Op-ed carries important message about the value of libraries

Contact: Steve Zalusky


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NEWS


For Immediate Release,


July 6, 2009

CHICAGO - On July 6, an important op-ed, “In Web age, libraries as important as ever,” by Mary Dempsey, commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, and ALA President Jim Rettig, appeared in the online edition of the Chicago Sun Times. To learn more, visit the American Library Association (ALA) Public Information Office blog, Visibility @ your library (
http://pio.ala.org/visibility).

Please share this information with your lists and anyone who you feel should read this important message about the value of libraries.

Visibility @ your library provides librarians and library supporters with news and information about important communications issues from ALA’s Public Information Office and the Campaign for America’s Libraries. It also contains links to the latest ALA News.