Dear Editor: The article by Morris, Kazmierczak, and Schoen, "A Faculty Bill of Rights for Library Services" (Perspectives, March 1992), had much to say about the performance of librarians and what un...

The decision by the Museum of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia, to mount a major exhibit on African-American life under slavery struck many local Richmond residents, both black and white, as som...

Dear Editor: In the March 1992 issue of Perspectives, L. Morris et al., present an excellent article on a faculty bill of rights for library services. In the article they state, "Periodicals subscript...

The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for the federal courts. At the end of 1988, Congress added a provision to the Center's statute authorizing it to conduct, coordinate, a...

Downsizing, budget reductions, layoffs, furloughs, fee increases, and privatization—these are words and practices that have become increasingly familiar features of the public administrative landscape...

Dr. Boyd C. Shafer, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and former executive director of the American Historical Association and editor of the American Historical Review from 1...

New Officers for ASLH The American Society for Legal History appointed the following officers for 1992: R.H. Helmholz, President (University of Chicago Law School); Harold M. Hyman, Vice President (Ri...

The Association lost a great friend and an important leader in the late winter with the deaths of the popular author Alex Haley and of the former executive secretary (1953–63) of the Association, Boyd...

The November 1991 issue of Perspectives announced the Association's participation in the development of a conceptual framework for the U.S. Department of Education's 1994 National Assessment of Educat...

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself," said Salman Rushdie, the author condemned to death by the Iranian government for his "offensive" book The Satanic Ver...