March 2010
Features
Coaching in the Library
By Ruth MetzThe greatest challenge to library organizations is to continuously adapt in an ever-changing, ever-more-complex...
A History of Women’s History Month
The roots of National Women’s History Month go back to “Women’s History Week,” first celebrated in Sonoma County...
How to Celebrate Women’s History @ Your Library
By Kay Ann Cassell and Kathleen Weibel“Writing Women Back into History” is the theme for National Women’s History Month, March 2010, the...
Departments
Newsmaker: Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore on the Environment and the Eternal Role of Libraries
Nobel Prize and Oscar winner, former vice president and, in his own words, the man who “used to be the next president...
On My Mind: The Case for Textbooks
by Krista McDonald and John BurkeAt Miami University’s regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, Ohio, we have also encountered “the textbook...
Rousing Reads: Discoveries
By Bill OttAfter nearly 30 years at Booklist, the greatest pleasure of my job continues to be discovering a new writer before the...
Dispatches from the Field: Cataloging Horizons
By Karen CoyleLibrary catalogs have evolved over time as technology has changed. The last 150 years have seen a progression from book...
Next Steps: Change at American University
by Brian MathewsBill Mayer imagines a library without librarians. The way he sees it, his campus is filled with activity and he wants...
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“As Wall Street and Occupy Wall Street continue their battle for the soul of American society into the winter and then an election year, the flood of knowledge represented by the OWS People...
UC-Irvine History Professor Mark LeVine, in “The People’s Library and the Future of OWS,” Al Jazeera, Nov. 16.
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