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Reporters:    

To learn more about the key issues facing America’s libraries and librarians and to talk to an ALA spokesperson, please contact Macey Morales, Media Relations Manager, at 312-280-4393, ( mmorales@ala.org).

To discuss issues that relate to ALA’s Washington, DC office, please contact, Jacob Roberts, Communications Specialist, at 202-628-8236, (jroberts@alawash.org).

Members:

Librarians are invited to localize press materials where appropriate and to visit the Public Information Office pages for media relations tools.

Top Media Stories:    

	Chicago Tribune: You can get that at the library?
	CNN.com Free entertainment, for life
	The Washington Post (Commentary by Roberta Stevens) Technological and economic shifts have only made libraries more valuable
	Chicago Tribune: Future etched in city libraries
	Seattle Times: Public libraries: enablers of Americans' dreams
	Newsweek: Closing the Books?
	PBS News Hour: Conversation (with Camila Alire): The State of America's Libraries
	Los Angeles Times: U.S. public libraries: We lose them at our peril
	Marketplace From American Public Media: Libraries adapt to help unemployed
	The Wall Street Journal: Folks Are Flocking to the Library, a Cozy Place to Look for a Job.

	CBS Evening News: In Recession, Libraries are Booming
	Katie Couric's Notebook: Libraries
	NBC Nightly News: Libraries offer relief from hard times

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