The State of America's Libraries - A Report from the American Library Association

Contents

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Executive Summary

Introduction

Helping to rescue a ravaged region

Strong support for public libraries

The new American library

Funding: A mixed bag

Library construction continues

Library education

The USA PATRIOT Act and libraries

Librarians in a crossfire

Copyright issues in the digital age

The continuing battle against censorship

Responding to the ‘65 percent solution’

Libraries in the vanguard

Feedback

State of America's Libraries Report, 2006 State of America's Libraries Report
If your memory of “the library” is “that building down the street where we used to borrow books when we were kids,” it’s time for a new visit. Times have changed, and libraries have kept up every step of the way—in many cases leading the way.