1.The ALA has always paid special attention to the area of intellectual freedom, and one program graphically illustrated why. Librarians from the West Bend (Wis.) Community Library shared their struggles to keep library materials on their shelves. They discussed recent challenges to their young adult and GLBT materials, including a demand to burn one YA novel, Francesca Lia Block’s “Baby Be-Bop.”
知识自由领域也是此次大会的一个重要内容。来自West Bend社区图书馆的馆员们和与会代表分享了他们在维持图书馆书架上的资料方面的工作经验，其中提到了近期他们在其青少年资料和GLBT资料方面所遇到的挑战，如有读者要求毁禁Francesca Lia Block的《Baby Be-Bop》这部涉及同性恋题材的青春小说。

2.Online registration is available beginning May 1 for the 2008 LITA National Forum, "Technology & Community: Building the Techno Community Library," to be held October 16-19 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2008年图书馆与信息技术协会国家论坛在线注册从5月1日开始，大会主题为“技术与社区：建设技术社区图书馆”，将于10月16-19日在俄亥俄州的辛辛那提荷兰广场希尔顿酒店召开。

3.Launching the week's festivities, ALIA's Executive Director, Sue Hutley said "over half of the nation are registered borrowers at a public or community library, while specialist information services support new developments in business and students, researchers and educators at every level keep academic libraries busy to the tune of around 26 million loans each year”.
发起这次活动周的澳大利亚图书馆和信息协会执行董事Sue Hutley说，“有一半以上的国民在公共图书馆或社区图书馆成为了注册读者，而专门信息服务机构则为商人和学生提供了新的发展，各层次的研究人员和教育者也使得每年贷款金额达2600万的学术图书馆忙碌不停。”