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• NEW! Bound to the Word, an adaptation of then-Senator Barack Obama's Opening General Session Keynote at the 2005 ALA Annual Conference.
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• NEW! AL Inside Scoop, American Libraries’ new blog.
• Interview with First Lady Laura Bush
• American Libraries: The First 100 Years, a timeline, 1907–2007
• Top Ten Reasons to be a Librarian
• 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
• 12 Ways Libraries Are Good for the Country