Professional Reading

1) Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century found that:

• libraries hold high credibility in their communities
• the public values both traditional and 21st century services
• people who are civiclly engaged are very pro-library, but not worried about library's competition for funding
• leaders see libraries as poised to solve problems, but vulnerable
• most people reject cutting library services

2) Langmedia: online language lab, from the Five Colleges