Anne Jordan

Recent Articles

• Could You Repeat That?
• Jun 24, 2005
• Saw an interesting front-page New York Times article this morning about states requiring public universities to make sure instructors are proficient in English. As a ...
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• Americans in Paris
• Jun 17, 2005
• Smokestack chasing is so 20th century. Or is it? The presence of state economic development officials--and even a few governors--at the Paris Air Show indicates ...

• Phantom Growth
• Jun 10, 2005
• Having been raised in neighboring Minnesota, when I read that rural Hanson County, South Dakota, was the fourth-fastest-growing county in the nation, I had to ...

• Stealing Steel
• Jun 7, 2005
• O.K., it's time to admit publicly what people in the office have known for a while: I read Waste News. What's more, occasionally there's ...
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• Friends of The Library
• Apr 1, 2003
• State library agencies aren't known for having broad public support. At least not until the governor tries to eliminate them.

• Deborah L. Jacobs: Master Listener
• Nov 1, 2001
• Building libraries by consensus

• Branching Out
• Oct 1, 2001
• The humble neighborhood library is becoming a community magnet and engine of local revival.