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
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