Library Stuff

Tennessean – “The Tennessee Center for Policy Research has just launched a Web site — OpenTennessee.org — that makes this information accessible at the click of a mouse. OpenTennessee.org is the state’s only searchable, comprehensive transparency Web site. Tennesseans now can access state employee payrolls, retiree pensions and every single payment made by state agencies to individuals and businesses. The site tracks billions of dollars, right down to the agency, person and penny.”

Direct to OpenTennessee

BBC – “The Conservatives have unveiled plans to deliver a “nationwide super-fast broadband”, part of which could be funded from the BBC licence fee.”

Steve Matthews – “[A]fter reading Bob Ambrogi’s post this AM critiquing FR Evidence, a (U.S. based) iPhone app, which promised “to provide the complete text of the Federal Rules of Evidence” but is missing a rule (502) that was added in Sept. 19, 2008, I am concerned.”

Me too. Yikes!

Washington Post – “Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, after a parent complained that the book includes sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.”

The Northwestern – “A popular, young adult book in the Theisen Middle School Library is being challenged as inappropriate. Parent Ann Wentworth of Fond du Lac has issued a formal complaint with the school district, objecting to “sexual content too mature for 11- to 14-years-olds” in the book “One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies” by Sonya Sones.”