May 2009
Stimulate Your Library
By Emily SheketoffCongress made history with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed by President Obama February 17, and now libraries have their turn.
Posted 05/26/2009 - 16:34 | Comments: |On the Line for the First Amendment
By Beverly GoldbergA July 1995 interview with Judith Krug, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, who died April 11. The towering champion of free speech and vigorous opponent of censorship shared her views with American Libraries in a conversation with Senior Editor Beverly Goldberg that was published in September 1995.
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“You know how Occupy Chicago is talking about the 1% versus the 99%? Well, where the library is concerned, there’s only the 100%. Everyone is impacted.”
Carolyn Alessio, mother of a 9-year-old Girl Scout who joined a November 9 protest by her Troop to oppose Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget cuts to the Chicago Public Library, “Girl Scouts Protest Library Cuts,” Gazette Chicago, Dec. 1.
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