The Yale Daily News reports Though the idea of cutting-edge science may seem at odds with a building modeled after a Gothic cathedral, Sterling’s Preservation Department applies high-tech processes on a daily basis to ensure that future generations will have access to Yale’s vast collections.
“We basically work at the marriage of chemistry and art,” said Tara Kennedy, a preservation field services librarian.
The Battle Continues in Rochester NY. The Central Library of Rochester today is expected to extend a ban on viewing explicit Web sites there as it grapples with establishing an Internet policy that appeases Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks and saves millions in county aid from the chopping block.
The library has been under fire from Brooks over a longstanding policy that let patrons, upon request, unblock potentially inappropriate or pornographic Web sites. The library says the policy complies with federal law and free speech.
Yet Brooks counters that the library isn’t required by federal law to unblock Web sites deemed inappropriate. She is threatening to strip $6.6 million in county aid to the Central Library, a cut that would likely force it to close. Brooks’ response was spurred by a television report that showed people viewing pornography on the library’s computers.
mdoneil writes “Wednesday is WIPD, so says the World Intellectual Property Organization.
You can read more about it here.
Celebrate WIPD by not illegally downloading music, or not copying software today. (They probably would like you to refrain from those activities the rest of the year too.)
On a related note, anybody have a list of all the .int TLDs?”
mdoneil writes “Bank of America is underwriting admission fees to museums. Many museums in a dozen or so states are participating. A BOA credit card, ATM, or MBNA card plus ID will get you into 85+ museums for free.
I wouldn’t run out and open a BOA card just to get this, but since I already have one I may take advantage of it.
For the complete scoop see the BOA Museums on Us website.
If it is free, it is for me!”
Today’s “Librarian In Cuffs” story brought to you by Westlake, MD. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office arrested three La Plata residents Thursday after serving search warrants on two separate drug investigations. During their investigation on Patuxent Court, officers seized 11 marijuana plants, which were actively growing. Two residents, Maysa Miller, 19, and her father, George Frederick Miller, 48, a librarian at Westlake High School in Waldorf, were arrested at the home. They were charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana production materials.
Do you have three minutes to learn about these three letters: RSS? Watch the Common Craft Show and let Lee LeFever explain the concept of updates from your favorite websites coming to you. He does it with a delightful mix of low- and hi-tech (i.e. paper and online video) tools.
Tim O’Reilly has posted a draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct on the O’Reilly Radar.
What do you think…is it a waste of time–or about time?
Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became well known for urging stressed-out students competing for elite colleges to calm down and stop trying to be perfect. Yesterday she admitted that she had fabricated her own educational credentials, and resigned after nearly three decades at M.I.T. Officials of the institute said she did not have even an undergraduate degree.
Ms. Jones is the author of the book:
“Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond,” written with a pediatrician, Dr. Kenneth R. Ginsburg. The book had added to her reputation as a kind of guru of the movement to tame the college admissions frenzy.
“Less Stress, More Success” addresses not only the pressure to be perfect but also a need to live with integrity.
Holding integrity is sometimes very hard to do because the temptation may be to cheat or cut corners,†it says. “But just remember that ‘what goes around comes around,’ meaning that life has a funny way of giving back what you put out.”
Read rest of article here.
Paul E. Erdman, a writer of best-selling novels of financial intrigue who began his literary career in the comfort of a Swiss jail, where he was being held in connection with the collapse of the Swiss bank he ran, died on Monday at his ranch in Healdsburg, Calif. He was 74.
The cause was cancer, his family said.
An economist and former Lutheran seminarian, Mr. Erdman was widely regarded as having popularized financial fiction, a genre he affectionately called fi-fi. Among his best-known novels are “The Billion Dollar Sure Thing,” “The Crash of 79” and “The Panic of ’89.”
Story Continued here.
Librarians might be the most docile people on earth, until you cross them. The late historical biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen once noted, “Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it…. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”
It appears the typically gentle souls in charge of the Marion County FL Public Library System are now set to do battle with procrastinators.
Effective June 1, any library patron, including parents of child borrowers, who owes more than $30 in late fees and whose borrowed materials are more than 60 days overdue will be referred to a collection agency for payment.
There are other options however, such as “reading off” your fines or volunteering at the library. Ocala Star-Banner reports.
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