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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.

Reports on developments relevant to libraries and library science in the U.S. as of September 1985. Enactment of legislation to protect library users' records from public disclosure; Search for a director for the New York Public Library in New York City; Candidates for the position of president of the American Library Association.

Presents news briefs concerning library science in the U.S., as of December 1984. Rejection of the states of California, Oregon and Nevada on the tax-cutting measures that threatened library funding; Decision of Diana Spirt, library school professor of Long Island University, to protest that her pension plan offered higher benefits to men than to women; Protests of Erie County residents to block library shutdown.

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 news items related to library science in the United States as of April 1975. Queens Borough Public Library's proposal to set up portable branches in isolated parts of New York City; Launching of the K. Richard Johnson Aviation/Aerospace Education Resource Center in Evanston, Illinois; Library service launched by the Hidalgo County Library System that will benefit Spanish-speaking residents of Texas.

The article reports on the improvement of the print identification Web site of Image Permanence Institute (IPI) at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. IPI changed the name of its online tool from Digital Sample Book to Graphics Atlas. Graphics contained upgrades like the object explorer application which lets users to browse and compare dissimilar procedures by images of different print characteristics.

Reports on the launching of the Junior Fellows Program by Cornell University Library in Ithaca, New York. Promotion of librarianship as a career preference for minority high school students; Techniques in using library resources; Responsibilities of librarians.

Offers news updates pertaining to library science for January 1999. How New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will release $22 million for library programs; The Savannah, Georgia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opposing a proposal to replace six public library branches with bookmobile service.

Presents a calendar of upcoming library events. MUMPS Users' Group annual meeting in Seattle, Washington; Simmons College/GSLIS Alumni Association annual alumni day in Boston, Massachusetts; Kaleidoscope--Variations of Youth Services in Rochester, New York; Other events.

Presents various news items of interest to library science practitioners as of July 1988. Victory of librarians in New Mexico with the State Board of Education vote against adopting a proscriptive glossary of New Age teaching methods; Extension of credit hours for master's degree by the Columbia University School of Library Service; Millage hike for library operating expenses at the Grosse Pionte Public Library, Michigan.

Highlights the topics discussed at the METRO workshop on Volunteers in Libraries held in New York City on October 13, 1976. Guest speakers; Negative impact of volunteerism on women; Practical advice on the recruitment and management of library volunteers.

Presents winners of the Internet Librarian Pied Piper Awards, which honors a person, place or thing that deserves special recognition for contributions to Internet librarianship. Projects of Eric Lease Morgan, network technologies development librarian at North Carolina State University in Raleigh; Contributions of Gates Public Library in Rochester, New York; Efforts of the Regional Institutes held by the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology Association.

Focuses on the development of the Minimum Requirements for a Proper Library Standard by Melvil Dewey in 1894. Programs he initiated as director of the New York State Library; Other standards established for United States librarianship.

Offers news briefs pertaining to library science for December 1, 1999. Khafre Abif, manager of children's services at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City honored at the Miracle Makers Annual Partnership Dinner; Texas First Lady Laura Welch Bush named a Southern Methodist University Distinguished Alumna; Award given to June Huss, who retired after 30 years of library service.

This article features Sergeant Teresa Pendergast of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). When she reaches her 15th year of service, she plans to take her hard-eared benefits and move on to her original professional passion, that is, librarianship. Pendergast is a part-time student in Pratt Institute's Graduate Library and Information Science Program. Until she leaves the force, she plans to serve in a library part-time to keep current. Meantime, NYPD is reaping the benefits. She moved from patrol duty to service in the department's School Program to Educate and Control Drug Abuse. In cooperation with the city's school system, Pendergast feeds fellow officers current materials on drug abuse to help them teach preventive courses to school children.

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 the passage to the New York state's board of regents of the recommendations for minimum standards in public libraries. Optimism on the prospects for adoption of the regulations; Lack of standards for large libraries.

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.