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Archives’ record-keeping lapse
July 4th, 2009AP – “National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory. [...]
Social networking comes of (older) age
July 4th, 2009Miami Herald – “Marilyn Carroll used to watch her 28-year-old daughter and her friends spend hours on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. So she decided to join the social networking scene, too — but on a site geared exclusively to her interests.”
Library and Archives freezes purchases
July 4th, 2009Ottowa Citizen – ” A moratorium on buying new materials at Library and Archives Canada has some people wondering whether important cultural and historical documents could be lost to the country. On May 19, an e-mail went out from Library and Archives informing its suppliers of an immediate halt to paid acquisitions as part of [...]
How open source is growing up
July 4th, 2009BBC – “There is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry.”
Waikato University returns neo-Nazi thesis to library
July 4th, 2009Radio New Zealand – “A thesis featuring neo-Nazi themes is back on the library shelves at Waikato University following an internal investigation prompted by a complaint by a former National Front member. The thesis, written by Master student Roel van Leeuwen, received first class-honours, but the university removed it from the library last October following [...]
Little comfort offered for library crisis
July 4th, 2009Toledo Blade – “Democratic state House lawmakers, standing in front of the downtown Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, said yesterday Senate Republicans are holding the House’s proposed state budget “hostage.” But they had few words of comfort for area library systems that are facing the loss of 50 percent of their state funds under their plan”
Browser Users Can Celebrate an Independent’s Day
July 4th, 2009Washington Post – “Considering it didn’t even exist 19 years ago, the Web browser has done pretty well. No other program on a computer can do so many things — e-mail, mapping and calendars, to name a few — thanks to all the Web services now available.”
Twitter Comes to the Rescue
July 3rd, 2009NYT – “As hotels, airlines and other travel companies line up on Twitter to promote their brands, customers who voice their grievances in the form of tweets are getting surprisingly fast responses for everything from bad airplane seats to poor room service.”
Books as Planters
July 3rd, 2009BB – “BB pal Tara McGinley spotted these delightful planter kits, called Honbachi, from Japan, containing the plant, soil, and a hollowed-out book.”
Judge Annoints J.D. Salinger the King of the Internet
July 3rd, 2009Gawker – “J.D. Salinger invented blogs, according to a federal judge who granted a temporary injunction yesterday against John David California’s planned “parody” of Catcher in the Rye.”
Former director banned from library
July 3rd, 2009WBBM – “A former northwest suburban Elgin public library director says Randolph L. “Randy” Hopp was well-known to library staff, even before he was elected a library trustee this year. Hopp — banned by his own board this week from using the library — often left staff feeling ill at ease when he patronized the [...]
I Hadn’t Heard This One Before
July 2nd, 2009Let e-Readers Be e-Readers
July 2nd, 2009Reuters – “Despite the Kindle’s continuing success, it’s widely believed that the device cannot remain simply a terminal for Amazon’s (AMZN) e-book sales if it is ever to become a true mass-market product. But what must it become? Some leading figures in the publishing business insist that sales growth in digital publishing will come only [...]
The Blogosphere 2.0
July 2nd, 200911D – “this morning, I just want to write about how blogging has changed in the past six years.”
Michael Jackson “Extremely Well-Read,” Had 10,000 Books
July 2nd, 2009Book Patrol – “The King of Pop a dweeby book lovin’ geek? Apparently so, and hooray. He was an avid reader who had an appropriately majestic library at Neverland that held 10,000 volumes on its shelves, according to two recent Los Angeles newspaper articles.
Song Owners Sue Over Free Online Access
July 2nd, 2009Courthouse News Service – “MCS Music America and a slew of song owners have accused Microsoft, RealNetworks and Yahoo! of allowing Internet users to stream and temporarily download copyrighted tunes without paying royalties.”
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Is Facebook an Israeli plot to control the world?
June 30th, 2009Jerusalem Post – “Why would the Israelis want to control the world when they are having a hard enough time trying to control themselves? Still, it’s a question worth pondering especially in the age of the Internet and the rise of the Zionist conspiracy called “Facebook.” Let’s “faceit,” Facebook has a very strong Israeli face. [...]
Track The Ohio Budget Cuts
June 25th, 2009Over at Google News
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Interesting items Colorado Libraries check out to people!
June 25th, 2009An interesting list. Bones?!
Unlike Public Libraries, OhioLINK Faces Smaller Budget Cut
June 25th, 2009Library Journal – “Public libraries in Ohio face an unprecedented cut in state funding, to be resolved by June 30. But what about OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries, and the State Library of Ohio?”
A Speech, and a Protest, at Nixon Library
June 17th, 2009The Caucus Blog – “When Tim Naftali of the National Archives became director of the Nixon Presidential Library in 2007, he promised to diversify the list of speakers and “start at ground zero” in revamping the library’s historical exhibits.”
Internet Explorer Tips: Inline Search, Gmail, Xmarks
June 16th, 2009InfoWorld – “While it's easy for a Mozilla Firefox diehard like me to turn my nose up at Internet Explorer, the fact is that Microsoft's browser has made a lot of progress. You've no doubt heard about newfangled features like Accelerators and Web Slices (see Preston Gralla's IE 8 review for details), but IE 8 [...]
LJ Webcast — Fail
June 16th, 2009Michael Golrick has some thoughts.
A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing
June 15th, 2009ChronicleReview.com – “And while university presses grapple with the economic and technological challenges now affecting how we publish our books — the subject of a thousand and one AAUP conference sessions, e-mail-list debates, and news articles — discussion of what we publish seems to have taken a back seat. And understandably so. Why obsess about content if [...]
Flickr founder goes with Hunch for decision engine start-up
June 15th, 2009Revolution – “Hunch, a decision making mash-up of Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers – created by Caterina Fake, an original founder of Flickr – has officially gone live today and is ready and willing to tell you what to do.”
JFK Presidential Library Launches New Site That Invites the World On Board Apollo 11 — 40 Years Later
June 15th, 2009John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum – “The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced an interactive new website to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing and President Kennedy’s grand vision that made that achievement possible. WeChooseTheMoon.org, will go live at 9:32 a.m. on July 16th, 2009 – exactly [...]
Denver grads create ‘bike library’ for people in need of a free ride
June 14th, 2009USATODAY – “Mary Jean O'Malley and Zoee Turrill, 22-year-old recent graduates of the university, are the masterminds behind a bike-sharing program on DU's campus that will debut this fall. The “bike library” is a pilot for a citywide bike-sharing program that will launch next spring. Six hundred bikes will be placed in 40 kiosks around [...]
DiGital Divide: Custom Search Engines Put You in Control
June 14th, 2009LLRX – “Is information overload giving you “search engine anxiety”? Do you sit down to Google or Yahoo! or your favorite search site knowing that the search you are about to run is going to provide you with more results than you have time to truly evaluate. If the dread of using the standard search [...]
Schwarzenegger’s Push for Digital Textbooks
June 14th, 2009Schwarzenegger’s Push for Digital Textbooks – “Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking a page from high school science books in an effort to shrink California's $24 billion budget gap. In fact, he wants to take the entire book — and do away with it.”
Data Center Overload
June 10th, 2009NYTimes.com – “We have an almost inimical incuriosity when it comes to infrastructure. It tends to feature in our thoughts only when it’s not working. The Google search results that are returned in 0.15 seconds were once a stirring novelty but soon became just another assumption in our lives, like the air we breathe. [...]
