The Endowment's Purpose

摘要

I am always pleased when the american Library Association (ALA) does well. I've been a member for decades—so long, in fact, that I have some kind of permanent member status now that I'm deep in my dotage. So it was good news to hear from ALA treasurer Rod Hersberger that, at the end of September, ALA's endowment had reached the exalted sum of $31,432,147. After all, 31 million bucks is not chicken feed!