
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