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Author Beverly Cleary turns 100 with wit, candour

As she turns 100, the feisty and witty author Beverly Cleary remembers the Oregon childhood that inspired the likes of characters Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins in the children’s books that sold millions and enthralled generations of youngsters.
“I was a well-behaved little girl, not that I wanted to be,” she said. “At the age of Ramona, in those days, children played outside. We played hopscotch and jump rope and I loved them and always had scraped knees.”

From Author Beverly Cleary turns 100 with wit, candour | Entertainment & Showbiz from CTV News

As she turns 100, the feisty and witty author Beverly Cleary remembers the Oregon childhood that inspired the likes of characters Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins in the children’s books that sold millions and enthralled generations of youngsters.
“I was a well-behaved little girl, not that I wanted to be,” she said. “At the age of Ramona, in those days, children played outside. We played hopscotch and jump rope and I loved them and always had scraped knees.”

From Author Beverly Cleary turns 100 with wit, candour | Entertainment & Showbiz from CTV News

April 12, 2016 by Authors

National Library Week – thoughts on cybersecurity

There are two ways in which libraries could be doing a lot better in the realm of cybersecurity. And I should note, I work for rural libraries and digitally divided patrons for the most part so a lot of my ideas are on human scale but there are a lot of good ideas in the larger scale about just encrypting and anonymizing data but they’re sort of the same as they would be for any big business.

From National Library Week – thoughts on cybersecurity | librarian.net

There are two ways in which libraries could be doing a lot better in the realm of cybersecurity. And I should note, I work for rural libraries and digitally divided patrons for the most part so a lot of my ideas are on human scale but there are a lot of good ideas in the larger scale about just encrypting and anonymizing data but they’re sort of the same as they would be for any big business.

From National Library Week – thoughts on cybersecurity | librarian.net

April 11, 2016 by Librarians Libraries

The importance of teaching online privacy at the college

I really like the closing paragraph here! I might replace “The College” with “The College Library” 🙂

The importance of teaching online privacy at the college

If the College’s mission truly is to mold us into informed citizens and consumers, an excellent place for it to start would be with this issue of data security and online privacy. Even a brief session during orientation would be an improvement; if not to teach us how to be fully secure in our data, then simply to let us know that it is not, by itself, fully secure. An even better option, as suggested by Tracy Mitrano — an academic dean at the University of Massachusetts Cybersecurity Certificate Programs — would be a GER course in information literacy. Only then could the College say it produces truly informed citizens.

From The importance of teaching online privacy at the college | Flat Hat News

I really like the closing paragraph here! I might replace “The College” with “The College Library” 🙂

The importance of teaching online privacy at the college

If the College’s mission truly is to mold us into informed citizens and consumers, an excellent place for it to start would be with this issue of data security and online privacy. Even a brief session during orientation would be an improvement; if not to teach us how to be fully secure in our data, then simply to let us know that it is not, by itself, fully secure. An even better option, as suggested by Tracy Mitrano — an academic dean at the University of Massachusetts Cybersecurity Certificate Programs — would be a GER course in information literacy. Only then could the College say it produces truly informed citizens.

From The importance of teaching online privacy at the college | Flat Hat News

April 11, 2016 by Academic Libraries Internet Libraries Privacy

Getting away with murder: literature’s most annoyingly unpunished characters

Nobody wants to see the baddie win, however much sense it makes to the story. Which of the villains in books do you wish retribution on?

From Getting away with murder: literature’s most annoyingly unpunished characters | Books | The Guardian

Nobody wants to see the baddie win, however much sense it makes to the story. Which of the villains in books do you wish retribution on?

From Getting away with murder: literature’s most annoyingly unpunished characters | Books | The Guardian

April 11, 2016 by Uncategorized

Americans, Libraries and Learning: New Pew Research Center Report!

Libraries and Learning
Majorities of Americans think local libraries serve the educational needs of their communities and families pretty well and library users often outpace others in learning activities. But many do not know about key education services libraries provide

From Americans, Libraries and Learning | Pew Research Center

Libraries and Learning
Majorities of Americans think local libraries serve the educational needs of their communities and families pretty well and library users often outpace others in learning activities. But many do not know about key education services libraries provide

From Americans, Libraries and Learning | Pew Research Center

April 11, 2016 by Internet Libraries

Harry Potter: GCHQ ‘intervened over Half-Blood Prince leak’

Bloomsbury’s Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after it apparently discovered an early copy of The Half Blood-Prince on the internet.
However, after a page was read to an editor, it was determined to be fake.
A spokesperson for GCHQ told the Sunday Times: “We don’t comment on our defence against the dark arts.”

From Harry Potter: GCHQ ‘intervened over Half-Blood Prince leak’ – BBC News

Bloomsbury’s Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after it apparently discovered an early copy of The Half Blood-Prince on the internet.
However, after a page was read to an editor, it was determined to be fake.
A spokesperson for GCHQ told the Sunday Times: “We don’t comment on our defence against the dark arts.”

From Harry Potter: GCHQ ‘intervened over Half-Blood Prince leak’ – BBC News

April 11, 2016 by Harry Potter Internet

The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case

The Internet Archive, joined by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Society of American Archivists filed an amicus brief in Fox v. TVEyes on March 23, 2016. In the brief, the Internet Archive and its partners urge the court to issue a decision that will support rather than hinder the development of comprehensive archives of television broadcasts.

From The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case | Internet Archive Blogs

The Internet Archive, joined by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Society of American Archivists filed an amicus brief in Fox v. TVEyes on March 23, 2016. In the brief, the Internet Archive and its partners urge the court to issue a decision that will support rather than hinder the development of comprehensive archives of television broadcasts.

From The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case | Internet Archive Blogs

April 6, 2016 by American Library Association Archives Internet Libraries

The crazy scale of the US’s benefactor-driven museum boom

Museums in the US are growing rapidly—and so is the money at stake.
They spent nearly $5 billion between 2007 and 2014, according to the Art Newspaper. The publication’s study of 75 museums across 38 countries found that, when it came to building new wings and galleries, the US spent more than all the 37 other countries combined.
The boom is all the more spectacular as it came amid the worst recession since the Great Depression.

From The crazy scale of the US’s benefactor-driven museum boom – Quartz

Museums in the US are growing rapidly—and so is the money at stake.
They spent nearly $5 billion between 2007 and 2014, according to the Art Newspaper. The publication’s study of 75 museums across 38 countries found that, when it came to building new wings and galleries, the US spent more than all the 37 other countries combined.
The boom is all the more spectacular as it came amid the worst recession since the Great Depression.

From The crazy scale of the US’s benefactor-driven museum boom – Quartz

April 6, 2016 by Museums

How Shakespeare Lives Now

Shakespeare’s death on April 23, 1616, went largely unremarked by all but a few of his immediate contemporaries. There was no global shudder when his mortal remains were laid to rest in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. No one proposed that he be interred in Westminster Abbey near Chaucer or Spenser (where his fellow playwright Francis Beaumont was buried in the same year and where Ben Jonson would be buried some years later). No notice of Shakespeare’s passing was taken in the diplomatic correspondence of the time or in the newsletters that circulated on the Continent; no rush of Latin obsequies lamented the “vanishing of his breath,” as classical elegies would have it; no tributes were paid to his genius by his distinguished European contemporaries. Shakespeare’s passing was an entirely local English event, and even locally it seems scarcely to have been noted.

From How Shakespeare Lives Now by Stephen Greenblatt | The New York Review of Books

Shakespeare’s death on April 23, 1616, went largely unremarked by all but a few of his immediate contemporaries. There was no global shudder when his mortal remains were laid to rest in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. No one proposed that he be interred in Westminster Abbey near Chaucer or Spenser (where his fellow playwright Francis Beaumont was buried in the same year and where Ben Jonson would be buried some years later). No notice of Shakespeare’s passing was taken in the diplomatic correspondence of the time or in the newsletters that circulated on the Continent; no rush of Latin obsequies lamented the “vanishing of his breath,” as classical elegies would have it; no tributes were paid to his genius by his distinguished European contemporaries. Shakespeare’s passing was an entirely local English event, and even locally it seems scarcely to have been noted.

From How Shakespeare Lives Now by Stephen Greenblatt | The New York Review of Books

April 4, 2016 by Uncategorized

Librarian under house arrest in Moscow accused of anti-Russian propaganda

She’s accused of inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity. Natalya Sharina is a 58-year-old Russian librarian in Moscow  and though the Russian government says she’s not on the Kremlin’s radar, someone thinks she and her books are a threat.

From Librarian under house arrest in Moscow accused of anti-Russian propaganda – Home | The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti | CBC Radio

She’s accused of inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity. Natalya Sharina is a 58-year-old Russian librarian in Moscow  and though the Russian government says she’s not on the Kremlin’s radar, someone thinks she and her books are a threat.

From Librarian under house arrest in Moscow accused of anti-Russian propaganda – Home | The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti | CBC Radio

April 4, 2016 by Librarians Libraries

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