Louisville Free Public Library Leads Community,Increases ADA-Compliance with Hearing Loop Assistive Listening System

This article tells how Louisville Public Library created an assistive listening system for telecoil-equipped hearing aids in the auditorium of its main library. It is intended as an article that will help other libraries meet ADA standards for those with low hearing capacity.     

The Origins of the Freedom to Read Foundation: Public Librarians' Campaign to Establish a Legal Defense against Library Censorship

This article examines public librarians' experiences with attempted censorship, including their dismay, anger, and disappointment with fellow librarians and their professional organizations, which those under attack found apathetic in safeguarding user rights and protecting their jobs as library professionals. Some of these librarians became the activists who campaigned for the creation of the American Library Association's (ALA) legal defense machinery, along with other primarily young progressive librarians, who pushed forward their own agenda. This study highlights these public librarians' struggles, which made the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and ALA leading professional organizations in championing intellectual freedom. The study focuses on cases that shaped ALA's policy that led to the establishment of a defense mechanism for librarians in the late 1960s and 1970s. It also examines the extent to which ALA upheld the organization's professional credo and its members' rights.     

Public Library Services to Underrepresented Groups: Poor & Unemployed,Emphasizing Danville,Virginia

This study attempts to fill a void in library public services research on initiatives to serve the poor and unemployed in the current climate of budgetary constraints. This study seeks to determine perceptions of librarians and library managers regarding the needs of, and need for services to, poor and unemployed library patrons. Following a review of the literature, the article compares funding for services to the poor and unemployed in Michigan and Virginia. The state of Virginia lags behind other states in offering special programs for the poor and unemployed. This study concludes by describing programs developed by the Danville Public Library in an attempt to offer creative and imaginative services for the poor and the unemployed in the Danville Community.     

用设计思维建设,用连接战略发展——大阅读时代公共图书馆发展战略思考

以大数据、云计算、物联网等新一代信息技术引领的深度信息化阶段已经开启,这不仅让人工智能技术再次兴起,正在创造一个智慧时代,也正在深刻改变甚至颠覆人类的阅读行为,一个大阅读时代正在到来。在这样的大阅读时代,面临着创新转型发展的重大机遇与挑战,公共图书馆可以用设计思维进行建设,从硬件到软件都可以用以人为本的设计思维来建设;公共图书馆还可以用连接战略不断发展,把人与人、人与知识、人-空间-知识以及图书馆的实体空间与网络空间连接起来,公共图书馆可以实施阅读+和图书馆+战略的本质原因是阅读具有无所不在性。