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Late-Fee Debate Puts Spotlight on Library Association Policies

Associations Now

The American Library Association supports eliminating overdue charges, calling them a “barrier to library services.” ” Meanwhile, its state counterpart in Wisconsin has endorsed legislation empowering libraries to use collection agencies to gather up unpaid late fees. In Wisconsin, last month Gov.

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What’s In It For Me? 5 Life-Changing Benefits of Volunteering

Higher Logic

Griep notes that “the activity has to benefit others who are not your core family; for example, helping out a church, a school, a library, a homeless shelter or some sort of charity organization.” The results? "We We found that the people who did volunteer work for at least one hour a week on a regular basis were 2.44

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Some Rules Are Meant to Be Broken

Eric Lanke

It's about a difference of opinion between the American Library Association and the Wisconsin Library Association over whether or not libraries should charge fees and pursue collection for unreturned library items. Put yourself in the shoes of a library Board member. Some people never return library books.

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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

I told them, “No way am I moving to California from Wisconsin!” My team published the first Standard Generalized Markup Language-tagged, fully searchable digital library on CDs in 1995. After working at ASQ for three years, I received a phone call from a recruiter who had an opportunity that fit my visionary approach to publishing.

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