Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2009 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

We talk with the new libraries chief at the University of Maryland about how learning and research are changing in academia -- and how libraries can stay ahead of the technology curve.

We explore the challenges facing aid groups in places like Afghanistan, and how development assistance factors into the goals of "winning hearts and minds".

Some forty years after he created the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and one year after he stepped down from leading it, Rathke talks about ACORN's grass-roots organizing, and the controversies swirling around the organization today.