Describes the eight library buildings that won the 1993 Awards of Excellence for Library Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) including one adaptive reuse, four expansions, two new buildings, and one temporary building. (EAM)

Provides an annotated bibliography of 104 items on a variety of topics received by federal government depository libraries from midyear 1992 to midyear 1993 that were selected for general interest, lasting value, or timeliness. (LRW)

This filmography, condensed from the author's World Wide Web page, lists over 300 films that in some significant or memorable way include a library or librarian. Librarian stereotypes are briefly discussed. (LRW)

Contains reports from the American Library Association, Association of American Publishers, American Booksellers Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Council on Library and Information Resources. (PEN)

Continues a series on topics in research methodology, statistics, and data analysis techniques for the library and information sciences. Focuses on the basics of sampling for surveys or experimental work, including rationale, terminology, technique, alternative methods, and sample size. (Author/LRW)

Examines assumptions about knowledge, professionalism, and professionals that have their basis in the 19th century, and then asks how these assumptions might be changed by the shifting importance of information in our age. Suggests that pure knowledge has a problematic structure in the history of library and information studies. (Author/LRW)

Discusses privacy issues related to use of the Internet. Topics include data gathering functions that are built into applications of the World Wide Web; cookies that identify Web site visitors; personal identity information; libraries and privacy, including the need for privacy policies; protecting your privacy; and developing privacy literacy.…

Discussion of digital libraries focuses on the development of an image database of Native Americans that would be searchable on the Web. Describes a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services that Montana State University used for the project and discusses collaboration between libraries, museums, and archives. (LRW)

Describes the Visible Human Project of the National Library of Medicine that links the print library of functional-physiological knowledge with the image library of structural-anatomical knowledge into one unified resource. (JOW)

Between 1897 and 1911, Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter Anne Fitzhugh Miller filled the pages of seven scrapbooks with artifacts that document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club and other items related to the suffrage movement. The scrapbooks are now a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection in…

Lists 21 Web sites that are helpful for school librarians. Includes general search engines and how they determine hits; specialized search engines on specific topics; and other topical sites. (LRW)

Reports on a quality assessment of the MSc in Information and Library Management at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) that is taught by practicing library and information science professionals. Describes the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and explains why they gave the course a strong endorsement. (Author/LRW)

Suggests ways in which academic librarians, as models of social responsibility, can work toward a more just campus community and society. These include care for users and fairness toward, awareness of language and culture, the provision of alternate sources of information, and the display of information on social responsibility. (SLD)

Presents the results of a research study involving diversity and organizational success in the academic environment. Provides evidence that there is a relationship between diversity and organizational success and offers data to enhance the rationale for the support of diversity efforts in the academic library community. (Author/LRW)

Includes 11 reports from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; National Technical Information Service; National Archives and Records Administration; Library of Congress; Center for the Book; Federal Library and Information Center Committee; National Agricultural Library; National Library of Medicine; Government Printing…