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"Ask A Librarian” is a slogan and a library website tool used to help patrons contact a librarian to find the information they are looking for. With most library websites, ask a librarian features provides direct access to the librarian to ask questions through a chat box.

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"Hooked on Books” was a tagline featured on library advertisements, including buttons and posters, created by Campbell and Hall in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Advertisements referenced being addicted to library books with common drug addiction text.

An example from a poster includes: 

Hooked on Books? A book addict need NEVER suffer WITHDRAWAL PAINS!! THE HABIT: develops with CLOSE CONTACT. SIDE EFFECTSSS → 1. Vocabularies improve 2. Eyes brighten 3. Horizons enlarge. COLD TURKEY → Library is Closed. Overdose? → eyedrops. ANTIDOTE - UNKNOWN. CURE - NO SUCH THING!

In the 1970s, a surge of anti-drug rhetoric and campaigning took place. The Nixon Administration Ad Council spent over 100 million dollars on anti-drug campaigning between 1970 and 1972. Heroin was notably a problem for the American populace, and President Nixon in 1971 called drugs, “America’s public enemy number one.” With the widespread knowledge of and effect of drugs during the 1970s, memorabilia and items centering around drugs were common during this time.

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"The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian" is a letter magazine containing information on how to run a library successfully, including cataloging, programming, and library procedures, among other topics. The magazine also features texts about library life in general, cartoons, and even poems about libraries. It was started by Marvin Scilken in 1971 as a quarterly publication and is still being published today.

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"The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian" is a letter magazine containing information on how to run a library successfully, including cataloging, programming, and library procedures, among other topics. The magazine also features texts about library life in general, cartoons, and even poems about libraries. It was started by Marvin Scilken in 1971 as a quarterly publication and is still being published today.

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Caroline Feller Bauer (1935 – 2013) was an author, educator, and librarian. She believed in the importance of encouraging children to read and became a champion of children’s literature. Bauer wrote a number of books promoting children’s literature and library programming including This Way to Books, which was published in 1983 by the H.W. Wilson publishing company.

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The American Library Association, or ALA, is the oldest and largest library association in the world. It was founded on October 6, 1876 during the Centennial Exposition, the first official World’s Fair in the United States, in Philadelphia. Their goal is to promote and improve library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning. The ALA has a publishing company, ALA Publishing, and material can be purchased through their store website. Materials include books for public libraries, school libraries, textbooks, eBooks, books for professional development, along with clothing, incentives, library signage and displays, posters, and more.  

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Over the decades most libraries whether public or academic, have become known to be “where the books are,” but with the advent of computers, and the Internet, this view is constantly changing. Generations are now looking at libraries differently and are not seeing the relevance of an exclusive place for books as the future of their library. Helping our libraries evolve with current users’ needs is crucial to begin saving our libraries.