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- Die CeBIT zieht auch in 2004 voraussichtlich weniger Besucher als in den Vorjahren an. Der neue Trend: [...] |
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- Pohjois-Pohjanmaan ympäristökeskukseen jätettiin mää |
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- NEW YORK - Connecticut and Pittsburgh will decide the Big East tournament championship and settle an old score. |
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- Daniel writes "If you have patrons who often write to Congress, try steering them to the Fast Facts for Congresswebsite (http://fastfacts. census. gov). This site has congressional district maps posted with the names of the representative or senator along with the district number on the page. |
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- ChuckB writes, "The Register has a story, EC seeks to stamp out Net child porn, racism and spam, which reports on the EU's Safer Internet Plus initiative. "Children should have the right to use the internet freely to chat, to learn or to play games, but to move freely online, children must be protected from the risk of being exploited by adults." (Erkki Liikanen, EU enterprise amp; information society minister) The initiative is directed at racism amp; violence as well as pornography, and filtering is one of four approaches it takes to the issue. |
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- An Anonymous Patron shared with us the PMLA Alternative Source Citations. A.P. writes, "Couldn't help sharing... amusing as well as useful... |
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- I am putting together a PDA page for my use. Others are welcome to use it if they want. It is at: http://people. |
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- Anonymous Patron writes Comic Books for Young Adults. The Web site is designed "to introduce librarians (as well as teachers and parents) to the rich, diverse offerings from today's comics book publishers, and to encourage the acquisition of comic books and graphic novels in libraries serving young adults." |
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- The 2004 Annual OVGTSL Conference will be held Wednesday, May 12 to Friday, May 14 in Louisville, Kentucky with the theme "Technical Services = User Services: Making the Connection." This year's keynote speaker will be Janet Swan Hill, Director of Technical Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Other invited speakers are Lee Van Orsdel, Dean of Libraries at Eastern Kentucky University and Glenn Patton, Director of the WorldCat Content Management Division of OCLC. |
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- ChuckB writes, "As listeners of today's Writer's Almanac will know, today is the day in 1901 on which Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 to the City of New York to build 65 libraries. Keillor quotes Carnegie: "The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the good and the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants. |
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- The North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information Sciences and NASIG's Continuing Education Committee are co-sponsoring the Thirteenth North Carolina Serials Conference, April 15-16. The conference title is Opening Pandora's Box: Managing the Chaos of Serials Resources.From the announcement email: "Feeling overwhelmed, and fearing that even Hope has deserted you? |
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- A concerned member of Namibia's Library and Information Council suggests that to young readers, "a book is not just a book." We could easily stock our libraries with thousands of volumes of the works of Kim Il Sung, American fundamentalist garbage, "scientology" and apartheid school textbooks. And irrelevant items from overseas book donors who think anything with printed letters is good enough for a third world country. |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "Martin Amis has a story in the current issue of The New Yorker, a twisted and profane tale of a despot's body double in the midst of a collapsing regime. It is in many respects a typically Amis affair, an exercise in extreme fiction rescued from puerility by taut, cutting prose. But in the wake of a novel that was panned by critics and that concluded his American publishing contract, the story conveys another message: Mr. Amis is alive and kicking and, in case anyone's interested, up for grabs. |
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- In his new book, "A Brief History of the Smile," Yale University's Angus Trumble (curator of Yale's Center for British art) traces the development of the phenomenon from the stilted masklike expressions in early Greek sculpture to the yellow smiley face and its Internet counterpart. Here's an interview with the author from CNET News. His book began as a presentation to a group of dentists, finding in his research that it was the revolution in the standard of dental hygiene through the 19th century and into the 20th, and the invention of photography and later of motion pictures that popularized smiling. |
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- Charles Davis writes "List from BBC NEWS Footballer David Beckham, Whitbread winner Mark Haddon and Harry Potter author JK Rowling are up for the top prize at the British Book Awards. Beckham's autobiography, My Side, is also joined by Paul Burrell's memoirs and Monica Ali's Brick Lane in the Book of the Year category. Madonna's English Roses is nominated for Children's Book of the Year along with Philip Pullman's Lyra's Oxford. The awards will be announced live on Channel 4 on 7 April." |
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- Daniel writes "The current issue of Library Worklife has an article titled Employee Rights: Political Speech By Mary Minow and Tomas Lipinski that should be of interest in this superheated political year." |
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- judgebean writes: Follow up article discusses what the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District will have to do in the wake of the bond failure. Looks like a minority of voters, who were concerned with the library system's filtering policy, have prevented citizens of Vancouver from enjoying increased library services. Read more. |
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- At the 58th annual Edgar Awards ceremony this April 29, the Mystery Writers of America will honor Bowling Green State University's Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies with a Raven Award for "commitment to preserve mystery fiction through a formidable and constantly growing collection of detective mystery novels and manuscripts." |
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- Anna writes: "Formerly segregated South Africa has for the first time appointed a black man to be the National Librarian. I am frequently impressed by how quickly South Africa has gone from violent segregation to, at least on the surface level, a nation of equal opportunity. When will a United States President nominate a person from an oppressed or minority group to the position of Librarian of Congress? |
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- There is a neat article in USA Today about a book scanning machine that scans 1200 pages an hour without damaging the book. From the article, "This process is actually gentler on books than the human hand." Article is here. |
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- I've found this website by Bob Bocher (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction) to be one of the most useful and user-friendly, when it comes to CIPA/e-rate information. It's got background, Q A and plenty o' links and has been recently updated. |
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- Val Hamilton writes "While schools pour big money into computers, some educators say the educational rewards are disappointing Vancouver Sun Thursday, March 11, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ebpu http://bctf. ca/BCTLA/news. |
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- An Anonymous Patron tells us about this article on libraries adopting 'business' strategies, from Boston.com: "Patricia Lambert, who favors power suits and keeps a copy of "Think Like a Manager" near her desk, took over as library director about two months ago. In one of her first business decisions, she quietly reversed a longtime rule at the library. "I took down the sign that says, 'No food or drink,' " she said. |
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- The New York Times (free reg. required) reports that AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft and Yahoo have filed suit in their respective home states against different groups of suspected spammers under the new federal antispam act that took effect Jan. 1. It will be interesting to see if these cases have any effect at all on the rising tide of spam (now there's a visual for you!). |
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- A series of films based on books by the children's author Judy Blume are to be turned into Disney movies... Some of her books for young adults have sparked controversy because they deal with sex and puberty, issues which are usually taboo in books for teenagers. Judy Blume's books have always been popular, but now, with The Mouse's imprimatur, school librarians will want to restock their shelves, and be prepared for challenges. So have those district policies and challenge committees current and at the ready. |
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- Search Engines writes "kansascity.com Reports As approved by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, the bill would require any library computer available to minors to be equipped as of July 1 with an Internet device to filter out obscene material. Rep. Becky Hutchins, a Holton Republican, shepherded the legislation through the House debate. “We constantly hear the phrase that times have changed, and I would agree with that, but the one thing that has not changed — our responsibility to keep minors safe and the role of government to aid us in that process,” she told the House. |
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- Daria Teutonico writes "Fulbright Scholar Program2005-06 Professional Librarian Award in the United KingdomThe United Kingdom Fulbright Commission has again announced an award for an assistant librarian to help provide professional library services for the Second Air Division Memorial Library, located within the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library. The Second Air Division Memorial Library has three purposes: nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; |
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- Pete writes " The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that while recently under fire for how it handles public e-mails, Ozaukee County Wisconsin is now being praised by state open records advocates for its plan to develop an archive that would give public access to electronic documents.The archive's primary purpose, to store e-mails sent and received by county supervisors, is "an example of a local government trying to come up with a responsible solution to this problem" of making computer records more accessible, said Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, an assistant state attorney general." |
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- I have nothing to add to this entry by LC & IB Meryl Yourish other than this: 9/11/01, 10/17/02 and... |
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- Business man to lead Haiti; Aristocracy set to cash in Toronto Star It was inevitable that the relentless forces of... |
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- We couldn't make South by Southwest this year because of the usual workload and our desire to not travel on one of our free weekends. The trip to Austin is usually fraught with some sort of travel mishap -- like... |
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