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Contents of February 2005 American Libraries
News Fronts
6 ALA
- Newbery Award Sabotage Quashed
- ALA Counsel Leaves Jenner and Block
- USA Patriot Act Survey Underway
- MLA, NLM Increase Spectrum Support
- Newlen Reelected as Endowment Trustee
- Krug Receives Honorary Doctorate
- Model Privacy Audit Documents Available
- New Award for LIS Students Created
10 USA and International
- South Asian Libraries Hit Hard by Tsunami
- Gates Foundation Gives Away $10.9 Million
- Free-Speech Champion Gordon Conable Dies at 58
- Didier Named Director of Ford Presidential Library
- Virginia Considers Filters
- Kenyon Employee Pleads Guilty to Rare-Book Theft
- Global Reach
- Interview: Straight Answers from BREWSTER KAHLE,
founder of Internet Archive
Features
30 Cover Story:
The Scoop on Patron Privacy
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
Legislative loopholes have made it harder than ever for librarians to
assure users that their records are snoop-proof.
33 A Dream Deferred:
School Libraries and Segregation
BY JUANITA WARREN BUDDY and MERCHURIA CHASE WILLIAMS
Library media specialists in schools named after Martin Luther King Jr.
discuss the challenges they face on the job.
36 Chronicling the Cold War
BY RON CHEPESIUK
The Cold War International History Project documents history
through the eyes of our former enemy.
38 Conducting Surveys on a
Shoestring Budget
BY SUSANNA ENG and SUSAN GARDNER
USC staffers garner invaluable library-user information for
less than $250.
40 Libraries Saving Lives in Iraq
BY MICHAL STRUTIN
The need for medical information in Iraq is extreme, but some
U.S. institutions are helping out.
Departments
5 ALA President’s Message
“Preserving Patron Privacy”
BY CAROL BREY-CASIANO
24 Thus Said
26 Reader Forum
27 Editorial
“What Is ALA Doing about It?”
BY LEONARD KNIFFEL
29 On My Mind
“The Inadequacy of LIS Classifieds”
BY MARILYN SEARSON LARY
43 Currents
45 Grassroots Report
“Put Some Romance in Your Library”
BY JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE
46 Internet Librarian
“Concealing the Creative Process”
BY JOSEPH JANES
48 Technically Speaking
“My Kingdom for an OPAC”
BY ANDREW K. PACE
50 Working Knowledge
“¿Como Puedo Service?”
BY ELISA F. TOPPER
52 Librarian’s Library
BY CATHLEEN BOURDON
54 Quick Bibs
“Rat Pack Noir”
BY BILL OTT
56 Datebook
58 Career Leads
71 Index to Advertisers
72 Will’s World
“Absences, Death, and Forgiveness”
BY WILL MANLEY