July/August 2012

Features

Working Part-Time After Retirement

By Rita Marsales
Art and books have been two big passions in my life, but I was not able to combine them professionally until after I...

What’s New in LIS Schools

By Beverly Goldberg
“Librarians of the future will be knowledge navigators. They will understand digital resources as well as printed...

How Public Libraries Are a Boon to Small Business

By Bradley Collins

First Winners of Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Nonfiction

By Donna Seaman and Brad Hooper

Vendors Showcase Their Wares in Anaheim

By Marshall Breeding
Interested buyers found tech products that press beyond established boundaries as well as those that enable bread-and-...

Summer Reading Goes to School

By Malavika Shrikhande and Ellen Speirs
The lazy days of summer are here—a time to relax, vacation, and sun by the pool. It’s also a time to catch...

Departments

Outside/In: Essential Bookmarks

By David Lee King and Michael Porter

Rousing Reads: An Homage to Film Noir

By Bill Ott

Newsmaker: An Interview with Karen Keninger

By the Editors
Karen Keninger became director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) at the...

Youth Matters: A Tale of Two Students

By Michelle Luhtala and Deb Svec

Will's World: Your Mileage May Vary

Will Manley
It’s a question every used car buyer has to answer: “Is it the years or the miles?” Am I better off...

Librarian's Library: Practical Matters: Prepare, Protect, and Market Your Library

By Karen Muller
Most libraries in the US are small. For public libraries, this means that the population served is under 25,000...

In Practice: Tools for Optimal Flow

By Meredith Farkas
It’s amazing how quickly things change in the world of technology. When I wrote a book in 2005, I printed out all...

Another Story: Amped-Up Ebook Apps

By Joseph Janes
I wrote here a few months ago about reading—its power and ubiquity and transcendence of format: “The...

Dispatches from the Field: A New World of Data

By Karen Coyle
The world today is clearly not that of our library predecessors, of Melvil Dewey and Charles Ammi Cutter, not even of...

President's Message: Rethinking ALA

Maureen Sullivan

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