SomeOne writes \”A Story From Liverpool says hundreds of complaints were made against Liverpool\’s libraries last year despite massive investment, And although £1.3m was invested in 2000/01, an increase of £700,000 on 1998/99, the number of books has dropped.
There are now 240 fewer books per 1,000 people than four years ago.
But recent research from the Liverpool Citizen\’s Panel showed that only 44% of people wanted computers and the Internet in the city\’s libraries, compared to 86% who thought books were more important.\”
August 2002
Library paedophile may be forced to leave town
SomeOne Else writes \”This Story Says A paedophile who downloaded more than 2,500 pieces of child-porn from the internet will have to leave his town if he is spared jail.
He used a computer in a Library to access some of the material, and the maximum sentence for the offence is ten years. The Judge is considering giving Lucas a community rehabilitation order – where he would live in a probation hostel and take part in a programme for sex offenders. \”
New Selections for Librarian’s Book Club
Troy Johnson writes \”
The Librarian\’s Book Club(LBC)has posted the reading selections for September. The selected books can be seen at The LBC
The LBC is a reading club that discusses books that relate to libraries and the profession. Anyone is welcome to join. \”
Strange but true: This is the golden age of hoaxes
USNews Says with modern communications, hoaxes can be debunked as rapidly as they are created, but the Internet\’s power is more readily harnessed to proliferate hoaxes than to quash them.
Ohio Law Shields Terror-Response Data from Public
There\’s a new terror law in Ohio regarding the release of information, and it is making some people nervous. \”The terrorism law added a new class of security records to those exempt from public records law. These include not only documents giving details about potential terrorist targets, but \”any record assembled, prepared or maintained by a public office or public body to prevent, mitigate, or respond to acts of terrorism.\” Read More.
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Library Dating – Pick me up and read me
Charles Davis writes \”Want a date? Go to the library. Library Dates is
SDU\’s icebreaking game in which single men and
women are brought together.
Story at
Straitstimes \”
They say a bookworm used to be the cause of childhood derision. Nowadays, it could get you a life partner. The the Social Development Unit (SDU) and the National Library Board dreamt up Library Dates.
Library doubles as laundry room
Charles Davis writes \” One library doubles as a laundry room, where a person can clean a month of dirty clothes and pick up a Churchill biography in a single stop. Another shares a roof with a state liquor store — \”books \’n\’
booze,\” people call it in jest.
The libraries of Stevens County, bounded by the Canadian border, are among the most remote in the United
States. They are also threatened with extinction.
Story at
SeattlePI \”
Be sure to check out the MEFI Thread as well.
Virtual library archives 9/11 e-mails
Jen Young sent over This CNN Story on messages and e-mails, photographs and video images that are part of a virtual library of the 9-11 attacks being compiled by scholars in Virginia and New York.
The September 11th Digital Archive \”will serve as a new platform in which people can make their own history,\” said Jim Sparrow, one of the organizers of the project, which is accessible online.
Search sites work to clean up their act
CNET is Reporting The Federal Trade Commission sent a letter late last month urging several Web sites to provide conspicuous labels for commercial search listings or face possible action, and minor changes are already rippling through search destinations, including Terra Lycos, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, America Online and Microsoft\’s MSN.
They say the FTC won\’t take formal action 11 of 12 sites named in the original complaint had already taken steps to flag paid listings.
;-) Salon.com Satire: ”Book gangs of New York.”
Salon.com
– \”Book
gangs of New York: The biggest, baddest literary
crime boss on the mean streets of Manhattan declares war.\” … \”It was
crazy and we all knew it. But could I turn my back on the man who had rescued
me from a dreary future of card catalogs at the NYPL?\” – 20020819
–By
Sam Apple and Rebecca Jacobs
BPL cataloguers
could kick NY Book Gangs aacr\’s
anytime. 😉
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