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Contents of August 2007 American Libraries

News Fronts

10 ALA

ALA Receives $1.6 Million in IMLS Grants
Spectrum Doctoral Fellows Announced
New Baseball/Literacy Award Available
Public Programs Blog and Wiki
An Interview with Jim Rettig

15 USA and International

SKILLs Act Gives High Marks to School Librarians
Occult Concerns Jinx Teen Read Program
Senators Want EPA Libraries Reopened
Mass. Library Gets Partial Reprieve
New York City Budget Boosts Service Hours
Global Reach

34 Newsmaker

FRIEDA GREENE, 90-year-old library worker

36 Tech News

Gates Gives WebJunction $12.6 Million
CIC Universities Join Google Library Project

Special Reports

26 Bibliotheca Alexandrina at 5:
A Study in Contrasts

BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

28 Publishing Expo Takes Manhattan

BookExpo 2007.
BY BRAD HOOPER

30 Canadian Librarians Look to the East

Canadian Library Association in St. John’s.
BY MADELEINE LEFEBVRE

32 Mile-High Spirit

Special Library Association in Denver.
BY SUSAN DIMATTIA

58 Washington Milestones:
And There Were Many

ALA Annual Conference 2007 in Washington, D.C.

77 ALA Executive Board

78 ALA Council

Features

47 A Manifesto for Our Times

      Affirmations to help develop a mindset to respond
      to the changing information culture.
      BY LAURA B. COHEN

50 Stamp Act

     A philatelist recalls the ALA/Postal Service effort
     that symbolically elevated libraries nationwide.
     BY LARRY T. NIX

54 The Ventriloquist Who
Changed the World

      How America’s French connection propelled the
      modern free library movement.
      BY EARLE HAVENS

Departments

4 From the Editor

“Report from D.C.: Transformation Underway”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

6 ALA President’s Message

“A Celebration of Culture”
BY LORIENE ROY

8 Letters and Comments

37 Technology in Practice

“Why Be Transparent?”
BY MEREDITH FARKAS

39 Technically Speaking

“The Hill Was Alive . . .”
BY ANDREW K. PACE

42 Internet Librarian

“The Library, Reinvented”
BY JOSEPH JANES

44 Dispatches from the Field

“Free at Last”
BY CASEY BISSON

45 Public Perception

46 On My Mind

“A Plea for Respect”
BY REGINA POWERS

81 Currents

83 Youth Matters

“Images Rock the Hall”
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE

85 Working Knowledge

“Take It or Leave It”
BY MARY PERGANDER

87 Librarian’s Library

“Compromising Confidentiality”
BY MARY ELLEN QUINN

88 Vital Viewing

BY GARY HANDMAN

89 Calendar

90 Rousing Reads

“Summer Reading, Some Aren't”
BY BILL OTT

93 Career Leads from ALA Joblist

104 Will’s World

“Speaking Volumes”
BY WILL MANLEY