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The Supreme Court decision upholding the Children's Internet Protection Act was sad, but predictable. In terms of legal approaches and what appears to be occasional guidance from our own Association, [...]

In mid-summer, while relocating from New York to California, I temporarily became an (intentionally) unconnected American. While we could have planned our trip around libraries, copy centers, and similar places [...]

My first real library-based interest in Webcasting began because we tape our staff meetings and share the tapes with staff who can't attend. "Wouldn't it be nice," I thought, "if […]

The business of protecting your computers and network against public intrusions--accidental or intended--absorbs countless hours of IT time, and explains why your computer-support people disappear for long periods while you [...]

As devastating as the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) would be on the local level, the legislation, which requires libraries and schools that receive federal funding for Internet access to [...]

Last June I passed the five-year mark for writing the Internet Librarian column. Given the centuries in Internet time since the column first debuted--for example, Netscape was only seven months [...]

By next January, if all goes well, ALA committees will have a new tool for meeting between conferences: a chat room hosted by ALA. Exactly how this will be rolled [...]

You know those dreams where you can fly? I had that same exhilarating sense of freedom and power the first time I viewed live online reference in action. I haven't [...]

Excess Access is a video produced and sold by the American Family Association, whose Web site, at www.afa.net, betrays this organization's preoccupation with mandatory (Christian) school prayer, 'converting' homosexuals, preventing [...]

In late July I hauled myself to Richmond, Virginia, in a rainstorm so heavy it was like driving through a huge car wash, to talk once again about the problems [...]

In April I got a chance to be Alice in Digital Wonderland when I was invited to the 10th Annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, held this year in Toronto, […]

Along with 500,000 of my nearest friends, within 24 hours after its publication I owned a copy of Riding the Bullet by Stephen King (if you've been living in a [...]

The flashy wireless gizmos touted in the press, such as wireless laptops and Web-enabled cell phones, may have obscured the fact that there are also some unglamorously practical applications for […]

On one level, this issue of American Libraries is the Oliver Twist issue for this year. We have four great articles that talk about very basic bread-and-butter issues--and throughout these [...]

"Ah, so they've got the Internet on computers now." --Homer Simpson Public computers in libraries have attracted a storm of angry controversy in some quarters; but day in and day […]

Imagine, for a minute, that the worst Year 2000 predictions materialize, and on January 1 we arrive at our libraries to discover that our computers don't work. Is that really [...]

At least every hundred years, this column will ask the question: Where are we going, and where have we been? John Kupersmith maintains the 'Internet Branch' of the Washoe County [...]

To offer sound-based Internet resources, you need to commit time and energy to staying abreast of these quickly evolving formats - but it's worth it. As Cynthia Hetherington, senior technology […]

With many database vendors offering good pricing schemes for off-site use, our patrons can access FirstSearch in their underwear, retrieve full-text magazine articles in the wee hours before a class […]

I knew it was time to write about libraries and community networks when, sitting in a meeting for Huron Valley Community Network, an information system just coming online in Ann [...]

The image of lost or destroyed library collections conjures up floodwater pouring into libraries in New Orleans or firefighters in Fahrenheit 45I dousing books with gasoline. But for digital collections, […]

Virtual work has its undeniable pleasures: a loose dress code, no commute, and the ability to listen to the music you like. I personally appreciate what I call CWC (computing [...]

Fiat Lux is a collective of librarians from web portals around the world, dedicated to planning a major, high-quality web presence. We intend it to be as well known as […]

There is a direct relationship between how you feel about the federal 'e-rate' subsidy program and whether you've seen a letter committing the funds to your library. I know this, [...]

Internet resources for children's and young adult library services are just now coming into their own. This is not surprising: Though over one-third of all public library patrons are under [...]

The Censors Had Their Moment. . . It's been a long, cold winter: snowstorms, floods, train wrecks, and then the Telecommunications Act. When we weren't shoveling three feet of new [...]

When I put out an online call for information about grants and the internet, Theodore Allan of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Libraries responded, 'About two years ago I [...]

Not long before she died, my Grandma Jennie proudly introduced me to her own new recipe: gefilte chicken, a dish modeled on gefilte fish. It was delicious--smooth, lightly seasoned ovals [...]