LM_NET, the most successful educational listserv in the world has approximately 15,000 subscribed members from every state in the United States and from over 65 countries. LM_NET covers a wide range of interests, all related to library and information work in education, and interactions on LM_NET result in in-depth treatments of the major concerns, issues, and themes of library media work. This book seeks to capture some of the major discussions on LM_NET that took place in 2001, and to put readers in touch with "the best of the best" LM_NET messages and information selected from the LM_NET online community's forum. The messages are unedited, in their original form as originally posted to LM_NET. The book is organized into sections and sub-sections, and the major section headings and major sub-topics are as follows: Reading and Literature; Authors and Illustrators (Author Visits, Author Web Sites); Reading, (Discussions, Reading Promotion and Activities, Recommended Resources, Recommended Reading, Silent Reading); Instruction; Information Literacy; Library Lessons; Information Management; Book Challenges; Collections (Classification, Weeding, Copyright); Library Management (Circulation, Computer and Internet Use, Public Relations, Student Use of the Library); Professional (Issues, Professional Development and Evaluation, Readings, Resources and Ideas, Surveys); Reading Programs (Goals, Incentives, Leveling, Shelving, Readings and Recommended Resources); Technology; Automation; Best of the Web (Recommended Internet Sites and Resources, Web Site Evaluation); Filtering; New Technology; Online Databases; and Readings and Recommended Resources. (AEF)