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Berry, John N., III – Library Journal, 2010
This article features Glen Carbon Centennial Library (GCCL), Illinois, which is named "LJ"'s Best Small Library in America 2010. The attitude of doing whatever it takes to encourage every patron to come back permeates GCCL and is the foundation that makes it a model small library. GCCL delivers much "more than one expects." The…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Libraries, Library Networks, Users (Information)
Berry, John N., III – Library Journal, 2008
This article features Laramie County Library System (LCLS) of Cheyenne, Wyoming, which is named as Gale/"Library Journal" 2008 Library of the Year. It is not just strong, effective publicity or the fine new building or even a staff built around its ability to connect with the people, although all of those things add to the impact of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Public Libraries, Library Networks, Library Facilities
Berry, John N., III – Library Journal, 2007
Worthington, Ohio, has deep library roots. A library has been part of its history since the planning by settlers before the city's birth in 1803. Among the treasures brought by James Kilbourne and the Scioto Company from Connecticut to the new, planned community they built was a collection of books for their new subscription library. The books…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Boards of Education, Library Networks, Periodicals
Albanese, Andrew; Berry, John N., III; Blumenstein, Lynn; Datema, Jay; Fialkoff, Francine; Kenney, Brian; Miller, Rebecca; Oder, Norman; Rogers, Michael; Williams, Wilda – Library Journal, 2006
This article describes how the 2006 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in New Orleans will long symbolize the significance of libraries and librarians to a convention city--and to the community around it. As the first major convention in the Crescent City since the ravages of Hurricane Katrina ten months earlier, the conference…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, Professional Associations, Library Networks