There ever lethargic Stevareeeno M. Cohen 😉 writes in with an article from the Daily Northwestern. It is about the local public library versus the school’s library.
In his four years at Northwestern, Weinberg senior Jeremy Weissmann said he has visited the Evanston Public Library only once.
“Twice, if you count voting,” Weissmann said.
expresso2222 writes “A Web site showcasing more than 5 million aerial photos of World War II was crippled by demand on its first day. EvidenceinCamera (http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/) is being run by the University of Keele Library and features some of the most momentous events from the conflict, available for the public to see for the first time.
expresso2222 writes “A Web site showcasing more than 5 million aerial photos of World War II was crippled by demand on its first day. EvidenceinCamera (http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/) is being run by the University of Keele Library and features some of the most momentous events from the conflict, available for the public to see for the first time. Among the images captured are aerial shots of Auschwitz concentration camp and pictures of the US landings on Omaha beach. Allan William, head of the Evidence in Camera project, told Reuters: “These images allow us to see the real war at first hand. It is like a live-action replay. They were declassified years ago, but it takes days to find an individual image. Now they have been digitised and will be on the Internet, it takes seconds.” Source: War photos site hamstrung by demand, by Will Sturgeon; January 20, 2004: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39119
Reuters Says The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president’s staff and two by the man himself.
“The only two he sent,” Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, which is raising money for the library, said on Monday.
One of them may not actually qualify for electronic communication because it was a test to see if the commander in chief knew how to push the button on an e-mail.
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Nice Story From Canada where Unable to imagine a world without reading, two Grade 6 pupils in London have collected 4,000 books for Ontario’s First Nations communities. Avid readers Tim Ebbs and Brent Greenway spearheaded the book drive at Westmount public school two weeks ago in response to a public request from Lt.-Gov. James Bartleman, who recently toured Northern Ontario.
“I love books. I read all the time. I don’t know how you can live without reading,” said Ebbs yesterday, standing amid tables scattered with books at Westmount.
An Anonymous Patron writes “Here’s An Announcement from Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin said today, “I am very pleased to
report that Congress has cleared a Fiscal Year 2004 budget for the National Archives of $316,300,000. This is an increase of
$47,500,000 from our FY 2003 appropriation and includes an additional $22,000,000 for our Electronic Records Archives
program.””
An Anonymous Patron writes “This One Says
When Francine Henderson first arrived as administrator of the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History (AARL), she found Andrew Young’s personal collection of papers stuffed in suitcases and frayed boxes in a back room.”
Beloit College has released their sixth annual Mindset List, a list of events that have shaped live lives of incoming university freshmen, most of whom were born in 1986. "For many of them today, it’s all about the ‘bling, bling.’"
On a related note there was some discussion in Dig_Ref recently about the use of "dawg" in online reference transactions.
Bob Cox spotted This Philly.com Article on Pennsylvania libraries. Withering from a recent 36.5 percent drop in state aid, libraries throughout Pennsylvania have cut hours, laid off workers, slashed services, and stopped buying books.
Worried readers should volunteer to help with fund-raisers or make a check out to their local library.
Better yet, librarians suggest, people could write to the governor or phone their representatives, and call for more library support.
An Anonymous Patron sent in this azcentral.com story about a huge transfer of materials from the National Archives to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.
With the stroke of President Bush’s pen, possibly as early as this month, archivists will begin the long and arduous task of preparing every last bit of Nixon materials – a cache that could fill 13 swimming pools – for shipment to the private Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif.
But the impending move, set in motion by Reps. Tom Davis, R-Va., and Gary Miller, R-Calif., is as controversial as it is historic.
Nixon’s voluminous materials have remained in the Washington area for the past 30 years for a reason: because Congress decided in the wake of Watergate that neither the disgraced former president nor his family could be trusted with them.
Now the archivists in charge of overseeing the move are proceeding with caution. Nixon historians, however, are downright worried that the new guardians – Nixon’s family and former aides – will choke off access to the collection and frustrate future releases.
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