Contents of September 2003 American Libraries
News Fronts
6 ALA
- ALA Hammers Out CIPA-Decision Strategy
- Communications Preferences Sought
- More ALA Business Information Available
12 Washington
- FCC Issues Rules on CIPA Implementation
- Administration Appeals COPA a Second Time
- Bills Would Limit FBI’s Access to Library Records
- Bush Names Challinor to Chair NCLIS
14 USA and International
- ACLU Makes First Patriot Act Challenge
- Tennessee Library Supporters Fight to Save Books
- San Jose’s New Joint-Use Library Sets a Record
- Global Reach
Special Reports
28 Summer Reading Events Feature Animals, Attractions, and Art
30 Romania’s Library Lingers in Limbo
BY TAMSIN McMAHON and DAWN WITHERS
Unfinished bibliographic business in the heart of Bucharest.
Features
40 What If Your Library Director
Was a Baseball Fanatic?
A cartoon essay, BY RICHARD LEE.
42 Book a Play Date:
The Game of Promoting Emergent Literacy
BY MARCI BYRNE, KATHLEEN DEERR, and LISA G. KROPP
It’s about time that librarians made parents get serious about child’s play.
46 REAPing the Rewards of Family Literacy
BY MELODY PORTER
DeKalb County Public Library’s program for immigrant families goes
beyond teaching English-language skills.
48 Public Libraries and Early Literacy:
Raising a Reader
BY RENEA ARNOLD
ALA’s Preschool Literacy Initiative educates librarians on how to play a role
in teaching reading to children.
52 Information-Literacy Collaboration:
A Shared Responsibility
BY JO ANN CARR and ILENE F. ROCKMAN
Academic librarians must work with their K–12 colleagues in enabling
students to succeed in college.
56 Talking Books with Teens
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
Members of Arlington County Public Library’s Teen Advisory Board
share ideas on books and reading.
58 Personal E-Mail at Work
BY NANCY KALIKOW MAXWELL
On carpools and cyberstings.
60 Joining the Honor Roll:
ALA Award Winners, 2003
Departments
5 ALA President’s Message
“Still Stacking Rocks”
BY CARLA D. HAYDEN
32 Thus Said
34 Reader Forum
36 Editorial
“Why We Lost the CIPA Case”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
38 On My Mind
“Reaching the Seventh Page”
BY LESA E. CAMERON
76 Currents
81 Grassroots Report
“War, Peace, and Relevance”
BY CHRISTINE WATKINS
82 The Crawford Files
“A DVD Is Not a Frisbee”
BY WALT CRAWFORD
84 Internet Librarian
“Seething over CIPA”
BY JOSEPH JANES
86 Technically Speaking
“LMS Sales Trends”
BY DAVID DORMAN
88 Working Knowledge
“All Around the Career Ladder”
BY ELISA F. TOPPER
90 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
92 Quick Bibs
“Media Wars”
BY BILL OTT
97 Career Leads
111 Index to Advertisers
112 Will’s World
“Instructions Not Included”
BY WILL MANLEY
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