Additionally, Berman announced he would resign from ALA Council at the end of this year's Annual Conference. As for his future involvement in the library field, Berman said he might become involved in a local watchdog group that monitors the Hennepin library. Signage will identify which machines are filtered. It's the best filter we could find on the market. Carbajal, who promised reluctant officials in February he would find the perfect filter, said he had come to the same conclusion.
Officials say it is the largest gift the library has ever received from an individual.
Library Director William A.Gosling anticipates using the endowment income to acquire and preserve monographs, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, and to digitize portions of the library's current collection. Lesbian Activist Gittings Receives PrideFest Award for Library Leadership Barbara Gittings, whose 30 years of activism for gay and lesbian civil rights have led some to call her the Rosa Parks of the movement, was awarded a Civil Liberties Achievement Award April 27 in a ceremony at the Free Library of Philadelphia, as part of the National History Project of PrideFest America. During the presentation ALA Executive Director William Gordon spoke on behalf of the Association about Gittings's accomplishments. She was also on some of the first picket lines for gay rights in the 1960s, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and at the Pentagon and the White House in Washington. Public Library put it up for auction April 22.