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Blog entry: Foreign Credentials
Q. I was recently asked by a visitor from Germany about coming to work in a library in the U.S. She wanted to know if her degree in library science would be acceptable here. I didn't know what to tell him. Do you have a...
Posted February 26, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Blog entry: Libraries Continue to Pitch in for Haiti
Library workers and educators are keeping their sleeves rolled up as they continue contributing to the...
Posted January 26, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Blog entry: Alan Lomax's Haitian music collection
In 1937, American music archivist and historian Alan Lomax traveled to Haiti to capture that country’s music. He ended up recording more than 50 hours of music for the Library of Congress. These recordings were released in November on a...
Posted January 26, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Blog entry: Books, Volunteers Needed for Ethiopia Reads
“Librarians are the best human beings that I have known,” said Yohannes Gebregeorgis, who became one himself just to prove his point. Using the experience he gained at the...
Posted January 19, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
News Story: Library Community Rallies to Aid Earthquake-Stricken Haiti
In the days following the devastating 7.0 earthquake that all but toppled Haiti’s capital city and other population centers, news is slowly becoming available about how Haitian libraries and their staff members fared. The library...
Posted January 19, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Photo: ALA and MCAA donate $27,084 for relief to Haiti
Left to right: ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels; ALA President Camila Alire; Linda Dorcena Forry (D-12th Suffolk), the second Haitian-American to be elected to...
Posted January 18, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Blog entry: Haiti Relief Fund
As has been reported, ALA and the Massachussets Convention Center Authority, which operates the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center where Midwinter is being held, have established the...
Posted January 17, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Departments: Mohammad Abbas
Iraq’s parliamentary librarian talks about the new Library Department and the struggle for stability during a time of war and national turmoil.
American Libraries Editor in Chief Leonard Kniffel interviewed Mohammad Abbas, head of the new Library Department of the Iraqi Coucil of Representatives (ICOR, the nation’s parliament in...
Posted December 31, 2009 | Comments: | Read More
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“The library had everything I wanted: a bathroom, a Toronto telephone book, all the morning’s newspapers, warmth, and friendly staff. Frequently in this space we critique the things the City of Toronto does wrong, so I just want to take a second to praise something that this city does right: Maintain 99 branches of the library, the biggest borrowing library system on the continent. It’s a beautiful thing.”
—Peter Kuitenbrouwer, writing in the Canadian National Post January 6 about his experience at the Ashdale branch of the Toronto Public Library, which came to the rescue when he wound up in an unfamiliar neighborhood.