Los Angeles Daily News Reports Hundreds lined up Monday at the Ronald Reagan Library to climb aboard the blue-and-white Boeing 707 that traveled more than a million miles as it served as Air Force One for seven U.S. presidents.
Close to 1,600 people visited the hilltop library for their first look at the museum’s newest addition: the Air Force One Pavilion, featuring the gleaming jet.
October 2005
Feds want universities, libraries to make it easier to sniff their online systems
Max writes about an article in Sunday’s New York Times Technology section indicating that,
“The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.”
Coverage of the Internet Librarian conference, 2005
An Anonymous Patron writes “Re IL2005: I could not attend, but the coverage has been terrific and has filled many of the blanks. Coverage of note includes:
Librarian In Black continues posting some fascinating thoughts and predictions emerging from conference seminars at Internet Librarian 2005. Also posting interesting discussion on IL2005 are Liz Lawley (future of librarianship); Free Range Librarian (Ethics talk); The Shifted Librarian (observations from IL2005); and G from Library Bitch hams it up with his own style of commentary on the commentary.”
Flood at the University of Utah catches preservation librarian off guard
One From The Salt Lake Tribune on Randy Silverman, a conservator and preservation librarian at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library, who takes the concept of preparedness seriously. He was lecturing on emergency preparedness in Portland, Ore., on a recent Saturday when he got a phone call that seemed like a bad joke: His office back in Salt Lake City had been flooded.
Writers Side With Google in Scrap
Wired Is Covering so writers who are pro-Google. Google’s plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable may be drawing ire from publishers and authors’ advocates, but some obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search engine’s side of the dispute — arguing that the benefits of inclusion in the online database outweigh the drawbacks.
“A cover does sell a book to a certain extent, but once you’re intrigued by a cover you want to dig deeper,” said Meghann Marco, whose first book, Field Guide to the Apocalypse, was published in May.
Kenyan Camel Library On The Move
For the nomads of north-east Kenya, a library in a building would not be suitable…hence this unusual but completely functional Camel Library. Three caravans serve 3,500 registered users, and the schools are seeing an improvement in student work.
Very cool pictures and story from the BBC
Just wish we can a camel icon…
Update by Dan G. Borrowed from Slashdot but here’s a camel.
thanks Dan G! -birdie
Visits to Sunderland’s libraries have fallen by more than 100,000
Some bad news from Sunderland Echo in the UK. There were 110,000 less people using Sunderland’s 21 branch and two mobile libraries last year, with the biggest falls at the recently refurbished Houghton library, where numbers were down by more than a third, and at Monkwearmouth where they fell by a quarter.
Out on a limb: Town library group fights to save neighborhood branch
A Tale of a brave group of library patrons in suburban Buffalo, NY.A group of Town of Tonawanda residents are working against time to save their neighborhood library, and they say the Town Board is doing little to help stop the clock.
The group, which calls itself Friends of the Brighton Library, hope to raise private funds to keep the Fries Road branch operating until a new “hub” library is built in the next few years. To do so, they’re asking the Town Board to “mothball” the library, locking down the building and its collection until March so the group can come up with the money and an operating plan.
Ex-Corporate librarian gets two-year prison term
The Boston Herald Reports A former research librarian at Bain & Co. pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 from the giant Boston consulting company.
Microsoft’s MSN plans book search service
Here’s News that Microsoft’s MSN unit is working on its own service for searching the contents of books online — trailing rival Google once again, but hoping this time to avoid a major challenge encountered by the Internet search leader.
Microsoft says its MSN Book Search project will differ from Google’s by scanning copyrighted books only after working out deals in advance with the copyright holders.
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