September 2010

Features

Dynamic Doers

Welcome to a showcase of the dynamic doers—a snapshot of those who have dedicated themselves to the profession,...
Winning Grants: A Game Plan
By Herbert Landau
Grant seeking is a marketing process. Simply stated, you define your library’s need and sell it to one who can fund...
Dollar General Invests in the American Dream
By Leonard Kniffel
Through community partnerships, Wauconda (Ill.) Area Public Library developed Spanish- and English-language brochures,...
Early Literacy: A Sustainable Statewide Approach
By Bonnie McCune
Public libraries have maintained that they are significant in boosting children’s literacy since the first children’s...
When Crisis Calls
By Matthew J. Boylan
I recently answered a call on ASK NYPL, the New York Public Library’s telephonic and electronic reference line,...
Reaching Undergrads: Recruitment via Internship
By Sara D. Smith
When Noelle Rader, a junior at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, applied for a student job in the library’...

Departments

Will's World: Why Librarianship Endures
Will Manley
Once when I was working the reference desk, a seemingly normal community college student (no exposed underwear, ...
Librarian's Library: New from ALA: September 2010
By Mary Ellen Quinn
Editor's Letter: The Competition Intensifies
By Leonard Kniffel
Have you noticed that we seem to have entered an era of heightened competitiveness? Lots of wagon-circling and turf-...
Rousing Reads: Happy Birthday, Dutch
By Bill Ott
Elmore Leonard’s friends call him Dutch. Many of his fans do, too, and while using a nickname presumes a degree of...
Librarian's Library: Regional Reading Places
By Mary Ellen Quinn
Dispatches from the Field: Measuring E-Resource Use: Standards and Practice for Counting Remote Users
By Rachel A. Fleming-May and Jill E. Grogg
Over the years, librarians and researchers have studied the usage of books, journals, meeting rooms, photocopiers,...
Newsmaker: Charles Ogletree on Race, Reading, and the Presumption of Guilt

Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School professor and founder of Harvard Law’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race...
In Practice: Your Reality, Augmented
Meredith Farkas
Last time, I discussed QR codes and how they can link you to content that provides further information about an object...
Next Steps: The Customer's Always Right
Brian Mathews
We strive to provide great customer service, yet few of us actually use the “C” word. We have many names—patron,...
President's Message: In Their Own Words
By Roberta A. Stevens
Librarian's Library: The First First Library
By Mary Ellen Quinn
On My Mind: A Bookworm By Any Other Name
Jason Smalley
“So what do you do for a living?” she asked, pushing her comb through my dampened hair. It was an innocent question...
Youth Matters: It's Not Monkey Business
Jennifer Burek Pierce
If by vocation or avocation you’ve come to cherish children’s literature, you’ve no doubt encountered some skepticism...
Internet Librarian: Who’s in Charge Here?
By Joseph Janes
Lady Gaga is totally playing us. I mean, “Alejandro,” a song that even ABBA couldn’t get past the semifinals of the...

News Stories

LC Unlocks Doors for Creators, Consumers with DMCA Exceptions

Mashup artists, smartphone users, academics, and people who are visually impaired are all winners, thanks to the latest...
OCLC's Web-scale Management Services Released to Early Adopters

The much-hyped OCLC Web-scale Management Services (WMS) moved from pilot phase to production last month with the...

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