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Inside Scoop

News and views from inside the American Library Association’s Chicago headquarters.

  • Pink Slips—and Rumors—Fly in L.A.
  • Longtime ALA Leader Margolis Diagnosed with Blood Cancer
  • Ridiculous, Meet Sublime
  • Coming Soon: The 2010 Library Design Showcase
  • Interns Focus on ALA Website's Human-Computer Interface
  • Take the American Libraries Go-Green Survey
  • LJ, SLJ Sold to Media Source
  • Passing the (Library) Buck in Michigan
more

Perpetual Beta

By Jason Griffey

  • Birth of the Digital Magazine
  • The Value of eBooks and Burning the Boats
  • Magazine Stand of the Future
  • More iBook details emerge
  • Penguin books on the iPad
  • Books vs iPad - everyone wins
  • The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work
  • Librivox Fundraising: Give!
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Green Your Library

By Laura Bruzas

  • The Impact of No Impact Man
  • One Library Braves the E-Newsletter Front
  • Green Libraries in the Library Design Showcase
  • An Alternative Approach to Furnishing Your Library
  • When Is a Book a Bag?
  • You Won't Know if You Don't Ask
  • Styrofoam, Paper, Ceramic, Stainless Steel or Corn?
  • Book Green Speakers Bigger than Your Budget
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  • First Library Bill of Rights?
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How the World Sees Us

“Oh no, we would never get it back!”



—Humorist Paula Poundstone, quoting a California librarian when she asked if she could check out a book on the history of curse words, National Public Radio’s <i style=>Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, </i>March 6.</p>

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