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Public Libraries Sept/Oct 2000

Volume 39, No. 5

Renee Vaillancourt, Feature Editor
Kathleen Hughes, Managing Editor

Features

Are Public Libraries the Preschooler's Door to Learning?
Sidebar from Article
Kathleen Reif, on behalf of the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators’ Birth to Five Task Force

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Library Service: A Review of the Literature
Steven Joyce

Preparing Staff for the Library of the Future
Jan Hayes and Ian Baaske

In Every Issue

Editor’s Note
From the President
On the Agenda
Tales from the Front
Perspectives
Internet Spotlight
News from PLA
By the Book
New Product News

Plus...

Readers Respond

Verso—Response to “Recruitment of Public Librarians”
Dan T. Hutchins with Joan Travis

Verso—The Book Clique: Creating and Running a Book Discussion Group Online
Michelle Bradley

Book Talk—How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci: An Interview with Michael Gelb

Tech Notes—Digital Disaster Planning: When Bad Things Happen to Good Systems
GraceAnne A. DeCandido

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