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I was gratified to see the recent article about helping Ukraine ('A Helping Hand,' Nov./Dec. 2022, p. 30). I appreciated the information about contributing to ALA's Ukraine Library Relief Fund [...]

The living voice is that which sways the soul,' wrote Roman author Pliny the Younger in the 1st century CE. Indeed, the audible voice is an essential component of an [...]

The Preservation Management Handbook: A 21st-Century Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. By Ross Harvey and Martha R. Mahard. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 376 p. $95.00 hardcover (ISBN: [...]

"Stop the carnage," about wildlife poaching in Africa, struck me as lacking a broader perspective about the people illegally hunting for food. While the article mentions the war-torn conditions of […]

The voice on the phone sounded exhausted. 'I have lost my life's work,' the man said. He was an artist who had his paintings stored in a basement in Lower [...]

I recently received my 2008 spring/ summer ALA Editions catalog and was astonished by the cover and repeating image of piles of books that looked as though they had been […]

The article reports that the U.S. Library of Congress has tested different methods of slowing paper deterioration such as reducing light exposure and controlling temperature and humidity. The Library's Preservation Directorate started exploring the use of deacidification technology in the mid-1980s and determined that the process was promising for library materials.

The article offers information on the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Forum "Lead, Publish, and Teach With ALCTS!," held on January 28, 2013.

The article reports on various tasks accomplished by the Paper Series Board of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) when it met on January 25, 2013, including decision that a monograph could include collection preservation and making accessible large data sets.

The article discusses the highlights of the World Library and Information Congress: 77th International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) General Conference and Assembly, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on August 13-18, 2011. Summaries of presentations and reports from the different IFLA sections are provided. The sections include the Acquisitions and Collection Development, Bibliography, Cataloguing, Classification & Indexing, Knowledge Management, and Newspapers.

Presents several letters to the editor about articles appearing in the January 2005 issue of "Smithsonian." Response to the article "Return of a Virtuoso," about Oscar Peterson; Discussion of the article "Stop the Carnage"; Comments on the article "Rethinking Jamestown"; Others.