A community has been described as "a constellation of institutions, organizations, and associations held together by their relationship with each other." To that, should be added "for the purposes of affording opportunities ...

Federal aid to libraries is a fairly recent phenomenon in the library field. Librarians began their first serious bid for some funds to help extend library services to rural areas just after World War II and, after about ...

The Problems In studying the origin of the word, "impact," and successive definitions from Oxford to Webster, I found that it was first used in the sense of binding; later in the more forceful sense of striking or hitting. ...

In the almost 30 years that I've been involved in publishing children's books, my work has been focused on preparing 25 to 30 books for publication each spring and fall. Each of those 60-odd books a year was begun with ...

Before examining the various alternatives used to resolve public sector labor disputes, it seems sensible to set forth explicitly some of the underlying value judgments that, in effect, provide the framework within which ...

What some of you may be hoping for is a blueprint for getting federal support for library programs. I should warn you that there is no such blueprint, for the simple reason that there is no universal proposal. Every ...

There is evidence of unionization in the field of public librarianship as early as 1917, according to Library Literature. One attempt occurred in New York and another in Detroit. Given the infancy of public librarianship ...