Contents of August 2004 American Libraries
News Fronts
6 ALA
- Early Retirement Plan to Ease Budget Crunch
- Diversity Office Gets $900,000 IMLS Grant
- Virus Shuts Down HQ Computers
- Accreditation Actions Announced
10 Washington
- House Rejects Effort to Curb Patriot Act
- Supreme Court Blocks COPA, Sends Case Back to Lower Court
- House Hearings on E-Rate Abuse Find Fraud, Lax Oversight
12 USA and International
- Opening of New Seattle PL Draws Huge Crowds
- Providence Library Layoffs Spark Protests
- Black Employees at LC File Discrimination Complaint
- Libraries Choose to Filter or Not to Filter As CIPA Deadline Arrives
- Global Reach
- Interview: Straight Answers from MICHELE RIDGE
Special News Reports
29 Bilingual in British Columbia
BY MARTIN DOWDING
A report on the Canadian Library Association Annual Conference.
30 Librarians amid Throngs in Chicago
BY GORDON FLAGG
Coverage of BookExpo America 2004.
Features
40 Cover Story: Staying Public:
The Real Crisis in Librarianship
BY JOHN BUSCHMAN
As libraries grow more entrepreneurial, their change of focus is
dismantling the public sphere.
43 Restore Our Destiny:
Full—Not Plural—Funding
BY THOMAS J. HENNEN JR.
Growing dependence on fundraising is not the answer for public
libraries’ budget woes.
46 Digital Dissertations
BY JAMES BEAVEN
Keeping low-tech backups of your online thesis collection will help
prevent problems when formats change.
48 Roots of Hope
BY ELIZABETH PIERRE-LOUIS
Haiti’s community libraries promise a better future.
51 The Apprentice Comes to Farmingdale
BY DEBBIE PODOLSKI
Can a popular television show’s management principles
be applied to libraries?
Conference Coverage
60 Opposition to Iraq War
Pervades ALA in Orlando
Plus: Council and Executive Board coverage, p. 71–76.
Departments
5 ALA President’s Message
“Stand Up and Speak Out”
BY CAROL BREY-CASIANO
34 Thus Said
35 Reader Forum
38 Editorial
“How ALA Does and Doesn’t Oppose the War in Iraq”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
39 On My Mind
“Beware the Mini-CIPAs”
BY RAIZEL LIEBLER
68 Technically Speaking
“Hot Conference, Cool Technology”
BY ANDREW K. PACE
77 Currents
80 The Crawford Files
“Meta, Federated, Distributed: Search Solutions”
BY WALT CRAWFORD
82 Internet Librarian
“License to ILL”
BY JOSEPH JANES
84 Working Knowledge
“Manners Matter for Employers and Applicants”
BY ELISA F. TOPPER
86 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
88 Quick Bibs
“Memoirs, Fiction, and the West”
BY BILL OTT
87 Grassroots Report
“Weeding the Amazon Way”
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
93 Career Leads
103 Index to Advertisers
104 Will’s World
“Beware of Soft-Pretzel Vendors”
BY WILL MANLEY
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