Pressgazettenews.com has an Op-Ed Piece on the political-library climate in Green Bay. The Brown County Board of Supervisors (A conservative bunch?) actually voted to keep a library branch open, even though the money doesn\’t seem to be there.
\”People here may be conservative in many respects, but when it comes to public-policy issues that involve making hard choices, the people they elect to serve on the County Board might just be a bunch of bleeding-heart liberals.
Ohio.com has a Story on the Akron library system consideration of changing the filtering policy. They says the internet has \”put librarians at the vortex of a debate over information and censorship that is forcing them to rethink their role in the electronic age\”.
I do like the job descrition in this one though, \”A librarian\’s job finding information for people\”.
The Ohio Public Library Information Network says:
\”OPLIN\’s stance is that the state of Ohio shouldn\’t be mucking around telling locally elected boards of trustees and their staffs, who know what\’s going on in their own neighborhood, what to do.
I think Mucking is a librarian-only term.
2 Stories take different views on The
\”Surveying the Digital Future\” study by the University of California at Los Angeles Center for Communication Policy.
Freep.com
Says internet users are watching television 4.6 hours less per week than nonusers.
\”The influence of the Internet will dwarf television,\” said Jeffrey Cole, director of the center. \”The Internet has become the fastest-growing electronic technology in world history.\”
Nando Times
Says nearly two-thirds of all Americans have ventured online, and the majority of them deny that the Internet creates social isolation, ah…. denial.
\”What we\’ve found is that almost no one is afraid of the government monitoring us,\” they said. \”They\’re afraid corporations are watching what they do.\”
Fele Lay
writes:
I am majoring engineering and I want to enter a
university that has an excellent science library.
Now I go to New york public library-science and
industrial and business
library to search books and journals. I do not know
whether it can be
compared with the best science libraies in universities.
Does anyone know of any Library Rankings for
Science Libraries?
Or can anyone suggest a good
science library?
Lee Hadden sent this in:
\” An article in the Wall
Street Journal by Anna Wilde Matthews, \”Copyrights
on Web Content Are Backed\” (Friday, Oct. 27, page
B10), discusses a decision
by the Library of Congress\’s Copyright Office, to limit
access to the content
of web pages on the Internet. The argument between
libraries and
entertainment companies has been around for some
time, and the decision will
protect the copyright of commercial endeavors with only
minor exceptions.
\”
Hennen\’s American Public Library Ratings 2000
The newly revised HAPLR Web site was re-opened with new data today announced Thomas J. Hennen Jr., its author. HAPLR 2000 is featured in the November 2000 issue of American Libraries magazine, a publication of the American Libraries Association. The previous edition was featured in the September 1999 issue.
Hennen\’s American Public Library Ratings 2000
The newly revised HAPLR Web site was re-opened with new data today announced Thomas J. Hennen Jr., its author. HAPLR 2000 is featured in the November 2000 issue of American Libraries magazine, a publication of the American Libraries Association. The previous edition was featured in the September 1999 issue.
Hennen\’s American Public Library Ratings, HAPLR ™, attempt to identify the best public libraries in America. Statistics cannot do it alone, but they are part of the answer.
The HAPLR Index uses six input and nine output measures. The author added the scores for each library within a population category to develop a weighted score. The population categories change at 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, 100,000, 250,000, and 500,000.
The HAPLR Index is similar to an ACT or SAT score with a theoretical minimum of 1 and a maximum of 1,000, although most libraries score between 260 and 730.
The HAPLR Index web site expands on the information in American Libraries articles. The site provides a method for obtaining score cards and rating sheets for individual public libraries. It also provides further information on the rating index and other services provided by the author.
The first two editions saw extensive media attention. This edition is expected to receive even more attention. The American Library Association has issued press releases on the ratings to hundreds of newspapers and periodicals.
Email: [email protected]
Web site:
Contact by ordinary mail:
Thomas J. Hennen Jr.
6014 Spring Street
Racine, WI 53406
Contact by phone: 262-886-1625
Contact by fax: 262-886-5424
Olinux.com has an Interview with Sergey Brin from google, who talk about how google works, and their very interesting mission:
\”Google\’s mission is to organize the world\’s information, making it universally accessible and useful.
Sounds like a library?
They have over 6,000 servers that run RedHat 6.2 linux, serve 50 million searches per day, and over 25,000 websites use their engine!
They [Olinux.com] have a google of interviews with other open source folks, if you\’re interested
Olinux.com has an Interview with Sergey Brin from google, who talk about how google works, and their very interesting mission:
\”Google\’s mission is to organize the world\’s information, making it universally accessible and useful.
Sounds like a library?
They have over 6,000 servers that run RedHat 6.2 linux, serve 50 million searches per day, and over 25,000 websites use their engine!
They [Olinux.com] have a google of interviews with other open source folks, if you\’re interestedInterview Section
Richard Stallman (GNU), Mosfet (KDE), Miguel de Icaza (GNOME), Trae McCombs (Linux.com), Pradeep Bhanot (Oracle), Alexandre Julliard (Wine), Alfredo Kojima (WindowMaker), Marat Fayzullin (Master of Emulation), Peter Clark (FreeNet), Gael Duval (MandrakeSoft), Stefen Seeger (General Graphics Interface Project (GGI)), Kevin Reichard (Linux/Open Source Channel internet.com), Ronny KO (32BitsOnline), Russel Pavlicek (Compaq), Arturo (Red Escolar Linux Project), Brain Behlendorf (Apache), Mattias Ettrich (KDE 2.0), Alan Cox (Linux Kernel), Quentin Cregan (SourceForge), Chris DiBona (Collab.net), IBM staff and Richard Payne (Alpha Processor)
Sunspot.net has a Story on how The North Carroll library had been experimenting with shelving adult and children\’s nonfiction books together, but now the county library board of trustees has voted to stop interfiling the books. They had consolidated 31,581 adult and childrens nonfiction books into the adult section in June, to make more room for children\’s fiction books in the children\’s section, and to allow patrons to find information in a single place.
\”\”It exposed children to adult materials, We were incredulous that this was being done – it was just so inappropriate.\” said Donna Schott of Manchester, an active library patron.
Our own Thomas Hennen made it into the Chicago Sun-Times yesterday in a little Story. Hennen\’s American Public Library Ratings was released and The Naperville Public Libraries, in IL, was the top of the heap. This is the third straight rating as the best library in the country for its size for Naperville.
You can also check out the full ratings online at the HAPLR 2000 Ratings Page
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