That's not saying much for the remainder. |
The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to homes and communities by Hurricane Katrina, ... Libraries are an indispensable part of their communities, providing support and resources for everyone. Dozens of libraries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama need our assistance so they, in turn, can meet the many needs of their communities. |
The history of electronic technology has been that once a new capability emerges, someone finds ways to go around ... protections - in this case potentially avoiding payment to authors. I can't believe that, if [Google] were to go ahead with this, that someone, somewhere wouldn't find a way to illegally exploit it. |
The public rewards of library enrollment speak for themselves, ... Nowhere else are books, magazines, the Web, audio- and video tapes, CDs, DVDs and more available to all people regardless of economic status. |
The voices and stories of gays and lesbians cannot be silenced in our culture or on our bookshelves, |
There are times when I've been so depressed I can't see straight. At my age I should have been 80 percent in bonds. I could have had a comfortable income sitting on my duff. Instead, I had to go back to work. |
There is a failure in the core values of education. They're told to go to college in order to get a better job -- and that's okay. But the real task is to produce educated people. |
These are just the challenges that we've heard of, ... It's estimated that there are probably four to five times as many that we don't hear about. |
This is a project that is being done because they have the resources to do it and [because] people have gone overboard in their [eagerness] to digitize everything, |
We are troubled by what seems to be an accelerating trend in increased restrictions on access to government information. |
We believe in parental responsibility, and that you should take care of what your children are reading. But it's not your responsibility to tell a whole class of kids what they should read. |
What displaced people desperately need it is knowledge and information, and that's what public libraries do. |