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
“Authority by Community”
BY JOSEPH JANES
94 Technically Speaking
“E-Books: Going, Going, Go. . . .”
BY DAVID DORMAN
BY ELISA F. TOPPER
98 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
100 Quick Vids
“Culture Heroes and Heroines”
BY GARY HANDMAN
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
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