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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)All public and school libraries are encouraged to apply for a grant from the Margaret A. Edwards Trust that recognizes outstanding library afterschool programs for young adults (AL, Mar., p. 7). The deadline for...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)A full-day train-the-trainer preconference titled "Libraries Build Sustainable Communities: Equipping State Trainers" will be held Friday, July 7, at Annual Conference in Chicago. One hundred individuals representing...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)Two ALA affiliates, APALA and CALA, have announced the first National Conference on Asian/Pacific-American Librarians, to be held June 13-15, 2001, in San Francisco, immediately before the ALA Annual Conference. The...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)Noted author Rob Kling and California State Librarian Kevin Starr will open the General Session of the LAMA National Institute November 30-December 2 in Palm Springs, California. Kling, coeditor of Post-suburban...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)The ALA Nominating Committee is soliciting nominees to run on the 2001 spring election ballot for the offices of ALA president-elect and councilor-at-large. The Nominating Committee will select two candidates to run...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 3)A hallmark of a successful organization is how it deals with challenges/ setback/diversity. For example, some people say that Winston Churchill's finest hour was the way in which he rallied the British people during the...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)As the April value-themed issue of American Libraries went to press, the task force charged with identifying and clarifying the core values of the profession was poised to post a revised draft of its statement on the...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 30, Issue 8)The Spectrum Initiative Needs You Try this test. Get up from your desk and go outside of your library. Walk around and look at the faces of the people who inhabit the community your library serves. (This test works...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 2)When Sandy Schuckett, the school library media specialist at the El Sereno (Calif.) Middle School Library found out years ago that she and the other members of the media center staff were going to be let go, she was...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)To make Annual Conference this summer in Chicago as rewarding as possible for international attendees, IRO will once again be matching them up with American librarians who want to meet and help international colleagues...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)A study conducted last year shows that 66% of the ALA membership is over the age of 45 (AL, Feb., p. 8-9). Thinking about how we can recruit the librarians of the future, I reflected on what attracted me to the field....
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)More than 125 students ranging in grade levels from upper-middle school to community college participated in the first ALA Divisions Job Shadow Day on February 2. The initiative joined students with workplace mentors...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 71, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInternational Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). Directed by the IIIF Consortium of more than forty member institutions worldwide; Glen Robson, Technical Coordinator. URL: http://iiif.io/ Gallica. Laurence...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)The Association for Library Service to Children continues to work with various partners to improve and ensure the future of the nation through exemplary library service to children, their families, and others who work...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 6)Read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (Bantam, 1995). It's a compelling book about an aging hippie suffering from ennui who answers an ad in the paper for a student concerned about the future of the world. Our hippie is accepted...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 30, Issue 9)If you were to emigrate to another country, where would you go? Thinking logically, wouldn't a place be high on your list where you had family or friends - a place where people would care about you, help you find a job,...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 1)For much of the first half of the past century, librarianship was very "container centered." The curriculum at the typical library school focused on books: the history of the book, cataloging and classification of the...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 4)"Gay Teens in the 21st Century: Access for the Future" is the title of a preconference to be held Friday, July 7, before Annual Conference in Chicago. The program will focus on intellectual freedom issues and resources...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 30, Issue 7)The ALA president's strong commitment towards promoting partnerships between libraries and communities is her main reason for choosing the theme 'Libraries Build Community' for her 1999-2000 presidency. She emphasized...