July/August 2011
Features
Step Easily into the Digital Future
By Kathy Anderson and Laurie GemmillLibraries know the future is digital, but how do we get there in these times of shrinking budgets and staffs? In a...
First Things First: First-Class Service for 1st Graders
By Becky Cothran-NicholsOn eight school-day mornings every September, school buses pull into the Selma–Dallas County (Ala.) Public...
The Case for Graphic Novels in Education
By Jesse KarpHow to Offer More than a Movie
By Alan JacobsonMany libraries don’t screen films. Many just “play and walk away.” Here’s how to make your...
Is the Line Between Librarianship and Journalism Blurring?
By Barbara JonesWhat do journalists and librarians have in common? How can collaboration on their common ground make libraries and the...
How One Library Digitized Its Community’s Newspapers
By Allison QuamThe Winona Newspaper Project, an open, noncommercial digital archive, is providing access to a number of historic...
Libraries and the Future of Electronic Content Delivery
By Lisa Carlucci Thomas“Libraries are about content plus community,” says Michael Porter. “What does that mean in a world...
New Technologies, New Directions Emerge at ALA 2011
By Lisa Carlucci ThomasWho’s the Boss?
By Jamie E. Helgren and Linda HofschireThe survival of many public libraries has been threatened as their funding has dried up in recent years. City and...
Departments
Rousing Reads: Surf’s Up
Bill OttI’ve never been on a surfboard, never even seen one up close, but after finally getting around to reading Don...
Editor's Letter: What You Told Us
By George M. Eberhart and Beverly GoldbergIn April, we conducted an online survey of our readers, in order to find out what American Libraries is doing right and...
On My Mind: Mentorship from Both Sides
By Aniko Halverson NijhoffDispatches from the Field: Librarians’ Assessments of Automation Systems
By Marshall Breeding and Andromeda YeltonIn Practice: Tutorials That Matter
Over the past decade, a large number of academic libraries have created online learning objects for their patrons....
Next Steps: A Pioneer Evolves
by Brian MathewsAndrew Carnegie had a radical idea. In 1895 when he developed the public library complex in Pittsburgh, it included...
Youth Matters: My Midsummer Metamorphosis
By Jennifer Burek PierceSummer is an island. The trees around my house come into leaf, a bright and wafting curtain of green between me and the...
Newsmaker: Daniel Ellsberg
President's Message: Empowering Voices
By Molly RaphaelWe are living in extraordinary times. Throughout the library world, reductions in financial resources threaten our...
Librarian's Library: New from ALA Editions
by Karen MullerLibrarian's Library: Conquering the Digital Divide
By Karen Muller“The digital divide gets bridged in public libraries everywhere in America,” said Mary Dempsey, Chicago...
Executive Director's Message: E-books, Young Professionals, and Reinventing ALA
Keith Michael FielsALA’s Executive Board and governing Council spent much of their time during Annual Conference in New Orleans...
Will's World: Dead Trees We Have Known
by Will ManleyInternet Librarian: As They Like It
Joseph JanesOne of the best parts of my job, especially this time of year, is marveling at great achievements; how splendid it...
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“Even though Spaulding’s name is not readily recognized, he was an American patriot who safeguarded the freedoms of US citizens by writing the Library Bill of Rights.”
Teresa Wood, describing Forrest Brisbane Spaulding, head of Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library from 1929 to 1952, as depicted in the play The Not So Quiet Librarian, “A Librarian to Remember,” Webster City (Iowa) Daily Freeman-Journal, Apr. 20.
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