Annual Conference Reports: Council Report for the ALA Annual Conference 2008.

The article focuses on the council report for the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference 2008. Diane Dates Casey during the information session reported that the ALA budget was running only 1% below preliminary projections. Meanwhile, Michael Gorman, Library Education Task Force, reviewed the proposed Core Competencies for the master in library education, which encompass the knowledge that all librarians and information science(LIS) graduates should possess.