A senior French official visiting Seoul indicated yesterday that old Korean documents looted by French troops some 140 years ago should be returned. He Says “Memory is very important. It’s difficult to explain to curators and librarians. If it is important to a country, it should clearly be yours,” said Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, director of CulturesFrance, in an interview with The Korea Herald.
He made the remarks when asked about the possibility of the permanent return of the books.
The priceless collection of papers and speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will not be auctioned at Sotheby’s this Friday; instead, they have found a home at Dr. King’s alma mater, Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta.
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What do you do when Google gets a hold of information you have on the public web that shouldn’t be there? You take them to court, of course. A North Carolina county school system, who had students’ social security numbers available on an unprotected site, filed an injunction against Google to have the cached pages removed. They also claim the Googlebot crawler somehow accessed password-protected content. Search Engine Watch has more coverage.
Compare to the infamous Tuttle incident involving another clueless administrator, or even the oopsies at Ohio University with personally-identifying information. And anyone thinking the school’s tactics were inappropriate, keep in mind that with Google, such sabre rattling has produced results in the past.
DFW.com is one place to read an AP piece on Laura Bush’s talk Monday.
“Until there are schools for their children, families won’t return home,” she told the audience at a town hall meeting put on as part of the American Library Association’s meeting. With 18,000 attendees, it’s the first major convention in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit Aug. 29.
Anonymous Patron writes “WISH-TV: Libraries across Indiana are beefing up their budgets by charging pricey late-fees for D-V-Ds.
The fees can be as high as two dollars a day. The cash is infusing thousands of dollars into library bank accounts and helping the facilities buy more titles.
Jon Barnes, a spokesman for the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, says fines on the systems’ 25-thousand D-V-DS helped bring in one-point-five (m) million dollars last year _ up 500-thousand dollars the year before.”
Anonymous Patron writes “courant.com: Forbes Smiley used his expertise in antiquarian maps and exploited the trust of his longtime colleagues to unload more than $1.8 million in stolen maps over 71/2 years.”
Anonymous Patron writes “It may sound far fetched, but what if a new reading program could help eliminate the gang problems?
Hamilton County, TN, school board member Jeff Wilson explains. “We’ve been dealing the last few weeks with gang problems. I don’t think there’s any misconception to the fact that there’s some correlation between young people’s propensity to get in trouble, and academic achievement level.” News Channel 9 – WTVC has more”
Author
J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted
Harry Potter might not survive either.
“I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, `Well, I’m gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I’m dead and gone they won’t be able to bring back the character’.”
The Supreme Court refused Monday to decide whether the granddaughter of A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, can recapture control of the copyright for stories featuring the popular children’s character.
This Report Says
Milne wrote the Pooh books between 1924 and 1928 and granted a license to Stephen Slesinger in 1930. Slesinger, in turn, granted his rights to Stephen Slesinger Inc. The company sublicensed certain rights to the Pooh works to Walt Disney Productions.
The End of Authorship is an essay by John Updike over at the NY Times. “Booksellers, you are the salt of the book world. You are on the front line where, while the author cowers in his opium den, you encounter — or “interface with,” as we say now — the rare and mysterious Americans who are willing to plunk down $25 for a book. Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. At my mother’s side I used to visit the two stores in downtown Reading, Pa., a city then of 100,000, and I still recall their names and locations — the Book Mart, at Sixth Street and Court, and the Berkshire News, on Fifth Street, in front of the trolley stop that would take us home to Shillington.”
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