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There's No Need To Fear Open Source (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - There's No Need To Fear Open Source is an article by Kathy Dempsey that originally appeared in Computers in Libraries. She says While you may have dipped a toe into the waters of open-source software by using Firefox, you may still be reluctant to take the plunge and explore its possibilities for larger library applications. The best way to dispel fear of anything new is to learn about it. Open-source software can appeal to the do-it-yourself type since modification of the software is both permitted and encouraged. However, it can also appeal to those librarians who place a high priority on support. |
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From the blog to the book (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - From the blog to the book is a reprint of a NY Times Article. A blogger writing a book? Isn't there something strangely converse going on here? After all, people visit blogs because -- instead of being static, like books -- they're regularly updated, sometimes on the hour. True, but I'm Not the New Me is joining a growing list of born-from-blog book deals. |
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World's most beautiful books to come to China (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - A Very Short Blurb from xinhuanet.com says A world famous book exhibition entitled "The Most Beautiful Books in The World" will come to China for the first time this October, as part of the Shanghai International Art Festival. One hundred and eighty five of the most beautiful books in the world will be showcased at the Liu Haisu Art Museum during the exhibition. The books are all winners at the annual Book Design Competition, organized by Germany's Stiftung Buchkunst or Book Art Foundation. |
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Castle turned into Hogwarts for Harry Potter book Six launch (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - The Scotsman Reports SEVENTY children from around the world are to meet JK Rowling in the Capital and will be the first people to read the new Harry Potter book. The youngsters will get to travel to Edinburgh Castle, which will be transformed for a weekend into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, for the launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. And one lucky Evening News reader will be among those going along to meet the author. JK Rowling herself will appear - as if by magic - from a secret panel in the castle?s Great Hall at the stroke of midnight. |
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Turned On By Indian Books (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Turned On By Indian Books is one from The Times Of India on the choice of India as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt International Book Fair in October 2006. The book fair at Frankfurt is the most prestigious book event in the world. And, India is the only country to be conferred this honour twice in a span of 20 years, the last being in 1986. India has truly arrived on the world publishing stage. There are about 16,000 publishers in the country producing an estimated 70,000 titles every year. |
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Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Knocks Out SC Censorship Law (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund nd a broad coalition representing the interests of booksellers, artists, writers and publishers have secured an important victory that strikes down South Carolina's Harmful to Minors Internet law as unconstitutional. Last Monday Judge Patrick Michael Duffy of the U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, issued a permanent injunction barring enforcement of the law, which would have restricted the rights of adults and older minors to access constitutionally-protected materials on the Internet. |
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mSpace: exploring the New Web (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Anonymous Patron sent along a link to "mSpace: exploring the New Web: They say mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information.An mSpace presents several associated categories from an information space, and then lets users manipulate how many of these categories are presented and how they're arranged. In this way, people can organize the information to suit their interests, while concurrently having available to them multiple other complementary paths through that information. |
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Harry Potter ready to work another spell for book sales (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Not since Willy Wonka printed golden tickets for five lucky children to come and tour his chocolate factory will a competition have roused so much excitement among children. Seventy newspapers around the world have been invited to send a young reporter to meet J K Rowling at the Harry Potter children's press conference on the weekend of July 15-17 to mark the launch of the sixth Harry Potter book - the only book launch event the author will attend.More AT FT.com. |
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NYTimes - The Ethicist - Addresses Librarians 'Helping' Kids with their Homework (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - kctipton writes "Here's the lastest 'The Ethicist' column as found in today's NYTimes. One of the posed questions has to do with being a librarian dunned to help with homework. I am a reference librarian with a public library. Almost daily, parents ask for help with a child's school assignment. Sometimes the child accompanies the parent, but more frequently the parent comes to the library alone. |
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Cross-Straits book fair (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - kathleen writes "Xinhua Online reports on a Cross-Straits Bookfair to be held in Xiamen, Fujian Province July 28-31. Attending the book fair are at least 500 publishers, 200 of them from Taiwan. The book fair is jointly organized by the Xiamen municipal government, the Fujian Provincial Administration of Publishing Affairs, the Chinese Publishers Association and Taiwan Publishers Guild, the Taiwan Book Distributors Guild and several other publishing business promotion organizations. With the opening of the book fair, the largest of its kind between publishing communities across the Taiwan Straits, Taiwan academic books and books about daily life will be directly accessible to mainland readers, said Chen Weijiang, deputy director with the Chinese Publishers Guild. It's been 50 years since the U. |
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OPAL: Veterans, Hypertension, and Artists in Residence (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Lori Bell writes "Upcoming OPAL programs: Hypertension, Veterans? Legacies and Artist-in-Residence ProgramsJoin us next week for some exciting and informative OPAL programs! These interactive web conferencing programs offer an opportunity for participants to ask questions and make comments via text chat or pc microphone. A microphone is not required. |
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Nazi book burning image used by Walmart to get what it wants (then apologizes) (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Kathleen writes "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said yesterday that it made a "terrible" mistake in approving a recent newspaper advertisement that equated a proposed Arizona zoning ordinance with Nazi book-burning. The full-page advertisement included a 1933 photo of people throwing books on a pyre at Berlin's Opernplatz. It was run as part of a campaign against a Flagstaff ballot proposal that would restrict Wal-Mart from expanding a local store to include a grocery." |
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'Potter' Tops Hot Summer Reading List (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Associated Press says The hot books this summer are as varied as the shades of the sea, but book sellers agree that Nicole Krauss' "The History of Love" is at the top of the sand pile ? after " Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," that is. |
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Payola Press Pimped by Bush Again (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - kathleen writes "An Agriculture Department agency paid a freelance writer at least $7,500 to write articles touting federal conservation programs and place them in outdoors magazines, according to agency records and interviews. The Natural Resources Conservation Service hired freelancer Dave Smith in September 2003 to "research and write articles for hunting and fishing magazines describing the benefits of NRCS Farm Bill programs to wildlife habitat and the environment," according to agency procurement documents obtained by The Washington Post through a Freedom of Information Act request. This is why the Freedom House press survey reported the decline in the U.S. score. |
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The Stupidity of Worrying About Piracy (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - This BoingBoing post pointed the way to The Stupidity of Worrying About Piracy, by John Scalzi. Cory wrote: "Scalzi got a two-book deal with Tor after he posted a novel in installments to his blog, has written an essay about his feelings on ebook "piracy" and why this push-polling and associated torch-and-pitchforkery is so misguided." |
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Primer on FOIA Requests (May 16 2005 10:59 GMT) - Daniel writes "The NPR program "On the Media" on May 6, 2005 carried an interview with Russ Kick, the proprieter of the memoryhole.org, which focused on the Freedom of Information Act and how to use it." |
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