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The article discusses winners of the 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Awards. Topics include the selection of librarian and former ALA president Maureen Sullivan to receive the Joseph W. Lippincourt Award, the selection of Library of Congress Chief of Staff Robert R. Newlen to receive the Melvil Dewey Medal, and the selection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign assistant professor Nicole A. Cooke to receive the Equality Award.

The author focuses on the field of reference librarianship. She comments on how the grant Project GAIN gave the public library at Morrisville, New York full access to the internet and helped keep the library from closing. She comments on the role that public libraries have in the provision of e-government. She also talks about the flooding in New York State in 2007 and how libraries helped provide patrons with the information and assistance they need in filing claims forms for their personal losses.

Reports on developments relevant to libraries and library science in the U.S. as of February 1980. On-call library reference services offered in New York City; Minimum wages of state and local government employees in libraries and museums; Reinstatement of Jeanne Layton to her position as librarian in the Davis County Library in Utah.

Updates library science news in the United States. New York City's library systems supporting higher pay for librarians; President Bill Clinton's efforts to build his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas; Ameritech Library Services changing its name to Epixtech; Legislative investigation of micromanagement by the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library in Georgia; Others.

Offers briefs relating to library science for January 1999. New York City librarians suing the local municipal union for alleged embezzlement and vote fraud; Why University of Arizona biologist Michael Rosenzweig is publishing the journal `Evolutionary Ecology Research'; The National Archives to cut 820 hours from former United States President Richard Nixon's White House tapes; Recommendation of library users in Dallas, Texas for the elimination of fines; More.

Reports on developments relevant to libraries and library science in the U.S. as of April 1978. Impact on libraries of an initiative to reduce property taxes in California; Appointment of Patricia Battin as university librarian of Columbia University in New York City; Death of former American Library Association president and university librarian William Shepherd Dix.

Presents several briefs on library and information service personnel. Sandra Carol Miranda appointed as director of White Plains (N.Y.) Public Library; Appointment of Shu-chen Wu as assistant audiovisual librarian for the Mississippi Library Commission; Claudia Sumler as the first head of administrative and borrower services for Anne Arundel County (Md.) Public Library; Other briefs on library personnel.

Reports on developments relevant to librarians and library science in the U.S. as of September 1985. Contract won by RMG Consultants Inc. to manage the library automation program of two library systems in New York City; Launch of the LaserSearch book identification and acquisition system by Ingram Book Co.