When you need to find anyone or anything in the library community, just turn to American Library Directory 2004-2005. You'll find detailed profiles for more than 35,000 public, academic, special, and government libraries and library-related organizations in the U.S. and Canada-including addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, network participation, expenditures, holdings and special collections, key personnel, special services, and more-more than 40 categories of library information in all. This indispensable resource makes it easy to: Contact colleagues, other libraries, or library organizations. Locate special collections, rare book and document holdings, and manuscript collections. Find consortium libraries or networks for interlibrary loans, information, or membership. Compare other libraries' facilities, services, and expenditures with yours. Identify libraries equipped for the disabled and other specialized facilities. Find out about seminars and in-service educational programs. Libraries are listed alphabetically by state and city, and registries of library schools and library consortia are included as well.

Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. "American Countercultures" is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index.