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Billets de mai 2005 (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - 7 billets ont été postés en mai 2005 : Séminaire technique AccessiWeb ; Vacances à Saint-Jean-de-Luz ; Réunion sur le référentiel accessibilité de l'ADAE ; Accès limité à... |
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Info on Timeshare-Rental (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Info on Timeshare-Rental: Readers are directed to the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for additional information and a presentation of the risks and uncertainties that may affect the company's business and results of operations. ? Timeshare Sales - Kissimmee Vacation Home Rentals Customer Information Management (CIM) enables world-class customer experience & increased revenue. www. |
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Surfing the net - Disneyland-Vacation (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Surfing the net - Disneyland-Vacation: Like the movie, the show explores the origins of the Batman legend and the emergence of the Caped Crusader as a force for good in Gotham City. ? Disneyworld Vacation - Walt Disney World Pictures For more information on things to see and do in Texas, visit TravelTex.com, the official site of Texas Tourism. |
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Surfing the net - Cellular-Phones (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Surfing the net - Cellular-Phones: The FBI's listening to your keystrokes April 19, 2004 Feds step up push to wiretap VoIP calls February 11, 2004 Feds step up push to wiretap VoIP calls February 11, 2004 FBI targets Net phoning July 29, 2003 Get this story's "Big Picture" > From News. ? Wireless Carriers - Cingular Flip Phone Wireless 4 bil Asahi Shimbun fails to declare Y1.18 bil Ex-dentist lobby head guilty Hijacker's wife gets suspended term Group suicide planner arrested 90% fear increase in foreign criminals Suntory to sell chilled Starbucks coffee Toyota to recall 111,000 vehicles Nissan launches remodeled Serena Toyota, Peugeot begin Czech plant 7 Seibu Railway directors to resign Job offers at bubble economy level No. |
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Surfing the net - Web-Hosting-Server (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Surfing the net - Web-Hosting-Server: Developers can also write programs that filter requests and get the correct Web pages for different users by using Microsoft?s Internet Server Application Program Interface (ISAPI) interface. ? Web Server Hosting - Personal Web Server An ISP (Internet service provider) is a company that provides consumers and businesses access to the Internet and other related services such as website building, dedicated servers and virtual hosting. |
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Surfing the net - Disneyland-Vacation (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Surfing the net - Disneyland-Vacation: Like the movie, the show explores the origins of the Batman legend and the emergence of the Caped Crusader as a force for good in Gotham City. ? Disneyworld Vacation - Walt Disney World Pictures For more information on things to see and do in Texas, visit TravelTex.com, the official site of Texas Tourism. |
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Surfing the net - Web-Hosting-Server (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Surfing the net - Web-Hosting-Server: Developers can also write programs that filter requests and get the correct Web pages for different users by using Microsoft?s Internet Server Application Program Interface (ISAPI) interface. ? Web Server Hosting - Personal Web Server An ISP (Internet service provider) is a company that provides consumers and businesses access to the Internet and other related services such as website building, dedicated servers and virtual hosting. |
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Blogebrity Fools Time Magazine (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Time magazine has a blurb on Blogebrity in this week's Blogwatch column that makes it all seem very real. Amazingly, they seemed to neglect that it was all part of a big viral marketing campaign. Hey. some are even calling... |
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E3 Mindshare report (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Gamermetrics released some stats that show the Xbox 360 and the PS3 enjoyed 60% mindshare at E3. If you take that 60% and break it down, the PS3 had 34% and the Xbox 360 had 26% of the mindshare. Link |
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Signed Harry to one lucky library (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Katie writes "Apparently one lucky library will be the recipient of a signed copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince thanks to a Scholastic contest due to be announced on June 1st. Yahoo! story" |
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Oregon PL Hires Security Guard for $45,000/year (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - librarianscott writes "The new security guard hired by one of the Jackson County, Oregon, libraries "caught" a man looking at pornography and carries "pepper spray and handcuffs in case someone really gets out of line."The library claims the number of patrons at their circulation desk "has increased by 30 percent."" |
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Gorman (amp; others) and Google Scholar (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Grumpy Librarian writes "The Chronicle has a series of articles, including several by librarians, on the Google digitization project. In this interview, ALA President-Elect Michael Gorman suggests that digitizing books is useless because it is much more efficient to browse the Library of Congress catalog using Subject Headings and then ILL them. Gorman also complains that undergrads think 'they're getting relevant materials and a sufficiency of relevant materials to write papers and to do research' when they use google. Well, gee, maybe Google should add books to its collection. And perhaps most bizarrely, Gorman suggests that while libraries are technologically advanced, 'That does not mean that everything can be dumbed down to some kind of hip-hop or bells-and-whistles kind of stuff. |
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Duke Answer Person takes on all inquiries (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Steven M. Cohen writes "From The Herald Sun:"The Answer Person, as he or she has come to be known -- even affectionately as AP -- is assuredly a real person, someone on the Perkins staff who also has other duties and who is broadly knowledgeable or, like any other good librarian, can at least point people in the right direction. Beyond that, the Answer Person's identity and even gender is a closely held secret, despite frequent guesses and occasionally propositions. These the Answer Person gamely deflects, even as he or she continues to ferret out obscure lore for genuine questions or even casual curiosity. |
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Book Expo America @ NYC Javits Ctr. This Weekend (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - It's an annual event where publishers, authors, booksellers and bibliophiles mingle---reviewers tingle---and cash registers jingle...(dig the rhyme?) in 270,000 square feet of books and book-related items, and it's happening this weekend here on New York City's West Side, Friday - Sunday, June 6-8. Here's more on the event from the AP and Calendar Live .Here's a special scoop only for readers of LISNews... |
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FBI Now Wants To Monitor Snail Mail Too (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Daniel writes "Looks like the FBI is hoping to go back to the bad old days of monitoring mail in the name of national security.Over 30 years ago, the Church Commission concluded that the US Intelligence Community abused the rights of many Americans and went on fishing expeditions. Why does anyone think they're not going to abuse their authority this time? How many times to we have to watch this reel?" |
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Blockbuster Leery of The Competition--Libraries (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - In the dog eat dog world of 2005, the video rental places are a bit nervous about libraries lending recent videos...for free. In this AP article , reporter John Seewer notes, "The nation's two biggest movie-rental chains, Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, said they have not seen evidence that librarians are stealing their customers. They contend that they offer more convenience and better selection than libraries. "While it may be a creative alternative, it's really not a threat to our business," Blockbuster spokesman Blake Lugash said. |
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Brick amp; Mortar's Not Enough Anymore for a Bookstore (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - In his column in the Palm Beach Post, reporter Ron Wiggins tells about dropping into a used bookstore in North Palm Beach (FL), The Book Rack, and not only finding a couple of treasures to buy, but also finding the owners to be helpful and knowledgeable about books, music and well, lots of other stuff. When he discovered that the owners, Joanne and Denny Hall, were planning to possibly close the shop, he was not happy. After twelve years, Joanne Hall, in her mid-sixties says, "We're semi-retiring. The online side of our business is going so well that we figure we can work two to four hours a day and have an income. Whoever buys the store," she notes, "will have to use the Internet. |
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Omitting the past's darker chapters (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Library Stuff writes "From The Chicago Tribune: Russians remember the Siege of Leningrad--a brutal, 872-day blockade of Russia's second-largest city by Nazi troops that killed 1.7 million people--as a dark, crucial moment in their history. Yet one of the most popular history textbooks in Russian classrooms casually distills the event into a mere four words. "German troops blockaded Leningrad. |
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No Wet Suits in the Library (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Kathleen writes "Joe Wible has worked in libraries for more than 30 years and logged more than 1,000 dives in his life, making him perfectly suited for his job as head librarian and bibliographer at Hopkins Marine Station?this, despite a salvaged sign he keeps in his office window: "No wet suits in the library!!" Mr. Wible holds a PhD in Marine Biology and is a member of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. |
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Boca Raton Students Donate Books to Small IL Library (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - While visiting his grandparents in Illinois, Mitchell Froelich wasn?t able to finish his summer reading list. Combing through the bookshelves at one of the small town?s libraries, the 16-year-old said he couldn?t find the well-known novel he needed to read for his class ? |
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Frakes set to Direct quot;The Librarian: Part 2quot; (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Star Trekker Jonathan Frakes announced this past weekend that he is pegged to direct the second of installment of the TNT movie, "The Librarian," which is set to air in April 2006. The announcement and discussion from Eclipse Magazine.--He didn't want to be a hero. He only wanted a job |
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Big Brother's book ban blues (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Steven M. Cohen writes "From The Weekend Standard:"China's arbiters of taste are fighting a losing battle. Their prudish attempts to purge sexually explicit and politically sensitive works from bookshops in the mainland have backfired - by transforming banned writings into underground hits." |
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Yahoo! Mindset: Intent Driven Search (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - The Yahoo! Mindset Search is A Yahoo! Research Labs demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i. |
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MIT's Third World laptop as a p-book replacement (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - David Rothman writes "Foes of e-books have raised issues ranging from screen readability to battery power. But technical progress is happening to address such questions. And, besides, aren't e-books on a laptop better than no books at all? In the end might there be substantial new opportunities for Net-savvy libraries, schools, e-stores and publishers able to come up with appropriate business models and pricing and sensible DRM policies? One of the most interesting examples of the potential here is the MIT Media Lab's $100 Third World laptop project. |
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Bat worries push library land grab (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Steven M. Cohen writes "From the Mansfield News Journal: Mayor John Finley says alleged concerns about bats in the branch library here are "a cheap and pathetic excuse" by the Mansfield/Richland County Library to buy a lot across the street. But Director Joe Palmer contends the library doesn't want to move its Lucas branch. It bought the property, he said, "just in case. |
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The (mostly) Texas Books Issue By the book (May 31 2005 23:59 GMT) - Blake writes "The San Antonio Current Interviews Frates Seeligson. Seeligson insists modestly that many people read more than he does, but they think not many read as comprehensively. He visited with the Current in his pleasant, and yes, book-filled, offices near Brackenridge Park.Since his 30s, Seeligson has followed a self-made plan to read his way chronologically through world and American history, while enjoying books on public policy, sensual topics such as shad and caviar, and fiction. "I try to average four books a month," he told me, holding up a yellow legal pad filled with pages of titles, many scratched off. |
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