Charles Davis writes \”Florida police have evacuated a public library and arrested a Briton who was using a computer to look at bomb-making websites.
Story at
Ananova.com\”
Officials say they found suspicious liquids in his backpack, and he is being held at Charlotte County Jail on immigration violations.
Lieutenant Jason Ciaschini, police spokesman says it is not a crime to look at bomb-making websites.
Charles Davis writes \”Two new studies add fresh fuel to a
decades-old debate about whether a
parchment map of the Vikings\’ travels
to the New World, purportedly drawn
by a 15th century scribe, is authentic
or a clever 20th century forgery.
see
The Full Story, from CNN.\”
Managing Information reports:
The management of the British Library has been notified by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union that it plans to take strike action over the Library\’s 2001-2002 pay offer.
A recent BL press release stated the British Library\’s management is \”disappointed that PCS has decided to strike. The pay offer averaging 4% has already been accepted by two of the three unions that represent staff at the Library. The offer is double the current rate of inflation and higher than the average for the cultural sector (3.8%). Furthermore, staff are aware that the Library does not have the funds to improve on the offer\”.
Complete article, plus additional coverage from the Times.
Always helpful Jen Young sent along This Fun One from About.com that shows how to do a miniature scene in a book.
If you can stomach carving the insides out of a book, it would make a nice place to hide some valuables as well.
Warning: graphic footage of book mutilation that might sicken most librarians.
James Nimmo was kind enough to point us to This Boston.com Story on The National Academy of Sciences, and their move to organize a scientific town hall meeting to discuss whether researchers should withhold information when they publish studies to ensure the information could not be used by terrorists.
\’\’Science, by its definition, is supposed to be repeatable and if we permit publication of manuscripts that lack sufficient detail … we will be undercutting science and we\’re not prepared to do that,\’\’ Atlas said.\”
Charles Davis pointed out
This Wired Story on The People\’s Network, an ambitious U.K. project,which will see all of the United Kingdom\’s more than 4,000 libraries linked to the Internet to become access-and-learning centers by the end of this year.
That must be alotta CAT-5.
Karl G. Siewert, MLIS writes \”Chuck Shepherd\’s News of the Weird this week
makes mention of a personal ad placed by a former Florida librarian that neglects to mention his current incarceration on death row for his SECOND murder of a girlfriend. He\’s available, ladies! \”
Since then he was sentenced to death, so don\’t make any long term commitments.
Two employees were found shot to death this morning at a library near Union City, GA, they were a woman about 50 years old and a man in his early 30s.
Ledger-Inquirer and AccessAtlanta both have stories/
The Great and Powerful Joe writes \”Not that these stories are hard to come by these days, but Chronicle has a story on copyright and the DMCA among other things in this weeks Site Sampler.
If only Uncle Sam noticed the scarcity of articles talking about the wonderful cuddliness of 21st century copyright law.
TribNet is reporting the library staff at Tacoma\’s tiny Kobetich Library were able to open the library on Monday for the first time in years, thanks to a combination of means: volunteering to alter a contract agreement so they could make changes in their own schedules; taking advantage of changes at the Swan Creek Library; and using some end-of-year money left in the library budget.
\”All we know is that if we\’re afraid to do things because of coming budget cuts, then we\’ll always be afraid to do things, because there always seem to be budget cuts coming.\”
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