LISNews: Librarian News

The 5/15 Free Online Scholarship Newsletter reports that the Digital Preservation Coalition and the National Library of Australia have partnered to launch a new email newsletter, \"What\'s New in Digital Preservation?\"

LLRX writes \"Lynn Peterson\'s Public Records \"To the Ends of the Earth\" Part 2 is now up.
Risa Sacks continues her interview with public records research expert Lynn Peterson, as reprinted from the book, Super Searchers Go To The Source. Topics covered include asset searching, missing persons, competitive intelligence, and super searcher tips.\"

Bob Cox sent over This One on a new device installed earlier this month at the Osaka Prefectural Central Library allows blind PC users to read graphic information via a tactile display that can approximate an image on a Windows screen using 3,072 pop-up plastic pins, each 1.6 mm in diameter. At a cost of 5 million yen (That\'s about $40,000 USD) I\'m not sure we\'ll be seeing them very often.

\"\"By using the (tactile) display, the blind can understand the visual information contained in books and Web sites, which was impossible before,\" said librarian Masayuki Sugita, who is blind.\"

New legislation has been introduced into the Senate that would place adult Web sites into a special \"red-light district.\" According to Newsbytes, \"the law would instruct the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to set up a new domain name - such as “dot-prn” - for pornographic Web sites. Owners of adult sites would have 12 months to move their businesses following the creation of the new domain. The bill, dubbed the “Family Privacy Protection Act” also would require e-mail advertisements that include explicit content to be clearly labeled as containing sexually oriented material.\" The bill would not infringe upon free speech, because it would still allow access, but would simply place the material into a specific area. More