Anonymous Patron writes “Reuters.com: A dealer of antique treasures who admitted stealing more than $3 million in rare maps was resentful of the world’s top libraries and acted to finance his rich tastes and rising debt, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Shedding light into why Edward Forbes Smiley III stole 98 of the world’s most precious maps over seven years, papers filed in Connecticut’s U.S. District Court said he initially acted because he felt he had been wronged and slighted.”
infodiva writes “The Raleigh News & Observer reports that a man has been arrested for possession of many ipods and other electronics, many of which had been stolen from the N.C. State University Library. Turns out, he had been living in the library the year before…here’s the whole story“.
GregS* writes “from John Derbyshire at The Corner — “This is going around the math-sci listservs:
The Royal Society has digitized & onlined all of its publications (1665-present). Access is free until December.
This is an unbelievable sci/tech resource — 60,000 articles by folks from Newton and Leibniz to Hawking and Chandrasekhar.
Annoyingly, they’ll start charging for access after December. Grab the good parts while it’s still free.””
teaperson writes “The most-emailed story today on Boston.com is “Vast library, thoughts of John Adams displayed“. The Boston Public Library has put on display his private library, with the books open so you can read choice marginalia. The library is also digitizing Adams’s papers, for those who can’t get to Copley Square.
A bit more on the exhibit at the BPL website.”
Anonymous Patron writes “This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first post in this series focused on defining “Service Oriented Architecture” using the analogy of a transportation network. This post goes into some detail about what makes a “service” in this architecture and offers an example using a hypothetical use case: a union library catalog (Open WorldCat) making a statement about the availability of a book.”
Cites & Insights 6:12, October 2006, is now available for downloading.
The 26-page issue (PDF as usual, but you can download HTML separates), which seems to have mostly long essays with long titles, includes:
Anonymous Patron writes “EUobserver.com: The EU wants to digitalise and online the vast volumes of cultural works in member state libraries to make them accessible to all, but unless the issue of copyright and intellectual property rights are solved, the European Digital Library may consist only of books and journals published before the 1920s.
The European Commission in August urged the 25 EU member states to speed up and co-operate on the setting up of a European-wide digital library.”
Anonymous Patron writes “Stolen book returned after 150 years: An 18th-century legal tome has been returned to the North Carolina state Supreme Court 150 years after it was stolen by a Union soldier after the Civil War.
“Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown Adjudged and Determined; in the Reign of King Charles II” is inscribed by Quentin Busbee, who served as the Supreme Court reporter in 1853, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. The book was published in 1708.
The work was donated anonymously to the library of Indiana University. The only clue to its travels from North Carolina to Indiana is an unsigned inscription — “Obtained in July 1865 at Raleigh, North Carolina.””
Sameer Patel writes “ZapTXT is a free service that lets you create custom keyword searches to monitor your favorite RSS-enabled sites and receive alerts via Email, Instant Messenger or Mobile Device.
Sameer Patel writes “ZapTXT is a free service that lets you create custom keyword searches to monitor your favorite RSS-enabled sites and receive alerts via Email, Instant Messenger or Mobile Device.
URL: http://www.zaptxt.com/
Features:
– Task Monitoring — combine a set of feeds to monitor against a set of key words. So true task monitoring as opposed to per feed monitoring.
– Easy refining of your feedset for a given task so you can constantly improve the quality of our results for a task
– A Zap It! Book marklet that you add to your browser that passes a feed into ZapTXT from an RSS-enabled website that you stumble upon and want to monitor for keywords.
– For those who care about OPML: Import your OPML file and monitor the entire feeds set for keywords using all of the delivery mechanisms we offer. We also let you refine the feed set from within ZapTXT as you find new feeds that you want to add. And of course, export any task or OPML file back to your reader if you like.
– A Tag based system around feeds that have “need to know now” information from both media and public interest content sources.
– More powerful search: for example create a ZapTask using your trusted feeds with Apple, Cisco, Microsoft AND upgrade, downgrade, merger as keywords. You’ll get an alert every time any of these companies make the headlines for an upgrade, downgrade or merger.
Usage Scenarios:
– A researcher can create ZapTasks around his/her specific key words to search across a set of content sources(e.g. ‘Joe Lieberman’ on Daily KOS, CNN and Digg).
– A diabetic or medical researcher can bring his/her feeds or select from tags, to have ZapTXT monitor a new drug, alternative treatment across trusted blogs and say the health section of the NYTimes.
– A sports fan can monitor a team, a player on his/her favorite blogs and news sites
– And for the shopper or jobseeker or any classifieds needs — let the deal come to you and be the first to respond. Monitor that digital camera across Craigslist, eBay Stores, CNET reviews or just about any commerce related rss enabled feed. Same applies for that job, an apartment etc.
Thanks for taking a look”
Anonymous Patron writes “eGov monitor: A new report from the MLA and WiFi specialist RegenerateIT anticipates that by 2009 half of all libraries will offer some form of WiFi (wireless technology). The report estimates that there are currently about 23 per cent of library services delivering WiFi with 42 per cent of library services planning to offer WiFi in the next financial year. Benefits of WiFi in libraries include more flexible use of space–particularly important given the limited space in many rural areas–and increased availability of library PCs, allowing a greater total number of users to benefit from IT access in the library.”
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