Detailed account of the issues covered at the 89th Annual Conference of the American Library Association. (MF)

No meaningful action can take place unless viable and meaningful investigative procedures are employed and sanctions are brought against libraries that cooperate with racist institutions. (Author)

Despite the conference theme, the youth division seldom rose above the trite and the obvious" in discussing their resources for human understanding. A report on the Children's Service Division (CSD), Young Adults Service Division (YASD) and other meetings. (Author)

Report given at AALS Meeting, College Park, Md., January 25, 1969.

This is a personal reminiscence of the first 25 years of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. Discusses the lives of the two founders, Louis Shores and Wayne Shirley, and presents a historical examination of the founding and subsequent years of the organization. (LRW)

Presents a chronology of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. Includes topics and presenters of programs; awards, including the Justin Winsor Prize and the Phyllis Dain Library Dissertation Award; and leadership. (LRW)

This article gives the details of the the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 14-17 in Boston. The meeting showed a bounce back in attendance. The total count was 13,232, including 10,028 registrants and 3,204 exhibitors, an increase from 2004 San Diego totals of 10,788, 7,944, and 2,844, respectively. Still, the…

Many librarians who went to the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego last month did not find anything at the exhibits either, frequently because they did not take a serious look at them or talk to any of the vendors there. Sure, they may have attended the All-Conference Reception Friday night, but most never returned. Yet, they found the time to sit…

A brief history of Stoke Newington and South Hornsey (North London), their literary figures, early volunteer libraries, and the evolution of the Stoke Newington Public Library. (LS)

Illustrates how the American Library Association's (ALA) federal legislative program has been implemented over the years, based on an officially adopted legislative policy and a flexible legislative strategy. Highlights the organizational components essential to an effective legislative program for libraries, whether at the federal or state level.…

Recent events which tend to improve the situation in Indonesia's libraries include an historic favorable speech by the president, the organization of a National Library Congress, a National Workshop on Children's Libraries, the integration of the library profession into a single association, and the proposal for a national library. (Author/LS)