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VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1, WINTER 2001

  Administrators’ Update

President’s Column / Editor’s Keyboard    2

Article

Fifteen Months in the Planning Trenches: Strategically Positioning the Research Library for a New Century    Eric C. Shoaf    4

Special Section: Risky Business

Legal and Liability Issues Related to Internet Access    Norman Nelson    14

Liability for Obscenity and Pornography in Providing
Internet Access in the Library    Candace Morgan    17

Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Providing Public Access
to the Internet    Theresa Chmara    20

School Libraries and Filtering    Carrie Gardner    23

Controversy Is Not a Crisis    Doug Henderson    26

Transferring Risk through Appropriate Liability Insurance    
Michelle Tilton    30

Features

On Managing          
”A Reason for Rain”: Hoop Lessons for Library Leaders    
John Lubans    39

Small Change: A Column about Finance and Accounting in Libraries    Staying Balanced: How Financial Statements Are Constructed    
Herbert Snyder    44

The Truth Is Out There     
Thoughts from Someone Who Was Voted Off the Island on the Trip Over    Julie Todaro    47

Manager’s Bookshelf     
Statistics for Librarians    Bonnie A. Osif and Richard L. Harwood    50

LAMA News Section    56

Index to Advertisers                  60

Index to Volume 14                  62

Instructions to Authors                   68