Contents of February 2006 American Libraries
News Fronts
5 ALA
- Associate Executive Director Gerald Hodges Dies at 61
- ALA Plans Patriot Act FOIA Request
- Wanted: Read CD Posters
- ALA Seeks halt to “Don’t Read” Ads
- AL Direct Weekly E-Newsletter Launched
9 Washington
- Congress Extends Patriot Act Five Weeks
- FBI E-Mails Show Frustration over Patriot Act Limits
10 USA and International
- Student Fabricates Homeland Security Book-Watch Story
- Town Helps Restore Libraries Hit by Katrina
- Stir Raised by Dallas Body-Odor Rule
- Fair Use Threatened, NYU Survey Asserts
- Newsmaker: Straight Answers from SEN. RUSS FEINGOLD
Features
24 Cover Story:
Mission Access
BY RON CHEPESIUK
Like their civilian counterparts, armed forced collections persevere
despite budget cuts.
28 Saluting the Citizen Soldier
BY GORDON FLAGG
Chicago’s Pritzker Military Library honors the heritage of
the nation’s armed forces.
30 Mr. Mitchell and His “Liberry” Girls
BY CAROLYN MITCHELL RHODES
A childhood recollection of growing up atop New York
public libraries in the 1950s.
32 Circumpolar Librarians
BY SANDY DULING
Serving the entire top of the globe, Arctic Centre librarians dissolve
political boundaries while working to save the region’s resources.
35 Get Out the Hair Dye—
We Really Are Aging
BY DENISE M. DAVIS
A survey of ALA membership documents our demographics.
Departments
2 Editorial
“Military Libraries in a Time of War”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
3 ALA President’s Message
“Strengthening Our Affiliated Body”
BY MICHAEL GORMAN
4 ALA Treasurer’s Message
“ALA Dues Increase: What You Should Know”
BY TERI R. SWITZER
21 Thus Said
22 Reader Forum
23 On My Mind
“Citizenship, the Purple Pill, and Libraries”
BY PAT MAX
37 Currents
39 Grassroots Report
“Where Reference Librarians Do Rove”
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
40 Internet Librarian
“This, Too, Is the Internet”
BY JOSEPH JANES
42 Technically Speaking
“Dorothy Gets a New Pair of Shoes”
BY ANDREW K. PACE
44 Working Knowledge
“Mastering the Group Interview”
BY MARY PERGANDER
46 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
48 Quick Vids
“Mock, Fake, and Faux”
BY GARY HANDMAN
53 Career Leads
63 How to Contact ALA / Index to Advertisers
64 Will’s World
“Is Love’s Labor a Loss for Libraries?”
BY WILL MANLEY
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