March/April 2012

8 Tips to Highlight History Using Facebook

By Sanhita SinhaRoy
For a while now, academic libraries have been harnessing new technology and social media platforms to help local...

QR Codes Extend Library Programming

By Tim Blevins
You receive a postcard in the mail from Colorado Springs. It says, “Wish you were here.” You look at it...

Directions to Library Wayfinding

By Donald A. Barclay and Eric D. Scott
The word “wayfinding” has multiple meanings, but the one that really matters to librarians comes from the...

Library Design Showcase 2012

By Greg Landgraf

The Once and Future Library

By Charles G. Mueller
To some librarians it must seem like a perfect storm: Budgets are being slashed, ebooks suddenly are outselling their...

Library History and Women’s History: An Ongoing Convergence

By Sarah M. Pritchard
The convergence of women’s history and library history at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition heralded...

Women in the White City

By Susan E. Searing
Next year will be the 120th anniversary of the World’s Columbian Exposition, more commonly known as the Chicago...

In Practice: Click Here to Engage

By Meredith Farkas

Librarian's Library: The Librarian’s History of the Library

By Karen Muller
When I think of history, two quotations come to mind. One, by Marcus Cicero, says history illuminates the present; the...

Editor's Letter: Of Design, Danes, and Daffodils

By Laurie D. Borman
What is your favorite library space? Perhaps a school library reading nook, or the august reading room from your...

On My Mind: The Conversation Continues @ your library

By Nancy Kranich and Carlton Sears
“Today, the most important conversation is with our community and learning what makes it better,” David...

Executive Director's Message: Key Strategies Discussed

By Keith Michael Fiels
ALA’s Executive Board discussions during the 2012 Midwinter Meeting in Dallas focused on some key Association...

Youth Matters: It’s Always Time for CE-TV

By Linda W. Braun
Have you heard of Khan Academy? Sal Khan started the organization in the belief that people could learn by watching...

Internet Librarian: A Hazy Shade of (Mid)winter

By Joseph Janes
You know that feeling you get when you come home from a conference, and it’s all kind of a blur? That’s...

Will's World: The Coolness Factor

By Will Manley
Age among librarians used to be fairly easy to determine, but no longer in our era of nips, tucks, Botox, and hair...

Newsmaker: Newsmaker: Jamal Joseph

Rousing Reads: Science for the Nonscientist

By Bill Ott
I was never any good at science, whether it was dissecting a frog or—God help me—completing a science-fair...

Outside/In: Create a Library “Tech Shop”

By David Lee King and Michael Porter
We librarians are experts at collecting. Our jobs, our departments, our very buildings have been designed to acquire...

On My Mind: Returning the Love

By Sarah Prielipp
Can’t you just see a group of librarians gathering around the proverbial water cooler each morning to profess...

Oscar Nod to Fantastic Flying Books Shows Love for Libraries

“Book Traffickers” Meet Tucson Ban on Mexican-American Studies

Educators in the Houston metro area are readying a “book trafficker” caravan that would travel March 12...