Library Stuff

Guardian – “Visits may be in decline, but we can boost digital literacy within our communities”

SMH – “The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has launched a stinging attack on Google and its credibility in response to the search giant’s campaign against the government’s internet filtering policy. In an interview on ABC Radio last night, Senator Conroy also said he was unaware of complaints the Obama administration said it had raised with the government over the policy.”

ComputerWorld – “If proposed changes to the Facebook Privacy Policy go through next month the social network will store financial account information you use to make purchases on its site unless you tell it not to.”

AP – “Stuck in the Internet slow lane, Hawaii and its sluggish network are hoping Google will ride to the rescue. Through online petitions, a Facebook fan page and a YouTube video by the governor, Hawaii wants to persuade Google to choose the islands for one of its experimental fiber-optic networks, which could bring Internet speeds 100 times faster than those currently available to most Americans.”

Harvard News – “University’s content will showcase research, educational material”

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OCLC – “This report provides an overview of the most significant risks facing research libraries and suggests strategies to mitigate them. OCLC Research engaged an organization experienced in conducting risk assessments for corporate, governmental and educational clients to identify the most significant risks facing research libraries in the United States. The data collected was assimilated, ranked and analyzed, which revealed a convergence of perceived risks and yielded a shared perspective on a landscape of challenges facing US research libraries.”

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Associated Press – “It was the summer of 1946 when a young and war-fatigued J.D. Salinger reached out to another writer whose career had also been shaped by war, a writer he had arranged to meet while both had been in Europe. “The talks I had with you here were the only hopeful minutes of the whole business,” Salinger writes at the close of his letter to Ernest Hemingway, which will be displayed publicly for the first time on Sunday at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston.”

THE Journal – “What will the new school library look like? In this first installment of our two-part library tech series, we explore the evolution of the school library–and the school librarian–and look to the opportunities that await once some basic challenges are overcome.”

Telegraph – “Children as young as eight have Facebook pages and use other social media websites, ignoring the age restrictions, according to an official report.”

Chronicle – “If every episode of every television show deserves to be on Wikipedia, so does every piece of public art. Or at least Jennifer Geigel Mikulay thinks so, which is why she helped start a project to promote the documentation of public art around the world on Wikipedia.”

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