American Libraries articles from June 2002

American Libraries archives from June 2002

Equity of Access: Our Continuing Challenge. (President's Message)
June 1, 2002... Equity of access to information, one of ALA's overarching goals, has been a central concern of my presidency. With the help of my Equity of Access Task Force, we sought to reassess the role of libraries and librarians in this expansive issue....

Carla Hayden Elected ALA President. (ALA News)
June 1, 2002... Carla D. Hayden, director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, has been elected 2003-2004 ALA president. Hayden received 6,104 of 10,123 votes cast and will serve one year as vice-president/president-elect before she takes office at the...

ALA Councilors Elected. (ALA News)
June 1, 2002... Thirty-three members have been elected to Council for 2002-2005. The results included the election of 26 women and seven men, and the upset of Councilor Herb Biblo, who along with his wife, Mary, have served a combined total of 40 years on...

Candidates for President, Council Needed. (ALA News)
June 1, 2002... The 2003 ALA Nominating Committee is seeking candidates for the offices of ALA president-elect and councilor-at-large for the 2003 spring ballot. The committee will select two candidates to run for president-elect and no fewer than 66...

Honorary member nominees sought. (ALA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Nominations are being accepted for ALA honorary members, the Association's highest honor, bestowed on living citizens of any country. Nominations may be submitted by any ALA member and must be received no later than September 1. To be...

Endowment vacancy to be filled. (ALA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Nominations are being accepted for one upcoming ALA Endowment Trustee vacancy. The Executive Board will elect the candidate during the November 1-3 board meeting in Chicago. The deadline is September 1. The three-year trustee position...

3M awards "Salute to Schools" recipients. (ALA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A total of 112 middle and high schools in the United States will receive $1.5 million in security technology through the "3M Salute to Schools" program sponsored by AASL. The program has provided 3M detection systems for the past three...

82 Libraries to host Frankenstein exhibit. (ALA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A total of 82 public, academic, and medical libraries, representing 38 states, will host the "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature" exhibit, sponsored by ALA PPO, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Library...

ALA issues first online Annual Report. (ALA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ALA has issued its first online Annual Report (www. ala.org/annualreport/) featuring events from September 1, 2000, through August 31, 2001, Highlights include the kickoff of "@your library," the Campaign for America's Libraries, and the...

"Rediscover America" Videos Available. (ALA News)
June 1, 2002... Two promotional videotapes and a television PSA are available to help libraries publicize the "Rediscover America @ your library" initiative, the yearlong national media relations and advocacy effort designed to promote libraries and librarians...

Teleconference focuses on diversity. (ALA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, provided the soundstage for an April 26 live satellite broadcast titled "Recruitment @ your library." One of ALA President John W. Berry's presidential initiatives, the teleconference attracted...

A learning leader. (ALA News).
June 1, 2002... Caption: ALA Executive Director William R. Gordon received the Leaders in Learning Distinguished Alumni Award April 25 from the University of Denver's College of Education. Joining Gordon are Virginia Maloney, dean of the College of...

The Association's Associations: ASCLA Helps Bridge the Digital Divide. (News Fronts ALA)
June 1, 2002... The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) may be small (just under 1,000 members), but it is dedicated to helping close the gaps in the digital divide. ASCLA members are strong and vocal advocates for the rights of...

Rediscover Minnesota. (News Fronts ALA).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Caption: Re discover America @ your library This message brought to you by Southeastern libraries Cooperating The Rochester, Minnesota--based Southeastern Libraries Cooperating, the regional agency serving 30 public libraries in...

PBS @ the White House. (News Fronts ALA).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Caption: Malore Brown, ALSC executive director, greets First Lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House April 3 as President Bush honored the contributions of public television to child development. Brown, invited to the event by PBS...

Limited Resources, Unlimited Need: An Interview with New ALA ED Keith Fiels. (News Fronts ALA)
June 1, 2002... "I don't think people realize how hard librarians work in order to try and create the collections, services, and hours for the people that they serve, and how much of a challenge it is to do that with limited resources," says Keith Michael...

Higher Stakes: Cultural Programming Pays off. (Grassroots Report)
June 1, 2002... When Public Radio International's Ira Glass recently introduced author David Sedans at a fundraising event for the Library Community Foundation of the North Suburban (Ill.) Library System, he told a wonderful story about his sister meeting...

OMB Calls for End of GPO Printing Monopoly. (News Fronts Washington)
June 1, 2002... President Bush's budget director said in a May 3 memo that federal agencies should not have to obtain their printing services through the Government Printing Office. "The time has come for the Executive Branch to liberate its agencies from a...

Supreme Court returns COPA to Appeals Court. (News Fronts Washington).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... While partly upholding the Child Online Protection Act, the U.S. Supreme Court said May 13 that unresolved free speech questions that were not addressed by the lower court prevent the law from taking effect now. "The scope of our...

Supreme Court Nixes Virtual Child Porn Ban. (News Fronts Washington)
June 1, 2002... In a 6-3 decision April 16, the Supreme Court struck down two provisions of a federal law that banned "virtual" child pornography using computer-generated images that only appear to depict actual children, The law prohibited any depiction that...

Bill Seeks to Reverse Presidential Records Order. (News Fronts Washington)
June 1, 2002... A bipartisan panel of House Republicans and Democrats introduced a bill April 11 to rescind President Bush's executive order allowing incumbent or former presidents to withhold the release of their presidential papers (AL, Dec. 2001, p. 13). The...

NRC calls for balance on kids and Internet porn. (News Fronts Washington).
June 1, 2002... A congressionally mandated study examining tools and strategies for protecting kids from Internet pornography has found that "No single approach--technical, legal, economic, or educational--will be sufficient. Rather, an effective framework...

.US Domain Goes Public; ALA Joins Policy Group. (News Fronts USA)
June 1, 2002... On April 24, the .us Internet country domain was released for sale to the American public. Within hours, buyers registered more than 20,000 names, including firstamendment.us, churches.us, and nonprofit.us, alongside the thousands of...

Born to be mild--not. (News Fronts USA).
June 1, 2002... Caption: Director Elaine McConnell donned leather for a photo shoot to publicize Ocean County (N.J.) Library's raffle for a Harley Davidson XL 1200 custom Sportster. McConnell's photo was used on a billboard at the local baseball stadium, and...

Georgia Legislature Slashes School Library Funds. (News Fronts USA)
June 1, 2002... The Georgia legislature approved a fiscal 2003 budget April 10 that includes the full $14-million cut in school library funding requested by Gov. Roy Barnes. Budget negotiators said the state will encourage school officials to apply for federal...

There she is, miss information. (News Fronts USA).
June 1, 2002... Caption: THERE SHE IS, MISS INFORMATION, a.k.a. Patt Colwell, digging the April 28 groundbreaking for the new Jackson County (Ore.) Central Library, where she serves as children's librarian. Coiwell's constructive contribution was one of many...

Laughing Librarian Yields, Pulls Offensive Web Cartoon. (News Fronts USA)
June 1, 2002... Brian Smith, creator of the Laughing Librarian Web site, wasn't laughing April 18 when he posted an explanation for why his facetious bookmark mocking the "Rediscover America @ your library" National Library Week theme had been pulled from the...

Chocolate war memorial. (News Fronts USA).
June 1, 2002... Caption: Some 250 fans celebrate the opening April 7 of the Robert Cormier Center for Young Adults, Leominster (Mass.) Public Library's renovated YA section renamed in honor of the award-winning novelist and author of The Chocolate War....

Ohio's harmful law challenged. (Censorship Watch).(bill to prosecute those gving sexually explicit materials to minors)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ALA's Freedom to Read Foundation joined May 6 with seven other plaintiffs to challenge the Constitutionality of an update to Ohio's anti-pornography, harmful-to-minors law. The amended measure adds digital transmissions to the list of print,...

When Dad Killed Mom banned. (Censorship Watch).(at school libraries in Teton County, Wyoming)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The Teton County (Wyo.) Board of Education voted 4-2 April 25 to have When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester removed from the library shelves of the district's Jackson Hole Middle School. The action, which affirmed the opinion of the school's...

Gates of fire burn on. (Censorship Watch).(school board in Fairfax County, Virginia votes to retain book that was challenged by parents)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The board of the Fairfax County (Va.) Public Schools voted April 22 to retain Gates of Fire in the district's high schools over the objections of a father who protested the book's graphic language. "The book contains too much profanity, too...

Serial-Killer books return. (Censorship Watch).(to school libraries in Hillsborough County, Florida)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... With the go-ahead of two Hillsborough County (Fla.) School District materials-review committees, The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter and David Everitt and The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton have been...

Kansas High School Librarian Wrongly Fired. (News Fronts USA)
June 1, 2002... A due-process hearing officer has ruled that the Arkansas City (Kans.) school board acted improperly in firing a high school librarian for using the library computer to access sexually explicit sites on the Internet. Arkansas City High School...

Ellison: The Invisible Man. (News Fronts USA).
June 1, 2002... Caption: THERE'S PLENTY TO SEE, including this handsome poster, during the Oklahoma City Metropolitan library System's yearlong 50th-anniversary celebration of the publication of Ralph Ellison's classic novel Invisible Man. To capitalize on...

Old treasures help new library. (Ideas).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Capitalizing on the popularity of television antique "road shows," the Berwick (Maine) Library Association held an April 7 fundraiser that offered attendees a professional appraisal on any item for just $5. Visitors could learn the true value...

The art of automation. (Ideas).
June 1, 2002... "Wouldn't the bright, airy space that housed the card catalog make a great spot for displaying artwork?" It was this casual comment that sparked the transformation of un-used library space at Marygrove College in Detroit into a small gallery...

Fun is at the root of poet tree. (News Fronts USA).
June 1, 2002... Caption: Alexa Marino and Nicole Donnellan, both age 7, are the first to visit the Poet Tree Corner at the Des Plaines (Ill.) Public Library after the ribbon-cutting ceremony April 13. A poetry board is part of the space inside the tree where...

Gates Gives OCLC $9 Million for Computer Portal. (News Fronts USA)
June 1, 2002... The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded OCLC a three-year, $9-million grant May 2 to build a Web-based, public-access computing portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information. The new portal...

Bookstore records ruled private. (Updates).(case in Denver, Colorado where police wanted information on person who bought books on how to make drugs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... In a unanimous 6-0 decision April 8, the Colorado Supreme Court reversed a ruling that had required Denver's Tattered Cover bookstore owner Joyce Meskis to tell police who purchased two books on making illegal drugs, finding that the First...

Latinos lauded. (News Fronts USA).
June 1, 2002... Caption: Ruben Valdez (left) accepts Denver Public Library's first-ever Cesar Chavez Hall of Fame Award April 6 from City Clerk and Recorder Rosemary Rodriguez. Valdez, whose career in the Colorado House of Representatives began in 1971,...

Hate-crime charged in cat suit. (Updates).
June 1, 2002... Richard Espinosa has amended his $1.5-million lawsuit (AL, Jan., p. 32) against the city of Escondido, California, to include an allegation of hate crime. The original suit, filed last November, charged that the city violated Espinosa's civil...

Court Nixes Vt. minors statute. (Updates).(related to offensive materials received over the Internet)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A federal judge has enjoined the state of Vermont from enforcing a law passed in 2000 to limit the transmission across the Internet of material deemed harmful to minors. U.S. District Judge Garvan Murtha ruled in American Booksellers...

Wisconsin libraries still free. (Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A month after the Wisconsin Assembly voted to repeal a 130-year law guaranteeing no-fee public-library services for service-area patrons (AL, May, p. 22), a legislative conference committee agreed April 16 to retain the law--in effect,...

Fired SLJ editor settles. (Updates).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Former School Library Journal editor-in-chief Julie Cummins has settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit she filed in the New York State Supreme Court March 7 against Cahners, publisher of the magazine. Cummins was...

Zussy leaves Wash. State Library. (Updates).(state librarian Nancy Zussy resigning)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A month after thwarting the attempt by Gov. Gary Locke to shut down her library to help offset a $1.2-billion budget shortfall (AL, May, p. 24), Nancy Zussy gave official notice April 22 that she would step down after 16 years as Washington...

Thesis case appealed. (Updates).(University of California, Santa Barbara case)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena heard arguments April 9 in a dispute over a University of California/Santa Barbara master's thesis that school officials barred from the university library because it...

Fire damages school library. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Arson is suspected in an April 8 fire that caused extensive damage to a third of the two-story, 312,000-square-foot Howell (Mich.) High School, including the multimedia center and 15 classrooms. No one was hurt in the blaze, and the school's...

Waltons endow UAF Libraries. (Briefs).(generous endowment made to University of Arkansas by Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The University of Arkansas/Fayetteville Libraries accepted a gift of $28 million April 11 as part of a $300-million pledge to the university from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation of Bentonville, Arkansas. The total gift, one of...

Librarian stays in circulation. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Howard P. Drew Jr., retired National Library of Medicine reference librarian and command sergeant major in the U.S. Army, will be listed in the 2003 Guinness World Records as holding the record for "most blood donated by a single person." ...

Library opens publishing lab. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The Round Lake (Ill.) Area Library will open a digital publishing lab July 1 featuring high-end computers, scanners, printers, digital cameras, and desktop-publishing software. The facility aims at enabling patrons to publish pamphlets,...

Happy bearday, teddy! (News Fronts USA).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Caption: Amanda Kavassy-Hardina and friends celebrate the 100th birthday of the teddy bear at the North Miami (Fla.) Public Library's Teddy Bear Picnic and Parade April 17. Kids were encouraged to bring their own teddy bears to the special...

Teen saves choking librarian. (Briefs).(Orland Park, IL)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A 16-year-old off-duty lifeguard saved the life of an Orland Park (Ill.) Public Library staff member April 13 when she dislodged a pretzel that was stuck in the man's throat. Terri Burke had spent the morning across the street from the...

Mold decimates Hawaii books. (Briefs).(Hau'ula Elementary School)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A rural Hawaiian school library could lose up to half of its 12,000-book collection due to an outbreak of mold that forced officials to close the facility last September as a health hazard. Hau'ula Elementary School Librarian Natalie Zane...

Authors and wolves and pigs, oh my! (News Fronts USA).(2002 National Library Week)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... It was an exciting National Library Week all across the country April 14-20, as library lovers everywhere joined the annual celebration. The Fairfield County District Library in Lancaster, Ohio, hosted the April 19 performance of Guilty...

National library week goes global. (News Fronts International).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The republics of Armenia and Georgia celebrated their first National Library Week (NLW), funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, as an outgrowth of the 2001 "Strengthening Library Associations in the South Caucasus" workshop organized...

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Holds Quasi-Inauguration. (News Front International)
June 1, 2002... The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, a major cultural project under development for the past 11 years (AL, Apr. 2000, p. 70-74), hosted a gathering of international Friends April 23-25. What the group called an "unofficial...

Statistic of the month. (News Fronts International).(library use)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Approximately 66% of Americans more than 18 years old used a public library at least once in the last year, either in person, by telephone, or by computer. Source: KRC Research and Consulting, National Survey on Attitudes Toward Public...

French Associations blast Le Pen. (Global Briefs).(French Librarians Association issues statement on National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... In the wake of first-round presidential elections that put the farright, anti-immigrant National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in second place behind incumbent centrist Jacques Chirac, the French Librarians Association (Association des...

"Tome Raider" gets four years. (Global Briefs).(William Jacques sentenced to four years in prison in United Kingdom for rare book theft)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A Cambridge University graduate whom police have nicknamed the "Tome Raider" was sentenced to four years in prison May 2 in the theft of more than 400 rare antiquarian books and pamphlets worth [pounds]1.1 million ($1.6 million U.S.) from the...

Regina PL strike ends. (Global Briefs).(Regina Public Library in Saskatchewan, Canada)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Some 180 union workers at Regina Public Library in Saskatchewan, Canada, returned to their jobs with a new contract May 13, ending a walkout that lasted nearly one month. Employees went on strike April 16, forcing the central library and all...

A cultural survey of its 15 member nations. (Global Reach: European Union).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A cultural survey of its 15 member nations, released May 7 by the European Union, shows that 53% of Europeans do not use computers, but 58% have read at least one book in the previous 12 months. Northern Europeans read more books than those...

The Senate, after three weeks of debate and negotiations, unanimously passed Mexico's first freedom of information law April 30. (Global Reach: Mexico).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The Senate, after three weeks of debate and negotiations, unanimously passed Mexico's first freedom of information law April 30. The 86-0 vote came six days after a unanimous vote in the House. The landmark legislation guarantees the public's...

President Alejandro Toledo's ambitious Plan Huascaran (named after the tallest mountain in Peru). (Global Reach: Peru).(Internet service to rural and urban schools)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... President Alejandro Toledo's ambitious Plan Huascaran (named after the tallest mountain in Peru) has so far connected about 100 rural and urban schools with high-end Internet service and teaching tools. Toledo aims to increase that number to...

A replica of Franz Kafka's personal library was presented May 7 to a literary society in the writer's native Prague. (Global Reach: Czech Republic).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A replica of Franz Kafka's personal library was presented May 7 to a literary society in the writer's native Prague. Donated by German auto maker Porsche to the Franz Kafka Society, the collection consists of copies of the materials Kafka...

President Girma Woldegiorgis unveiled the foundation Stone April 27 for a new Institute for Ethiopian Studies library in Addis Ababa. (Global Reach: Ethiopia).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... President Girma Woldegiorgis unveiled the foundation Stone April 27 for a new Institute for Ethiopian Studies library in Addis Ababa. The historic building where the renowned collection is currently housed, Ras Makonnen Hall, was once Emperor...

Residents of Helsinki took to the streets in late April to protest the city's threatened closure of six suburban library branches. (Global Reach: Finland).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Residents of Helsinki took to the streets in late April to protest the city's threatened closure of six suburban library branches in order to save money for an expensive roof for the Olympic Stadium. The Helsinki Cultural and Library...

The government plans to spend a record 1.142 billion yuan ($137.9 million U.S.) to fund a national digital library. (Global Reach: China).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The government plans to spend a record 1.142 billion yuan ($137.9 million U.S.) to fund a national digital library that will become the world's largest online repository of Chinese-language information, the May 12 China Daily reported. As a...

The National Library Board of Singapore and the British Library. (Global Reach: Singapore).(digitization project)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The National Library Board of Singapore and the British Library have selected for digitization more than 1,000 items relating to Singapore's multilingual, multiethnic, and cosmopolitan history. The maps, photographs, newspaper articles,...

Thus Said; "A Short History of Literacy Could Go like This: Gutenberg, King James, Libraries, Oprah.". (Opinion)
June 1, 2002... "You cannot just walk cold into a library and expect to emerge fully literate. There are so many books, you need a guide to tell you what to read." Ed Budz, administrator of New York City's Thalia movie theater, explaining the need for revival...

Don't Wait for White Men to Step Aside. (Editorial)
June 1, 2002... Diversity in the library profession won't be achieved until straight white men give up some of their power. That's one of the things I heard participants say while I was a member of the studio audience during an April 26 teleconference on...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2002... The system being replaced at the Waterford-Groton Public Libraries in Connecticut (Apr., p. 95) is a Geac system, not a Library. Solution system. Jennifer Burek Pierce, author of "Digital Discomfort? 'Get Over It,' Says McClure" (May, p....

Expectations, Realities, and Diversity: A Personal Account. (on My Mind)
June 1, 2002... Five years ago I entered the library profession as a reference librarian at the University of Minnesota/Morris. A year later, I found myself in my hometown working at California State University/Fresno's Henry Madden Library, a place where I...

Access Isn't Enough: Merely Connecting People and Computers Won't Close the Digital Divide. (Technology)
June 1, 2002... In February, the U.S. Department of Commerce surprised many longtime observers of the "digital divide"--the gap between those with access to computers and the Internet and those without. After issuing a string of Falling through the Net reports...

It Takes a Virtual Village to Empower All the Villagers: Assistive Technology Embraces All Comers in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Technology)
June 1, 2002... By noon the room is alive with the clatter of keyboards and the hum of quiet conversation. Office workers on their lunch break stop to send a video e-mail to friends, while hurried jobseekers print out last-minute copies of their resumes. It's...

Missing Pieces That Fill in the Academic Library Puzzle: Cutting-Edge Technologies Can Assure Our Place in the Big Picture. (Technology)
June 1, 2002... The current worry among astute academic librarians is not whether students will use the Web instead of coming to the library, but which Web site they will turn to first. Will it be the university library's, Google, an emerging Library look-alike...

Are Wider Library Units Wiser? Library Planners May Boost Their Funding by Casting Their Nets Wider. (Organization)
June 1, 2002... What form of organization delivers the best library service? For many years library leaders have told us that wider units of service will produce better services. After an examination of some of the issues, using national data, my findings...

You Are Here: Will Libraries Go to Antarcti.ca to Transform the OPAC? (Technology)
June 1, 2002... I think there's room for substantial innovation in the face that libraries present to the world," says Tim Bray, the architect of a program that can turn a library's Web catalog into a browsable, customizable map. The program supplants the...

$1.95-Million Wells Fargo Deal Gets Meetings off to Rousing Start. (ALA Executive Board)
June 1, 2002... Announcement of a $1.95-million sponsorship deal with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage to support the Campaign for America's Libraries was an auspicious beginning for the ALA Executive Board's spring meetings, April 13-14. As board members cheered, ALA...

Rediscover America, Beginning in Atlanta: Highlights, Hot Topics, and Last-Minute Changes. (Annual Conference)
June 1, 2002... An original copy of the Declaration of Independence will be the star of ALA's 126th Annual Conference June 13-19 in Atlanta, in keeping with the conference theme, "Rediscover America @ your library." The rare document, part of a...

19 More things to do in Atlanta. (Annual Conference).
June 1, 2002... 1 Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and the King Center. The National Park Service operates the Martin Luther King Jr. Visitor Center with audiovisual displays, while the King Center, just across the street, houses...

Soul Viewing. (Annual Conference)
June 1, 2002... For art-gallery lovers, the following is a list of African-American art galleries near the Convention Center area. Atlanta Life Insurance Company 934 Martin Luther King Dr., N.W., Auburn Ave. at Courtland St. (Sweet Auburn area). ...

Littel-Known Annual Conference Traditions. (Annual Conference)
June 1, 2002... ALA Annual Conference is a wondrous thing--a place where librarians gather to learn new things, to see products and services we either covet or didn't realize we needed, and to connect with colleagues who are scattered from one end of the...

Hidden Atlanta: the city beneath the trees; don't limit yourself to the convention area--some of the city's best meals can be found in its many tree-canopied neighborhoods. (Annual Conference).(Directory)
June 1, 2002... It has sometimes been said that conference organizers think of Atlanta as one of the best convention cities in the United States. Why? Because attendance at conference meetings and events is higher than in other major cities. The reason?...

Heart and soul on the south side: soul eating.(restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia)(Directory)
June 1, 2002... Abdullah the Butcher House of Ribs 2387 Fairburn Rd., S.W. 404-629-2332 Abdullah, a former professional wrestler, prepares barbecue to die for. Can accommodate groups. (Green-briar area) Atlanta Life Insurance Company ...