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Feature Articles 28 34 38 Library Services for the Mental Health Training Innovation Expo “New Normal” of Military in Public Libraries Create and Collaborate in Maryland Families By Josh Berk By Liz Sundermann By Jennifer Taft & Cynthia Olney Looks at the Bethlehem (Pa.) Area Shares the evolution and details of Maryland’s Maker Expo, which is held Article details the Cumberland County Public Library’s renewed approach to in partnership with the Enoch Pratt (N.C.) Public Library and Information serving mentally ill patrons. Free Library in Baltimore. Center’s quest to provide the best possible services for their military family patrons. Looks at the results of the library’s “military community assessment” and shows how programs and services were altered or developed to meet the needs of this group. Departments PLA News 3 New Product News 46 Kathleen Hughes Heather Teysko & Tanya Novak President’s Message 5 Under the Radar 48 Larry P. Neal Kaite Mediatore Stover Tales from the Front 12 & Jessica Moyer Britta Krabill Perspectives 14 Extras James LaRue Cover illustration by Editor’s Note 2 Jim Lange Design The Wired Library 20 (jimlangedesign@ Letter to the Editor 2 sbcglobal.net) R. Toby Greenwalt Verso—Shelving: A Task Whose Fundraising Beyond Time Has Gone? 7 Book Sales 22 Ann McKinnon Verso—New Year, New Library! 9 Forward Thinking 26 Advertiser Index 6 John Spears By the Book 43 Catherine Hakala-Ausperk EDITORIAL EDITOR: Kathleen M. Hughes PL Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Liz Boyd, Susan Dowd, R. Toby Green- KATHLEEN M. walt, Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, Nanci Milone Hill, Joanne King, HUGHES Editor’s Note Kevin King, James LaRue, Jessica Moyer, Tanya Novak, John Spears, Kaite Mediatore Stover, Heather Teysko New Year = ADVISORY COMMITTEE New Possibilities Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne, Palo Alto (Calif.) City Library (Chair); Stephanie Chase, Hillsboro (Ore.) Public Library; Loida A. Garcia-Febo, Welcome to the final issue of volume 53! Brooklyn, N.Y.; R. Toby Greenwalt, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Brian A. Guenther, Oakland, Calif.; Kevin King, Kalamazoo (Mich.) Public Library; Portia Throughout this issue, we examine in- Eileen Latalladi, Chicago Public Library; Norman L. Maas, Norfolk, Va.; novative ideas and programs—hopefully Jill Porter, Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, Mich.; Celise Ann Reech-Harper, Beauregard Parish Public Library, Deridder, La.; Mary E. Contact Kathleen at they’ll trigger fresh thinking and inspire Rzepczynski, Delta Township District Library, Lansing, Mich.; Kirstaine [email protected]. you to make 2015 your library’s best year A. Smith, Buffalo, Minn.; John Spears, Salt Lake City (Utah) Public Li- brary; Nick Donald Taylor, Arapahoe Library District, Centennial, Colo. ever. And we know resolutions often get a PLA PRESIDENT: Larry P. Neal, Director of the Clinton-Macomb bad rap, but they can also serve as inspira- (Mich.) Public Library, [email protected] Kathleen is currently tion. Check out “New Year, New Library!” PUBLIC LIBRARIES (ISSN 0163-5506) is published bimonthly by the reading My Favorite Things (page 9) for a list of library resolutions American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the official publication of the Public Library Association, a division by Maira Kalman. to stimulate new and different ideas. We of ALA. Subscription price: to members of PLA, $25 a year, included love this idea! Visit Public Libraries Online in membership dues; to nonmembers: US $65; Canada $75; all other countries $75. Single copies, $10. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, (www.publiclibrariesonline.org) to read IL, and at additional mailing offices. this article (and all of the issue’s feature articles) online and add your library’s own POSTMASTER: send address changes to Public Libraries, resolutions in the comments. Other good stuff in this issue: 50 E. 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Adrian Greenwalt’s dissection of the future of libraries in The Wired Library; and John & Associates, 3903 Jameson Place, Calabasas, CA 91302; (818) 591- 7702, [email protected]; Territory: PA, OH, MI, IN, IL, WI, MN, IA, Spears’ Forward Thinking column in which he details Salt Lake City Public Library’s MO, AR, LA, TX, OK, KS, NE, SD, ND, MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, ID, current proposal to keep the doors of its main library open 24/7, a drastic increase in WA, OR, NV, CA, HI, AK, and all international countries. its service hours that some in the community say is completely outside the library’s PRODUCTION & DESIGN mission. ALA PRODUCTION SERVICES: Chris Keech, Managing Editor Of course, we love stories like these all year long—so if your resolution is to get MANUSCRIPTS published in 2015, consider writing an article for PL. Check out our guidelines at Unless otherwise noted, all submissions should be sent to www www.ala.org/pla/publications/publiclibraries/writeforpl or just drop me an email for .editorialmanager.com/pl. See www.pla.org for submission instruc- more information. tions. For queries/questions, contact Kathleen Hughes, khughes@ ala.org. INDEXING/ABSTRACTING Public Libraries is indexed in Library Literature and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), in addition to a number of online services. Contents are ab stracted in Library and Information Science Abstracts. MICROFILM COPIES Letters to the Editor Microfilm copies are avail- October 27, 2014 able from University Micro- films, 300 N. 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For other reprinting, photocopying, or translating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. continued on page 8 2 PUBLIC LIBRARIES www.pla.org PLA News Ferguson Public Library of effectiveness for widely offered pub- not what they do. Library Journal calls this lic library programs and promot(ing) the approach “a 21st-century model worthy of to Receive Special training for implementation and use of study and consideration by every library in Recognition at ALA the measures across public libraries,” this America, if not the world.” Annual 2015 project aspires to drive a widespread shift The institute will offer a chance to ex- in the field towards consistent collection plore, discuss and practice proven tech- PLA, with support from Library Systems of outcomes data. 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