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If the resort city of Anaheim, CA, home of Disneyland and its 'imagineers,' marked a departure from the urban reality of the typical American Library Association (ALA) annual conference, it [...]

The 2006 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in New Orleans will long symbolize the significance of libraries and librarians to a convention city--and to the community around it. Forget [...]

Managing budget pressure is a way of life for library administrators. But as librarians gather in New Orleans for the 2011 ALA Annual Conference, a snapshot of public library budgets [...]

Clackamas, OR, vote successful; wins in OH, losses in IL Library budgets may be suffering, but voters around the country offered supportive if mixed votes in favor of library levies [...]

The dark cloud that hung over the mortally threatened Salinas Public Library has showed its silver lining: Measure V, which will put $11 million annually in the city's coffers for [...]

When Dori Whitehurst, information research services manager at PQ Corporation in Conshohocken, PA, needed to incorporate 104-year-old legacy documents into new systems, she turned to the Microsoft Sharepoint Content Management [...]

Election Day provided good news for library advocates in several states but also sobering news in a number of jurisdictions. Notably, Maine voters solidly defeated A 'Proposition 13'-like one percent [...]

Voters in Little Rock, AR, overwhelmingly approved a 15-year one-mill bond to pay for new materials, technology upgrades, renovations, and more land for the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS). The [...]

When the Pennsylvania General Assembly earlier this year passed a budget that includes a 50 percent cut in state funding for libraries--from $75 million to $37.5 million--library advocates said they [...]

Amid the backdrop of a soft economy and looming budget cuts, academic librarians turned out in force April 10-13 for the 11th National Conference of the Association of College and [...]

THE ECONOMIC REPERCUSSIONS of the September 11 attacks--which took a toll on libraries in 2001--were compounded in 2002 by a continued economic slump. It wasn't the most auspicious time to [...]

A religious group has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Dunedin, FL, saying it was denied use of a room in the Dunedin Public Library to 'discuss America's [...]

A company that is creating a '3-D landscape' of the Internet, where information is visually organized, has hired a librarian as its 'information landscaper.' ViOS (www.vios.com) will offer its web [...]

A $6 million increase in the budget of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, FL--almost a ten percent increase in the millage rate--will allow it to expand services. Beginning October 15, [...]

Position made possible by $1M gift from former Wiley exec Thanks to a generous $1 million gift, the University of Rochester (UR), NY, library has established a named, endowed deanship. [...]

Kluge donation is largest ever; will support prize, endowed chairs In what is being called the largest private monetary donation ever given to the Library of Congress (LC), Metromedia President [...]

Multibranch system must adjust response to patron needs In response partly to patron feedback, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (BECPL), NY, is asking the county for an additional [...]

Corpus Christi system gains donation from local publisher A new hybrid library branch in Flour Bluff, TX--the Janet F. Harte Library, part of the Corpus Christi Public Libraries--has been made [...]

Brownsville PL will become ISP for other libraries in the area Brownsville Public Library (BPL), TX, has received what is the largest E-rate grant to date in the state and [...]

Regional library to be built thanks to system's largest gift ever The Tulsa City-County Library Commission has been given eight acres of land valued at more than $2.2 million--the largest [...]

E-books, net technology, and the profession's collective rumination about its Information Age future made for one of the more vital and vigorous American Library Association conferences in years FOR THE [...]

The Special Libraries Association conference in Philadelphia MORE THAN 7000 PEOPLE, most of whom now call themselves information professionals, gathered in Philadelphia June 10-15 for the Special Libraries Association (SLA) [...]

Mary Baker Eddy research facility being funded at $50 million A $50 million library and program center will be built by the First Church of Christ Scientist, offering collections and [...]

Fellow associate executive director Martin also retiring September 1 Peggy Barber, one of the staples of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced her retirement from her post as associate [...]

Funds will allow public Internet access, building renovations El Paso voters approved a $26 million bond May 6 for improvements to the El Paso Public Library, TX. The library does [...]

James Mann and Patrick Tyler win $15,000 Helen Bernstein award For the first time, two authors have been selected as co-winners of the 2000 New York Public Library (NYPL) Helen [...]

Goal is to raise $2 million for the scholarship endowment The American Library Association (ALA) Executive Board, at its spring meeting in April, voted to transfer $1 million of a [...]

Eight writers get $105K to connect with their communities This year's Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writers' Awards will go to eight authors, each of whom will receive an award of [...]

Played major role in formation of NCLIS; was leading library legislator Eileen Cooke, retired executive director of the American Library Association Washington Office (ALAWON), died in her Minnesota home April [...]

Hours should increase by 24 percent as part of tax reallocation The San Diego Board of Supervisors voted April 4 to adopt a three-year plan of enhanced funding and service [...]

'INDEPENDENCE TO Interdependence: The Next Phase in the Information Revolution' is the theme of the 91st annual conference of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), recognizing the 'independence' represented by Philadelphia [...]

50,000 books covered in glass, but no one injured; $1.2M in damages A tornado hit downtown Fort Worth, TX, March 28, causing an estimated $1.2 million in damage to the [...]

Record-setting crowds grapple with e-resources, future role; report card on Gates project is bright Set in Charlotte, NC, along the corporate corridor of the New South, the Public Library Association's [...]

Ex-finance director under investigation after audit reveals huge deficit; library millage to be raised The former finance director of Ann Arbor District Library (AADL), MI, is being investigated by police [...]

Second time's the charm for renovation and expansion plan Voters in Camas, WA, passed a $7.96 million, 20-year bond in its second go-round after the identical library renovation and expansion [...]

SCORES OF ARTICLES and books extol the virtues of information audits. Consultants provide programs and seminars on the topic. However, corporate library situations where information audits have been conducted are [...]

Recruiting librarians for 'honest, disinterested, unhyped advice' A diverse and powerful media partnership will launch the web site Contentville.com to sell a variety of content along with 'expert' advice. A [...]

If you've seen one ALA exhibits show floor, you've seen them all. Or so most veteran ALA-goers might think. San Antonio, however, changed the rules. Rather than aisles running in [...]

* PUBLIC LIBRARIES The cities of Milton and Dupont, WA, voted to join the Pierce County Library System (PCLS), effective January 1, 2001. For the year 2000, Milton residents will [...]

Statewide tax initiative also causes Edmonds to leave regional system In response to a $253,000 budget cut, operating hours at the main facility of the Spokane Public Library were cut [...]

School will receive $7.5 million to retrofit library, closed until 2001 The University of Southern california (USC) will receive $7.5 million from the Fedral Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to undertake [...]

ALA group addressing competencies for the generalist librarian American Library Association (ALA) President Sarah Long has appointed a Task Force on Core Competencies to address two major recommendations of the [...]

$23M facility to open in 2001; old library will become office space Construction of a new library on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU), Bloomington, began November 6 thanks [...]

Turnout high as speakers stress standards and service The 1999 LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) National Forum in Raleigh, NC, November 5-7, proved successful, as librarians crowded into sold-out [...]