June/July 2010

Features

Top 10 Lists in The Librarian’s Book of Lists
By Leonard Kniffel
At some point in my life, I realized that making lists belongs on my list of top 10 favorite things to do,” says...
Mastering Moderation
By Steven J. Bell
You just found out you’re going to moderate a conference program or webcast. Congratulations. Now what? What exactly...
Why Librarians Should Care about the National Broadband Plan

In addition to a record snowfall, something else fell upon the inside-the-beltway community in the winter of 2010: The...
Wisconsin Says "Cheese!"
By Pat Eschmann
“Wisconsin Libraries Say Cheese! A Day in Pictures” is part of the ongoing Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries, a...
Dining in the District
By Tracy Sumler
The last several years have seen a boom in Washington restaurants. D.C. is attracting both top talent and celebrity...
Frontline Advocacy Is Everybody's Job
By Patty Wong and Julie Todaro
“What makes this initiative different from previous advocacy initiatives is that it engages and empowers...
The Myth of Browsing
By Donald A. Barclay
A headline in the November 12, 2009, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education tells what is becoming a familiar story...
10 Tips for Tracking Trends
By Elisabeth Doucett
As a public library director I spend a great deal of time searching out ways to keep my library relevant in today’s...
Build Your Own Instructional Literacy
By Char Booth
Face it: Teaching is hard. It’s hard from any angle, using any technology, to any learner. Even for those enviable (and...

Departments

Librarian's Library: New from ALA
By Mary Ellen Quinn
Next Steps: Social Eyes

“Library fines got you down? Help build our Facebook page to 500 people & I’ll waive fines of two students.”...
Librarian's Library: Librarian Spies
By Mary Ellen Quinn
Librarian's Library: Historical Thesaurus
By Mary Ellen Quinn
Youth Matters: My Artful Diversion
By Jennifer Burek Pierce
One rainy day in May, I gathered my umbrella and ventured into the Massachusetts countryside. My destination was not...
Dispatches from the Field: Aggregating Web Resources
By Michael Witt
The Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange specification defines a set of new standards for the description...
Rousing Reads: Hidden Treasures
Bill Ott
When I listen in on one of our Booklist webinars, it’s hard for me to concentrate on what’s being said—not because...
On My Mind: A Passion for Copyright
By Sharon M. Britton
Copyright is a subject with which I believe most librarians have a love-hate relationship. I am mostly in the love-it...
In Practice: A Library in Your Pocket

In Vermont, it was easy to ignore the mobile computing craze until 2009. Before that, AT&T didn’t have a presence...
Executive Director's Message: Planning and Budgeting
ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels
At the ALA Executive Board’s spring meeting, held April 23-25 at the Association’s headquarters in Chicago, the board...
Will's World: Winning the Budget Wars

Library publications and blogs are filled with two types of articles these days: horror stories and fantasies. First,...
Librarian's Library: Reference Renaissance
By Mary Ellen Quinn

News Stories

Historians Await Access to the Library of Congress's Twitter Archive

The microblogging service Twitter has gifted its entire archive of tweets, totalling billions of 140-character posts...

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