Winter 2010

Finding your Perfect Match: Speed Dating at the Midwinter ASCLA Leadership Meeting

By Diana Reese, ASCLA Vice-President / President-Elect At ASCLA’s annual leadership meeting, members introduced a large number of ideas to each other in a short amount of time. Likened to speed dating, members had only 10 minutes to respond to each of four “scenarios” before moving on to “meet” the next idea-generating scenario. The scenarios...

President’s Message

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...