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From ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF): Can They Do That?

"Unless there is an order from a U.S. court, the British settlement is unenforceable in the United States, and libraries are under no legal obligation to return or destroy the book. Libraries are considered to hold title to the individual copy or copies, and it is the library…

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You can now apply online to participate in ALA's 2008 Emerging Leaders program, an initiative aimed at younger librarians who want to get involved with ALA and learn skills that will help them become leaders within the Association, our profession, and their own organizations.

Up to 120 participants (60 sponsored and 60 open)

• ALA member, and
• Young (under 35 years) or new librarians of any age with fewer than 5 ye
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We've started collecting links to Handouts, Podcasts, and other Post Conference Information given to us, provided by, or posted online given by speakers at the Annual 2007 conference. This will be a permanent archive to the content.

It will take a little while for this to fill in, and by all means, please help with this task if you know of something available that's not… Continue

As recently noted by the Librarian in Black, ALA's Graphics staff is working with Yahoo to provide "READ" t-shirts for Yahoo avatars. LiB provides instructions for how to create an avatar and clothe it in one of these shirts, and you can then use the image anywhere you want (Ning, Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

I didn't know we were working with Yahoo on… Continue

Heidi Dolamore has led the charge to create a wiki for Council, a task that at times seemed herculean. But her hard work (along with that of many others) is now visibly paying off as Annual 2007 ends. Check out the ALA Council Wiki to… Continue