Natalie Hansen Takes A Look at the home schoolers, and how they are affected by increased fees and charges, and other cuts at libraries.
\”Anyone who depends on the public library, especially home-school families, are going to be greatly affected because they don\’t have anywhere else they can obtain the resources they need for educational purposes,\” she said. \”A lot of the things from the home-schoolers\’ curriculum are found here at the library.\”
Klaus Graf writes \”An appeal from the director of the National Library at Prague and a list of libraries with damages can be found at:
bn.org.pl/flood.htm
\”
Rachel writes \”An article from MSNBC on e-mail spyware that can capture messages from web-based and POP3 services reads in part:
\”Fowler said the software would be useful for parents who want to watch their children’s e-mail activity in the early afternoon hours, when children are home from school but parents are still at work. Law enforcement agencies are also interested, he said — Web-based e-mail like Hotmail was used extensively by the hijackers who planned the Sept. 11 attacks, sometimes in public libraries.
“If our software had been installed in that library it would have recorded that Hotmail,” he said.\” \”
This Nice Piece says only about half of children ages 3 to 5 have a book read to them
by an adult each day and that\’s just one reason why 40 percent of youngsters
entering kindergarten are not prepared.
\”Children who are read to frequently are nearly twice as likely as
other children to show three or more skills associated with emerging literacy.\”
The Christian Science Monitor\’s Tom Reagan Says according to \”The Digital
Disconnect,\” a new report from the Pew
Internet and American Life Project
78 percent of middle and high school
students use the Internet (probably a
conservative figure), and that 94 percent of
that number had used the Internet as a
major research source for a recent major school project. The new
report says the \”most Internet-savvy among them complain that their
teachers don\’t use the Internet in class or create assignments that
exploit great Web material.\”
Here\’s The Survey.[Again]
This AP Story says Support for the First Amendment has eroded significantly
since Sept. 11 and nearly half of Americans now think the constitutional amendment on
free speech goes too far in the rights it guarantees, says a poll released Thursday.
The sentiment that the First Amendment goes too far was already on the rise before the
terrorist attacks a year ago, doubling to four in 10 between 2000 and 2001.
The poll found that 49 percent think the First Amendment goes too far, a total about 10
points higher than in 2001.
John Hubbard writes \”Beloit College has released their fifth annual Mindset List, an \”indicator of the many ways in which entering 17 and 18 year-olds see the world differently from their professors, coaches and mentors.\”
Most students entering college this fall were born in 1984, so….
Stephen Francoeur writes \”The New York Times has a story today on several of the larger chat reference services offered by public libraries. It would have been nice if the article had also mentioned how academic libraries are providing this service, too, but hey, for a lot of NY Times readers, this will probably be the first time they\’ve heard of such a service.
Full Story \”
Various sources are reporting that one of the 911
hijacker / homicide bombers stated his intentions to a German
librarian as early as April or May of 2000. According to the New
York Times:
\”Mr. Nehm, [the German prosecutor] detailing charges against
Mounir el-Motassadeq, the only person in German custody in connection with
the attacks, said one of the hijackers, Marwan al-Shehhi, had mentioned
the World Trade Center as a target in a conversation with a librarian.\”\”There will be thousands of dead,\” Mr. Shehhi said, according to Mr.
Nehm. \”You will all think of me.\”\”
No additional details about the librarian were currently found.
Articles in: / NYTimes
via Altavista / AP
via AJC / AP
via USAtoday / CNN
/ AP via Guardian.co.uk
/
News Search:
<German librarian> in: <AlltheWeb
News> <AltaVista>
<Daypop
All> <Google
News> <Moreover>
<RocketNews>
Various sources are reporting that one of the 911
hijacker / homicide bombers stated his intentions to a German
librarian as early as April or May of 2000. According to the New
York Times:
\”Mr. Nehm, [the German prosecutor] detailing charges against
Mounir el-Motassadeq, the only person in German custody in connection with
the attacks, said one of the hijackers, Marwan al-Shehhi, had mentioned
the World Trade Center as a target in a conversation with a librarian.\”\”There will be thousands of dead,\” Mr. Shehhi said, according to Mr.
Nehm. \”You will all think of me.\”\”
No additional details about the librarian were currently found.
Articles in: / NYTimes
via Altavista / AP
via AJC / AP
via USAtoday / CNN
/ AP via Guardian.co.uk
/
News Search:
<German librarian> in: <AlltheWeb
News> <AltaVista>
<Daypop
All> <Google
News> <Moreover>
<RocketNews>
Laura van Manen writes: \”I am interested in any library which is using an electronic messaging system. For example… a client sitting at the PC in the Reading Room needing help, clicks on an \”Assistance\” icon which sends a message to the Information Desk where staff are alerted and then can move across to assist the client…without the client having to leave the PC. Does anyone have any examples or software they would suggest we investigate?\”
You can email her at [lvanmane at sl.nsw.gov.au], or post your answer below.
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