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Dynamic Doers
Welcome to a showcase of the dynamic doers, a snapshot of those who have dedicated themselves to the profession, who have gone above and beyond, and whose contributions have been so significant and so varied....
Posted August 27, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read More
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Winning Grants: A Game Plan
How to write proposals that work
Posted August 24, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreDollar General Invests in the American Dream
Expanding literacy services through libraries helps adults adapt and advance
Posted August 18, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreEarly Literacy: A Sustainable Statewide Approach
A coalition in Colorado may serve as a template for other regions to establish programs critical to the development of our youngest citizens
Posted August 17, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreWhen Crisis Calls
New York Public Library develops a policy on callers who threaten suicide
Posted August 13, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreReaching Undergrads: Recruitment via Internship
As interns, undergraduate students can cultivate a career in library and information science and technology
Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments: 3 | Read MoreInformation Commons Reduces Energy Consumption
Loyola University’s library in Chicago is setting new standards for environmental friendliness
Posted August 3, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreLibrarians Head for the Hill to Rally for Reading
ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., attracts 26,000 enthusiastic professionals.
Posted July 27, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreUp, Up, and Away: A Bird’s-Eye View of Mission Marketing
Marketing takes more than cauldrons or brainstorming: Marketing needs a plan. Texas Tech University has that plan and truckloads of evidence that it works.
Posted July 20, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreOur Authors, Our Advocates
Four authors help kick off ALA President Roberta Stevens’s “Our Authors, Our Advocates” presidential initiative
Posted July 20, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreSpeaker Sound Bites: D.C. 2010
Notable quotes from the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
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Jeanette Winterson, expressing her dismay at the 25th-anniversary celebration in Edinburgh of the publication of her novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit that her childhood library’s DVD collection is growing at the expense of its book collection, “New Libraries Will Deny Children Access to Classics, Fears Winterson,” Glasgow (Scotland) Herald, August 17, 2010.
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