LISNews: Librarian News

If you\'re in the market for strange deep-sea creatures, tropical wonders and exotic zooplankton , Scripps Institution of Oceanography Might Be Selling. The institution\'s leaders have approved budget cuts that within two years will wipe out all state budget funding to maintain and manage its oceanographic collections, about $300,000 per year.

Although the Washington Post has an increasingly annoying web site, they also have some good stories, This Being One.
In 1507, a group of scholars
working in France produced an
extraordinary map of the world, the
first to put the still-recent
discoveries of Columbus and others into a new continent separate from Asia,
and to call that continent "America." With the Waldseemuller map, the New
World was born.It also shows South America, which leads some to believe that Portugal, Spain's great rival, sponsored
a secret expedition around 1500 that traveled through the Strait of Magellan,
around Cape Horn and up the coast of the Americas. The map s currently at the Library of Congress, which is trying
to raise $10 million to buy it. The library still needs $3.5 million.

Aaron Tunn writes \"A collection with a difference.... from
The Age\".
The National Library of Australia may soon start collecting pornographic websites.

The library\'s latest newsletter said it was looking to add websites to its extensive collection of erotica.

Electronic librarian Edgar Crook said in the newsletter the adult websites would be added to the National Collection of Electronic Publications \"thus giving a representative picture of Australian erotica on the Internet\".

Mr Crook said the library already had such \"weighty volumes\" as Big \'n\' Bouncy and Bra Busters, among other magazines.

Gary D. Price sent along the full-text of the article from the NLA
newsletter.

Steve Fesenmaier writes \"
Facets Multimedia, arguably the world\'s highest quality distributor of videos and DVDs, has published its second Movie Movers Video Guide. This year they asked eighty people around the world - \"filmmakers, cinematographers, writers, artists and movie buffs\" to send them their list of their \"ten most influential films\". I was one of those people - here is the list I gave them... -- Read More