This Alki focuses on library boards, trustees, Friends, and advocates. The authors have examined practice and issues from a variety of perspectives, and they haven’t hesitated to ask hard questions: Is board governance still viable? Under what conditions do governing or advisory boards function well, or poorly? What do we lose by not having elected public library boards? How can Friends of the Library contribute to library programs and services? How might library advocates of all types respond to outsourcing and privatization?
The Alki Editorial Committee and I are delighted to have received such a wide range of essays on this theme. We noted an omission, however: discussion of youth participation in library governance or advisory boards. We are interested in this gap, and hope to follow up on the topic in future. In the meantime, if you know of Washington libraries which involve youth in their planning processes or boards, we would appreciate hearing from you.
Alki Editor: Carolynne Myall
Alki Editorial Committee: Sue Anderson; Kathleen Ardrey; Karen Diller; Nancy Huling; Cameron Johnson; Mark Lammers; Eva-Maria Lusk; V. Louise Saylor, chair; Kathy Bullene, intern; Linda Rhines, LINK editor
Cover by Deborah Ramsay
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Published December 1998
by Cameron A. Johnson, Everett Public Library
by Bill Ptacek, King County Library System
by Aubrey George, Spokane Public Library
by Regan Robinson, Stevens County Rural Library District
by Anne E. Haley, Yakima Valley Regional Library
by Karen E. Glover and Jeanne Thorsen, King County Library System
by Patricia M. Kelley, Eastern Washington University Libraries
by Audrey R. Stupke, Orcas Island Friends of the Library
by Joan I. Tracy, Friends of the Cheney Community Library
by Mary M. Carr, Spokane Community College Library
by Lynne Zeiher, Pierce County Library
by Joan Weber, Yakima Valley Community College Library
by Carolynne Myall, Eastern Washington University Libraries
by Brian Soneda, Mid-Columbia Library
by Jennifer Merry, Ellensburg Public Library
by Nancy Collins-Warner, WLA/Interest Group Coordinator
by Colleen Brazil, King County Library System
by Tom Reynolds, Sno-Isle Library System
by Nancy Pearl, Seattle Public Library