Table of contents
At the Point of Reckoning
Virginia H. MathewsThe point of reckoning is at the bottom line. In the accounting that deals with figures, the income and the outgo are stated in dollars; at the bottom line we see the result, the…
Children and Youth Services: Old Challenges Revisited
Shirley Gray AdamovichAdamovich, a former state librarian and Director of Cultural Affairs in New Hampshire and now a U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Commissioner, gives…
No Bucks, No Books
Beverly J. BaganBagan, a former school librarian, compares the high‐tech dreams of access to information technology for children with the all‐too‐shabby reality that now exists. Bagan hammers…
A Winning Combination: Successful Resource Sharing Benefits All Library Users
Charles BeardBeard, Academic Librarian extraordinaire, explains how West Georgia College affects not only his community with its services to all comers — including youth — but how the bottom…
The Political Viability of Youth Services: A Bit of Legislative History
Eileen CookeCooke, for several decades one of the Capitol's most influential lobbyists on behalf of ALA and library services, tells about the political appeal of libraries at the national…
Children and Libraries in the Golden State
Bessie Condos EganCalifornian Bessie Condos Egan relates the fascinating story of children and youth services and family literacy in the libraries of the nation's most complex and multicultural…
The Bottom Line: Saving Youth Means Saving Our Future
Ramiro SalazarWith multicultural issues becoming such a front‐running issue in many libraries around the country, Ramiro Salazar writes about the children of a large urban population and…
Kids First:: How Public Libraries Can Survive and Thrive in the 21st Century
Jim ScheppkeTrends in computer and telecommunications technol‐ogy are likely to push the public library out of its traditional markets — providing recreational reading and information for…
A Community Is Known by the School It Keeps
Ellen M. StepanianStepanian tells how the excellence of school libraries in her suburban Ohio district infects the student body, and therefore the community, as success breeds success and generous…
Family Literacy Makes Sense: Families That Read Together Succeed Together
Carole S. TalanFamily Literacy Specialist, Carole Talan gives us her own impressions on how the home environment affects the young reader; both positively and negatively. Drawing from her…
For More Than Children: Viewing Children's Library Services as a Vehicle for Public Goodwill
Marcia TrottaTrotta describes what a strong and consistent infusion of intensive care to children's service can do for the library's standing in a small Connecticut city. The author's hands‐on…
Libraries and Kids: Telling the Story
Linda WallaceWallace, ALA's own director of the Public Relations Office, cites some of the thousands of testimonials ALA has received about the fact that libraries — especially services to…
Children and Youth and the Bottom Line
Virginia G. YoungYoung, educator and political leader in the nation and her own state of Missouri for many years, cites evidence of youth services' impact on the bottom line. Young points to the…
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- Professor Susanne Durst