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AL Direct, April 1, 2009 Contents U.S. & World News ALA News Booklist Online Chicago Update Division News Awards Seen Online Tech Talk The e-newsletter of the American Library Association | April 1, 2009 Publishing Actions & Answers Calendar U.S. & World News Ohio principal judges magazine by its cover Shortly after the 2008–09 school year began, Brian Sharosky, principal of the Cleveland Heights– University Heights (Ohio) City School District’s Roxboro Middle School, instructed school librarian Amy Bloomberg to pull the November 2008 issue of Nintendo Power magazine from the shelves of the school library. Sharosky said he objected to the cover, which showed what he characterized as a “violent figure”—a videogame-like rendering of woman holding a large handgun—to promote a feature about the release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The removal attracted the attention of the local teachers union and the ACLU, which sent a cautionary letter to the school board president.... American Libraries Direct, Mar. 27 New York City budget proposes major cuts to libraries The three library systems that serve New York City face major cuts in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposed FY2010 budget (PDF file). Representatives from the libraries testified on the likely effects of the 17% funding reduction at a March 13 city council hearing. New York Public Library faces a ALA Annual Conference, reduction of $23.2 million. The effects of the cut would be Chicago, July 9–15. ALA exacerbated by a proposed reduction of $3 million, or 14%, in state will rock the Art Institute funding and by expected downturns in private revenues of some $20 of Chicago for the 10th million.... Anniversary Scholarship American Libraries Online, Mar. 27 Bash, at 7:00 p.m., July 11. This is your chance to Concord mayor considers closing discover new works of art library and visit your favorites Library boosters in Concord, New Hampshire, without fighting the are decrying reports that Mayor Jim Bouley crowds. And the 5th has been talking about shuttering the city Annual ERT Bookcart library to narrow Concord’s projected FY2010 Drillteam World budget deficit of up to $4.8 million by $1.7 Championship will take million. The library is one of the few services funded by the city that place 4–5:30 p.m., July http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2009/april/040109.htm[7/17/2014 2:03:18 PM] AL Direct, April 1, 2009 is not mandated by law. “Everything is going to be affected—library, 12. The teams design recreation, police, fire,” Mayor Bouley said.... creative costumes for American Libraries Online, Mar. 27 themselves and their carts, so this event is always popular and exciting. ALA News Stimulate your library ALA Washington Office Executive Director Emily Sheketoff writes: “Congress made history with the passage of the American Recovery In Protecting and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed by President Obama February Intellectual Freedom 17, and now libraries have their turn. ARRA will ultimately release an in Your School unprecedented level of federal spending—$787 billion—into the U.S. Library, retired economy in an effort to put our nation back on track through saving middle- and high- or creating 3 million jobs; providing tax relief; and investing in needs school librarian Pat such as health, energy, and education. Yet while these opportunities Scales uses her are available to libraries, they won’t be handed to them.”... experience and American Libraries 40, no. 5 (May 2009) expertise to offer an intellectual freedom Figueroa named Office for Diversity guide tailored to the director school library environment. Scales Miguel A. Figueroa has been named the new director of provides case studies, the ALA Office for Diversity. Figueroa is currently the easy and motivating network services coordinator for the Middle Atlantic ways to prepare new Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine hires for handling and will begin his new duties May 5. A former member of intellectual freedom the American Libraries Advisory Committee, he has been a presenter issues, and sidebars at the ALA Spectrum Institute, the Emporia Diversity Initiative that offer sample Leadership Institute, and the 6th Institute of the Trejo Foster policies, definitions of Foundation for Hispanic Library Education.... key terms, and analysis of important Libraries showcase bilingual resources statutes and decisions. for El Día NEW! From ALA As the nation’s population becomes more diverse, Editions. hundreds of libraries will showcase their multicultural programs and services April 30 during national El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day). This year marks the In this issue 13th anniversary of the observance, and libraries across the country April 2009 will host Día celebrations with family programs, including bilingual story hours, book giveaways, and other literacy events.... Worlds connect @ your library National Library Week (April 12–18) is just around the corner, and libraries across the country are gearing up to demonstrate how “Worlds Connect @ your library,” the 2009 theme. Libraries are encouraged to use sample materials, available in both English and Spanish, developed by the ALA Campaign for America’s Libraries.... Countdown to National Library Legislative Day 2009 Library Design The 2009 National Library Legislative Day is quickly approaching and Showcase will be held May 11–12 at the Liaison Hotel in Washington, D.C. With http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2009/april/040109.htm[7/17/2014 2:03:18 PM] AL Direct, April 1, 2009 a new administration and a new political climate in both the House A Greener Library, A and the Senate, this is a critical and exciting time for us to get our Greener You message out to Congress. Fill out the registration form (PDF file) and get it to your state coordinator by April 15. For more info, contact Building Science Kristin Murphy.... 101 Attract students to your academic Meeting Students’ library Need States ALA Editions has released Marketing Today’s Academic Library: A Bold New Approach to Communicating with Students by Brian Mathews. Most library marketing intended for undergraduates Career Leads promotes the collection, reference and instructional from services, and occasional events such as guest speakers or exhibits. Mathews’s guiding principle is that marketing should focus on the lifestyle of the user, showcasing how the library fits within the daily life of the student.... Manager of Web Development and Support, Oklahoma Transform your storytime City Metropolitan ALA Editions has released Storytime Magic: 400 Library System. This Fingerplays, Flannelboards, and Other Activities by position will manage Kathy MacMillan and Christine Kirker. A unique the development of addition to the programming shelf, this treasure trove web content and of storytime tools is designed to help veteran services. You will librarians refresh and enliven ongoing programs, manage a web support while providing novice storytime planners what they team and have need to get started.... responsibility for the overall look, content, Webcast on lifelong literacy and usefulness of the A panel of librarians and library practitioners—including ALA President library’s internet and Jim Rettig and National Institute for Literacy Acting Director Daniel J. intranet sites. You will Miller—will discuss the roles that libraries play in supporting lifelong provide long-term literacy during a special webcast. “Literacy for All: Advocacy, strategic vision of Libraries, and Literacy” will be held 1–2:30 p.m. Eastern time on technical web April 7. Librarians from public, school, and academic libraries will enhancements that will discuss successful library literacy programs, innovative community increase partnerships, and effective advocacy.... responsiveness, efficiency, and value; monitor and report status and progress of project efforts; anticipate and identify issues that could inhibit achieving goals and Featured review: Media objectives; and engage Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the in usability testing and Holocaust. Jan. 2009. 92 min. Koch Lorber, other assessments of DVD (978-1-4172-0187-7). the library’s website.... Packed with film clips and commentary by Hollywood insiders including Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, and Rod Steiger, @ More jobs... this stellar documentary mines newsreels and feature-film footage to tell the “unknown story of the 60-year relationship between the film industry and the atrocities Digital Library of Nazi Germany.” Film historians, actors, directors, of the Week screenwriters, and producers explain how filmmakers tried to balance a fine line between exploitation and truth. Restricted by movie codes and harassed by German sympathizers, http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2009/april/040109.htm[7/17/2014 2:03:18 PM] AL Direct, April 1, 2009 Hollywood initially “treated Nazism with kid gloves”: News clips and films portrayed the 1933 book burnings in Germany and escalating anti-Semitism with casualness and detachment. Surprisingly, Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 classic The Great Dictator and some low-budget films were exceptions to this practice.... C. Szwedzicki: The Documenting the North American Holocaust Indian Works is a Candace Smith writes: “Although collection of 364 Hollywood initially ignored the images and six texts Holocaust, documentary hosted by the films continued to probe the horrific University of Cincinnati subject. These six films, reviewed Libraries. Between previously in Booklist, artfully combine carefully selected 1929 and 1952 C. archival footage with eyewitness accounts, contemporary Szwedzicki, a publisher interviews, and dramatic reenactments to present the in Nice, France, Holocaust to new generations of viewers. To quote Imaginary produced six portfolios Witness, the Holocaust is ‘a standard by which we judge evil of North American and establish values.’ As one filmmaker succinctly states, Indian art. The ‘feature films and documentaries serve to tell the world how publications were we died and that this should never happen again.’”... edited by American scholars Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Hartley Burr @ Visit Booklist Online for other reviews and much more...