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Index of /Sites/Default/Al Direct/2006/December AL Direct, December 6, 2006 Contents: U.S. & World News ALA News Booklist Online Seattle Update Division News Awards Seen Online Tech Talk Actions & Answers Poll December 6, 2006 Datebook AL Direct is a free electronic newsletter e-mailed every Wednesday to personal members AL Direct FAQ of the American Library Association. D.C. Council committee tables plan for new central library Plans for a new central library on the site of the District of Columbia’s Advance Registration old convention center hit a snag November 21 when a city council rates close December committee voted 3–2 to table the proposal. Library Board President 8! John W. Hill expressed concern that the council’s reluctance might derail a proposal in President Bush’s FY2007 budget for $30 million towards construction of a new central library and renovation of The ALA Placement branches.... Center will operate Friday through Monday Copyright Office grants DMCA at the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting. Job exemptions seekers and employers Despite its reluctance to do so in the past, the should now register on U.S. Copyright Office November 22 granted six the JobLIST website. exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Employers who want to Copyright Act. In the government’s triennial have a booth on site in review, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington the Placement Center approved the exemptions, ruling that “persons should complete making noninfringing uses [in these areas] will the space reservation not be subject to the prohibition against circumventing access controls form and fax it to 312- during the next three years.”... 280-3256. Bill would disclose presidential library donors The House Leadership and Open Government Act (H.R. 4682), which Democrats intend to pass after taking majority control in 2007, includes a section that would require the disclosure of all donations to a presidential library of $100 or more. Currently presidential libraries are federally maintained but use private endowments to offset operating costs.... Gates Foundation offers library grants to Latvia, Lithuania, Botswana The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has expanded its Global Libraries http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2006/december/120606.htm[7/17/2014 1:05:06 PM] AL Direct, December 6, 2006 initiative and plans to invest $328 million over the next seven years to support computer and internet access in as many as 15 developing countries. The first round of grants, announced November 30, will provide $17.5 million to the governments of Latvia, Lithuania, and Botswana to support internet connections in public libraries with little December 2006 or no access and equipment.... Chicago mayor hosts reading summit Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has called for librarians, educators, health and recreation officials, and parents to join him in a “call to action to ensure Chicago’s future.” During an all- day conference titled “Creating a City of Readers, Starting at Birth,” held at the Chicago Public Library November 30, the mayor spoke with more than 300 key representatives from city government and from dozens of private educational and philanthropic organizations.... Stories inside include: Groups file amicus briefs in Vamos David Mamet on the Chicago Public case Library The Freedom to Read Foundation has joined the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Public Library Expression and other groups in filing an amicus Rebirth brief in the lawsuit against the Miami–Dade County School Board for ordering in June the The Top 10 News removal of the children’s picture book Vamos a Stories of 2006 Cuba from all district media centers. The brief (PDF file), filed November 21 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, argues that the book and its English-language counterpart A Visit to Cuba are “educationally significant and developmentally appropriate” for its school-age audience.... Arkansas library curbs Basic Instinct The board of the Rogers (Ark.) Public Library decided November 22 to retain in the collection the director’s cut of Basic Instinct but to place an adult-content warning label on the video case. The decision came six weeks after complainant Nieves Egelkraut had testified at a trustees meeting that she had found the movie pornographic after randomly borrowing it and had worried that teens would come across it in the same manner.... Board refuses to bar teen titles The board of the Cape May County (N.J.) Library voted unanimously November 15 to accept the recommendation of Director Andrew Martin to retain New from ALA three books about adolescent issues that had been Graphics! One challenged by a patron. “Parents don’t address these World: Many things,” library Commissioner Eileen Massey Stories poster— contended before the vote on the titles. “Some of Reading around the them do,” Martin replied, according to the November world. 22 Cape May County Herald. “Most of the topics are http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2006/december/120606.htm[7/17/2014 1:05:06 PM] AL Direct, December 6, 2006 seen on television.”... Voters support library funding in referenda A national report on library referenda released by American Libraries shows that the majority of voters approved funding referenda for public, school, and academic libraries—including a $90 million funding package for Austin (Texas) public libraries. The state-by-state Referenda Roundup (PDF file) is based on reports from state library Save the date— agencies and online news reports.... Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Library bomb suspect claims innocence Symposium to be held An Illinois man charged with setting off an explosive device at the in the Chicago area, Salt Lake City Public Library September 15 said in the November 30 July 22–24, developed Salt Lake City Deseret News that federal authorities have the wrong by ALA TechSource and man. Tom Zajac, 53, of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, contacted Jenny Levine. reporters from the Weber County Jail in Ogden, Utah, where he has been held since his extradition in early November, and told them, “I’ll have been found guilty for some of the things I didn’t do.”... REGIONAL Niagara Falls branch closure LIBRARY SYSTEM averted EXECUTIVE Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Public Library trustees DIRECTOR, avoided a vote to close the LaSalle branch at Mankato, Minnesota. their November 29 meeting, despite reports Traverse des Sioux in the media that the board president had Library System is enough votes to close the branch due to seeking a dynamic and budget constraints and concerns about accessibility.... innovative leader. This position could be yours if you have a passion for library services, a vision for the future, an ALA welcomes letter to EPA on library closures essential commitment ALA applauded House leaders November 30 for directly addressing to lobbying the state and the issue of library closures and reduced public access to vital national legislature, environmental and health information at the Environmental Protection demonstrated Agency. In a letter (PDF file) to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, leadership skills, strong ranking members Reps. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), John Dingell (D- interpersonal skills, Mich.), Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and James Oberstar (D-Minn.) strength in business and expressed their serious concerns over the current implementation of financial management, “library reorganization” plans and the “destruction or disposition” of good listening and library holdings.... speaking skills, and the ability to work with a ALA Library launches two new web tools small staff committed to The ALA Library announced December 5 the launch of two new web providing excellent tools to aid ALA members, librarians, and library workers in accessing service to public professional information online. The Librarian’s E-Library uses tools libraries in the region.... from Google Co-Op to create a customized search engine. The ALA Professional Tips wiki provides a pathfinder to using the rich resources of ALA’s website, compiles the library’s responses to questions received from the field, and enables the library community See JobLIST to share new resources for advancing the practice of librarianship.... for more career opportunities. ALA books appear on Google Book Search ALA Editions has partnered with Google to offer content through “Judson, I’ve been the Google Book Search. Users can librarian here for over now preview ALA Editions titles, a year now, and in conduct multiple searches within that time I have saved http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2006/december/120606.htm[7/17/2014 1:05:06 PM] AL Direct, December 6, 2006 the books, and browse through the the world from magic available pages. Whenever books spears and time- in the Google Book Search index traveling ninjas and contain content that matches user search terms, these books are everything else you returned as links under Book Results on the search results page. Links can think of. I think to the ALA Online Bookstore along with other online retailers make it I’m doing a pretty easy for users to go from browsing to buying.... good job.” —Librarian-adventurer Flynn Carsen (played by Noah Wyle) discusses his performance with his boss (played by Bob Newhart) in the TNT made-for- cable movie, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines, Dec. 2. Featured review: Books for youth Vaught, Susan. Trigger. Dec. 2006. 304p. Bloomsbury, hardcover (1-58234-920-7). What do Seventeen-year-old Jersey Hatch returns home after a year in a brain-injury treatment center. YOU think? Having no memory of the event, Jersey has been informed that he shot himself in the head. Rate TNT’s 2006 With no internal points of reference, he is made-for-cable compelled to confirm through those around him feature The that he really pulled the trigger, and more Librarian: Return to importantly, to discover why.
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