The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

"' The Utmost Amount of Effective Accommodation ': Andrew Carnegie and the Reform of the American Library.

* Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature, New York, NY, New American Library, 1971

* Oral History interview transcript with Aage Bohr 23 & 30 January 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

At the San Diego Comic Con in July 2009, IDW announced the upcoming publication of Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays as part of their ongoing Library of American Comics project.

In 2008 The Library of America reprinted the entirety of Pillars of Salt in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

The Children's Internet Protection Act and the June 2003 case United States v. American Library Association found CIPA constitutional as a condition placed on the receipt of federal funding, stating that First Amendment concerns were dispelled by the law's provision that allowed adult library users to have the filtering software disabled, without having to explain the reasons for their request.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

* Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820 – 1890, digitized source materials from Mystic Seaport, via Library of Congress American Memory

Chicago: American Library Association, 1931.

* LaMontagne, Leo E. American Library Classification: With Special Reference to the Library of Congress.

IDW collected Jones ' strip in 2011 as part of their Library of American Comic Strips.

* Delaware State Databases-Annotated list of searchable databases produced by Delaware state agencies and compiled by the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

Besides its frequent revision, DDC's main advantage over its chief American rival, the Library of Congress Classification system developed shortly afterward, is its simplicity.

In later years, when his distributor, New American Library, threatened to withhold Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy How Are the Mighty Fallen ( 1974 ) because of its homosexual content, Wollheim fought vigorously against their decision.

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

" More recently, reviewers from the American Library Association were surprised to find that most educational articles had been eliminated from the 1992 Macropædia, along with the article on psychology.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

In January 2012, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, with the Association for Cultural Equity, announced that they would release Lomax's vast archive of 1946 and later recording in digital form.

New American Library.

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

The Council on National Defense of the American Medical Association contributed a brief article to each issue entitled, `` This Is Your A.M.A. ''.

The group known as the American Association for Health,, Physical Education, and Recreation ( a division of the National Education Association ) initiated a conference which brought together representatives of the National Rifle Association, SAAMI and the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers.

The American Automobile Association, computing the cost for two people to vacation by automobile, comes up with an average daily expenditure figure of $29.

An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

Preparation of a second edition is in progress under the sponsorship of the Crystal Data Committee of the American Crystallographic Association.

That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

In 1938, the American Library Association ( ALA ) began presenting annually the Caldecott Medal to the most distinguished children's book illustration published in the year.

The Caldecott Medal was established as a sister award to the ALA's Newbery Medal, which was awarded to a children's books " for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year " and presented annually beginning in 1922.

* Caldecott Medal for outstanding American picture books

The Caldecott and Newbery Medals are the most prestigious American children's book awards.

McCloskey wrote and illustrated eight books, two of which won the Caldecott Medal, the American Library Association's annual award of distinction for children's book illustration.

His first picture book, The Snowy Day, was awarded the Caldecott Medal and is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century.

Simms Taback ( February 13, 1932 – December 25, 2011 ) was an American author, graphic artist, and illustrator and winner of the Caldecott Medal.