Found out about this one from Library Stuff:
After printouts of child pornography were found in a garbage can, police seized 26 computers from a library in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. A police spokesman said the authorities also grabbed a library security videotape and "a list of those who returned or checked out items."
Story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The following was posted to a listserv and is being submitted verbatim (so to speak).
http://www.movlic.com/$presentations/movliclib.pdf
\”ST. LOUIS – Movie Licensing USA, Licensing Agent for Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, DreamWorks, Columbia, Sony, MGM and other major motion picture studios, now provides Movie Copyright Compliance Site Licensing to public libraries for the public performance of entertainment videos. The Movie License ensures copyright compliance for showing of films in the library facilities which were produced by the studios represented.
The following was posted to a listserv and is being submitted verbatim (so to speak).
http://www.movlic.com/$presentations/movliclib.pdf
\”ST. LOUIS – Movie Licensing USA, Licensing Agent for Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, DreamWorks, Columbia, Sony, MGM and other major motion picture studios, now provides Movie Copyright Compliance Site Licensing to public libraries for the public performance of entertainment videos. The Movie License ensures copyright compliance for showing of films in the library facilities which were produced by the studios represented.Neither the rental, purchase nor lending of a copyrighted videocassette or DVD automatically carries with it the right to show a movie outside the home except in certain limited teaching situations in schools. Public libraries do not enjoy any such exemptions from copyright law. Therefore, permission from each copyright owner has been required to ensure compliance with the law when showing copyrighted movies for special programs in a library. The movie license also protects a library when outside groups use the facilities to show copyrighted movies.
Carol Simpson, copyright authority, states, \”If you have any doubt that your activities are within the law, first read the law itself. It is available free of charge from the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress as Circular 99. If in doubt, consult an attorney—preferably one who specializes in intellectual property (commonly listed as copyrights, trademarks, and patterns, or some combination of those terms).\”
Free and detailed information regarding Movie Licensing and Movie Copyright Compliance Site Licenses for Public Libraries is available. Call toll-free at 1-888-267-2658 or write: Movie Licensing USA, 201 S. Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63103-2579. A website is also available at www.movlic.com.
Note: Permission is granted to post this News Release on any Public Library website.
Someone passed along This Fine Story from over at Kuroshin.
\”In short, I would like to say that perhaps I would be happier if I had never been to a public university with a proper library of 2 million volumes, with good databases and interlibrary loan. I would never know that I was missing anything, I would have no conception that the rich people in large cities have access to actual research facilities that the poor and the distant could only dream of. I would have no knowledge of the brutal and disgusting disparity between those who think it is OK for them to decide everything for the rest of us, who hoard the truth for thesmelves, and the poor schleps who must live with whatever goggle eyed elitist decisions they come up with, while we sit around blabbering with half baked ideas that we can only research so far before we run up against \’copyright: you cannot view this\’ or \’this material is unavailable to you\’.
The Washington Times has a Story that says Slowly and painstakingly, Octavo, a company in Oakland, Calif., is creating a state-of-the-art digital facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, in partnership with the Library of Congress, which owns one of three perfect copies in existence.
\”Every book has its own personality and behaves differently, owing to varied physical characteristics,\” Ms. Blegen says. \”This book is different because it has no page numbers and weighs more than most. I can\’t tell where I am in it because I can\’t read page numbers and can\’t decipher the text. This is different, too, because it is a national treasure.\”
Normally I share stats with The Mailing List, but tonite I thought I post them here.
First story January 26th 2000
Visitors last month: 22,629
December 2001: 38,250
November 2001: 26,483
October 2001: 25,664
September 2001: 20,427
August 2001: 22,804
Monthly Average from 2001: 24,156
Hits last month: 282,225
Average hits per month last year: 305,369
Pages viewed last month: 59,351
Average page views last year per month:64,762
More posted below…
Normally I share stats with The Mailing List, but tonite I thought I post them here.
First story January 26th 2000
Visitors last month: 22,629
December 2001: 38,250
November 2001: 26,483
October 2001: 25,664
September 2001: 20,427
August 2001: 22,804
Monthly Average from 2001: 24,156
Hits last month: 282,225
Average hits per month last year: 305,369
Pages viewed last month: 59,351
Average page views last year per month:64,762
More posted below…
Average comments (excludeing 0 comment stories) this month: 3.3
Last month: 2.6
december 2001: 2.8
November 2001: 2.75
October 2001: 3.8
Septeber 2001: 3.2
August 2001: 2.7
Entire Year 2001: 2.7
Stories read more than
100 times: 1636
200 times: 434
1000 Times: 20
Average Hits per story this month: 77
Last month: 85
December 2001: 81
November 2001: 117
October 2001: 124
September 2001: 94
August 2001: 100
Average Comments per story (all stories) this month: 1.1
Last Month: 1.2
December 2001: .7
November 2001: .8
October 2001: 1.1
September 2001: 1.1
August 2001: 1
Number of missspeled wordz: 0
Someone passed along This NYTimes Obit on Virginia Hamilton, Writer for Children.
They say \” an internationally recognized writer for children whose work celebrated the African- American experience as an essential component of American life, died yesterday in Dayton, Ohio. She was 65 and lived in Yellow Springs, Ohio.\”
Images of Pauling\’s 1922-1994 notebooks from the Oregon State University Library:
As with many scientists, Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling\’s career, the Pauling Papers holdings include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in which Dr. Pauling involved himself. In this regard, the notebooks contain many of Pauling\’s laboratory calculations and experimental data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research and numerous autobiographical musings.
The entire collection will be available by 2/28/02. The library has also assembled an exhibit to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pauling\’s birth.
The BBC is reporting that a Supreme Court judge has ordered Microsoft to hand over to legal opponents, the code to its famous Windows operating system. Microsoft is trying to avoid releasing the code. More
\”Despite the demolition of an African-American landmark on the grounds of Bill Clinton\’s future presidential library, library officials are now openly wooing black tourists and businesses. But Phyllis Berry Myers, president of the Centre for New Black Leadership, told CNSNews the Clinton library\’s current efforts to attract
African-Americans \’cannot make up for the disrespectful and disgraceful destruction\’ of the African-American landmark known as the Choctaw Terminal. \’Clinton is always alluding to \’preserving his legacy;\’ yet, he dismissed the legacy of former slaves as \’of no use to anybody,\’ said Myers.\” More
uible writes \”
For the last six months Adena Wilson\’s 15-year-old son has been going to the Westerville Public Library. She thought he was improving his mind. Then she found the porn pictures he had dowloaded while using the library computers. According to his mother, \”[he] had never seen pictures like that until he was here.\”
Westerville Public Library\’s Don Barlow explained that the filter used by the library is site specific, in order not to wholesale block sites. Barlow also pointed out that parents have the responsibility of policing their children, not the library. The mother contends that at the library, the library is responsible (she claims responsibility when he is home).
There is also a survey on the same page about who is responsible for keeping children away from pornography on the Internet – parents, librarians, filters, or combination of the three. At this point the run-away favorite is parents, then combination of the three. Librarians – 0%! \”
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