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Editor's Note
No full textWhat a treat it has been creating this issue celebrating the centennial of the Newbery Medal! I hope you enjoy it all—from the trivia and timelines to the vintage photos from the ALA archives.I’ve experienced a rush of emotions putting this issue together
The People Behind the Medal: John Newbery, Frederic G. Melcher, and Clara Whitehill Hunt
No full textIn 1918, an idealistic forty-year-old bookseller from New England named Frederic G. Melcher arrived in New York to begin a new phase of his career as managing editor of The Publishers’ Weekly (PW), the publishing trade journal of record.Melcher was not just a genial and dedicated bookman but also a tenacious industry advocate and an institution-builder of wide-ranging vision. Melcher always seemed to have energy to burn. During his early years at the magazine, he also served as secretary of the American Booksellers Association (1918-1920), co-founded Children’s Book Week (1919), and in 1920 helped lay plans for the National Association of Book Publishers, where he acted as that organization’s first executive secretary (1920-1924)
Anyone Can Be a Researcher: The Library of Congress and Civic Engagement
No full textIn 2021, a national network of scholars, classroom educators, practitioners, and students published “Educating for American Democracy” (EAD), a report and roadmap designed to provide resources for teaching history and civics.The EAD argued that “our civic strength requires excellent civic and history education to repair the foundations of our democratic republic . . . many organizations outside schools play important roles in educating young people for constitutional democracy” (emphasis added)
Is It Legal?
No full textFreedom of the Press, Privacy, Civil Rights, Copyright, Free Speech, Libraries, Universities, School
GODORT Awards Summaries and Deadlines
No full textJames Bennett Childs AwardProQuest/GODORT/ALA “Documents to the People” AwardNewsBank/Readex/GODORT/ALA Catharine J. Reynolds Research GrantBernadine Abbott Hoduski Award Founders AwardMargaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research AwardThe Larry Romans Mentorship Awar
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980
No full textThe Mental Health Systems Act (MHSA) of 1980 was intended to be a necessary safety net for those individuals who were unable to obtain mental health services without local facilities available to them. There was a strong groundwork in place for it to be effective, from the Public Health Service Act of 1944 to the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, as well as many champions within Congress and amongst the Kennedy family. However, the 1980 election brought in a change of power and a sitting president with a history of cutting funds for mental health services. The signing of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation of 1981 quickly and efficiently reduced the capacity of the MHSA to provide services to those who needed them
Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census: Who is Missed?
No full textAs the topic of social injustice becomes more prominent in academic and community discussions, the general public and researchers may be interested in learning about the relationship between data accuracy in census surveys and social inequality in the United States. This book is a compilation of statistics and data discussing why certain groups of people have historically been uncounted and omitted in the decennial census. The decennial census is a count conducted every ten years of every person living in the United States in order to allocate federal funding to states for social services, determine state and congressional legislative districts, and the number of US House of Representatives for each state. William O’Hare gathers available information regarding undercounts and omission rates in the decennial census and summarizes the data to make it understandable for a general audience, as often this data is buried within census reports and presentations. In addition, O’Hare provides references to the data and methodology
Clearinghouse Committee Report, Nov. 1974
No full textEditor’s note: This article originally appeared in Vol. 3, Number 2, November 1974, which is the first DttP issue available online (https://purl.stanford.edu/ng908xy2537).Clearinghouse Committee is a very structured sounding name for a very unstructured group. You are a member of the committee if you are a past chairperson, a task force liaison person, or anyone who has shown some interest in the activities of the clearinghouse. The Committee has never met though I did send out one letter to members last August. A time slot has been set aside for a meeting during Midwinter Conference 1975. I look forward to some discussion of the role of the clearinghouse
Chapter 2. Components of E-resource Access
No full textChapter 2 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 7), “Components of E-resource Access,” defines the technology components through which library end users gain access to electronic materials, focusing on those that comprise the discovery service environment. We describe how each component works, the role it plays within the larger library system, and how metadata from these key systems plays an integral role in e-resource access. We discuss different types of metadata, the systems from which they originate, and the spheres of control that govern their management