American Libraries articles from April 2002

American Libraries archives from April 2002

Rediscovering America @ Your Library. (President's Message)
April 1, 2002... John W. Berry The past few months have been a time to reflect on what it means to be an American and a citizen of a diverse global community. People across the country have turned to the rich and deep resources freely available at our...

Teleconference to Address Library Recruitment. (News Fronts ALA)
April 1, 2002... "Recruitment @ your library," a free, live satellite national town hall teleconference, sponsored by ALA President John W. Berry's Task Force on Recruitment and Diversity, will take place April 26, from noon to 2 p.m. (EST). "The meeting will...

Mexico, Japan join World Campaign. (News Fronts ALA).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Asociacion Mexicana de Bibliotecarios (AMBAC) and the Japan Library Association have signed on to the Campaign for the World's Libraries, a partnership between ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions....

Libraries Featured in March Woman's Day. (News Fronts ALA)
April 1, 2002... From Janet Fitch (White Oleander) to Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring), many of today's bestselling authors attribute their publishing successes to their local library, according to an article in the March 12 issue of Woman's Day...

The Association's Associations: ALSC Works on Behalf of Children. (News Fronts ALA)
April 1, 2002... Through services, partnerships, and programming, ALA's Association for Library Service to Children strives to create a better future for the nation by helping libraries and their staffs provide a wide array of learning and growth opportunities...

CNN seeks ALA Conferees. (News Fronts ALA).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Participants in the ALA Annual Conference, to be held June 13-19 in Atlanta, are invited to be part of the "TalkBack Live" studio audience at CNN Center. The live cable network talk show airs weekend afternoons from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m....

Omaha PL wins 2002 Grolier Grant. (News Fronts ALA).(Omaha Public Library receives $4000 Grolier National Library Week Grant)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Omaha (Nebr.) Public Library is the 2002 recipient of the $4,000 Grolier National Library Week Grant for its program "Find your story @ your library." The award is sponsored by the Grolier Publishing Company and administered by the ALA Public...

OLOS takes over Roads to Learning. (News Fronts ALA).(Office for Literacy and Outreach Services)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... OLOS has assumed management of the Roads to Learning initiative and will continue disseminating key resource components of the $633,000 project funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and administered by ASCLA from 1996 to 2001. The...

Amazon offers youth-book award discounts. (News Fronts ALA).(Newbery and Caldecott winners discounted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Amazon.com has posted the complete listings of ALA's John Newbery (1922-2002), Randolph Caldecott (1938-2002), and Coretta Scott King (1970-2002) youth-book awards with special discounts on purchases of the ALA award-winning children's books....

2003 Dana Award competition opens. (News Fronts ALA).
April 1, 2002... Competition is open for the 2003 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award contest, sponsored by the H. W. Wilson Company and LAMA. Presented annually since 1946, the award honors outstanding library public relations programs that...

OLOS preconference money available. (News Fronts ALA).(Medical Resources for Diverse Communities @ Your Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The ALA Medical Resources Scholarship Committee is offering a $200 scholarship to attend the one-day "Medical Resources for Diverse Communities @ Your Library" preconference, to be held by OLOS June 14 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Atlanta. ...

Free Lunch Now Feeds the Minds of Future Readers. (Grassroots Report)
April 1, 2002... Serving on a task force is sometimes the association equivalent of a root canal, but members of the Ohio Library Council actually look forward to the meetings and reports coming out of its "Futures" project. The official name is "Ohio...

GPO Asks Librarians Not to Restrict Access. (News Fronts Washington)
April 1, 2002... The U.S. Government Printing Office has advised librarians at the State University of New York/Oswego's Penfield Library that they have no authority to restrict access to Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents. GPO's response followed a...

FCC to review e-rate program. (News Fronts Washington).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Federal Communications Commission has announced it will conduct a "focused review" of the e-rate program. In its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) the agency says the purpose of the review is "to ensure. the continued efficient and...

FTRF Supports Presidential Records Suit. (News Fronts Washington)
April 1, 2002... ALA's Freedom to Read Foundation, the Association of American Publishers, and eight other groups representing writers and publishers filed an amicus brief February 28 in support of a Public Citizen lawsuit to block President Bush's executive...

House holds hearing on LSTA reauthorization. (News Fronts Washington).(Library Services and Technology Act)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The House Subcommittee on Select Education held a hearing February 14 on reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act, which includes the Library Services and Technology Act, set to expire at the end of this year. Institute of...

Supreme Court to review Copyright act. (News Fronts Washington).(constitutionality of Copyright Term Extension Act)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Supreme Court agreed February 19 to review the Copyright Term Extension Act to determine the constitutionality of the 1998 law that lengthened the life-plus-SO-year copyright term by 20 years (AL, Dec. 1998, p. 13). The legislation...

Wisconsin Governor's Budget Threatens Massive Library Cuts. (News Fronts)
April 1, 2002... Wisconsin libraries are preparing for massive cutbacks in anticipation of Gay. Scott McCallum's plan to close a $1.1-billion budget deficit by reducing state aid to municipalities. His proposal, announced in January, would reduce state-shared...

Focus on the families. (News Fronts).('History of the Family Photograph,' College of DuPage Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: The endurance of the American family was the topic of the juried "History of the Family Photograph" exhibit that ran from February 21 to March 28 at the College of DuPage Library in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Among the 200 images spanning...

Indiana Exhibit Draws Police Attention. (News Fronts)
April 1, 2002... A St. Joseph County (Ind.) Public Library presentation titled "What to Do When Stopped by Police" got unexpected publicity in mid-February when off-duty police officers began borrowing every book in a related display. By the third day, Director...

Phenomenal prose. (News Fronts).(Maya Angelou)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: PHENOMENAL PROSE. Nine-year-old Ellen Boyle presents flowers to poet and author Maya Angelou at the March 3 Celebration of Phenomenal Women, a benefit sponsored by the Carnegie Public Library of Pittsburgh. Angelou was the keynote...

Library Computers Seized by Police. (News Fronts)
April 1, 2002... Police impounded 26 computers from the Sun Prairie (Wis.) Public Library February 14-15 after an off-duty officer discovered sexually explicit photos involving children in a restroom trash can in the library's entryway. Acting on the assumption...

Arson Damages Minn. High School Library. (News Fronts)
April 1, 2002... Three teenagers were arrested and charged in connection with an arson fire set by intruders in the Minnetonka (Minn.) High School Media Center the night of March 2. The fire caused more than $500,000 in damage, according to the March 5...

Who's lurking in those drawers? (News Fronts).(storybook characters displayed in card catalog)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: Pooh, Clifford, Wild Thing, and other literary figures have found a home in the old card catalog at General Wayne Elementary School in Malvern, Pennsylvania. When the school moved to a new building in summer 2001, the principal asked...

Conn. Family-Diversity Program Stirs Spat. (News Fronts)
April 1, 2002... A program created to inspire a community dialogue in Groton, Connecticut, has erupted into a fight over what constitutes age-appropriate materials. The controversy revolves around a series of middle-school field trips to Groton Public Library to...

Luke comes to Lucas. (News Fronts).(biblical codex donated to Toledo-Lucas County Public Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: A biblical codex containing the gospels of Luke and John, handwritten and illustrated by Armenian monks in 1356, is now the oldest book owned by the Toledo-Lucas County (Ohio) Public Library. Donated by retired librarian Ida Wells of...

Light shed on Total Eclipse. (Censorship Watch).(censorship case)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A member of the Calais (Vt.) Elementary School Board lost the appeal of his challenge to Liz Rigbey's mystery thriller Total Eclipse February 6 when the U-32 Junior-Senior High School board declined to reexamine the decision of the...

Mom: Porn fooled filter. (Censorship Watch).(teenager views Internet pornography)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A Westerville, Ohio, woman asserts that her 15-year-old son has been viewing pornography for the past six months at the city library despite its use of filters. Claiming that her son had "never seen pictures like that until he was here,"...

Captain Underpants yanked. (Censorship Watch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The objections of a parent in Page, North Dakota, have led to the removal of Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants from the library shelves of the Page School. "I didn't care for the language. I didn't...

Harmful-to-minors law nixed. (Censorship Watch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... On February 19, the U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona, issued a permanent injunction blocking enforcement of a 2000 Arizona law that criminalized the online dissemination to Arizonans younger than 18 of material considered harmful to...

Branch closings inspire Bill. (Updates).(Enoch Pratt Free Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A bill that would restructure the Enoch Pratt Free Library board of trustees was introduced February 15 by Maryland Sen. Ralph D. Hughes (D-- Baltimore City). Senate Bill 840 calls for a three-term limit of five years each, representation...

Taking it to the streets. (News Fronts).(Ela Area Public Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: Adding the final touches before the February 4 opening, workers install banners along the street outside the new Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, Illinois. More than double the size of the old library, the new...

AT&T sued over e-rate charges. (Updates).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A class-action lawsuit has been filed claiming that AT&T is overcharging customers in order to fund telecommunications discounts for public libraries and schools. The case could result in an award of "tens to hundreds of millions of...

Site selected for Minneapolis PL. (Updates).(public library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The 10-member New Central Library Implementation Committee, comprised of city officials, business representatives, and library advocates, voted unanimously February 12 to build the new 400,000-square-foot, five-story Minneapolis Public...

Louisiana library settles suit. (Updates).(Tangipahoa Parish Library in Amite, Louisiana, settles with library technician Donna Kennedy was fired)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A four-year-old lawsuit brought by a fired library technician against the Tangipahoa Parish Library in Amite, Louisiana, was settled February 19 through arbitration. Donna Kennedy had filed suit in federal court in March 1998 after her...

Les bons mots. (News Fronts).(Linda Emmet promotes "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin")(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 1, 2002... Caption: Linda Emmet, daughter of composer Irving Berlin, was at the American Library in Paris February, 11, promoting her new book, The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin (Knopf), co-edited by Robert Kimball. A longtime Paris resident, Emmet...

L.A. Schools promised P.C. Koran. (Briefs).(Los Angeles Unified School District promised politically correct Koran translation by Muslim Public Affairs Council)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Muslim Public Affairs Council promised the Los Angeles Unified School District February 11 that it would seek a Koran translation with a less-offensive commentary to replace some 300 copies of The Holy Meaning of the Quran donated in...

Seattle selects shutdown dates. (Briefs).(Seattle Public Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In a move expected to save $850,000, mostly in labor costs, the Seattle Public Library board February 25 approved a two-week shutdown from August 26 through September 1, and December 17 through December 23. The closure, agreed to by the...

Rowdy Oregon teens on notice. (Briefs).(Clackamas County Library, Oregon)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... County commissioners met twice recently to consider an ordinance that would allow Clackamas County (Ore.) Library workers to discipline troublemakers. At the last meeting on March 7, the commissioners passed it into county law, which will...

Archivist admits to theft. (Briefs).(National Archives and Records Administration's Shawn P. Aubitz)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A former archivist with the National Archives and Records Administration regional office in Philadelphia pleaded guilty March 13 to stealing historical documents worth more than $200,000 and selling them to collectors. He faces up to 10 years...

Anthrax scare in Oklahoma. (Briefs).(substance found in Norman Public Library not anthrax)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Norman (Okla.) Public Library was evacuated for just over an hour February 25 after a grayish-brown, crystalline substance was found there. Sealed in a plastic baggie inside an envelope, the substance was found behind some magazines and...

SLA's Shaffer Steps Down. (Briefs)
April 1, 2002... After serving as executive director of the Special Libraries Association for only six months, Roberta 1. Shaffer resigned from the position effective February 22. Although she accepted the job last April, Shaffer didn't officially begin serving...

LC battles donor over Rand Ms. (Briefs).(Library of Congress v. Leonard Peikoff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... An acolyte of Ayn Rand has found himself, perhaps fittingly, in a battle with the federal government over ownership of two pages of the libertarian icon's handwritten first draft of The Fountainhead. Writer Leonard Peikoff, a leading...

Accused hacker pleads not guilty. (Briefs).(Christopher J. Chinnici hacks into Monroe County Library System)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A Philadelphia man charged with computer tampering that led to the shutdown of the Web site for the Monroe County Library System in Rochester, New York, pleaded not guilty in court February 26. Christopher J. Chinnici, 28, faces seven felony...

Hawaii gets new library. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Hawaii Senate Ways and Means Committee approved $1 million in emergency funds February 22 for books and furnishings for a new branch library in Kapolei, now in the final stages of construction. However, State Librarian Virginia Lowell...

First Lady declines invitation. (Briefs).(Laura Bush declines University of California/Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies commencement ceremony)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Laura Bush has declined an offer to speak at the University of California/Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies commencement ceremony. White House spokeswoman Ashleigh Adams told school officials that the First Lady...

NYC budget slashes libraries. (Briefs).(New York City)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Among the agencies that received the biggest cuts in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's February 13 budget proposal for FY 2003 were the city's libraries, which would see their funding reduced by $39.3 million--a 15% slash. The...

Suspected syrup vandal charged. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A man identified from surveillance tapes was charged with second-degree malicious mischief February 11 for allegedly pouring syrup down Tacoma (Wash.) Public Library book drops, causing damage to nearly $10,000 worth of library materials, the...

School painting to be sold. (Brief).(Walter Crane's "Fate of Persephone" discovered at Old Lyme Center School, Connecticut)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A painting worth as much as $850,000 found in the library in the Old Lyme (Conn.) Center School in 2000 will be going up for auction June 12 at Christie's of London. Bingham Bryant, a student at the school, had been enthralled by the painting...

A special gift of art. (News Fronts).(Jerry Pinkney watercolor illustrations donated to Nashville public library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: Two of Jerry Pinkney's original watercolor illustrations for the 2002 Coretta Scott King Award--winning Goin' Someplace Special were donated to Nashville's new main public library February 12 by the Nashville Chapter of the Women's...

Trained storytellers. (News Fronts).(auction to benefit Long Island (Maine) Community Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: A desk and chair, which bear detailed carvings depicting the Depression-era life of railroad stowaways and are worth an estimated $100,000, were slated to hit the auction block in May to benefit fundraising for a new Long Island...

Pro Bowl promoters. (News Fronts).(football players promote reading in Hawaii)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: Prior to the NFL Pro Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Troy Vincent and Carolina Panthers tight end Wesley Walls stopped by the Hawaii State Library in Honolulu on February 6 to speak to 200 children about the importance of...

Harvard gets Vidal collection. (Collections).(Gore Vidal papers to Houghton Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The papers of novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and would-be congressman Gore Vidal have been donated to Harvard University's Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research in...

Menninger archives move. (Collections).(Karl Menninger papers to Kansas State Historical Society)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... As part of a lawsuit settlement, the archives of psychiatrist Karl Menninger have been moved from a building near the Menninger Clinic campus in Topeka to the Kansas State Historical Society. Menninger's daughter Rosemary sued to prevent...

Ontario library starstruck. (Collections).(astronaut Roberta Bondar donates records)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar has donated her personal papers, including training materials from NASA, newspaper clippings, and videos, to the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library in Ontario. Bondar, the province's first female astronaut,...

Germany. (Global Reach).(Hitler's globe on display in Bavarian State Library)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Bavarian State Library in Munich has placed on exhibit the large globe that once stood in Adolf Hitler's office in the Fuhrerbau, the Nazi party's World War II headquarters in Munich. Pockmarked with bayonet stabs and bullet holes...

United Kingdom. (Global Reach).(newly-formed Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Library Association and the Institute of Information Scientists have merged, effective April 1, to form the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). A new monthly magazine titled Update is replacing the LA's...

Canada. (Global Reach).(coalition advocates for school libraries)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A group of concerned librarians, parents, writers, and publishers calling itself the Canadian Coalition of School Libraries is saying that budget cuts, dwindling resources, and competing priorities have plunged the nation's school libraries...

Norway. (Global Reach).(Knut Hamsun collection at National Library in Oslo)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The National Library in Oslo has purchased a collection of 4,000 letters and manuscripts recently found at the home of Nobel Prizewinning Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). The documents were discovered by historian Ingar Sletten...

Zimbabwe. (Global Reach).(traveling library for Nkayi district)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A February report commissioned by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Mobile Libraries Round Table finds that donkey-drawn electrocommunication library carts are providing effective multimedia library...

Russia. (Global Reach).(dispute over access to government records)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Finnish historians and political scientists say that access to archives in Moscow under the presidency of Vladimir Putin is more restrictive and involves more bureaucracy than in recent years. The issue of access to Russian archives was...

Afghanistan. (Global Reach).(public library in Kandahar)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The only public library in Kandahar, set up in 1998 during the reign of the Taliban, is much busier this year, with about 80 visitors a week, according to a February 18 Reuters report. Librarian Aziz Ahmad said the collection began with a...

Nepal. (Global Reach).(endangered Buddhist manuscripts preserved)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... German researchers have finished microfilming 175,000 endangered Buddhist manuscripts housed in remote monasteries and private homes in the Dolpo and Mustang regions. Copies of the film have been deposited with the Oriental department of the...

Thus Said. (Opinion)
April 1, 2002... "It surely won't be long before the Bible is pulled from school library shelves as well, since the Old Testament is rough on the Palestinians, and the New Testament is rough on the Jews." Syndicated columnist Alexander Cockburn, February 14. ...

Reader Forum. (Opinion)
April 1, 2002... Superlative Supervisors Will Manley's "Golden Rule of Supervision" (Feb., p. 88) says with eloquence what should be heard, and adhered to, by all who manage: "Supervise others as you would want to be supervised." As Manley says, many...

Misinformation Campaign Cancelled.Or Was It? (Editorial)
April 1, 2002... Leonard Kniffel In a recent study conducted Global Library (AL, Mar., p. 22), 89% of the public, academic, and school librarians surveyed said the most significant role for librarians five years from now will be instructing patrons in finding...

The Jigsaw Puzzle, or Why I Love My Job. (on My Mind)
April 1, 2002... A jigsaw puzzle. That's how I've often referred to the really meaty reference questions, the ones that took more than a moment's reflection and then a hop to a reference book or a few strokes on the keyboard. Although we reference librarians...

A Sense of Place: New Facilities and Renovations Emphasize Community. (Facilities)
April 1, 2002... Like the patrons they serve, libraries' needs and means vary. But among the myriad technological, spatial, and aesthetic factors that must be considered in planning today's academic, public, school, and special libraries, the need for meeting...

Esprit De Place: Maintaining and Designing Library Buildings to Provide Transcendent Spaces. (Facilities)
April 1, 2002... "Libraries are places that embody learning, culture, and other important secular values and manifestations of the common good, and there is a need arising from our common humanity to visit such places." --Michael Gorman, in Our Enduring...

Shaping the "Experience Library": The User Is the Product at a New Library in California. (Facilities)
April 1, 2002... Waynn Pearson, director of the Cerritos (Calif.) Public Library, believes that the new library facility he helped dedicate March 16 truly represents the library of the future. "Our product is the user," says Pearson. "We didn't start our...

Norfolk Architect Becomes Volunteer Extraordinaire: Local Designer Transforms Neighborhood Library with a Colorful, Low-Cost "Teen Zone". (Design)
April 1, 2002... It was a lucky day for the Norfolk (Va.) Public Library when architectural designer Ray Jennings found himself in a long line at the checkout desk at the Kirn Memorial Main Library. Knowing that the library's very small staff was struggling to...

Colorado Carnegie Library Undergoes Massive Facelift: Grants, Donations, Community Support, and a Motorcycle Aid Restoration Efforts. (Facilities)
April 1, 2002... At the turn of the previous century, Andrew Carnegie funded the building of numerous public libraries throughout the country. In 1903, the growing city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, won Carnegie support for construction of a free public library...

National Security Archive Champions Freedom of Information: FOIA Feeds a Vast Library of Declassified Documents. (Collections)
April 1, 2002... Last fall, it took the United States and its allies a mere two months to rout the Taliban. Then the hard work of installing a new, democratic government in Afghanistan began. Mohammad Zahir Shah, the gentle-looking king who ruled Afghanistan for...

The 1.6% Solution: Continuing Education and Professional Involvement Are Small but Crucial Budget Items. (Professional Development)
April 1, 2002... During my 29 years as a librarian I have noticed that our profession and the public library boards that govern us tend to be amazingly "penny wise and pound foolish" when it comes to investing in the very thing that libraries are supposed to...

Currents. (People)
April 1, 2002... Yehoshuaz Ben-Avraham has been appointed coordinator of member programs and services for the American Theological Library Association in Chicago. * Docia Blalock has assumed duties as head of the Roxanne Whipple Memorial Library in Winslow,...

Jane Block. (Cited).(appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Jane Block, architecture and art librarian at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign library, is the first library faculty member to be named an associate to the school's Center for Advanced Study. The appointment allows her to pursue an...

Laura Frakes. (Cited).(Angels Amidst Us Award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Laura Frakes, manager of the West Hollywood (Calif.) Library, is the recipient of the city's Angels Amidst Us Award for her work to expand the library's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender collection as well as increase the number of...

Elliot L. Shelkrot. (Cited).(recipient of Wyck-Strickland Award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Free Library of Philadelphia President and Director Elliot L. Shelkrot is the recent recipient of a local Wyck-Strickland Award--recognizing contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia that demonstrate an understanding and sensitivity...

Rebecca Constantino. (Cited).(2001 Oprah Winfrey Use Your Life Award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Rebecca Constantino, whose program Access Books has distributed over 250,000 books to underfunded school libraries in inner-city Los Angeles, is the recipient of a 2001 Oprah Winfrey Use Your Life Award.

Rhonda Davila. (Cited).(San Antonio Library Service Award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Rhonda Davila, a government documents librarian at the San Antonio (Tex.) Public Library, recently received a San Antonio Library Service Award.

Hal W. Hall. (Cited).(Irene B. Hoadley/Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library Professor)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hal W. Hall, curator of the science fiction and fantasy research collection at Texas A&M University's Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, has been named Irene B. Hoadley/Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library Professor. He was recognized...

John B. Richard. (Cited).(Outstanding Alumnus Award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... East Baton Rouge (La.) Parish Library Director John B. Richard has received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Louisiana State University's School of Library and Information Science. One of the achievements he was recognized for was the...

Laurie Stackpole. (Cited).(Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In February Laurie Stackpole, chief librarian of the Naval Research Library in Washington, D.C., received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for her "pioneering work in developing and applying digital library technologies and her...

David Tate. (Cited).(Librarian of the Year)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... David Tate, director of the Van Buren District Library in Decatur, is the 2001 Michigan Library Association Librarian of the Year.