September/October 2012

Features

Rocking the Joint
By Laurie D. Borman
A joint library sprouts in Chicago. When a series of floods forced the 2011 closure of a Chicago Public Library (CPL)...
Joint Libraries: Models That Work
By Claire B. Gunnels, Susan E. Green, and Patricia M. Butler
In the past, academic and public libraries had very different missions and operation. Academic libraries were created...
Forbes Folly
By John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, and Lindsay C. Sarin
When Forbes.com published an article in June declaring that a master’s degree in library and information science...
2012 ALA Award Winners
By Stephanie Kuenn
This year, the American Library Association bestowed its highest honors and awards on a variety of individuals and...
Geek Out
By Greg Landgraf
Teenagers are natural and voracious media consumers. But new research suggests that teens can learn more effectively in...

Departments

Editor's Letter: Our Roller-Coaster Summer
By Laurie D. Borman
If I were to write “What American Libraries Did This Summer,” it would be more roller-coaster ride than mai...
Outside/In: Community Connections
By David Lee King and Michael Porter
Has your library ever thought about using technology and communitywide projects to connect with customers? It’s...
Rousing Reads: Gregorian Chants Meet Thelonious Monk
By Bill Ott
Somewhere, I told myself, amid shelves of long-ignored LPs, I had a recording of Gregorian chants. But where? After...
Dispatches from the Field: The RFID Opportunity
By Lori Bowen Ayre
In March, the National Information Standards Organization adopted RFID in US Libraries (RP-6-2012), establishing ISO...
In Practice: Let’s #makeithappen
By Meredith Farkas
Have you ever seen something in your work that you wanted to change but did nothing about it? What stopped you? Maybe...
Another Story: The March of Time
By Joe Janes
Can it really be 10 years since I began writing this column? It doesn’t seem possible, yet there I am, horrible...
President's Message: The Year Ahead
By Maureen Sullivan
I look forward to this year in which I have the privilege of serving as ALA president. To prepare for this important...
Youth Matters: Space: The New Frontier
By Linda W. Braun
About 10 years ago I had an experience with a small group of teen girls that taught me a lot about the impact of a...
Will's World: Is God Really a Librarian?
By Will Manley
This old Irish joke is as old as the sod: “It’s always puzzled me,” said the Irishman, looking up...
Librarian's Library: The Library Is the Real School
By Karen Muller
On My Mind: An Old Friend in the Library
By Jennifer Burek Pierce
As summer days grew longer and the heat increased, so did my trips to the public library. This summer, I had a...

News Stories

Library Heroes Shelter Evacuees from the Summer of 2012
Brian Cook
This summer saw wild weather events spring up across the country, with record high temperatures, historic droughts,...
Louisiana Denied State Aid; Support Varies Elsewhere

“FY2012 has proven to be relatively stable,” the bipartisan National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL)...

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