Contents of February 2003 American Libraries
News Fronts
8 ALA
- Academic Libraries Defend File Sharing
- Israelis Chastise ALA on Resolution
- World’s Libraries Campaign Grows
- Booklist on Time’s Top 10 Best Lists
- 3M Repeats Detection System Donations
- Sixties Discussion Series Available
11 Washington
- Report Finds Massive Fraud in E-Rate Program
- New Public Printer Names First Female Superintendent of Documents
- Congressman Seeks to Rescind Library Patriot Act Provisions
13 USA and International
Features
34 Who Pays for Free Speech?
BY MARY MINOW
The cost of defending the First Amendment is diverting scarce resources from library services.
38 Filters Work: Get Over It
BY HAMPTON (SKIP) AULD
A Virginia library system opts for filtered Internet access and makes a believer out of one skeptic.
Plus: Blaise Cronin, Defender of CIPA, by Jennifer Burek Pierce.
43 MARC Goes Global—and Lite
BY JACKIE RADEBAUGH
The backbone of library catalogs has evolved to reach new users worldwide.
45 Uncovering Lost Voices: 1946 David Boder Tapes Revived
BY CARL MARZIALI
IIT Library staffers pool resources to create a Web site from archival Holocaust material.
47 The Seeds of Prosperity: ALA in the 1970s
BY ROBERT WEDGEWORTH
A former executive director tells the story of Huron Plaza construction and the dawn of high finance for the Association in the second of a two-part feature.
Departments
5 ALA President’s Message
“Libraries, Priorities, and Telling Our Story”
BY MAURICE J. FREEDMAN
26 Thus Said
28 Reader Forum
29 Editorial
“What If There Were No CIPA?”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
42 On My Mind
“The Patriot Act’s Threat to Libraries”
BY REP. BERNIE SANDERS
52 Currents
55 Grassroots Report
“Hundreds of Communities, Hundreds of Books”
BY CHRISTINE WATKINS
56 The Crawford Files
“PoD People Revisited: You Thought I Was Joking?”
BY WALT CRAWFORD
58 Internet Librarian
“Dot Kids ‘R’ Us”
BY JOSEPH JANES
60 Technically Speaking
“Making a Federal Case out of Access”
BY DAVID DORMAN
BY ELISA F. TOPPER
64 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
66 Quick Bibs
“Booker Bedlam”
BY BILL OTT
71 Career Leads
79 Index to Advertisers
80 Will’s World
“The Changing Times of Lunchroom Ethics”
BY WILL MANLEY
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