American Libraries articles from September 1989

American Libraries archives from September 1989

LC's Deacidification Process Leased to Chemical Giant; Costs to Be $6-10/book
September 1, 1989... Ed. note: For some 15 years, the Library of Congress has explored the use of diethl zinc (DEZ) vapors to prevent the acid deterioration of its library materials. As American Libraries has noted in previous stories, the process has been...

AIDS: Incalculable Loses to the Library Profession; Inadequate Information for Users and Staff
September 1, 1989... Ed. note: Earlier this year, AL asked readers to share their personal experiences and impressions regarding the effect of AIDS on the library Profession. Excerpts from the responses, edited to assure confidentiality, are interspersed below....

Books Made to Order: Libraries as Publishers
September 1, 1989... FACED WITH SOME 50,000 NEW books published in the U.S. annually, libraries might sooner be expected to build branches on Mars than to publish another book. Yet some libraries, large and small, are finding it necessary to the prodigious output...

In Defense of LSCA
September 1, 1989... BENJAMIN DISRAELI ONCE said, "Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant." In his article "Is It Time to Rethink Federal Library Legislation" in the June 1989 American Libraries (p. 525-528), Edward G. Holley gives the...

Encore: Further Reports from Annual Conference
September 1, 1989... Last-but not least in importance-are the following items supplementing last month's 12-page report on ALAN 1989 Annual Conference, June 24-29 in Dallas (P. 642-4, 681-88). -The Editors Recruitmentm redux: "Each One Reach One" ...