Anonymous Patron wrote in with an article from the Arizona Daily Star:
A federal judge sentenced a man convicted of stealing historical documents from the University of Arizona Library Special Collections and the Arizona Historical Society.
It’s too bad the irreplaceable documents weren’t digitized. I wonder what this precedent bodes for Sandy Berger.
lislemck writes “Philadelphia Councilman Michael Nutter addressing Free Library of Philadelphia administrator Kevin Vaughan and the library administration that put forth the plan to layoff librarians and “express” 20 libraries at City Council hearings on March 17, 2005:
“…at some point in time in your professional career, there comes a moment; there comes a challenge;
there comes a circumstance;
when sometimes you just have to say no.”
The Reader’s Shop writes “http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/218073_librar
Disputing the “substitute” label, librarians in the King County Library System have filed a class-action lawsuit claining they were wrongfully terminated and excluded from collective bargaining negotiations.
The plaintiffs attorney states that they were denied due process by being labeled “substitute” despite despite working long hours over many years. “The reality is they’re working the same job.”
The plaintiffs say that experienced substitute librarians and assistant librarians were “invited” to reapply for jobs they had performed for years because of a new hiring process developed by the library system to create a centralized librarian employment pool.
Charlene Richards, the library system’s human resources manager, said the pool was created to streamline the hiring process for the library system and that it “involved multiple interviews with managers and demonstrated skills”.
The AMeGA Final Report was released yesterday. Here is a description of the project from its executive summary:
The Automatic Metadata Generation Applications (AMeGA) project, which was
conducted in conjunction with the Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A Library of
Congress Action Plan, addresses the
challenge of metadata generation for digital resources. The work underlying the AMeGA project
was guided by the following three goals:
There is an article in the NYT about the oral arguments for the Grokster case. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has some information about the case and links to the briefs.
Daniel sends “this story about an Alaska parent who isn’t happy with the selection in his son’s AP English Class, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, because of offensive content. Nor is he happy about his son being assigned an alternative title. The teacher
Berkowitz offered Daniel the alternative, Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” after Gudaitis objected to Allende’s book, but Gudaitis said reading a different book can make students feel inferior to their classmates.
The parent says he understands the arugment about literary value, but both he and his son found the book disturbing in the light of their faith.
TX writes “http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/13news07.htm Thousands of librarians from all over Texas, wearing red and beating drums, will gather at the State Capitol Wednesday, April 6, from 4-5 p.m. to send a message to lawmakers: Libraries are an investment that works, and funding for libraries is critical for education and economic development.”
ecorrado writes “The OpinionJournal.com has a nice article on Amazon.com’s most prolific reviewer in Tuesday’s Leisure & Arts section. It appears that Harrriet Klausner reads an average of 4 or 5 books a day. Interestingly, one of the reasons she usually gives a lot of high reviews is if she doesn’t like the book she’ll stop reading it (and thus not review it). Anyway, check out the article if you want to know more.”
Anonymous Patron writes “Sponsered by the Albany Institute of History and Art, The Edible Book festival is an international celebration of the printed word. This year Albany celebrates the Edible Book on Sunday, April 17, 2005 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Rice House of the Albany Institute of History & Art. Guests are invited to participate by creating and/or tasting edible dishes that somehow relate to books. Entries are displayed and photographs taken, then these edible books are consumed. A highlight of this year’s event will be a light-hearted contest judging entries based upon creativity, whimsy, and originality with our celebrity judge Doug Blackburn, Food Writer with the Times Union.
For more information, follow links for general information sheet and registration form.
To see some examples of last year’s Edible Book entrees, follow this link.
This year’s event will include a light-hearted contest with celebrity judge, Doug Blackburn, Times Union Food Writer.”
Liverpool’s Central Library may lose 20 staff members, roughly 1/5 of its acquisitions budget, and evening hours if a proposed budget cut is passed:
Andrew Coburn, secretary of the national charity the Library Campaign Group, led calls for the city council to re-consider.
“The whole point of setting up libraries, particularly in urban centres like Liverpool, was to provide access to literature and education for all, regardless of means.”
“That is still the case, there are people who can’t necessarily afford to buy books, and others who don’t have a place to sit down and study, who will seriously lose out if the hours are cut back.”
“Cutting back the evening opening hours is clearly going to have a severe impact at a time when, nationally, the Government is actively encouraging more people to read books.”
Complete article from Cheshire Online.
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