(via presurfer) What a wonderful cartoon! From pthbbbt.com, here’s a little cartoon entitled “If the library were like Amazon.com.” It’s cute, SFW, and worth the 2 minutes to read.
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Collapse of county library system feared
Pete writes “Grim news story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the potential collapse of the reciprocal borrowing program of the Milwaukee County Federated Library System(Available here). Quoting the article, “It costs about $2 for a library to lend a book or other item to a non-resident.”, with the total annual cost near $1.4 million.
Librarians are some of my favorite people
An Anonymous Patron pointed LISNews to a column about librarians in Newsday.com by Fern Kupfer, a novelist and professor of writing at Iowa State University. The first sentence should get everyone to take a look, “Librarians are some of my favorite people.” Fern covers a Palestine/Israel conflict at a public library in Iowa.
Blog from Online Information 2003
Check out this weblog from Online Information 2003 in London brought to us by Information Today with contributions from ONLINE editor Marydee Ojala and Dick Kaser (V.P. Content – Information Today). Includes news, photos, even an assignment for Dick to find the best trade-show give-away item.
ISI to Expand Web of Science Coverage Back to 1900
Similar to an announcement a few weeks ago by IEE about the backfile growth of INSPEC, Thomson ISI will be expanding Web of Science coverage to 1900 in their Century of Science initiative (currently the file extends to 1945). 850,000 records from nearly 200 journals will be added.
The project is expected to be available to customers by 2005. Press release here.
(Via InfoToday NewsBreaks)
December 2003 Cites & Insights out
Walt writes “Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 3:14 (December 2003),
the Stuff and Nonsense issue, is now
available for downloading. This is the last text issue of the year, but an index will come out in
the next couple of weeks. Expanded contents provided to satisfy a LISNews comment. If you hate it, let me know.” More details on this impressive issue are inside…
Walt writes “Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 3:14 (December 2003),
the Stuff and Nonsense issue, is now
available for downloading. This is the last text issue of the year, but an index will come out in
the next couple of weeks. Expanded contents provided to satisfy a LISNews comment. If you hate it, let me know.” More details on this impressive issue are inside…This 20-page issue (PDF as always) includes the following:
* Bibs & Blather (The Stuff and Nonsense issue and the lack of a reader
survey)
* Perspective: In Your Jets I’m going to Carolina (Comments on North
Carolina Library Association and the Charleston Conference)
* The Good Stuff (Nine items, including a 42-page expert report on the
care and handling of CDs and DVDs)
* A Library Stuff Perspective: Hysterical Librarians, Attorneys General
and Section 215
* Feedback: Your Insights (Including thoughts on publishers and
preservation, a variety of clarifications, and a cluster of items on
federated searching)
* Trends & Quick Takes (Six items, including the Segway saga, the
blogging iceberg, stupid lawsuits and Amazonia)
* The Library Stuff (13 items covering too many topics to summarize)
SB 144 (Ohio) Filtering
Checkerberry writes about the continuing saga in Ohio. “Here’s the scoop:
One Senator in Ohio has decided CIPA doesn’t go far enough in it’s quest to undermine the Freedoms of the American people. Read my rant and check out the the text of this idiotic bill, S.B. No 144.
Checkerberry writes about the continuing saga in Ohio. “Here’s the scoop:
One Senator in Ohio has decided CIPA doesn’t go far enough in it’s quest to undermine the Freedoms of the American people. Read my rant and check out the the text of this idiotic bill, S.B. No 144.Author’s note: Ironically, the text of the bill itself will probably not be safe for minors to read in Ohio, as it contains some graphic definitions. The bill’s purpose is to expand the criminal offense of “disseminating matter harmful to juveniles”, however the bill may well be covered under its own definition. Also, the bill does provide “to allow a public library or its personnel to disable the filtering device or software to enable a person to have full access to a computer for specified proper purposes”.
Japanese Authors Blame Libraries for Declining Sales
April writes “According to this article at the Daily Yomiuri (JP), Japanese authors blame libraries for shrinking book sales. They say that many people will not buy a new book because the library has it. Their suggestions for how to fix the problem are sure to be controversial – either making the libraries pay authors a fee, or waiting some time after a book’s publication before making it available at libraries.”
2004 National Library Week CD from ALA
Get it while it’s still hot off the presses. ALA announced today in a press release that the 2004 National Library Week CD, online resources is now available. It can be ordered online here. ALA states that the “CD allows libraries to create their own…artwork to celebrate National Library Week as well as promote libraries year-round.” Get a head-start on preparing for the big week.
Demand for Thatcher papers threatens to overwhelm
Charles Davis writes that The Guardian is reporting on the recent release of the official website of the Thatcher
Foundation. “The online release of Margaret Thatcher’s papers up to the time she became prime minister has excited so much interest that it threatened to overwhelm her website. During the weekend the website, www.margaretthatcher.org, reported that “Heavy traffic is causing delays and access problems” – following press reports that the archive, housed at Churchill College, Cambridge, was opened to the public on Friday.”
Lady Thatcher’s archive is now the most accessible of any modern politician, containing declassified Falklands War documents, letters and correspondence with foreign leaders, and handwritten notes.
Read the full article at The Guardian.
Charles Davis writes that The Guardian is reporting on the recent release of the official website of the Thatcher
Foundation. “The online release of Margaret Thatcher’s papers up to the time she became prime minister has excited so much interest that it threatened to overwhelm her website. During the weekend the website, www.margaretthatcher.org, reported that “Heavy traffic is causing delays and access problems” – following press reports that the archive, housed at Churchill College, Cambridge, was opened to the public on Friday.”
Lady Thatcher’s archive is now the most accessible of any modern politician, containing declassified Falklands War documents, letters and correspondence with foreign leaders, and handwritten notes.
Read the full article at The Guardian.Author’s Note: The website contains more that just documents produced by Lady Thatcher, including multimedia (video, audio, photos), bibliographies, chronological timelines, and much more.
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