American Libraries articles from December 2004

American Libraries archives from December 2004

Spreading Social Epidemics
December 1, 2004... Now that flu season is upon us, I am sure that many will experience the phenomenon of an officewide epidemic that begins with just one ill person. What would happen if we could spread ideas and actions just as easily as we spread the flu,...

Finances: Building Purchase Will Strengthen ALA's Presence in Washington
December 1, 2004... The Washington Office of the American Library Association has been a vital element in the Association's advocacy efforts for intellectual freedom and equality of access to information since 1945. However, over the past 10 years the Washington...

Burger, Hage Seek 2006-2007 Presidency
December 1, 2004... Leslie Burger, director of the Princeton (N.J.) Public Library, and Christine Lind Hage, director of the Clinton-Macomb Public Library in Clinton Township, Michigan, are the nominees for the 2006-07 ALA presidency. The Executive Board approved...

Online voting begins March 15.(ALA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... For the second year, ALA will hold its election online when voting begins March 15, 2005. Electronic ballot information will be transmitted to all ALA members with valid e-mail addresses who are current as of January 31, 2005. Paper...

ALA renews call for privacy protection.(ALA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... In the wake of the November 9 announcement of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's resignation, ALA called on President Bush to nominate and for Congress to confirm a replacement "who can successfully balance national security with respect...

ALA-APA gets financial boost.(ALA News)(Dynix Corporation )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dynix Corporation has donated $16,000 to the ALA-APA to fund the new Dynix-ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers and to support committee activities. The majority of the funds will...

LeVar Burton to address AASL.(ALA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Emmy Award-winning actor LeVar Burton will be the opening session speaker for AASL's 12th national conference and exhibition, "Every Student Succeeds @ Your Library," to be held October 6-9, 2005, in Pittsburgh. Burton served for 16...

Ten libraries host "Be Well" seminars.(ALA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Ten library systems are hosting seminars on consumer health education as part of the "Be Well Informed @ your library" program sponsored by ALA and the Walgreens drugstore chain (AL, Nov., p. 8). Each selected library received a grant of...

Libraries sought for Hamilton exhibit.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... Applications are being accepted from public, academic, and special libraries for "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America," a traveling exhibition sponsored by ALA's PPO, the New York Historical Society, and the Gilder Lehrman...

ACRL conference registration opens.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... Registration for ACRL's 12th national conference, "Currents and Convergence: Navigating the Rivers of Change," to be held in Minneapolis April 7-10, 2005, is now underway at www.acrl.org/minneapolis/. Those who register by February 7, 2005,...

New Spanish PSAs available.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... A new series of Spanish-language print PSAs is available at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/. The PSAs are offered in an 8-by-10 1/2-inch pdf format. Alternate file types and a limited variety of other sizes are also available upon request by...

PLA Symposium registration opens.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... Registration is underway for PLA's 2005 Spring Symposium March 7-9, at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. The deadline is January 28. The event will feature a new and improved schedule with a variety of full- and half-day...

Thousands more raised for Spectrum.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... With a chip time of 6:48:24, ALA Associate Executive Director of Finance Gregory Calloway raised more than $3,000 as of November 15 for ALA's Spectrum Initiative by participating for the third time in LaSalle Bank's annual Chicago Marathon...

"Smartest Card" toolkit available.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... A new online toolkit with graphics and sample publicity materials for PLA's "The Smartest Card. Get it. Use it. @ your library" advocacy campaign is now available at www.ala.org/pla/. A campaign poster, bookmark, and other materials are...

NLW offers "Something for Everyone".(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... Free online materials, in English and Spanish, for the 2005 observance of National Library Week, April 10-16, are available by clicking on the NLW icon at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/. The 2005 theme is "Something for Everyone @ your library."...

Online PR aid available.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... A Communications Handbook for Libraries, a free online publication prepared by ALA's PIO and Pro-Media Communications in New York City, is available at www.ala.org/ala/pio/availablepiomat/online_comm_handbook.pdf. The handbook includes...

Power in the card.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... POWER IN THE CARD. Maryland's St. Mary's Board of County Commissioners, inspired by PLA's "Smartest Card" campaign, issued a proclamation September 28 declaring the 12 months ending in September 2005 Library Card Sign-up Year. The goal is to...

Baskets of memories.(ALA News)
December 1, 2004... BASKETS OF MEMORIES. Cards that include a photo of the late Charles Beard adorn baskets and other items raffled by the Georgia Library Association during an October 13-15 event that netted more than $4,000. The money will be used to start a...

YALSA Celebrates the Past, Looks Ahead
December 1, 2004... At next month's 2005 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, 40 young adult librarians will become the fourth class of Serving the Underserved (SUS) trainers. A decade has passed since the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) launched its...

Make It a Sweep in Boston. Go 4-0 by Attending All of the ALA Championship Events
December 1, 2004... AUTHOR FORUM Friday, January 14 4:00-5:15 p.m. CHRIS BOHJALIAN SPONSORED BY RANDOM HOUSE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chris Bohjalian, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Midwives, is once again engaging readers in his latest...

2005 ALA Council Nominees
December 1, 2004... CHRISTINE ALLEN District Librarian, K-12 Riverside Unified School District Riverside, California TONI BERNARDI Chief of Children and Youth Services San Francisco Public Library San Francisco, California MARY BERRY ...

Clinton Library Draws Crowds, Boosts Local Economy
December 1, 2004... The long-anticipated William J. Clinton Presidential Library opened in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, amid a weeklong avalanche of ceremony and spectacle designed to keep the 30,000 visitors to the event talking about it for years. A...

Flash Floods Drench University of Hawaii Library
December 1, 2004... Flash floods sent a wall of water--up to 12 feet at its highest point--through the ground floor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Hamilton Library October 30, ripping out office walls and soaking 230,000 rare maps and aerial photographs,...

Buffalo Could Close Central Library, All 52 Branches
December 1, 2004... The Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library expects to lose at least two-thirds of its total operating budget next year. In an October 18 letter to Library Executive Director Michael Mahaney, county Budget Director Joseph Passafiume said...

Librarian to the rescue.(QUICK TAKES)(The Librarian: Quest for the Spear)(Brief Article)(Television Program Review)
December 1, 2004... ER's Noah Wyle trades a defibrillator for the Dewey Decimal System in his role as Flynn Carson, a brilliant but unemployed bookworm, in The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, set to air December 5 on TNT. Carson successfully interviews for a job...

The naked facts.(QUICK TAKES)
December 1, 2004... The American Nudist Research Library in Kissimmee, Florida (AL, Sept. 1995, p. 782), received the Ig Nobel Prize in literature "for preserving nudist history so that everyone can see it" at the awards' 14th annual ceremony, held September 30...

Libraries Nix Flicks as Patrons Cry Partisanship
December 1, 2004... In the days preceding the November 2 election, at least five city libraries cancelled their plans to offer free screenings of several documentaries focusing on the U.S. prosecution of the war on terrorism due to patron complaints that the films...

Salinas tax measures fail; Libraries will shut down.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Salinas, California, City Manager Dave Mora announced November 3 that he would recommend that the city close its three libraries after residents voted down two out of three tax measures that would have raised between $9.5 million and $12...

Lincoln Presidential Library opens at last.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Hundreds of Lincoln buffs joined Illinois officials October 14 to celebrate the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, an event delayed for more than a year by construction problems (AL, June/July, p. 28-30). ...

Poll shows New Yorkers want libraries funded.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... An estimated 80% of likely voters in New York support restoring the $4.5 million in state aid to libraries cut by Gov. George Pataki in August (AL, Oct., p. 17-18), according to a Zogby International Poll conducted in October. The survey was...

Naperville Seeks Limits on Illinois Privacy Law
December 1, 2004... The Naperville city council voted unanimously November 2 to recommend that the Illinois legislature modify the state's 1983 Library Confidentiality Act to give police quicker access to patron records, the Naperville Sun reported November 4. ...

New library an issue in San Diego mayoral race.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy's plans to build a $150-million downtown library became an issue in the city's tightly contested mayoral race. During an October 26 debate, challenger Ron Roberts, a member of the county board of supervisors,...

Mosaic spells trouble for Livermore library.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The Miami artist who created a mosaic riddled with spelling errors for the Livermore (Calif.) Public Library's new Civic Center library has agreed to correct the mistakes. Maria Alquilar originally refused to fix the misspellings because of...

Man admits theft from Iowa historical society.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... An Iowa man has admitted stealing thousands of valuable items--including state railroad documents and one-of-a kind letters, diaries, photos, and maps--from the state historical society's library in Des Moines. Corey Phelps, 58, pleaded...

Billington visits Iran.(NEWS FRONTS)(James Billington)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... In the first visit of a high-level U.S. government official to Iran in 18 years, Librarian of Congress James Billington went to the country on a cultural-exchange mission in late October. Billington, who hopes to expand LC's collection of...

British Library saves e-mails.(NEWS FRONTS)(Ted Hughes)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The British Library has added culturally significant e-mails to the list of digital materials it archives. E-mails from the late English Poet Laureate Ted Hughes have already been added to the collection, and the library hopes to obtain the...

Ex-Director guilty of theft.(NEWS FRONTS)(Regetta Meyers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... A sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 16 for former Homer Township (Ill.) Library Director Regetta Meyers, 58, who was found guilty October 16 of theft and official misconduct in the embezzlement between 1996 and 1999 of more than...

Lorain killer sentenced.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... George Kallas was sentenced to at least 23 years in prison after pleading guilty November 2 to aggravated murder for shooting his wife January 20 at the Lorain (Ohio) Public Library, where she worked as a library assistant (AL, Mar., p. 19)....

Bomb threat at Bush library.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The FBI was called in to investigate a reported bomb threat to the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A & M University in College Station. An anonymous caller notified the local Crime Stoppers tip line October 27...

SLA opens new HQ.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... About 350 people, including several association past presidents and Mayor William D. Euille, attended a Special Libraries Association open house October 20 at its new global headquarters at 331 S. Patrick St. in Alexandria, Virginia. SLA...

A rude, violent, sinister, and rare appearance.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... A RUDE, VIOLENT, SINISTER, AND RARE APPEARANCE. The elusive and darkly comic children's author Lemony Snicket (who sometimes answers to his alter ego Daniel Handler) describes the adventures of the three unfortunate Baudelaire orphans...

Senior stateswoman.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... SENIOR STATESWOMAN. Marion Bigelow Higgins, who at 111 is the oldest living woman in California, helps the Braille Institute Library Services in Los Angeles celebrate its mere 70th anniversary October 20. A library patron there, Higgins...

Let's be Franky.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... LET'S BE FRANKY. Publisher James Warren (right) holds the 2004 Franky Award presented to him October 29 by Frankenstein enthusiast Ronald MacCloskey (left) at the Camden County (N.J.) College Library in Blackwood. MacCloskey, a New Jersey...

Anime-Ted event.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... ANIME-TED EVENT. Cosplay Contest winners (from left) Kelsy Bond dressed as Ichigo Momomiya, Alex Fort as Clad Strife, and Leslie Martin as Susuwatari pose at the Anderson branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. The...

Untitled no more.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... UNTITLED NO MORE. Resident Leslie Dennis earned two books for suggesting the winning title "Dream Weaver" in a sculpture-naming contest at the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Public Library. The new title for the outdoor metal sculpture--donated this...

By the numbers.(NEWS FRONTS)(libraries and librarians)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... $12,100 Top bid on Ebay auction of dinner for 12 prepared in the winner's home by New York City chefs Mario Batali, Nobu Matsuhisa, and Eric Ripert, to benefit New York Public Library.--Ebay auction record. 12 Years Achal Singh worked in...

Referenda roundup scheduled for January.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... A state-by-state summary of results of library bond issues on ballots November 2 and throughout the year is scheduled to appear in the January 2005 American Libraries and online at www.ala.org/alonline/in the "Selected Articles" section.

Hepburn cache to movie Academy.(COLLECTIONS)(Katherine Hepburn)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The executors of the estate of acclaimed actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) have donated a lifetime of correspondence, annotated scripts, fan scrapbooks, and thousands of photographs to the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion...

Darrow letters land at UMinn.(COLLECTIONS)(Clarence Darrow)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The University of Minnesota Law Library in Minneapolis has acquired some 900 letters written to and by legendary attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) and discovered in 1991 at the Chicago home of his elderly granddaughter. Spanning some 60...

Poetry windfall to Emory.(COLLECTIONS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... International art dealer and book collector Raymond Danowski has given his personal collection of some 60,000 books of poetry and thousands of periodicals, posters, and recordings relating to 20th-century English-language poetry to Emory...

Facilities feature in April.(NEWS FRONTS)
December 1, 2004... Every year, American Libraries' April issue features articles and photographs spotlighting new, expanded, and renovated library buildings. A showcase of exteriors and interiors of all kinds, this special issue includes some of the best in...

Global Reach
December 1, 2004... WALES The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth has gone on record in opposing a proposal by the Assembly Government to bring it under direct control. Library officials warned Culture Minister Alun Pugh that such a change would weaken its...

Suspense surrounds Teen Read Week.(NEWS FRONTS)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
December 1, 2004... Horror, mystery, forensics, and genetics were the focus of libraries, schools, and bookstores nationwide in celebration of ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association's 2004 Teen Read Week (TRW), October 17-23, which carried the theme...

The Top Ten Library Stories of 2004
December 1, 2004... Tumbling budgets and closed doors marked 2004 as a year in which libraries across the country were asked to do more with less and sometimes buckled at the prospect. Counteracting the bad news, library use continued to rise, as did librarian...

Straight Answers from Ted Kooser
December 1, 2004... You'll never be able to make a living writing poems," Ted Kooser cautions beginning poets in The Poetry Home Repair Manual, due out in January from the University of Nebraska Press. "But look at it this way: Any activity that's worth lots of...

Pageantry and Politics at Publishing's Big Event: The 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair
December 1, 2004... Publishers, prizes, press conferences. Pageantry, politics, posturing. Frankfurt simply has it all. For five days every fall, this metropolis on Germany's Main River is the center of the book world. This year, 6,691 publishers from all over the...

Thus Said: How the World Sees Us
December 1, 2004... From the 2004 Presidential Campaign Trail "I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job." First Lady wannabe TERESA HEINZ KERRY in USA...

Melvil Dewey on the Polar Express
December 1, 2004... In the new film The Polar Express, Tom Hanks plays numerous roles, including a 7-year-old boy and his father, a train conductor, a hobo, Scrooge, and Santa Claus. The filmmakers used a technique called "performance capture" to combine live and...

On My Mind; America's Libraries: Democracy's PR Tools
December 1, 2004... I hesitated to write about libraries when people in Iraq are suffering for want of the basic necessities of life, like food, electricity, and security. But when I read Thomas Friedman's column in the May 27, 2004, New York Times, I changed my...

Buddha at the Gate, Running: Why People Challenge Library Materials; Parents Who Voice Their Concerns Are the Very Patrons We Should Prize
December 1, 2004... Over my 14 years as a library director, I have received over 200 "requests for reconsideration"--typically, requests to remove library books, audiotapes, and movies from our collections. Last summer, I pulled out all my responses (I answer all...

Lessons School Librarians Teach Others; Class: The Subject Is Integrity
December 1, 2004... The school library media specialist (SLMS) has stepped up to the professional plate as a primary policymaker, staff trainer, and expert on information and technology ethics in our schools. We place equal or greater importance on the teaching...

Serving Blind Readers in a Digital Age: LC's National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Moves toward a Digital Future
December 1, 2004... It's a truism that today's rapid pace of technological change affects us all. Nonetheless, in the world of library service to blind and physically handicapped people--which today includes an estimated 2 million Americans who cannot read standard...

Librarian at Risk: After Exposing Embezzlers in Cameroon, Innocent Afuh Awasom Seeks Refuge at the University of Minnesota
December 1, 2004... Before he left Cameroon, Innocent Afuh Awasom was a respected deputy university librarian and head of the research library at the University of Ngaoundere in northern Cameroon. Today, he is working part-time in the University of Minnesota Twin...

In Defense of America's Freedoms: An Offshoot of ALA Celebrates 35 Years of "Societal Good"
December 1, 2004... Reporting on his own 1735 trial for seditious libel for his disrespect of the Crown, colonial printer and New York Weekly Journal Editor John Peter Zenger wrote that when the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty "there were three huzzahs in...

ALA Executive Board: Washington Office Purchase Moves Forward
December 1, 2004... The Association's plans to purchase property to house its Washington Office moved closer to reality at the ALA Executive Board's fall meeting October 22-24 in Chicago. At the board's June meeting during Annual Conference, Senior Endowment...

Currents: Professionals on the Move
December 1, 2004... Saul Amdursky left his position as director of the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Public Library and became CEO/chief administrative officer of the Fraser Valley Regional Library in British Columbia December 1. * Tom Andersen was named chief of the...

At ALA.(PEOPLE)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Keidra Chaney, coordinator of member and affiliate relations for the American Association of School Librarians, left ALA November 5. * Erica Cotton, marketing assistant for ALA Editions, left ALA October 22. * Jenni Fry became managing editor...

Obituaries
December 1, 2004... James F. Govan, 78, university librarian emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died October 2. In nearly two decades of heading the school's libraries, he oversaw the building of the 436,000-square-foot Walter R. Davis...

Cited
December 1, 2004... Ocean County (N.J.) Library Director Elaine McConnell was named 2004 Woman of Distinction by the Soroptimist International of Toms River October 13. The award recognizes women who have made outstanding achievements in professional, business, or...

Grassroots Report: Finding an Ethical Balance
December 1, 2004... Ethical dilemmas sometimes arise through conflicts between elements of an ethical code. Yet it seems that difficulties in libraries arise more frequently from conflicts between the often-stated aims of meeting obligations to users and...

Internet Librarian: What's Next? Search Me
December 1, 2004... Ah, Dialog. Come back with me now and spend a moment basking in the halcyon glow of the days when the company exercised hegemony in the world of searching. (I myself never even learned BRS and always had to remind myself of the Lexis/Nexis...

Technically Speaking: Whither Library Automation?
December 1, 2004... There is great sport for a systems librarian in following the business of integrated library systems (a term that has nearly outlived its usefulness). One thing's for sure, whichever firm you look at: This is not your father's library automation...

Working Knowledge: Picture Yourself in the Director's Chair
December 1, 2004... Q I am head of youth services at a small library in Michigan but was recently appointed interim director after the previous administrator left for a new position. The board of trustees has asked me to apply for the job permanently, but I'm not...

Hands-down winner.(Resources for Continuing Education)(Hands On with Dr. Alan Sokoloff)(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Injuries to hands and wrists are a risk for many library staffers who work in circulation or who use computers; left untreated, such injuries can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. Chiropractor Alan Sokoloff discusses several aspects of this...

Ideas as property.(Resources for Continuing Education)(Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Editors Richard A. Spinello and Herman T. Tavani and their team of essayists explore the world of ideas in Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice. Beginning with a broad overview of the main themes surrounding...

Frame of reference.(Resources for Continuing Education)(Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask a Librarian Online and Offline)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Editor Jessamyn West invites essayists to chronicle their experiences with online reference in Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask a Librarian Online and Offline. Among those weighing in are M. Kathleen Kern, who looks at lessons...

Library hocus-pocus.(Resources for Continuing Education)(More Magical Library Lessons)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Lynne Farrell Stover continues to sprinkle pixie dust on library instruction in her latest book, More Magical Library Lessons. As in the first installment, Stover helps children in grades 4-8 build language, literature, and research skills...

For the common good.(Resources for Continuing Education)(The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Former ALA President Nancy Kranich explores alternatives to restrictions on access to information in The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report. Kranich describes the information commons movement--whose efforts emphasize open access,...

Reading realities.(Resources for Continuing Education)(The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2d Edition)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Letting kids read--the free voluntary reading (FVR) approach--is one of the most effective tools for increasing literacy. In the second edition of The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, Stephen D. Krashen continues to make the case...

An assessment sampler.(Resources for Continuing Education)(Library Collection Assessment through Statistical Sampling)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Librarians want to know the quality of their collections but may not know what specifically needs to be evaluated. In Library Collection Assessment through Statistical Sampling, Brian J. Baird explains how and why to use statistical sampling...

Public Librarianship A-Z.(Resources for Continuing Education)(Introduction to Public Librarianship)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... In Introduction to Public Librarianship, library educator Kathleen de la Pena McCook provides a comprehensive overview of the history of U.S. public libraries, covering administration and staffing, funding, laws, adult and youth services,...

Before disaster strikes.(NEW FROM ALA)(The Library's Crisis Communications Planner: APR Guide for Handling Every Emergency)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Disasters often hit without warning, but librarians can prepare for the unexpected with help from PR expert Jan Thenell's The Library's Crisis Communications Planner: APR Guide for Handling Every Emergency. Thenell explains how to limit...

Best friends forever.(NEW FROM ALA)(The Essential Friends of Libraries: Fast Facts, Forms, and Tips)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Friends of Libraries U.S.A. founder Sandy Dolnick shares a compendium of information in The Essential Friends of Libraries: Fast Facts, Forms, and Tips. In this encyclopedic dictionary, Dolnick offers successful fundraising ideas, Friends'...

Quick vids: never seen such hard times.(COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT)(Our Daily Bread and Other Films of the Great Depression)(Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?)(Surviving the Dust Bowl)(Video Recording Review)
December 1, 2004... I never seen such a real hard times before I never seen such a real hard times before The wolf keeps walkin' all 'round my door --Ida Cox, "Hard Times Blues," 1939 I've always had a thing for the visual culture of the Great...