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LIBRARY SYSTEMS REPORT by Marshall Breeding P FITNESS Study Bikes n NEWSMAKER Gene Luen Yang n ORLANDO Must-Dos MAY 2016 THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION POWER PLAYS LIBRARY SYSTEMS REPORT by Marshall Breeding p. 30 PLUS n Weeding without Worry p. 50 n Notable Dissertations p. 44 n Championing Children’s Privacy p. 16 How well do you know your community? With Analytics On Demand, public libraries can quickly integrate library data with powerful demographic data to make informed, human-centric decisions on collections, programing, and more. We’ve always looked closely at what materials get checked out, but having statistics categorized in so many ways was eye-opening. — Sue DeBrecht, Director of Emmet O’Neal Library, Mountain Brook, AL This is the most cost-effective market segmentation tool we could find. — Denise Davis, Deputy Director, Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, CA Download sample reports and learn more at: gale.com/insights CONTENTS AMERICAN LIBRARIES | May 2016 Features NOTABLE DISSERTATIONS 44 Some of the best original student research can be turned into practice. Here’s how BY KATHY ROSA WEEDING WITHOUT WORRY 50 Transparency and communication help ease weeding woes BY REBECCA VNUK 44 2016 ALA ANNUAL MUST-DOS 54 Orlando, Florida, June 23–28 COVER STORY 30 LIBRARY SYSTEMS REPORT Power plays BY MARSHALL BREEDING 30 54 50 CONTENTS AMERICAN LIBRARIES | MAY 2016 | VOLUME 47 #5 | ISSN 0002-9769 Departments INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 28 IN PRACTICE Our Digital Heritage BY MEREDITH FARKAS 29 DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD Learning Management BY JOHN J. BURKE AND BETH E. TUMBLESON PEOPLE 56 CURRENTS 64 THE BOOKEND Hoppy Days PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 58 YOUTH MATTERS Pulling the Plug 18 BY ABBY JOHNSON 60 LIBRARIAN’S LIBRARY Accessing Information BY KAREN MULLER Updates and Trends 62 SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES Libraries Open Up 10 ALA OPINION AND COMMENTARY 16 PERSPECTIVES 4 FROM THE EDITOR 20 NEWSMAKER: Gene Luen Yang The Alpha and Omega of a Library Program 22 SPOTLIGHT BY LAURIE D. BORMAN 6 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Connecting with Cuba BY SARI FELDMAN 7 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE A United Effort BY KEITH MICHAEL FIELS 8 COMMENT ENABLED 24 ON MY MIND 20 Growing a Program BY DAVID PIPER 25 NOTED AND QUOTED 26 ANOTHER STORY One of Us BY JOSEPH JANES JOBS 59 CAREER LEADS FROM JOBLIST 22 64 Your #1 Source for Job Openings American Psychological Association | Cover 4 • Gale Cengage Learning | Cover 2 • GEICO | 21 • Mitinet advertisers | page Library Services | 13 • American Library Association American Libraries | 15, 59 • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services | Cover 3 • Booklist | 27 • Editions | 3 • Graphics | 5 • JobLIST | 59 ALA purchases fund advocacy, awareness, and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide. Editions Neal-Schuman New books from TechSource alastore.ala.org FROM THE EDITOR | Masthead The Alpha and Omega of a Library Program THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION by Laurie D. Borman ometimes, launching a library program seems like a no-brainer. 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 americanlibrariesmagazine.org The interest is high, the costs are low, the planning is simple, email [email protected] attendance is steady. But sometimes, with a little added help, toll free 800-545-2433 plus extension local 312-944-6780 • fax 312-440-0901 the ongoing library program will grow and grow and grow. That’s online career classified ads: JobLIST.ala.org Sthe idea behind this issue’s On My Mind column by David Piper of New Editor and Publisher Carrollton (Md.) Library on page 24. He tells us how he helped nurture a Laurie D. Borman • [email protected] • x4213 boys reading program beyond a small group. Okay, he did resort to magic Managing Editor Sanhita SinhaRoy • [email protected] • x4219 tricks, but by using simple techniques, such as changing the location, he Senior Editor Amy Carlton • [email protected] • x5105 managed to draw more kids—girls included—into the program. Senior Editor On the flip side, sometimes a library program has outlived its useful George M. Eberhart • [email protected] • x4212 Associate Editor life and should be retired. This issue’s Youth Matters column by Abby Terra Dankowski • [email protected] • x5282 Johnson on page 58 helps you decide Associate Editor How do you improve a Phil Morehart • [email protected] • x4218 when to pull the plug on a program. Editorial and Advertising Assistant program, and when do you Hint: It isn’t just about the attendance Patrick Burke • [email protected] • x4216 pull the plug on one? numbers. design and production Marshall Breeding, former Vanderbilt Art Director Rebecca Lomax University librarian, provides his extensive research on library systems publishing department for us for the third year. He documents ongoing library investments in Associate Executive Director Donald Chatham Rights, Permissions, Reprints Mary Jo Bolduc • x5416 strategic technology products, from the impact of consolidation in the industry to library services platforms. This is one story you’ll want to membership development Director Ron Jankowski save and refer to throughout the year. It begins on page 30. It’s May, so it must be time to plan what you must see and do at the advisory committee Luren E. Dickinson (Chair), Helen Ruth Adams, 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. We have Ernie J. Cox, Christine Korytnyk Dulaney, all the inside tips for you to begin mapping your schedule in our Annual Joseph M. Eagan, Tina Franks, Megan Hodge Interns Tom Bober, Lee A. Cummings Must-Dos feature on page 54. Editorial policy: ALA Policy Manual, section A.8.2 Every garden has weeds that must be pulled, and every library has out- advertising dated and worn materials that must be weeded. That’s where our excerpt Michael Stack • [email protected] • 847-367-7120 of The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide by Rebecca Vnuk comes Acceptance of advertising does not constitute in handy. Check out Vnuk’s most excellent tips and ideas in the story on endorsement. ALA reserves the right to refuse page 50. advertising. If you just can’t get enough library news from our print issues, web- indexed Available full text from ProQuest, EBSCO Publishing, site, American Libraries Direct e-newsletter, American Libraries Live H. W. 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Allow six weeks. well as Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Michèle Cloonan, author of the ALA Editions title Preserving Our Heritage. published American Libraries (ISSN 0002-9769) is published 6 times Give it a listen and let us know what you think. yearly with occasional supplements by the American American Libraries is about to turn a page on this magazine design. Library Association (ALA). Printed in USA. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, Illinois, and additional mailing With the June issue—which also celebrates 140 years of American Library offices. POSTMASTER: Personal members: Send Association history—we will launch a redesign. Our art director, Rebecca address changes to American Libraries, c/o Membership Records, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Lomax, has been crafting the new look for the past several months. We ©2016 American Library Association. All rights reserved. hope you like it as much as we do! z No portion of this magazine may be reproduced or republished without written permission from the americanlibrariesmagazine.org americanlibrariesmagazine.org publisher. 4 PB Banned Books Week September 25 – October 1, 2016 Celebrate the freedom to read in your school, bookstore, or library during Banned Books Week with these designs that remind us to stand up for our freedom to read. Banned Books Week highlights the benefi ts of free and open access while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books from across the United States. Use these products to help emphasize the importance of the First Amendment and the power of unrestricted literature. For more information about Banned Books Week, please visit www.ala.org/bbooks. 2016 Banned Books Week Bookmark 2016 Banned Books Week Poster 2016 Banned 2016 Banned Books Week Buttons Books Week T-shirt Discover What You’re Missing Mug Banned Books: Challenging 2016 List of Our Freedom to Read Banned Books For more information or to place your order visit alastore.ala.org/bbw ALA | President’s Message Connecting with Cuba Extending ALA’s reach to the global library world by Sari Feldman hy do international into the most literate country in access in Cuba. However, we quickly travel and partner- Latin America and influenced lit- came to recognize that basic access ships matter to the eracy development in other Latin to a wide range of books—so desired American Library American nations. The Cuban com- in this literate and book-starved WAssociation (ALA) and its members? mitment to literacy is reflected country—must be the first step. When I became ALA president, in the country’s cigar factories, Books first, then broadband and I was most interested in visiting where cigar roll- universal web access. American libraries and talking to ers listen to live “Yo, Sí Puedo “It’s complicated” is our members. But I have also had readings of novels (Yes I Can)” a Cuban catch phrase, the good fortune to represent ALA and newspapers and it truly speaks to in some outstanding international during work hours.
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