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November/December 2010

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Chicano Librarianship 40 On the 40th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, a leader in the movement remembers the early years in East Los Angeles County BY Elizabeth martinez

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Cover Story 32 GaMing 2.0 Playing games in Houston leads to families learning and having fun together BY Sandy Farmer

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Information Technology 28 Dispatches from the field Freedom and Technology By Jason Griffey, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Eli Neiburger, and the Office For Intellectual Freedom 12 16 29 internet Librarian sunrise, Sunset By Joseph Janes 30 in Practice read the Fine Print by Meredith Farkas

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Professional Development 24 26 48 Youth Matters A Feeling for Books By Jennifer Burek Pierce 49 next Steps innovation Juggernaut By brian mathews Updates and Trends 50 Librarian’s Library Premodern Information Overload 10 aMerican Library Association By Mary Ellen Quinn 16 perspectives 51 rousing Reads i’ve Got a Horse Right Here By Bill Ott 24 newsmaker: Daniel Radcliffe 52 solutions and Services new Products and Services

Opinion and Commentary 4 from the editor Less Ink, More Words By Leonard Kniffel 6 president’s Message Good News Out There Too By Roberta Stevens 8 comment ENabled 44 56 Letters and Comments 26 public Perception How the World Sees Us 27 on My Mind advertisers | page The Unknown Cataloger BY Michael Gorman American Psychological Lyngsoe Library Systems | 18 56 Will’s World Association | cover 3 Mango Languages | 39 By Will Manley Clear-Vu | 22 ProQuest | 7 my Own Private Bookmobile Drexel University| 45 Recorded Books | 31 Ex Libris | 35 Rutgers | 23 Jobs Geico | 37 ST Imaging Inc. | 25 H.W. Wilson | 3 San Jose State University | 15 54 career Leads from joblist Innovative Interfaces | cover 2 The Library Corporation | cover 4 Kingsley Library Equipment | 42 Your #1 Source for Job Openings Gateway to the World of Art THE WILSON ART SUITE ilson’s Art Suite is your premier destination for complete Wcoverage of the fine, decorative, and commercial arts, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and much more! Don’t be misled by other sources’ journal coverage or image count. The Art Suite provides you: • Accurate indexing and authority control since 1929 • 63 new titles this year in Art Full Text • Coverage back to 1984 in Art Full Text • Links to full videos and carefully vetted free sites • Seamless searching—images, biographies, critical reviews and more • Exclusively on WilsonWeb—language translations and ReadSpeaker text-to-speech Art Suite databases: • Art Full Text • Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 • Art Museum Image Gallery • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals • Cinema Image Gallery

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5 ALA | President’s Message Good News Out There Too

State associations play vital role in advocacy efforts by Roberta Stevens

ne of the best as- ed libraries are still pects of being ALA opening, 11 in the past president is the op- year, with nine more portunity to be a part underway. ofO state chapter conferences. I’d We’ve had some like to focus on my experience tough times, but it at the Kentucky Library Asso- isn’t all bad out there. ciation/Kentucky School Media Instead of being beat- Association joint conference in en down by cutbacks, Louisville, September 15–18. the resilient Kentucky ALA President Roberta Stevens (third from left) joins KLA officials (from left) Terry Buckner, Leoma Dunn, Emmalee The hospitality of colleagues in group is looking at Hoover, Debbe Oberhausen, and Wayne Onkst, state Kentucky was outstanding, thanks to these occurrences as librarian and commissioner, Kentucky Department for Emmalee Hoover, Leoma Dunn, and temporary setbacks. It Libraries and Archives. Debbe Oberhausen. What really im- is that spunky can-do will build collaborative partnerships pressed me, however, was the en- approach and the confidence of with government and businesses to thusiasm and positive attitude of the knowing that libraries are key play- increase the reach and sphere of in- KLA/KSMA members. They are def- ers in an information-rich and in- fluence of our libraries, the hearts initely using the lessons of ALA’s formation-dependent global and minds of the local, school, or Advocacy University with great suc- marketplace that will get us through campus communities. cess and have incorporated quite a the challenges we face today. Thank you, my Kentucky friends, few magical touches of their own. One of my key objectives is to for your gracious reminder of those J. C. Morgan, director of Campbell highlight the characteristics of 21st- characteristics that have made our County Public Library and chair of the century libraries. We must construct nation and our libraries models for Kentucky Public Librarians Associa- new buildings and rebuild and re- the world and leaders in the 21st tion, led the effort to line the halls of model older ones to reflect our us- century. the tunnel connecting the state capitol ers’ expectations about the services I have formed a presidential task building and annex with READ post- and convenience a library should force, chaired by Annelle Huggins, ers featuring state legislators and oth- offer and the demand for a pleasant associate dean, university libraries er elected officials. Another year, and comfortable environment. We at the University of Memphis, and images of Kentucky libraries and the face a similar challenge and oppor- executive director of the Tennessee people using them were prominently tunity to retrofit our staff so that Library Association. The task force displayed and linked to a state map. they combine both the core values of is charged with exploring ways that Libraries can’t be far from the minds librarianship with the business ALA and state chapters can effec- november/december 2010

| of those controlling the funding when skills demanded to demonstrate the tively work together. Their analysis

they pass these pictures every day. return on investment made in col- and report will guide the Associa- What was most heartening though lections, personnel, and facilities. tion in strengthening relationships was hearing the pride in the voice of We are transforming and will with and support for state-level as- Wayne Onkst, state librarian and continue—with the help of ALA and sociations, which are relied upon by commissioner, Kentucky Depart- its professional development offer- so many libraries. z ment for Libraries and Archives, ings—to transform our skill sets and during his presentation. Like others, organizational structures to ensure ALA President ROBERTA STEVENS is on leave from the Library of Congress in their state library budget has taken a libraries are not only content-driv- Washington, D.C. Visit robertastevens.com. E-mail: [email protected]. americanlibrariesmagazine.org hit, but new or substantially renovat- en but also customer-driven. We

6 Untitled-2 1 10/27/2010 11:51:14 AM OPINION | Reader Forum Comment Enabled

Religio-Political Pushback even humility, certainly more than can conservative” for the profession in the In response to Marcia Kushner’s letter, be said about most of the protesters context of ALA’s statement against the “Qur’an Burning Talk Shameful” (AL, on the other side of the East/West Iraq War. Oct., p. 5): divide, and maybe some of the But the points of entry that Manley contributors to this publication. provides are spurious at best. Most Although I wouldn’t have staged a Larry Blair conservatives do not “care about political protest in that manner, that’s New York City religion,” they care about their religion. just what the planned Qur’an burning Otherwise there would be no talk of was: a political protest. It had nothing Draper Correction Qur’an burnings. Similarly, “fiscal to do with reading, freedom of speech, In the Rousing Reads column “Required responsibility” means “smaller or the press. Reading for Mad Men” (AL, Oct., p. government” and libraries are If you listened to the statements 51), Bill Ott incorrectly states: “The government. Conservatives view from the protest leader/clergyman in hero, Tom Rath, is a gentler version of libraries as disposable. Pointing out Florida, which were quite articulate, he Don Draper, complete with the World how libraries assist small businesses by engineered the War II trauma, the chain-smoking, and providing information they cannot Although I wouldn’t event as an even the infidelity.” Don Draper did not afford otherwise might be a more aggressive form serve in World War II, but the Korean persuasive argument. have staged a of religio-political War. Roger Sterling, another character Eric Phetteplace political protest pushback against on the show, served in World War II. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in that manner, a religio-political Also, the third sentence is missing system that is the word “be.” ”There’s rarely a book Mr. Manley’s suggestion that library that’s just what the aggressively to seen anywhere” should read professionals should suck up to “the planned Qur’an anti-West, “There’s rarely a book to be seen growing number of conservative burning was: a anti-Christian/ anywhere.” politicians” to increase their budgets is Jewish, anti–free I enjoyed the article, but wanted to a terrible one. I hope we aren’t a political protest. speech, and point these things out. profession comprised of sycophants anti–free thought. Brian R. Smith who would align themselves with In all the coverage of the Florida Delray Beach (Fla.) Public Library whatever particular political party is in protest, I never heard any name-calling favor at the moment for monetary gain. on the part of the organizers. I would Manley Oh So Wrong What does he takes us for? Whores? hope Ms. Kushner would think twice In response to Will Manley’s Will’s The reason he gives—that “libraries before hurling an invective such as “50 World column “Conservatives Among fit very nicely into their political ignorant nutballs” against a group of Us” (AL, Oct., p. 56): agenda”—is laughable. “What her fellow citizens, at least 49 of whom institution does more to provide a wide I dare say she has no firsthand I wholeheartedly agree with Will range of information about all the november/december 2010 knowledge and whose reasoning, Manley’s sentiment that libraries should world’s religions than the library?” he | motives, and character I don’t think she reach out to conservatives, both within asks. But conservatives only believe carefully considered. and outside the profession. This point strongly in their religion. The burning never took place. The was really driven home for me during a He goes on to ask, “What institution organizers seemed to have a certain class discussion last spring, when a in America does more to serve families agility of thought, shrewdness, and fellow student noted that she felt “too than libraries?” Is Mr. Manley aware that family values is the conservative code for antihomosexual? So, libraries The editors welcome letters about recent contents or matters of general interest. Letters should should only serve all of our straight be limited to 300 words. Send to [email protected]; fax 312-440-0901; or American

americanlibrariesmagazine.org Libraries, Reader Forum, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795. family members? I hope not. He also

8 writes, “The library is probably the If anything, it’s the lack of complain- providing story times for toddlers may number one self-help institution in ing by libraries and other public seem like a luxury. Take a step back America. It’s where immigrants go to agencies that has helped us get into and look at the big picture. Libraries learn how to assimilate and succeed.” I our current mess. We’re just complain- are critical to the ideals of a democ- can’t say that the success and assimila- ing to the wrong people—ourselves! racy, providing residents of all tion of immigrants is the first thing that Our tradition of socioeconomic comes to mind when I think of the reluctance to complain The complaints groups access to conservative agenda. in the political arena need to move from information. Living in The American Heritage Dictionary has cost the communi- a democracy where I defines conservative as “tending to ties we serve dearly; the reference desk can decide to be a oppose change; favoring traditional the complaints need to into the public police officer, a views and values.” New thoughts and move from the eye and onto the nurse, or a librarian ideas frighten them and are contrary to reference desk into the trumps everything. their very outlook. They are a stagnant public eye, and onto legislative radar. Good communities breed who want this country to revert the legislative radar. need a balance of to what they perceive were the “good Make no mistake: If Ms. Harris and services. Pitting one against another is old” days. The problem is, those good those of her mindset do not grasp the counterproductive and short-sighted. old days were only good for a certain reality of the current political climate, Well-educated and informed police, segment of the population. they will soon find themselves strug- firefighters, librarians, and medical Rick Yankosky gling to keep “a reasonable perspective personnel can work together to get us Hainesport, New Jersey and positive attitude” as formerly through these tough economic times. employed librarians. It’s true that libraries, like freedom, Worth The Fight Ryan Stacy aren’t free, but they are both worth In response to Amy Harris’s letter Campbell County (Ky.) Public Library fighting for. “Making Choices” (AL, Oct., p. 6): Becky Pearson There is no question that all good McMinnville (Oreg.) Public Library Amy Harris has the issue of libraries’ communities have well-staffed and response to continuing budget cuts responsive fire and police departments. Diversity Applauded exactly wrong on nearly every count. I They are an important part of life here I was very surprised and pleased with cannot comment on the specific in the United States. It is good to have American Libraries’ August cover and complaints of her colleagues, but I can well-staffed hospitals close to home. the Annual Conference wrap-up tell you that we “whiners” see cuts to And when there is an emergency, these “Librarians Head for the Hill to Rally for libraries as part of a bigger political well-trained people respond with Reading” (p. 38–44). picture: the steady defunding across efficiency and care. lt is not often that the magazine the board of critical services that We live in a great democratic shows African-American librarians or include education, fire, and police, and country. Having a literate and well- prints articles involving them. As an yes, public and academic libraries. We informed population is critical to a African-American librarian and an ALA don’t see libraries as more critical than democratic society. You cannot wait member for over 25 years, I was the other services Ms. Harris cites; we until an emergency to create a literate beginning to wonder if we were a dying think it’s disgraceful that the “cut taxes society. Democracy happens each and breed. at any cost” politicians—of both every day in our country for everyone, It was gratifying to see so many of parties—pit public agencies against not just those who are hurt, sick, or them rallying for reading and participat- each other in the first place. victims of a crime. Having a population ing in the Habitat for Humanity november/december 2010

In a society that calls itself a that can read, understand issues, and program in Washington, D.C. I look | democracy, libraries aren’t any less vote keeps us from regressing from a forward to seeing more articles essential than other public services country that is protected by its police involving minorities, and especially either. A healthy democracy wants its force to a police state. African Americans. citizens protected by police and fire At first glance, having a library that Evelyn L. Meningall departments, to be sure. But it also is open on a Sunday afternoon or East Brunswick, New Jersey wants its citizens to find and keep jobs, to be educated in the affairs of their world, and to make informed decisions Continue the conversation at americanlibrariesmagazine.org about their lives. @ americanlibrariesmagazine.org

9 Update | ALA

Stroyan, Sullivan Seek 2012-13 ALA Presidency

usan Stroyan, informa- ­College Mentor Program in 1996-97, sory Committee in 1991-93, and tion services librarian at 1998-99, and 2007-08. She served chair of the Minority Fellow Pro- Illinois Wesleyan Uni- as president of ALA’s ­Library Ad- gram Advisory Board from 1989 to versity’s Ames Library ministration and Management As- 1995. Sin Bloomington, Illinois, and sociation (LAMA) in 1991-92 and She was named ACRL’s 2010 Aca- Maureen Sullivan, professor of president of the Beta Phi Mu Inter- demic/Research Librarian of the practice in the doctoral program, national Library and Information Year and received the 1999 ALA Managerial Leadership in the In- Studies Honor Society in 2009-10. Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change formation Professions, Graduate Stroyan has also held offices in state Award. School of ­Library and Informa- and regional library associations, Sullivan has a bachelor’s degree tion Science at Simmons College including serving as president of in history (1974) and a master’s de- in Boston, are the nominees for the Illinois ­Library Association in gree in ­library science (1976) from the 2012-13 ALA presidency. 1995-96. the University of Maryland. Her honors include Illinois Aca- demic Librarian of the Year (2000) and Illinois State University Hon- ored Alumna (2002). Hildreth Nominated Stroyan has a bachelor’s degree for IMLS Director in ­library science from Illinois State President Obama has nominated University (1972) and a master’s de- former ALA Public Library Associa- gree (1973) and doctorate in ­library tion president Susan H. Hildreth, science from the University of Illi- city librarian at Seattle Public nois (1986). ­­Library, to be director of the Insti- Susan Stroyan Maureen Sullivan Sullivan serves as a consultant to tute of Museum and Library Servic- numerous libraries of all types—ac- es.She previously was appointed as Stroyan has held leadership posi- ademic, public, school, law, health California’s state librarian by Gov. tions in public and special libraries sciences, and other special libraries Arnold Schwarzenegger. as well as multitype ­library systems and library consortia. She served as ALA President Roberta Stevens and academic settings over the past human resources administrator in noted that Hildreth’s experience 34 years. libraries at the University of Mary- and knowledge of all types of librar- She has been an ALA member land (1977-80) and Yale University ies make her the ideal choice for the since 1975 and served as a member (1983-91). Sullivan was also man- position. “Within the ­library com- of the Association’s governing agement training specialist for the munity, Susan is known for her in- Council from 1994 to 1998, the ALA Association of Research Libraries novation and leadership,” Stevens november/december 2010 Self Study Committee from 1992 to (1980-83). said. | 1995, and chair of the ALA Awards She is cochair of ALA President Committee from 2008 to 2010. Roberta Stevens’s initiative “Our Anti-Bullying Stroyan has also served three terms Authors, Our Advocates” and was Resources Available as a member of ALA’s Association of past president of both ACRL (1998- In response to recent tragic events College and Research Libraries 99) and LAMA (1988-89). Sullivan involving gay, lesbian, bisexual, (ACRL) National Conference Execu- also served as cochair of ALA’s transgendered, and queer (GLBTQ) tive Committee. Emerging Leaders initiative in teens, ALA’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Stroyan has been both a partici- 2006-08, chair of the Office for and Transgender Round Table

americanlibrariesmagazine.org pant and mentor in the Small ­Library Personnel Resources Advi- (GLBTRT) has compiled “Speaking

10 OUT Against Bullying,” a list of The Association’s ­resources for kids in trouble and the people who care about them. Associations: RUSA The list is compiled by GLBTRT members and is available at ala.org/ THE ULTIMATE SEARCH ENGINES glbtrt. Whether it’s looking up information or recommending books, Reference and User GreenMyParents Services Association (RUSA) members are Joins ALA to Aid Haiti the librarians and library staff who help pa- trons find what they need. RUSA represents GreenMyParents, a social media readers’ advisory, collection development, youth movement to seed the green interlibrary loan, historical, and business reference librarians from all types economy and save the planet, has of libraries. joined forces with ALA in its effort to rebuild the Petit Goave Public Supporting Professional Endeavors Library in Haiti, which was de- As a RUSA member, you can count on our division to provide you with stroyed by the earthquake in Janu- the knowledge and skills to be the best you can be. You’ll find it in our ary. The estimated cost to rebuild programming during ALA’s Annual Conference. This year’s topics include the Petit Goave Library is $350,000. social media, trends and issues in reference publishing, designing user- focused information services, incorporating maps into your history col- GreenMyParents youth champi- lections, readers’ advisory research, and trends and marketing reference ons will connect with their local services on a tight budget. ­libraries to set up meetings and In addition to conference programming, we offer learning opportunities conduct youth-led interactive work- including online courses on genealogy, business reference, reference inter- shops that teach kids how to engage view basics, and readers’ advisory. We also offer workshops in conjunction their parents in practical programs with the 2011 Annual Conference, such as “Strange Bedfellows: IT and of home-based environmental Reference Collaborations to Enhance User Experiences”; “Effective Library changes that result in learning Services to Older Adults Seeking Employment and Volunteer Opportuni- about money, health, science, and ties”; and “Business Reference 101: Core Competencies for Business relationships by conserving energy Librarianship.” Registration for these events opens January 2. RUSA will also host outstanding genealogy reference workshops during and greening diet and family habits. Annual and the upcoming Midwinter Meeting. Registration is now open Participants will be encouraged to for the Midwinter workshop in San Diego, “Genealogy Happens! at the direct a small portion of realized fi- Genealogy Reference Desk,” a full-day session that covers both genealogy nancial savings to help rebuild the reference basics and specialized resources, such as criminal records. RUSA ­library. members get the lowest rates on all of these exciting events. ALA has raised more than $25,000 to help rebuild libraries in MEMBERSHIP AS A RESOURCE Haiti. Funds have already been dis- The value of RUSA membership goes beyond benefits, such as your sub- tributed to help the National ­­library scription to the RUSA Update e-newsletter and discounts on professional development. It welcomes you into an active community of colleagues who of Haiti hire an architect to develop serve as invaluable professional resources to help you be the best search plans for the new Petit Goave Public engine you can be. Learn more at ala.org/rusa. Library and finance the purchase of —Liz Markel, marketing specialist land for the new Centre Culturel Pyepoudre Community Library. ­Visit ala.org/haiti. november/december 2010

governments better assist users rials, best practice approaches to | IMLS Awards with successfully engaging in government-­library collaborations, Web Resource Grant ­e-government activities. Project embedded expert government in- The Institute of Museum and partners also include the University formation digital reference, guid- ­­Library Services (IMLS) has award- of Illinois at Chicago and the Infor- ance on the provision of ed a $581,609 grant to ALA and the mation Institute at Florida State e-government services, the ability Center for Library and Information University. to share and exchange practices, Innovation (CLII) of the University Developed jointly by ALA and and tools to facilitate local custom- of Maryland’s iSchool to develop a CLII, the web resource will include ization of e-government service

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11 Update | ALA celebrate reading freely The project’s initial focus is on Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. immigration and taxation as the two Citizenship and Immigration Ser- content areas to develop the vices, the Government Printing ­resource, and has support from the ­Office, five state library agencies (Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Texas), and several public and academic libraries. Calendar Academic Libraries Value Report Available ALA’s Association of College and ALA Events Research Libraries has released a report, “Value of Academic Librar- 2011 ies: A Comprehensive Research Re- Jan. 7–11: ALA Midwinter view and Report,” that reviews the Meeting, San Diego, ala.org. quantitative and qualitative litera- ture, methodologies, and best prac- Author Chris Crutcher celebrates Mar. 6–12: Teen Tech Week, ices currently in place for Banned Books Week 2010, ala.org/teentechweek. demonstrating the value of academ- September 25-October 2, during the national kickoff at Mar. 16: Freedom of Information ic libraries. It was developed for Day, ala.org/wo. ACRL by Megan Oakleaf of the Bughouse Square in Chicago, iSchool at Syracuse University. hosted by ALA’s Office for Mar. 30–Apr. 2: Association The report is designed to provide Intellectual Freedom. The annual of College and Research academic librarians and institu- event promotes the freedom Libraries National Conference, tional leaders with a clearer under- to read and the importance Philadelphia, ala.org/acrl. standing of what research about the of the First Amendment. See performance of academic libraries more photos and video at Apr. 2–9: Money Smart Week, already exists and where gaps occur. americanlibrariesmagazine.org. ala.org. Visit acrl.ala.org/value. Apr. 10–16: National Library Week, ala.org. Radcliffe, Watson, Radcliffe has played the title role Grint Join READ Series in all of the blockbuster films based Apr. 12: National D.E.A.R. Day— Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, on the Potter books. Grint has National Drop Everything and Rupert Grint have joined the starred as Ron Weasley, Potter’s and Read Day, ala.org/alsc. ALA Graphics celebrity READ poster classmate and loyal best friend, and series (alastore.ala.org), honoring Watson has starred as Hermione Apr. 12: National Library the reading phenomenon inspired Granger in all of the Harry Potter Workers Day, ala-apa.org. by J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter films. ­series. Radcliffe is the featured News- Apr. 13: National Bookmobile The stars show their love of read- maker in this issue (see p. 24). Day, ala.org/bookmobiles. ing by each holding a favorite book: november/december 2010 Radcliffe with Mikhail Bulgakov’s ALA Drupal Migration | Apr. 24–30: National Preserva- tion Week, ala.org/alcts. The Master & Margarita, Watson with Company Selected William Shakespeare’s Romeo and ALA has contracted with OJC Tech- Apr. 30: El día de los niños/El Juliet, and Grint with Anthony Bur- nologies of Urbana, Illinois, to día de los libros, Children’s gess’s A Clockwork Orange. The re- manage the migration of ala.org to Day/Book Day, ala.org/alsc. lease of the READ posters coincides the open source Drupal platform. with the November 19 movie release “Moving the ALA website to Drupal June 23–28: ALA Annual of Harry Potter and the Deathly aligns us with libraries’ community- Conference. New Orleans, Hallows,the first of a two-part finale focused ideals,” said ALA Website ala.org.

americanlibrariesmagazine.org to the series. Advisory Committee Chair Aaron

12 Dobbs. “ALA will be able to engage The Association’s with its almost 7 million website vis- itors in a lively way. Of key impor- Associations: yalsa tance, member-volunteers who assist with the creation and mainte- Advocating for nance of content will find it much Teen Literature easier to work in ­Drupal.” The Young Adult Library Services “A contingency-based time line Association (YALSA) advocates, for the migration will be released promotes, and supports library when the discovery period is com- services for those ages 12 to 18 and those who provide library services to that age group. plete, probably in December or Jan- Teen Tech Week 2011 takes place March 6–12, with a theme of “Mix uary,” said Sherri Vanyek, ALA’s and Mash @ your library.” Registration is open at ala.org/teentechweek director of Information Technology through February 1. The website also offers publicity tools, activity ideas, and Telecommunications Services. and more. As a test case, American Libraries Teen Read Week 2011 is Oct. 16–23, with a theme determined by teen moved successfully to the Drupal voting during Teen Read Week 2010. Learn more at ala.org/teenread. CMS in January 2010 under the Through funding from Dollar General Literacy Foundation, YALSA will be management of Associate Editor creating materials and resources for librarians, including Spanish-language Sean Fitzpatrick. resources, to promote summer reading and Teen Read Week in 2011. Teens cast more than 8,000 votes in the annual Teens’ Top Ten poll, choosing Suzanne Collins’s Catching Fire as their favorite book. Nomina- ALA Joins “Target tions for next year’s Teens’ Top Ten will be available at ala.org/teenstopten Read With Me” April 14, Support Teen Literature Day. ALA and Target Corporation are YALSA will announce its annual awards, including the Alex, Edwards, partnering in Target’s nationwide Morris, Nonfiction, Odyssey, and Printz winners, at the Youth Media “Target Read With Me” campaign to Awards in San Diego January 7 during ALA’s Midwinter Meeting. The help increase the reading proficien- YALSA Nonfiction Award and the Morris Award will announce their short- cy of children. ALA will provide lists the first week of December. support and resources for a dedicat- The division also launched a new publication, an open-access, online, peer-reviewed research journal, The Journal of Research on Libraries and ed website (with a link from atyour Young Adults (yalsa.ala.org/jrlya). In December, YALSA will launch The Hub, library.org) focused on encouraging a literature blog for teens and YA lit enthusiasts, at yalsa.ala.org/thehub. adults to read to children. The goal YALSA hosted its second symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, No- is to help foster a love of books and vember 5–7, with a theme “Beyond Good Intentions: Diversity, Literature, reading and significantly increase a and Teens.” The next symposium will be in St. Louis, Missouri, November children’s ability to read on their 2–4, 2012. For more information, including the theme and how to propose own by the end of third grade. programs, visit ala.org/yalitsymposium. The Association is contributing —Stephanie Kuenn, communications specialist recommended reading lists and tips to help parents build their child’s home ­library. The website also of- fers a ­library search tool to help vis- ­affected by the economic downturn. ­video materials. Audio materials itors find libraries by zip code and Overall survey results show that were the only collection area to re- encourage them to supplement their school expenditures on information port an increase of 3%, compared reading activities with free ­library resources were approximately with low-poverty schools, which re- november/december 2010

resources. Visit target.com/reading. $12,260 in 2010, compared with ported a 12% increase. | $13,525 last year. Average spending The survey also found total library High-Poverty Schools on information resources in high- staff hours on the decline, with an Hurt by Economy poverty schools decreased 25%, or average of 2.4 fewer hours reported ALA’s American Association of $3,557, on average, compared with in 2010 than 2009. When certified School Librarians 2010 School 2009 survey results. school librarians are separated ­Libraries Count! survey indicates In addition, high-poverty schools from the entire school ­library staff, that the educational resources of reported a 4% decrease in books, there is a 0.8-hour increase in work students in high-poverty schools 22% decrease in periodical sub- hours per week reported. Visit

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13 Update | ALA

2011 ALA Nominating Committee Council Nominees

Mustafa Abbas Abdelwahid Penn State University– Library of Congress Dallas Jonathan Long Head of Collection Shenango Campus Washington, D.C. Head of Access Services Development and Sharon, Pennsylvania Illinois State University Susan L. Jennings Technical Services Normal, Illinois Susan Leigh Considine Lead Librarian for Auburn Avenue Research Executive Director Desk Services Mike L. Marlin Library on African American Fayetteville Free Library Belk Library and Information Director Culture and History Fayetteville, New York Commons– Appalachian California Braille and Atlanta, Georgia State University Talking Book Library Amy Begg De Groff Xan Arch Boone, North Carolina Sacramento, California Transition Manager Collection Development LibLime Shu Yong Jiang Lawrence McCrank Librarian Bethesda, Maryland Associate Professor, Chinese Dean, Library and Reed College Studies Librarian Information Services Portland, Oregon Roberto Carlos Delgadillo University of Illinois at Chicago State University J. Douglas (Doug) Archer Humanities, Social Science, Urbana-Champaign Chicago, Illinois Reference Librarian and Government Information Urbana, Illinois Pat McLeod Hesburgh Library Services Librarian Xudong Jin Director University of Notre Dame Davis University Library– Associate Director of David and Joyce Milne Indiana University of California Davis, California Libraries and Head of Public Library Michelle Boule Technical Services Williamstown, Massachusetts Freelance Librarian John DeSantis Ohio Wesleyan University Jennifer J. Meister League City, Texas Cataloging and Metadata Delaware, Ohio Services Librarian Branch Manager Barbara Christine Brattin Dartmouth College Jonathan C. Kinloch G. Chastaine Flynt Director Hanover, New Hampshire Commissioner Memorial Library Wilkinson Public Library Detroit Public Library Flowood, Mississippi Telluride, Colorado Barbara L. Flynn Detroit, Michigan Deputy Director Linda Mielke Karl Bridges San Diego County Library Kenneth Kozel Director Associate Professor, San Diego, California County Librarian, Head Butte County Library Information and Randolph County Oroville, California Instruction Services Angelica Guerro Fortin Public Library University of Vermont Branch Manager Cuthbert, Georgia Courtney A. Mlinar Burlington, Vermont San Diego County Library– Reference and Academic San Marcos Branch Charles E. Kratz Support Services Librarian Thomas Brogan San Marcos, California Dean of the Library and Health Professions Young Adult Cluster Specialist Information Fluency Division Library– Nova Brooklyn Public Library– Ken Fujiuchi Weinberg Memorial Library– Southeastern University Greenpoint Branch Emerging Technology Librarian The University of Scranton Fort Lauderdale, Florida Brooklyn, New York Buffalo State College Scranton, Pennsylvania Buffalo, New York Robbie Nickel Peggy Birdsall Cadigan LeRoy LaFleur Librarian Associate State Librarian Mary Anne Hodel Head Sage Elementary School for Innovation and Director/CEO Arlington Campus Library– Spring Creek, Nevada Outreach Strategies Orange County Library System George Mason University New Jersey State Library Orlando, Florida Arlington, Virginia Jack O’Gorman Trenton, New Jersey Reference and Instruction David A. Hurley Jason LeDuc november/december 2010 Librarian, Associate

| Patricia Carterette Branch Manager Director of Sales Professor Director of Continuing Albuquerque Bernalilio Counting Opinions University of Dayton Education County Public Library Chicago, Illinois Dayton, Ohio Georgia Public Library Service Albuquerque, New Mexico Patricia Ann Loghry Atlanta, Georgia M. A. (Peg) Oettinger Julius C. Jefferson, Jr. Associate Librarian Retired Matthew Ciszek Information Research University of Notre Dame Warminster, Pennsylvania Head Librarian Specialist Notre Dame, Indiana Andrew K. Pace Executive Director The list includes Executive Board-approved ALA Council nominees from names submitted by the Nominating Networked Library Committee. Petition candidates for ALA president and Council have until February 2, 2011, to enter the race Services, OCLC

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14 Mary Pagliero Popp University of California– Research and Discovery Irvine Libraries Member Alert Services Librarian, Irvine, California Prepare for 2011 ALA Election Indiana University William L. Turner Libraries, Digital User Librarian Experience Department– LA’s upcoming election will be held online for District of Columbia Wells Library most members. Those who are homebound Public Library A Bloomington, Indiana Washington, D.C. and/or have no internet access can obtain a paper JP Porcaro ballot by contacting the Member and Customer Patricia A. Wand Virtual Services Librarian Service Department at 800-545-2433, ext. 5. To be Former Dean New Jersey City University eligible to vote, members must be in good standing Library and Learning Jersey City, New Jersey Resources– as of January 31, 2011. Pamela C. Sieving Zayed University Polls open March 16 and will close April 22 at Informationist, Biomedical Abu Dhabi and Dubai, 11:59 p.m. CST. ALA will provide all eligible voters Librarian United Arab Emirates with unique pass codes as well as information about National Institutes of Jennifer Wann how to vote online via an e-mail message. Members Health Library Director of Development should make sure that they are able to receive e-mail Bethesda, Maryland Services transmissions well before the polls open and may John C. Stachacz Mississippi Library need to whitelist the election material as follows: Dean of Library Services Commission From: ALA Election Coordinator; e-mail address Wilkes University Jackson, Mississippi [email protected]; Subject: ALA 2011 Elec- Farley Library Kelvin Watson tion Login Instructions. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Branch Head, Acquisitions, To update your e-mail address, visit ala.org/mem- Holly Tomren and Chief Collection bership or send an e-mail message to membership@ Head of Monograph, Development Officer ala.org with “Update My E-mail Address” in the sub- Electronic Resources, National Agricultural ject line. All bounced and duplicate e-mail addresses and Metadata Library will be mailed balloting credentials beginning March Cataloging Beltsville, Maryland z 21 via the U.S. Postal Service.

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21 americanlibrariesmagazine.org | november/december 2010 22 americanlibrariesmagazine.org | november/december 2010 T reliability and unreliability of Wikipe Nature of ‘Truth.’” She discussed the Works, and What This Means for the ence with “How Wikipedia Really Information. Talis champion, standard open and interoperability Singer, Ross and Research; OCLC officer, program senior Tennant, Roy Technology; of Institute gia Geor the at Computing Interactive of School professor, associate man, Bruck Amy were forum year’s this Keynoting services. web and social, mobile, including technologies, library in innovations and trends leading the with, experiences and of, knowledge shared speakers Expert Cloud.” the and Crowd “The theme, conference the rounding sur developments and projects 30 September Atlanta in together professionals L on I T rends |Perspectives Bruckman kicked off the confer ITA C For information:800.221.4545 |[email protected] and information technology technology information and library brought Forum tional Na LITA annual 13th he nnovations, T – October 3 to discuss discuss to 3 October rowd S AuDiO-BOOk DVD Disc Catalogs from the from Catalogs Disc DVD Protect ------together, iteratively.” it–“critiquing and refining knowledge many people are watching and editing an entry’s reliability depends on how building discourse and concluded that Wikipedia supports knowledge- man presented examples of how ality is what we agree is true.” Bruck our perceptions. Our best guess at re there’s a strange correlation between perceptions,” Bruckman said, “but accessible through truly subjective tions. On one hand, “the world is only believe and are asking critical ques wherein people don’t know what to there is a “crisis in epistemology,” nature of truth.” Bruckman stated that now at a “teachable moment about the and why, and concluded that we are dia, described who contributes to it thanks to the ubiquity and “limit and ubiquity the to thanks anywhere,” happen can “innovation how described Tennant Crowd,”Roy the Please to Cloud the In“Using innovation Limitless Falls of the Drop Box rugged in circulation. in rugged and shelf the on sleek attractive is design and construction reinforced The mul One-Time Clear-Vu’s One-Time • Sizes upto32disccapacity • Easy loadsleevecartridge • fortitlegraphics Full sleevewrap • library needs: hares T

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23 americanlibrariesmagazine.org | november/december 2010 TRENDS | Interview

NEWSMAKER: Daniel Radcliffe

nything that gets kids into reading is Afantastic,” says Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who recently posed for an ALA librarians let you look at any of the Celebrity READ poster along with his Pot- ter costars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, really rare books? No, even if they released by ALA Graphics just in time for had, I doubt whether I would have the premiere of the first part of the last film appreciated them at the time. How- in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly ever, I’m very excited to participate Hallows, on November 19. Daniel Radcliffe in the British Library’s Adopt a Book (Harry Potter) talked to American Libraries in August, shortly after the photo shoot for the program that supports the library’s poster. Radcliffe’s upcoming roles include a conservation work. For my birthday, film adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in a former teacher of mine, a huge Black, a British ghost story, and a Broadway Sherlock Holmes fan, chose Arthur production of How to Succeed in Business Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Without Really Trying. Read the full interview on the American Libraries Inside Scoop blog. Baskervilles to adopt, and we get to go on a behind-the-scenes tour of the library’s conservation lab. I’m really In your poster, you are holding Mikhail Will these two Deathly Hallows films looking forward to it. Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, be the best of the Harry Potter series? an interesting choice. How did you They’d better be. We need to have Do people tell you often that the discover the book? the series go out with a bang, in rec- books and the films have inspired a DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I’ve been ognition of all the fans who have love of reading? Absolutely, and I am obsessed with the novel ever since supported the films and books over a case in point. Before I was cast in I read it about a year ago. I’ve always the years. the first Harry Potter film, I didn’t been a huge fan of magical realism. read much at all. But I have grown to It’s an inspiring genre in which writ- Besides mastering Rowling’s books, love reading because of the film and ers can just let their imaginations go how else have you prepared for your now I am an absolutely voracious wild and wonderful. role in the film series? Do you get reader, although kind of a slow one. ideas from other fantasy novels? Not Anything that gets kids into reading You mentioned in one of your inter- from other novels so much as listen- is fantastic. views that you buy a lot of books— ing to music. I find Radiohead inspi- what are some of your favorites? I rational, also Florence and the Do you often run into people who say loved Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Machine, whose song “My Boy Builds that the books and films are instruc- Man and the Sea. I also liked Hunter Coffins” from the 2009 Lungs album tion manuals for paganism and witch- S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in is filled with melancholy and deter- craft? How do you answer them? I Las Vegas, Umberto Eco’s The Name of mination. And “Me Ves Y Sufres” have encountered that occasionally.

november/december 2010 the Rose, and Émile Zola’s Germinal, from Hope of the States’ s 2004 The “Paganism” is one of those words

| which I thought would be difficult but Lost Riots album, with the lyrics, “It’s that’s thrown around and can have it read very easily. I also like classic so desperately sad that my life has some terrible connotations, and I Russian writers; I’ve read Mikhail come to this / I hope there’s some- detest the word “witchcraft.” I tell Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and thing better than this for me.” Harry them that witchcraft is not real and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Potter is similarly dogged by tragedy. that I don’t understand what they are and Notes from the Underground. The complaining about. Harry Potter is reason that these books have become What was it like shooting scenes for about loyalty and friendship and duty classics is that they are so readable the first two films in Duke Humfrey’s and fighting for what’s right. I believe

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24 Untitled-1 1 10/28/2010 12:00:31 PM OPINION | Public Perception How the World Sees Us

“We have a battle on our hands, Trent. Mother, the Banned-Book-Loving Librar- “You can never open too The board is going to cut our allocation ian,” Eve’s Fan Garden, Sept. 22. and they want to move us into a tiny many libraries.” cinderblock building out on the high- “Probably no other group has fought Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, at way, where the convenience store used harder against censorship or govern- the reopening of the refurbished Georgetown to be, and bulldoze this beautiful ment snooping into citizens’ reading branch of the DC Public Library three-and- library to make room for a parking lot habits—or received less public credit a-half years after a devastating fire, “At for the new sports complex they want for it—than librarians and the Ameri- Library Ribbon-Cutting, Fenty Celebrates to put in across the street. Fifteen mil- can Library Association. This is true, Accomplishment,” Washington Post, Oct. 18. lion dollars to build that big barn and quiet patriotism—standing up for the eighty grand for a shoebox to stick the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, “For the record, we love libraries as library in.” often at the risk of their jobs. They are much as the technological advances SUE SCOTT as Ruth Harrison, Reference walking the walk, not just talking the which now put libraries in your pocket. Librarian, on the Oct. 16 broadcast of A talk. Librarians are high on my list of They are havens, sanctuaries, communi- Prairie Home Companion. American heroines and heroes.” ty centers and places where helpful Aberdeen, Maryland, resident CRAIG people who are almost certainly smart- “I found Under the Rainbow: Growing ­HERUD, in a letter to the editor, Baltimore er than you hang out just to help you.” Up Gay, by Arnie Kantrowitz, sitting on Sun, Sept. 9. Blogger John C. Abell, in “Librarians a shelf. I would go to the library and Rock. Well, Anyway, They Disco,” Wired: read a section of it, then come back “The lifeblood of a university is its Epicenter, Sept. 16. another day and start where I left off. library, and cutting library resources is There was no way I could bring it like cutting off oxygen to the brain. “Public libraries are different. . . . . You home.” Without this lifeblood, the university don’t need to pull any strings to get NOEL ALUMIT, author of Letters to Mont- will falter and fail.” VIP treatment.” gomery Clift, on the centrality of Los Ange- Robert Buckingham, dean of the Columnist JULIA KELLER, on the legacy of les Public Library in his life as a teenager, School of Public Health at the University the 59 libraries Chicago Mayor Richard M. in the wake of draconian budget cuts, of Saskatchewan, Canada, in “Library Daley built or renovated during his 21 “City of Airheads: Villaraigosa Dismantles Cuts Threaten Research,” The Scientist, years in office, “Future Legacy in Libraries, L.A.’s Vaunted Library System,” LA Weekly, Sept. 28. Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9. z Sept. 16.

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| Minnesota? Raved women with glasses on a chain who one bride at WeddingWire ‘shh!’ people. Now my mother did ‘shh!’ .com: “Beth a lot (and even once almost kicked me [O’Connor, event coordinator] and out of the library for asking someone a the staff at the hotography P question about a chapter we were sup- library were so accommodating posed to read, which was so not fair),

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26 On My Mind | OPINION The Unknown Cataloger

Catalogers are the unsung heroes of scholarly by Michael Gorman pseudo-discoveries

ardly a month goes itous visit to a garage sale or a pink- The name of the person who de- by without a story tape-wrapped folder of manuscripts signed it is unknown, as are the in the newspapers collected by the scholar’s great- names of the master-builders and or elsewhere in the grandmother, herself the grand- the countless stonemasons, carvers, Hmedia about a scholar who has daughter of a Viennese music glaziers, sculptors, carpenters, “discovered” a lost or hith- master), but in the vast majority of metalworkers, and laborers who erto unknown manuscript of cases the “discovery” is owed to the built it over the 70 years or more it a text or musical work by a fa- work of an unknown cataloger took to make the great cathedral. mous author or composer. (library or archival) and the con- There it stands—a monumental sum Typically, following a headline servation and storage activities of that is greater than its many parts. such as “Twain’s the library or ar- The catalogs of the great libraries of Lost Story Dis- In the vast chive over many the world have been under construc- covered by Pro- majority of cases decades. tion, in many cases, for even longer fessor” or But it is Pro- than it took to build Chartres Cathe- the “discovery”is “Scholar Asks: fessor Hebden- dral and they are still growing despite ‘Is This Mozart’s owed to the work Snorkel who gets the many forces that affect cataloging Undiscovered of an unknown cataloger the scholarly pa- negatively today. They, too, represent Masterpiece?’” pers and the ten- a totality that is more than the sum of and the conservation and there is a tale of ure for which she the work of their many, largely anony- an assistant pro- storage activities of the thirsts, the in- mous contributors. fessor of some- library or archive over terviews on NPR thing or another and in the New Classic enablers many decades. “stumbling” York Times, and, So, let’s hear it for the Unknown across the man- with any luck, Cataloger playing her or his part in uscript on the “dusty shelves” of a the surpassing glory of thousands of the sublime mission of preserving library or the “forgotten files” of an hits on her “Twainette” or “Wolfie’s and transmitting the human record archive. Girl” blog. No thanks are rendered for the benefit of posterity. That “It had been lying there undis- to the Unknown Cataloger or for the benign and valuable activity will turbed and unknown for decades preservation activities of the library also accomplish the more mundane but when I came across it, I knew or archive, and their work forms no task of enabling the discoveries of what it was immediately,” said Pro- part of the media story of “Indiana Professor Hebden-Snorkel and her

fessor Hebden-Snorkel. “It has the Hebden-Snorkel and the Lost Man- many colleagues that will, if all goes november/december 2010

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n December 31 Alice obituaries Meister will retire as di- rector of Bozeman (Mont.) Public Library. n Donald Arthur Best, 83, died after Kutztown (Pa.) University for 25 n In June Angela New- a brief illness September 6. He was years. man became children’s the longtime director of the Cadillac– n Daniel Marmion, 61, former as- librarian of Tredyffrin Wexford County (Mich.) Public sociate director for information sys- Public Library in Straf- Library and the Mid-Michigan Library tems and digital access at the ford, Pennsylvania. League in Cadillac. University of Notre Dame (Ind.) n August 31 Peggy New- n George D’Elia, 66, professor of Hesburgh Libraries, died September man retired as head library and information studies at the 22. librarian of Lower Merion University at Buffalo, New York, died n Juliette Hollis Moody, 95, died (Pa.) Library System’s Ar- September 19. He also worked as a September 3. Moody was a school dmore Library. consultant with 36 public library sys- librarian at Spartanburg, South Caro- n October 2 Ann Plam- tems. D’Elia previously served as a lina’s Pine Street Elementary during beck retired as assistant faculty member at the University of the 1960s and at the district’s Jesse director and reference Minnesota library school, directing Boyd Elementary until her retirement head of Easttown (Pa.) the school from 1982 to 1985 and then in 1984. Library in Berwyn. teaching in the school’s Department n Karen Skubish, 65, died August 27 n Debbi Schaubman was of Information and Decision Sciences after a battle with lung cancer. She appointed manager of until 1995. began working as a librarian at the shared library systems at n Margaret Keefe, 91, died Septem- Newberry Library in Chicago in the the Midwest Collaborative ber 6. She worked in several libraries 1960s and became director of events for Library Services in in Michigan, including Kalamazoo there in the mid-1980s. Lansing, Michigan, effec- Public Library and Grand Rapids n Marcia M. Provan, 89, died August tive November 1. Public Library, before serving as head 23 of metastatic cancer. She was a n September 3 Matt of reference services at Oak Park (Ill.) librarian at William Ramsay Elemen- Scholtz retired as chief Public Library until her retirement in tary School in Alexandria, Virginia, librarian of Tillsonburg the 1980s. from 1967 until her retirement in (Ont.) Public Library. n Arthur W. Kuschke Jr., 96, a 1987. n Todd Shipman joined librarian at Westminster Theological n Margaret Quick, 62, lost her battle Auburn (Ala.) University Seminary in Philadelphia from 1945 with breast cancer August 23. She was Libraries as education to 1979, died July 1. longtime director of NorthEast-Mil- librarian on August 30. n Sara R. Mack, 88, died September lerton (N. Y.) Library. n In September Helen H. 8. She was a librarian at Mt. Penn– n Katie E. Ray, 54, who served as Spalding retired as uni- Lower Alsace Junior-Senior High reference librarian at Alabama Public versity librarian at Port- School in Pennsylvania, before Library Service in Montgomery since land (Ore.) State teaching library science courses at 1982, died August 8. University. n J. Robert Verbesey re- n

tired September 30 as ex- October 1 Jim Wel- ciate of ALA/Allied Pro- Office for Information november/december 2010

ecutive director of the bourne retired as city fessional Association. Technology Policy Novem- |

Southwest Florida Library librarian of New Haven n Larra Clark was ap- ber 1. Network in Fort Myers. (Conn.) Free Public Library. pointed director, Program n October 18 Marijke on Networks, and associ- Visser became assistant At ALA ate director, Program on director of the Office for n October 1 Jamie Bragg America’s Libraries for Information Technology left ALA as research asso- the 21st Century, for the Policy. z

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47 Professional Development | Youth Matters A Feeling for Books

Therapeutic connections to library practice by Jennifer Burek Pierce

hat’s not to like The hype of self-help psychological research that often about bibliotherapy? One scholar who focuses on the long runs counter to the information in Bringing readers tradition of self-help literature and books by nonexperts.” When books to books, whether its present-day forms is Patti Lou fail to make people feel better, they fictionW or nonfiction, that re- Watkins, associate professor of may not pursue further care. “Psy- spond to personal problems and women’s studies at Oregon State chologists are concerned that peo- promote well-being seems like University in Corvallis and editor ple will engage with these books and powerful testimony to the notion with George A. Clum, psychology find them not helpful, then refuse that reading changes lives. Bib- professor at Virginia Polytechnic other help because of it.” liotherapy has been described as University Institute and State Uni- Watkins cited an extension of readers’ advisory, versity in Blacksburg, of Handbook of research on post- There’s a specialized kind of informa- Self-Help Therapies. I asked her if traumatic stress a need tion provision, or even a means librarians who tout bibliotherapy as disorder showing for policy of healing. Seldom is it fully a library service are, essentially, that the dramatic acknowledged as the province practicing without a license. Cer- approaches of guidance of another profession, yet psy- tainly, other LIS writers have sug- confrontation and in bibliotherapy, chologists train to use and evalu- gested the need for policy guidance discussion so of- as with providing ate the merits of bibliotherapy. in this area, mirroring professional ten depicted in Understanding another field’s limits on tax and medical informa- narratives are not tax and medical ideas about bibliotherapy can aid tion that respect those matters as always appropri- information. librarians as they consider how— beyond librarians’ expertise. ate. “There’s no or even whether—bibliotherapy is Calling librarians’ interests in single rule of what’s helpful or truly the province of the librarian. bibliotherapy positive and their safe. Some of these things may Librarians and library school fac- concern for patrons “very admira- make it worse,” she noted. Further, ulty variously attribute the origins of ble,” Watkins nonetheless suggested she observed, “People may have bibliotherapy to the October 15, that matching adolescents with many different presentations of dis- 1939, Library Journal article “Can books on, say, eating disorders in tress.” There Be a Science of Bibliothera- the hopes of encouraging their re- The gold standard is selecting py?” or to Christopher Morley’s The covery is no sure thing. Bibliothera- books “based on empirically Haunted Bookshop (1919). Research- py, as clinical psychologists such as validated solutions,” Watkins said, ers in psychology and gender stud- Watkins understand it, “is usually noting that the Association for Be- ies, however, trace the concept back synonymous with self-help [that] havioral and Cognitive Therapies november/december 2010

to 17th-century spiritual titles that takes a variety of forms.” Genres lists sound titles in its newsletter |

American colonists counted on to may include nonfiction works guid- and may soon publish them online. guide them, which gave way to a ing readers in specific psychological She advised: “Someone may like to burgeoning self-help literature be- therapies, inspirational autobiogra- read emotionally laden books, but ginning in the early 1800s that phies, and even fiction. The last, let’s just not call it bibliotherapy.” z promised health and wealth. The however, is an area whose effective- guides of that era never used the ness is least known. term “bibliotherapy” but sold books “You don’t know that the author’s JENNIFER BUREK PIERCE is assistant professor of library and information science at that promised advice and self-im- ways of coping are healthy or actual- the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Contact her provement. ly helpful,” she cautioned. “There’s at [email protected]. americanlibrariesmagazine.org

48 Next Steps | Professional Development Innovation Juggernaut

The libraries at Stanford University have by Brian Mathews reenvisioned scholarly communications

he libraries at Stanford Keller took the helm in 1993, a The idea blossomed for Keller University have been a critical time in Stanford’s history over dinner with the dean of engi- juggernaut of innovation when it was recovering from a dam- neering; they envisioned an “Infor- over the last 20 years. aging earthquake. The campus was mation Collaboratory” where TThey have reenvisioned scholarly eventually rebuilt, and it was from students and faculty no longer relied communications with the launch this chaos that SULAIR emerged as a on print books and journals. Keller’s of HighWire Press, initiated model 21st-century library. intention is to have librarians work- digital preservation and archiving The driving force of Keller’s lead- ing closely with faculty and re- tools LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, be- ership is stewardship. “Everything searchers in their classrooms and come a founding member of the we do is for labs. open-source course management the benefit of Operations are SULAIR is now software Sakai, and developed nu- the entire in- affected by the focused on the merous enhancements to Black- stitution,” he mobile land- light, the open-source OPAC. says. Keller entrepreneurial spirit scape. With al- On top of all that, they are also a views success of Silicon Valley: ums, they major contributor to the Google as improving “constant reengineering and developed the Books project, offering over eight the university, iStanford app, million volumes to be digitized. not just the continuous improvement.” which has served Being located in Palo Alto, the libraries. “Ev- as the prototype birthplace of Google, has undoubt- eryone feels a great sense of satis- for several other libraries. Keller is edly had an impact on the philoso- faction when they can see how their excited to expand: “We’re planning a phy and philanthropy of the Stanford effort makes a difference to the stu- whole set of routines where people University Libraries and Academic dents, faculty, and researchers.” can request books from our storage Information Resources (SULAIR). A The entrepreneurial spirit of Sili- facility and have them delivered, as key distinction of this paradigm- con Valley and the process of “con- well as better mapping tools to help shifting organization is that it blends stant reengineering and continuous people navigate the libraries.” traditional library functions with improvement” have affected opera- While SULAIR may be driven by campuswide academic computing, as tions. Too many committees can kill innovation, it is not immune to bud- well as the University Press. productivity, so Keller encourages get cuts. Last year, faced with a 15% short-term task-oriented groups. reduction to its general allocation, Ambitious leadership “Individual responsibility is critical SULAIR sustained numerous layoffs The leader of this ambitious unit is for getting things done,” he explains. and vacant positions. Keller remains november/december 2010

Michael Keller, a former Army Na- This approach ensures that SULAIR optimistic. “Regrettably, we lost | tional Guard tank driver and trained maintains its project-driven start- some good people, but there are no musicologist. He insists that SULAIR up mentality. backward glances. Our mindset is never set out to be a pioneer. “The This year Stanford opened its new focused on the future.” z big idea isn’t innovation for its own Engineering Library, hailed in the sake, but rather, the question that we press as “bookless,” despite having ask ourselves every day is: ‘What op- 10,000 print volumes. Keller specu- Brian Mathews, brianmathews.com, is a librarian at the University of California, Santa portunities and assets do we have lates that in five years it will be truly Barbara, and author of Marketing Today’s that can make scholarship and bookless and views it as an experi- Academic Library (ALA Editions, 2009). His column spotlights leadership strategies that

learning better?’” mental model. produce inspirational libraries. americanlibrariesmagazine.org

49 Professional DEVELOPMENT | Books Librarian’s Library

Premodern information overload by Mary Ellen Quinn

nformation overload is American Library Asso- making that the creden- nothing new. First there ciation was formed), the tial for entry into the were all those clay tablets, debate goes on. In The profession and limiting- then the manuscripts, then MLS Project: An Assess- ALA accreditation to Iwhat philosopher/librarian Gott- ment after Sixty Years, master’s degree pro- fried Leibniz (1646–1716) referred Boyd Keith Swigger en- grams. Improving the lot to as “that horrible mass of books ters the conversation, of librarians in terms of which keeps on growing.” In Too beginning with the ALA status, income, and Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Council’s approval of prestige were among the Information before the Modern Age, new standards for ac- goals of “the MLS proj- Ann M. Blair explores how the crediting library educa- ect,” but Swigger argues flood of information tion programs in 1951. that the results have was managed in the This change shifted standards away been mixed, partly because we have old days. She focuses from the bachelor’s degree to the never really managed to convince on the 16th and 17th master’s degree in library science, others of our value, and partly be- centuries in Europe and, as well, on early modern reference books—dictionaries, florilegia (essentially, New From ALA quotation collec- tions), miscellanies, ulticultural Programs for Teens and Tweens, a commonplace books, MYALSA publication edited by Linda B. Alexander indexes, bibliographies, and the and Nahyun Kwon, offers examples of programs de- like—intended for “consultation signed both to reach out to young public and school reading.” These compilations library patrons of particular backgrounds (African offered convenient shortcuts to American, Asian, Latino, and Native American) and to knowledge, but their use some- introduce teens and tweens to those cultures. Among times triggered complaints that, the programs are a celebration of the Harlem Renais- Blair notes, resemble complaints sance and an exploration of El Día de los Muertos. Each example includes specifics regarding age level, duration, activities, heard today about using Google preparation, cost, and materials. Indexed. 197P. PBK $50 (978-0-8389-3582-8). and Wikipedia. Her scholarly study helps put many modern In another YALSA publication, Risky Business: Taking november/december 2010 developments into perspective. and Managing Risks in Library Service for Teens, authors | Indexed. 416P. $45 from Yale University Linda W. Braun, Hillias J. Martin, and Connie Urquhart Press (978-0-300-11251-1) examine the importance of risk in serving a risk-taking group. The “taking” part covers the library’s collec- The MLS Project tion: for example, buying materials with controversial Although it seems that the question content, ignoring reviews, eliminating traditional clas- of whether librarianship is a pro- sification schemes. It also applies to programming, technology, and even professional development. The fession might have been settled “managing” part—being smart about risk—is the key to success. when Melvil Dewey declared it to be Indexed. 151P. PBK $55 (978-0-8389-3896-5).

americanlibrariesmagazine.org one back in 1876 (the same year the

50 In Too Much ROUSING READS to Know: I’ve Got a Horse Right Here Managing Scholarly here are two kinds of horse racing stories. The Information before the Tmost common are the sentimental ones (think National Velvet) in which an underdog horse triumphs Modern Age, Ann M. over seemingly insurmountable odds. Sometimes the Blair explores how the same formula is used in more realistic treatments of the racing world (Seabiscuit) that embroider the march flood of information was to victory with plenty of social and historical landscape. managed in the old days. Then there are the other kind of horse stories, those that play against sentimentality, using the unique atmosphere of the racetrack and the gambling world that supports it to explore the inevi- cause our “jurisdiction over infor- tability of loss. mation access” is being If you don’t know Willy Vlautin’s work, you might think his third undermined. The question we novel, Lean on Pete, belonged in the sentimental camp. After all, how should be asking is not whether could a tale about a boy and the horse he loves not be sentimental? But librarianship is a profession, but if you have read Vlautin, you know that he writes spare, knifelike prose whether it should be. that slices deep into the vulnerable hearts of his struggling, lonely char- Indexed. 170P. PBK $50 from Scarecrow Press acters. Teenager Charley Thompson, newly arrived in Portland, Oregon, (978-0-8108-7703-0) takes to hanging out at Portland Meadows racetrack, where he finds a friend—an aging thoroughbred named Lean on Pete. That’s exactly what Charley does, at least for a while, until Pete, bound for the slaugh- A Year of Home- terhouse, needs to lean on Charley. The perilous journey on which Char- Library Reading ley and Pete embark must end badly—think of Kirk Douglas and another Julie Powell spent a year cooking loyal horse on the run from civilization in Lonely Are the Brave—but on her way through Julia Child’s Mas- the road, Charley tells Pete the story of his life, and in this young boy’s tering the Art of French Cooking (doc- flatly descriptive but heartbreaking words, Vlautin transforms what umented in her book Julie and Julia: might have been a weepy TV-movie of a novel into a tough-and-tender My Year of Cooking Dangerously), and account of a boy, a big-hearted horse, and a mostly unforgiving world. Ammon Shea spent a year plowing What Daniel Woodrell does for the hardscrabble Ozarks, Vlautin does for the underside of the New West. through all 20 volumes For an even more unsparing look at racetrack life, try Jaimy Gordon’s of the Oxford English recently published Lord of Misrule. The language of the racetrack, like Dictionary (Reading the Yiddish, is rich in the ironies of daily living. Gordon brings that language OED). Now, in Howard’s to crackling life in this moving and lyrical portrait of the inhabitants of End Is on the Landing, the “backside” at a no-account West Virginia racetrack. The equilibrium Susan Hill tells us how of life for the grooms, trainers, small-time owners, and even the horses she spent a year taking a that populate the backside’s shed rows is disrupted by the arrival of a journey through the frizzy-haired girl and her horse-owner boyfriend. Suddenly, Medicine Ed, books in her own house. a 73-year-old groom and racetrack lifer, gets a “funny, goofered feeling Some were books she about the way things was going.” was revisiting, others As the inevitable plays itself out—the novel is structured around four horses (including the titular Lord of Misrule) running in four she had never opened before. Each races—we come to feel not only the idiosyncratic camaraderie shared one, whether a mystery or a classic by the backside inhabitants but also the special rhythm of life lived or an anthology of poems or a pub- near the “fly-loud” barn. This is not the world of Seabiscuit, where the lished diary, touches off reflections right horse winning the right race makes everything seem good; this is november/december 2010

about her literary life. Hill reminds a goofered world ruled by misrule. But sometimes, as Gordon tells it, | us of the varied pleasures of reading the smell of pine tar and horse manure can function like a “devil’s ton- and might just inspire others to get ic.” Words can do that, too, as this nearly word-perfect novel makes reacquainted with their own home abundantly clear. libraries. 236p. PBK $15.95 from Profile Books (978- 1846682667). z

Bill Ott is the editor and publisher of ALA’s Booklist. Mary Ellen Quinn is editor of ALA

Booklist’s Reference Books Bulletin. americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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Dean of University Libraries Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Dean of the University Libraries at Wichita State University. joblist.ala.org The Dean reports to the Associate Provost and Chief Information Officer and sits as a member of the Council of Deans. The Dean will lead the campus in the development of a technology-based, student oriented, and research driven library model to support the university’s urban serving research mission. The Dean will have practical experience in the use of emerging technology and its use in library and information management models. The Dean will be a cam- Your #1 source for job pus innovator in research and student learning and known for building partnerships across campus. Wichita State is the only Urban Serving Research University in the State of Kansas. Through our academic and openings in Library and research programs we work in collaboration with the government, business, non-profit and educational sectors in the greater Wichita area to develop human capital for the global economy, support educational innovation at Information Science and all levels, promote public health and sustain communities. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas and attracts a Technology diverse population of people. Please go to https://jobs.wichita.edu Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2010, however, applications will for more details about the requirements for the position be accepted until the position is filled. Offers and the application process. of employment are contingent upon comple- Columbia College in Columbia, MO For full consideration, applicants must submit on-line (1) tion of background checks as required by the Letter of application describing abilities to meet required Kansas Board of Regents. seeks an Assistant Director of Staf- qualifications, (2) Curriculum Vitae, and (3) Names, address- ford Library. The Assistant Director es, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers for three indi- Wichita State University is an Affirmative will be responsible for managing the viduals who can be contacted for professional references. Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. electronic resources, services and the web presence of Stafford Library to continually grow and enhance the virtual library. Assistant Director will prepare a budget for electronic resources. Act as liaison to the Online Campus regard- ing electronic library resources and services. Responsible for hiring, super- vising and evaluating the performance American Library Association Lehman College of The City University of   New York is now accepting applications for of the Reference Librarian, Systems 1/3 page the following faculty positions: Librarian and Library Students. Other  responsibilities include: formulate and Issue Nov Leonard Lief Library        • administer policies and procedures for       Education Librarian Stafford Library, assist the Director with Deadline    10-5-10   • Health and Human Services Librarian short and long range planning, manage • Instructional Technologies Librarian        library operation in the absence of the      Applicants should submit a letter, resume Director. Perform other duties as as-        and names and addresses of three signed. Qualifications include an ALA        references to: Prof. Kenneth Schlesinger, accredited Master’s degree in Library       Chair, Search Committee, 250 Bedford Science or Information Science. 3 to  Park Blvd. West, Leonard Lief Library, 5 years experience in a professional Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468.          library position. Commitment to library  The position announcements, which include november/december 2010 services in an academic setting. Excel-  a full job description and qualifications, are

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Statement of Ownership, Paid in-county subscriptions: None Caribbean Basin Librarian Management, and Circulation Sales through dealers and carriers, Assistant University Librarian street vendors, and counter sales: The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of American Libraries was published Average 1965; Actual 1973 Florida is seeking an experienced, skilled, and dedicated monthly except January/February individual to serve as the Caribbean Basin Librarian. Other classes mailed through the and June/July, combined issues USPS: None The Department of Special and Area Studies Collections (10 times yearly), by the American at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries seeks a creative and service-oriented individual Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Total paid and/or requested to develop and manage library collections and activities Chicago, IL 60611. American Library circulation: Average 56951; Actual related to the Caribbean Basin region (including, but 58589 not limited to, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Association, owner. Leonard Kniffel, Panama, and Mexico). The incumbent will work with editor and publisher. Periodicals-class Free distribution by mail outside- a variety of materials including archival materials, rare postage paid at Chicago, Ill., and books, and contemporary imprints. S/he will work county: None; In-county: None additional mailing offices. Printed in collaboratively on group efforts and maintain close Other classes mailed through the professional relationships with faculty, students and U.S.A. As a nonprofit organization colleagues. The Caribbean Basin Librarian will promote USPS: Average 40; Actual 29 awareness of and access to these collections, by authorized to mail at special rates delivering guest lectures, providing direct assistance to (Section 448.31 Postal Manual), the Free distribution outside the mail: library users (at department public service desks), and Average 986; Actual 712 serving as a resource regarding the Caribbean collection. purpose, function, and nonprofit status The library encourages staff participation in reaching for federal income tax purposes have Total free distribution: Average management decisions and consequently the Caribbean not changed during the preceding Basin Librarian will serve on various committees 1025; Actual 741 12 months. and teams. The incumbent will pursue professional Total distribution: Average 57976; development opportunities, including research, publication, and professional association activities, to Extent and nature of circulation: Actual 59330 november/december 2010

meet library-wide criteria for tenure and promotion. “Average” figures denote the number Copies not distributed (office use, |

of copies printed each issue during the Interested candidates should follow the application leftovers, spoiled): Average 6667; procedures outline on the Position Vacancy preceding 12 months. “Actual” figures Announcement at: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/ Actual 3981 FacultyPositions.html. denote number of copies of single issues published nearest to filing date, Total: Average 64643; Actual 63311 All inquiries and submissions of required application materials should be sent to Bonnie J. Smith, Smathers the September 2010 issue. Percent paid and/or requested Libraries Human Resources Office, at: bonniesmith@ circulation: Average 98.23%; Actual Total number of copies (net press ufl.edu. 98.75% The University of Florida is an equally opportunity run): Average 64643; Actual 63311 employer and is strongly committed to the diversity of Statement of Ownership, Management, and our faculty and staff. Applicants from a broad spectrum Paid or requested outside-county Circulation (PS form 3526) for 2010 filed with of people, including members of ethnic minorities and mail subscriptions: Average 54977; United States Postal Service in Chicago, Sept. disabled persons, are especially encouraged to apply. Actual 56624 30, 2010. americanlibrariesmagazine.org

55 COMMENTARY | Will’s World My Own Private Bookmobile

How I went mobile without going wireless by Will Manley

Librarians y car, a Subaru Out- Gravity’s Rainbow. never really loud static. “Hey,” he back, doubles as a 3. For much of shouts out to the man library. There are the day, I run a retire; our at the service desk, always a lot of books taxi service—fer- work is never “does the TV work?” Min there. I never go anywhere rying my grand- “No,” the service completely done. without a copy of the Bible, the children, Connor man replies. “Guys use Qur’an, Ulysses, Gravity’s Rain­- and Sophia, to the park, preschool, it to put their coffee cups on.” bow, assorted editions of Mother and library stor hour. Hence the Be- The young man is not happy. He Goose, a complete collection of atrix Potter and Mother Goose col- pulls out his cell phone and calls the Peter Rabbit series, and a vast lections. one friend after another to rage at and diverse array of brain-candy 4. Livermore, California, where I being stranded at a freaking tire books. live, has more stoplights than any store that has an old TV that doesn’t Why? Four reasons: other place I’ve ever lived. Hence work. You’d think he had been sen- 1. I never know when I’m going to the diverse array of brain-candy tenced to two hours of waterboard- be in an accident (California free- books, which are perfect for red- ing at Gitmo. After his fifth phone ways are nothing more than NAS- light reading. You can open them up call, I say, “I’ve got a bunch of books CAR racetracks), and if I end up in and peruse little random chunks of in my car, want to try one?” critical condition, it would be nice text without feeling as though you “You’ve got a bunch of books in to have the word of God at my side. are wasting half of your life waiting your vehicle?” he responds with Hence the Bible and the Qur’an. for the traffic light to turn green. amusement. “What do you drive—a 2. My cars have a way of breaking The other day I got a flat tire, and flippin’ bookmobile or something?” down, which often means hours of for the repair shop I chose Ulysses. “Sort of,” I say. I go to my car, fetch downtime at the repair shop, where There I am in the waiting area, a bunch of brain-candy books, and you need books that will occupy your which consists of four nondescript place them on the top of the inert TV. mind for awhile. Hence Ulysses and chairs in a semicircle around a “Take your pick,” I offer gingerly. 1980s vintage TV. He looks them over and selects I’m well into chap- 1,001 Jokes for Every Occasion. Appar- ter three when an- ently one of those occasions is being other customer stuck at a tire store because five comes in and sits minutes into the book, he chuckles. down. He’s from With a big smile on my face, I my favorite demo- think, “Wow, it’s nice to be back in november/december 2010

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pants to the We librarians never really retire ground, baseball because our work is never com- hat turned side- pletely done. The baggy-pants kids ways, neck tattoos. need us. They really do. z He goes over to the dusty old TV and hits the on/off WILL MANLEY has furnished provocative switch, and gets commentary on librarianship for over 30 years “Thanks, Mr. Manley. We’ll get this copy of Moby Dick back and nine books on the lighter side of library science. Write him at [email protected]. americanlibrariesmagazine.org to you in three weeks.” nothing but very

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