Contents of February 2004 American Libraries
News Fronts
8 ALA
- ALA Website Features Shorter URLs
- New CIPA-Related Online Tools Available
- Guadalajara Free Pass Renewed
- ALSC Releases Guide to Kids’ Websites
- e-Learning@PLA Begins February 16
11 Washington
- FBI Almanac Alert Prompts Unintended Reactions
- Willard to Step Down As NCLIS Director
- FCC Tightens E-Rate Rules
12 USA and International
- New York Times Honors 27 Librarians
- Library of Congress Team Urges New National Library for Iraq
- Atlanta-Fulton Litigants Get $18 Million
- Providence Athenaeum Embroiled in Audubon Controversy
- Pennsylvania Restores Only $10 Million in Cuts
- Global Reach
Special News Report
24 Digital Opportunity or Flashy Fizzle?
BY ROSS SHIMMON
The UN’s World Summit on the Information Society.
Features
32 Cover Story:
Advocacy Grows @ your library
After nearly three years of effort, how is the Campaign for America’s
Libraries going? What’s it changed? And how is it getting done?
37 Saving Ourselves: Plural Funding
for Public Libraries
BY STEVE COFFMAN
Can libraries break their dependence on tax monies
by following NPR’s example?
40 FOLUSA Turns 25
BY SALLY GARDNER REED
For a quarter of a century, Friends of Libraries U.S.A.
has united library advocates.
42 A Brief History of Library Service
to African Americans
BY MAURICE WHEELER and DEBBIE JOHNSON-HOUSTON
Self-education paved the way on the 300-year journey
toward equal access.
46 Library Connections Open Doors in Uruguay
BY ROYE WERNER
The Bibliored network is making public libraries an essential factor
in expanding democracy and equality in Montevideo.
Departments
5 ALA President’s Message
“Advocacy from the Outside and from Within”
BY CARLA D. HAYDEN
26 Thus Said
28 Reader Forum
29 Editorial
“When the Language Police Come Knocking”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
30 On My Mind
“From Information Literacy to Information Fluency”
BY NANDITA MANI
49 Currents
51 Grassroots Report
“Generosity of Spirit for a Great Library”
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
52 The Crawford Files
“OpenURL Meets Open Access”
BY WALT CRAWFORD
54 Internet Librarian
“Andrew Carnegie, Seattle, and the Internet”
BY JOSEPH JANES
56 Technically Speaking
“Winners and Losers in the LMS Market”
BY DAVID DORMAN
58 Working Knowledge
“Salary Negotiation 101”
BY ELISA F. TOPPER
60 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
62 Quick Bibs
“More from My Bedside Table”
BY BILL OTT
65 Career Leads
71 Index to Advertisers
72 Will’s World
“Book Lust: A Celebration of the Written Word”
BY WILL MANLEY
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