January 2006

Steven Notes he’s been tagging articles throughout the week on del.icio.us that might make for good LISnews reading.
I added the Feed to the Slashboxes so you can add it to your LISNews homepage.

coastal writes “Here is a story in The Morning Journal, about Sandy Nosse, racecar driving Cleveland librarian.
She’s placed first six times at Sandusky Speedway and was in one major crash.

”I was in the lead for my second win in a row when someone tapped me from behind and spun me out and another car hit me in the driver’s door,” said Nosse, who was not injured.”

Daniel writes “This week was a busy one for the volunteers at Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info/) as we posted the numerous stories below. We hope you will join us and add to the conversation. Remember, you can always comment without registering.

• New on FDSys: January 30, 2006 – Industry contacts, capabilities update – Daniel
  
• A bill that would give us more information – James A.
• Digital Deposit in Action: Alaska State Documents via LOCKSS – Daniel
• NSA: Redact by rewriting. – James A.
• Privacy – James A.
• A bill you are not allowed to see or discuss?? – James A.
• Likely space requirements for digital deposit – Daniel
• Google agrees to censor search results in China – Shinjoung
• CIA selective on publications – James R.
• Hundreds of libraries waiting for digital deposit – Daniel
• What is the Federal Depository Library Program? – Daniel
• More on Google vs. DOJ – James A.

If you use Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) or some other RSS Reader, consider subscribing to the FGI Feed at http://freegovinfo.info/blog/feed to get FGI stories as they are posted.

Until next week!”

Daniel writes “This week was a busy one for the volunteers at Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info/) as we posted the numerous stories below. We hope you will join us and add to the conversation. Remember, you can always comment without registering.

• New on FDSys: January 30, 2006 – Industry contacts, capabilities update – Daniel
  
• A bill that would give us more information – James A.
• Digital Deposit in Action: Alaska State Documents via LOCKSS – Daniel
• NSA: Redact by rewriting. – James A.
• Privacy – James A.
• A bill you are not allowed to see or discuss?? – James A.
• Likely space requirements for digital deposit – Daniel
• Google agrees to censor search results in China – Shinjoung
• CIA selective on publications – James R.
• Hundreds of libraries waiting for digital deposit – Daniel
• What is the Federal Depository Library Program? – Daniel
• More on Google vs. DOJ – James A.

If you use Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) or some other RSS Reader, consider subscribing to the FGI Feed at http://freegovinfo.info/blog/feed to get FGI stories as they are posted.

Until next week!”

The Fort Wayne News Sentinel Looks At the staffers at the Allen County Public Library who are expressing concerns for the safety of children left alone, sometimes even without a way to get home.
Security staff recorded an estimated 81 incidences last year systemwide in which a child was left unattended for several hours or was at the library at closing time without a parent or a way home. John Hidy, security services manager for the library system, said, to his recollection, that represents a slight increase from previous years though he doesn’t have any numbers before 2005.

The library branch is a great resource, but as with any public place, predators can hang out,he said. We’re very fortunate that we haven’t had any serious incidents.

Reinventing libraries is an article from the Sacramento Bee that takes a look at the innovations in school libraries that set stage for online research but also bring uncertainties. The Rio Linda Union School District is expanding their libraries, and they say it’s a bold investment in libraries, particularly as library programs from other districts sometimes face the chopping block when budgets tighten.
Rio Linda Union’s library media centers may be steps ahead of other districts’ programs, but Rio Linda is still wrestling with the debate familiar to other districts over how best to integrate online education with book learning.

Walt writes “ Cites & Insights 6:3, February 2006, is now available for downloading.

The PDF issue is 22 pages long. Each section except “My Back Pages” is also available in HTML, with links on the C&I home page.

This issue includes the following essays:

Followup Perspective: Beyond ‘Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0″‘ – A few comments on posts since 5 p.m. January 6–and brief notes on what I believe is happening now, and why C&I probably won’t be covering it extensively.

©4 Perspective: Analog Hole and Broadcast Flag – Recent activity around the Broadcast Flag (a bad idea that refuses to go away) and recently-introduced legislation to enable an even worse idea, closing the analog hole.

Library Stuff Perspective: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources – A few comments and criticisms of this generally first-rate 296-page OCLC report.

Interesting & Peculiar Products – seven of them, one of which is fortunately only a somewhat creepy idea.

©2 Perspective: What NC Means to Me – Commenting on an article that attacks Creative Commons NC (Non-Commercial) license, a proposed set of guidelines for interpreting NC–and my own added permissions to those apparently granted by NC.

Trends & Quick Takes – Four trends.

My Back Pages – A baker’s dozen.

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News From Georgia where The former director of a central-Georgia library system has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars in library funds.

David C. Wilson, who directed the Ocmulgee Regional Library System from for 22 years, must also pay $264,298 in restitution to the library system and a $75,000 fine, under a sentence issued Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Dudley Bowen.

Wilson was director from 1982 until 2004. He was convicted in October of five counts of theft and one count of witness tampering.

pchuck writes “On January 5, 2006, Chuck Zink died at the age of 80.

Mr. Zink was a father figure to many children during his time at Miami’s WTVJ. Where, from 1956 to 1979, he hosted the wildly popular show “Popeye’s Playhouse”–which was later renamed “The Skipper Chuck Show.”

Some Good News for the kids down in New South Wales. Truck loads of new books are to be delivered to NSW schools thanks to a joint fund-raising effort to put more than 25,000 books into their libraries.

About $190,000 has been raised for the Premier’s Reading Challenge Books for Schools fund by donations from The Sun-Herald and the NSW Department of Education and Training.

Times Online Reports libraries are being asked to back a scheme that would result in hundreds of thousands of journals and academic books being pulped.

The shortage of shelf space at university libraries is so severe that a central archive is planned to house academic works for all institutions. The National Research Reserve, run by the British Library, would hold and distribute all academic works held in re- search libraries, allowing librarians to destroy material knowing that another copy was available.