Troy Johnson writes “There is an article at CNet about some research on different technologies that HP is working on. One of the technologies is an always on camera that would capture everything you see and then you would select out the photos you want later. The other is some attempts make ebook reading equal to reading a paper book. “
May 2003
Fraser-Hickson Library saved
Michael Nellis writes “There’s an article in the 23 May ’03 Montreal Gazette that three districts in the city of Montreal will be funding Fraser-Hickson Library to the tune of 600,000 dollars CDN over the next three years. The library had been shut down in April, but can now reopen; in September. The story is here. “
Librarians find ways around USA Patriot Act
“A state statute in place long before the creation of the USA Patriot Act keeps library records confidential except by a court order in a criminal proceeding. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the deputy director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom within the American Library Association said no other state protects library patrons’ privacy to such an extent.”
Dangpow is back
Abigail writes: “Dangpow, the host hosting Rory Litwin’s Libr.org, Katia Roberto’s site (as well as her RADCAT-L listserv), my Libronaut.com (and associates) and assorted other interesting things is back after a brief but chilling hiatus. Hooray!
(Maybe that’s only news to me, but I thought I’d give it a shot…)”
What is a library anymore, anyway?
Martin Raish points to an Interesting One @ First Monday. Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic write about how libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections.
“We have observed a propensity for information technologists to predict
with complete confidence the imminent demise of libraries. The seeds of
this prognostication may date back to Vannevar Bush’s seminal paper of
1945, but the forest of such predictions has grown thick in the past
decade. In our observation, the confidence with which such predictions
are made is inversely proportional to the predictor’s professional
habitual use of published information. . . .
So to some extent the question of what is a library anymore could be one
about which, “if you have to ask the question, you wouldn’t understand
the answer.” Our intention is to attempt the answer anyway.“
Archiving in the Digital Age
Archiving in the Digital Age, By John Courtmanche, says movie execs say they’re constantly being second-guessed by technology advocates for not trusting computer archives.
Hollywood studios are not turning their motion picture film assets into digital archives, in favour of a format that is as agnostic and neutral to technology change over the decades as possible. Senior vault executives at Paramount Universal, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox and MGM all confirmed that 35mm film remains their most trusted medium for archiving their visual assets.
Senior vault executive sounds like a cool gig.
Wapsi Square – Another (Almost) Library Comic
Follow the adventures of Monica at Wapsi Square. She\’s the diminutive yet busty museum curator [Cataloger] that has yet to realize how cute she is. She once Met The Aztec god of alcohol
Caution: may not be entirely safe for viewing at the reference desk.
Harry Is On A Roll
The Seattle Times reports Retailers conjure up buying frenzy weeks before Harry Potter reappears. They say the independent stores admit they can’t offer the deep discounts that have major retailers preselling hundreds of thousands of copies of the next Harry Potter book online at up to 50 percent off.
While Forbes Says – The new Harry Potter book promises to be a boon for distributors and shippers across the world, but it could turn into a nightmare as they scramble to deliver it to millions of readers on the June 21 launch date. While, Amazon Says presales of the latest Harry Potter novel have reached 500,000, surpassing the fourth book in the series as the biggest-selling new product ever.
Johnson’s Library and Robert Caro Make Up
“For 26 years Robert A. Caro has painstakingly chronicled the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson. He has interviewed more than a thousand of Johnson’s former aides and colleagues. He has pored over countless records in the Johnson presidential archives. And to critical acclaim he has published three volumes of his projected four-volume biography of Johnson. His latest volume, “Master of the Senate,” received the Pulitzer Prize for biography this year.”
“But because of a long-running feud over his portrayal of the 36th president, Mr. Caro and his work were unwelcome at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum here. His best-selling Johnson books were conspicuously absent from the museum’s bookstore. He says he thinks that important records in the Johnson archives were kept from him.” (from The New York Times)
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