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Contents of August 2008 American Libraries
News Fronts
14 ALA
- RadioShack Partnership Aimed at Digital TV
- Dollar General Continues School Library Funding
- Digital Preservation Definition
- Abdul-Jabbar Library Card Month Chair
22 USA and International
- Iowa Libraries Bear Brunt of Midwest Floods
- Libraries Toppled in Devastating Chinese Earthquake
- Mesa School Board Okays Teacher-Librarian Phase-Out
- Judge Bars Registry for Selling Mature Fare
- Global Reach
36 Tech News
- Dialog Purchase Signals Expansion, Says ProQuest
- Libel Suit over Digitized Article Dismissed
43 Newsmaker
RON REAGAN
Political pundit and analyst
Special Reports
19 Library Advocates Converge
on the Capital
BY ANDY BRIDGES
21 Ten Years and Counting
for Teens and Reading
BY STEPHANIE KUENN
32 Medical Librarians Get Healthy
Dose of Social Networking
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
33 SLA in Seattle Looks Toward
Online Innovation, Training
BY SUSAN S. DiMATTIA
34 Vancouver’s Beauty Fails
to Lure Canadian Librarians
BY MADELEINE LEFEBVRE
35 Lack of Librarians Impacts
BookExpo Attendance
BY SUSAN SALZMAN RAAB
Features
46 Dissecting the Web
Through Wikipedia
The popular website offers an avenue to teach
information literacy skills.
BY ADAM BENNINGTON
50 Reframing Gaming
Clearing up misconceptions about this
increasingly popular activity.
BY SCOTT NICHOLSON
52 Gratitude As a Catalyst
One of ALA’s newest honorary members
calls on us to invest ourselves in the young.
BY PAT MORA
54 Speaking Technically
From folksonomies to federated searches,
reference databases are constantly evolving.
58 Details from Disneyland
Tinker Bell found her voice and so did 22,000
librarians and library advocates.
75 Council and Executive Board
Reports
A summary of the actions and discussions
in Anaheim.
BY PAMELA A. GOODES
Departments
4 From the Editor
“Authority and Wikipedia”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
8 ALA President’s Message
“Advocating Together”
BY JIM RETTIG
10 Letters and Comments
38 Dispatches from the Field
“The Games People Play”
BY JENNY LEVINE
39 Technology in Practice
“Interesting Times”
BY MEREDITH FARKAS
42 Internet Librarian
“Being Better”
BY JOSEPH JANES
44 Public Perception
45 On My Mind
“Time to Retire the F Word”
BY HILLARY THEYER
78 Currents
80 Youth Matters
“Once and Future Classics”
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
82 Working Knowledge
“Working through Grief”
BY MARY PERGANDER
84 Librarian’s Library
“List Mania”
BY MARY ELLEN QUINN
85 Rousing Reads
“Fall Preview”
BY BILL OTT
86 Solutions and Services
88 Career Leads from ALA Joblist
96 Will’s World
“How to Do It Yourself”
BY WILL MANLEY