KurdishMedia News recently reported that deputy governor Mustafa Altinpinar of Sutculer in the Turkish province of Isparta ordered the wholesale destruction of books novelist Orhan Pamuk for making a reference to the massacre of Armenians. Ironically, none of the award-winner novelist’s writings could be found to destory.
This case is under investigation by Turkey’s Interior Ministry.
Anonymous Patron writes “DTH Online Reports on an idea to establish a task force to consider establishing a ‘digital curation center.’ Looks like they want to digitize first and figure out how to preserve later. Best of luck.”
Anonymous Patron writes “The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Registration MAY be required) carried the story In chick lit, girls rule, a piece which relates the explosive popularity of books for teen girls:
“Since the late 1990s, teen chick lit — think Bridget Jones in high school — has been gaining popularity, reaping profits for publishers and booksellers, prompting established adult authors to target younger audiences and giving teens and tweens (9- to 12-year-old girls) their own heroines.
“Chick lit “is still growing each year by double digits,” said Joe Monti, national young-adult buyer for Barnes & Noble. “I can’t see a ceiling yet, and I can’t even gauge when that ceiling will be hit.”
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Anonymous Patron writes “The New Yorker has an extensive profile on Lonely Planet creator and author Tony Wheeler. The article’s author asserts that the Lonely Planet series has migrated from being edgy guides to the rarely visited places to being like other corporate travel guides.”
Anonymous Patron writes “Commentary from the Desert Dispatch writer Tibor Machan makes a conservative/libertarian approach to broadcast censorship. Among other issues, Mr. Machan says the gov’t should have never “nationalized the airwaves” back in 1927.”
Blake writes The records keeper is a Federal Computer Week profile on new National Archivist Allen Weinstein. It has some indications that Mr. Weinstein may be better for the National Archives than many thought:
“For the fiscal 2007 budget, he will request a substantial increase for ERA (Electronic Records Archives). The new request will be at least 20 percent more than the fiscal 2006 request of nearly $36 million, a NARA spokeswoman said.
Weinstein also is pushing to stop the dismantling of NARA’s grant program, which supports e-records research and state historical projects. Office of Management and Budget officials cut all funding for the 70-year-old National Historical Publications and Records Commission in the proposed fiscal 2006 budget.
Weinstein said he will pursue Webcasting to educate students and the public about the contents of NARA’s vaults. He said he often hears that people, unclear about the Archives’ purpose, confuse the building with the Library of Congress or the Smithsonian Institution.
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Anonymous Patron writes “A Very Short Vietnam News Agency report says The number of foreign book titles translated into the Vietnamese language saw a year-on-year decrease of 30 percent in the first quarter of this year.
The figure was announced at the conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 11 to review publishing activities in the first three months of this year.”
Blake writes “Daily Tarheel Online reports that the University of North Carolina Faculty Council has passed a resolution calling for UNC Faculty to publish in open access journals.
The current resolution does not appear to be online yet, but a March 4th meeting transcript has a resolution on studying open access and some good discussion of the issue.”
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Blake writes “Inside Higher Ed
The members of the audience seemed uncertain about how easily they and their institutions will be able to adapt to the technological changes. Asked to pick among three choices — “Google is good for my life and library;â€? “Google is evil and bad for my life and library!”; and “Still trying to decide between A and Bâ€? — “Câ€? led the way.
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Anonymous Patron writes “NWAnews.comreports The Clinton presidential foundation this week relaxed confidentiality rules barring volunteers in Little Rock from speaking publicly about their work, after the foundation’s New York office discarded standards that threatened legal action against volunteers who spoke out of turn.”
The “relaxed” guidelines still seem pretty stiff for a quasi-public institution:
“The shorter form instructs volunteers not to disclose any information acquired while working unless it is publicly disclosed by the foundation. They must also get permission from the foundation’s communications office before granting media interviews. It makes no mention of penalties — except to state that unauthorized communication with the media is grounds for dismissal.”
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