Features

50  The First Amendment
      Needs New Clothes

      In the face of weakened freedoms, librarians
      and other free-speech advocates press on. 
      BY JANE DOBIJA

54  Outdated and Irrelevant?

     Rethinking the Library Bill of Rights—
     does it work in the real world?
     BY JULIAN AIKEN 

58  What’s a Library Worth?

      Piecing together the structure of value.
      BY ELEANOR JO RODGER

62  Libraries Connect 
      Communities

      Public library survey finds funding tight,
      but wireless expands access. 
      BY LARRA CLARK

64  World-Class Achievement

      Saluting the 2007 ALA award winners.

Departments

4    From the Editor

      “Go Peddle Your Papers”
      BY LEONARD KNIFFEL

7    ALA President’s Message

      “Start Global Connections”
      BY LORIENE ROY

9   Letters and Comments

42  Technology in Practice

      “Pixels Worth 1,000 Words”
      BY MEREDITH FARKAS

44  Technically Speaking

      “Free and Freedom”
      BY ANDREW K. PACE

46  Internet Librarian

      “Where Are You?”
      BY JOSEPH JANES

48  Public Perception

49  On My Mind

      “Burning with Frustration”
      BY THOMAS WASHINGTON 

75  Currents

78  Working Knowledge

      “Positions of Transition”
      BY MARY PERGANDER

79  Youth Matters

      “Harry's Last Hurrah”
      BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE

81  Librarian’s Library

      “Citizen Journalism”
      BY MARY ELLEN QUINN

82  Vital Viewing

      BY GARY HANDMAN

83  Calendar

84  Rousing Reads

      “Janette Turner Hospital and Me”
      BY BILL OTT

87  Career Leads from ALA Joblist

96  Will’s World

      “Hippies and Geeks”
      BY WILL MANLEY