Jen Young sent over Leave no public library behind By Helen Schary Motro is a nice sentimental look at the New York Public Library.
\”We Americans naively look at the library as our birthright, often unaware that a free public library system is far from universal. The Bill of Rights doesn\’t guarantee the freedom to read. But the American library network hands this priceless gift to anyone who\’s interested upon a silver platter.\”
Gary Deane noticed This NYTimes Story on a new service called GoogleMail that gives you e-mail access to the popular search engine. Just send a message to [email protected] with your query in the Subject line. The search results will be sent to your In box, they say, usually within minutes.
Antony Brewerton writes \”SCONUL, the UK\’s Society of College, National and University Libraries, is pleased to announce that issue 25 of the SCONUL Newsletter is now available.
Alongside the usual wide and varied collection of articles on topics ranging from space management and collection development to e-initiatives and the promotion of information skills, we have decided to make the main focus of this issue staffing.
The SCONUL Newsletter is available in paper format or electronically via The WWWW
So if you want to know what we are up to in the academic library sector in the UK log on and enjoy! \”
Slashdot pointed the way to Bloomburg Blurb that says BT Group Plc lost a bid to claim that Internet service providers were infringing its patent for a Web linking tool when a judge dismissed its suit against Prodigy Communications.
The court\’s decision is online as a PDF.
Mitch Freedman was kind enough to pass along His Page of Articles and Multimedia Appearances he\’s been featured in. His site also features a Collection Of Articles and the ever important Task Force on Better Salaries & Pay Equity.
Karl Siewart pass wlong This Digital-Web story on controlled vocabulary.
It\’s a nice intro to the topic, and good reading for those who didn\’t get a cataloging class in library school.
James Nimmo passed along This ACLU Announcement on the Freedom of Information Act request filed by the ACLU demanding that the Department of Justice provide information about the pervasiveness of domestic spying.
The ACLU made the request jointly with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, which said it was concerned that the new surveillance laws threaten the First Amendment-protected activities of book publishers, investigative journalists, booksellers, librarians, and readers.
Klaus Graf writes \”Information and links about the floods damages concerning archives,
libraries, museums, monuments etc. is available at,
unesco.org and
historicum.net (German) and
netbib.de (Lib-Weblog, mostly German) and
h-net.msu.edu (mostly German).
Thank you for all support!
Dr. Klaus Graf \”
To the movie industry, he\’s a menace and a criminal, but Todd Kluss doesn\’t think he did anything wrong when he made bootleg copies of \”Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones,\” \”Signs,\” \”Goldmember,\” \”Reign of Fire,\” and \”Minority Report\” before they were released to the public. \”He admits he doesn\’t always buy the DVD. He calls much of his contraband \’samplers.\’ According to him, \”People who go through the trouble of downloading these movies are die-hard fans who would buy it on DVD anyway. It\’s a way to sort through what I want to buy.\” Read More.
Via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A group of antitax crusaders is trying to dissolve the county\’s libraries. Leaders of the campaign to eliminate the Stevens County Rural Library District said they are tired of paying property taxes for something that helps people largely in the most out-of-the-way crannies of the county, where a majority of the county libraries lie. Besides, they said, rural libraries are increasingly obsolete because of the Internet, video outlets and discount bookstores . . .
\”With all the property I own, I\’m probably paying up to $500 in taxes for the library, and that\’s just $500 wasted on something we don\’t need,\” said one supporter of the measure, Dave Sitler, a real estate agent.
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