A Midwinter Invitation: Two Important Events We look forward to welcoming you to Midwinter in San Diego next month. I would like to extend my invitation to two exciting ASCLA events. iMAgiNiff™  is a hilarious party game where players imagine what the other players are most like.  Players learn a lot about each other and...

By Diana Reese, ASCLA president and coordinator, institutional library development, Colorado State Library Hiking the Colorado Trail one weekend, I met a lone hiker using a long cane. I was momentarily stunned to see a blind person on the trail. I couldn’t resist asking him how he managed to stay on the trail and avoid...

By Brenda Bailey-Hainer, ASCLA President Almost daily the media broadcasts stories about how library funding has been cut or is in jeopardy. These generally dismal funding trends in public libraries were summarized recently in Library Journal by Norman Oder.1 It�s clear that many public libraries have already cut easy budget targets such as spending for...

by Diana Reese, ASCLA Vice-President/President-Elect For 28 years I have worked with diverse library types and populations�public, school, and correctional. It was working with youth and adult offenders that brought me to ASCLA 20 years ago.� There I found a welcoming group of librarians who shared my passion and interests.� There were those who worked...

By Brenda Bailey-Hainer, ASCLA President Everywhere you turn, there is news of change. Many of our home organizations have had to take a hard look at the way we do business and serve our clientele, as well as devise new ways to do it more cheaply. Jeff Jarvis, on his Buzz Machine blog, speculates that...