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According to the blog treehugger, Future Systems just won the competition to design the Czech National Library. See more about their interesting – it really is unusual – design at the Future Systems website.

Just because a person can not view too many beautiful libraries, here is a post at the Curious Expeditions blog about some truly lovely libraries. There are many photos, and some discussion about additional libraries that should have made the list.

The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has filed a complaint with the FCC over the warnings that precede home movies, and are the standard fare of televised sports. The CCIA indicates that the warnings, which indicate that this media is not to be reproduced without permission, scares uninformed users who do not understand their fair use rights. You can read an L.A. Times article about the proceedings here or go to the CCIA’s “Defend Fair Use” website and look at the actual complaint.

This interesting article from the Managed Care Magazine talks about “information therapy.” The article defines information therapy as “the practice of providing more and better information to patients so they can contribute more to their healing.” This doctor-provided information encourages the patient to be more active participants in their care and helps to counteract the incorrect information which is so readily available.

A German government agency will start spending money ensuring that the articles about “specialized renewable resource topics” will be accurate. To do this, they will recruit experts to write articles on the German-language Wikipedia. Read more about it at Ars Techia.

The notes that people write in books are sometimes trite, but often touching. The Book Inscriptions Project is an archive of inscriptions that people have found in books. There are photographs of poetry, family history, and commentary written in books.

David S. Cohen at Variety Magazine writes about the partnership of Sun Microsystems and Elektrofilm Digital Studios to create the first archiving system developed specifically for the film industry, an especially important move now that some movies are being created in only digital formats.

The Lansing Public Library made a creative display of “For Dummies” books and posted it to Flickr.

Apparently long-dead scholars “borrowed” each other’s words, too. According to Paul Collins at Slate, Google Book Search isn’t just unmasking transgressions by current writers. He talks about how an offhand search resulted in discovering unattributed quotations in one author’s work, and ponders what other borrowed words will be discovered in coming years.