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Psychology of the bookplate

Steven — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:00:23 +0000

Yale Alumni Magazine – ““This book belongs to me.” For over five centuries, that has been the message conveyed by every bookplate, whether printed and hand-tinted for Hildebrand Brandenburg in 1480 or mass-produced for Barnes & Noble or Amazon. (Yes, they sell bookplates.) Think of a bookplate as a wedding ring binding the reader to the book, and vice versa. The symbolism isn’t so far apart: ownership, possession, desire.”

Google China Fate May Be Decided Amid License Reviews

Steven — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:10 +0000

Bloomberg – “Google Inc.’s fate in China may be decided this month as Internet-service licenses come up for renewal, amid growing speculation a censorship row with the government will drive the U.S. company from the country.”

Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit

Steven — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:30:47 +0000

NYT – “Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few clicks.But like most Rushdian paradises, this digital idyll has its own set of problems. As research libraries and archives are discovering, “born-digital” materials — those initially created in electronic form — are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.”

C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web

Steven — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:18 +0000

NYT – “Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday”

Hemingway’s Key West House Named Literary Landmark

Steven — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:20:18 +0000

AP – “Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home, where the American author lived in the 1930s, was designated a literary landmark on Sunday. Hemingway, who lived in the Spanish-colonial home with his second wife Pauline and their two sons, owned the property until his death in 1961. It became a museum honoring the Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author in 1964. He worked on many of his best-known manuscripts in the Key West property’s second-story writing studio.”

UTS Library’s new Teamboard room

Steven — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:40 +0000

A photo set on Flickr

Accessorizing my office

Steven — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:05:03 +0000

Accessorizing my office

Originally uploaded by Travelin’ Librarian

Gotta love Michael Sauers. He has an RSS pillow.

Report finds online censorship more sophisticated

Steven — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:25 +0000

AP – “Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday. China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the group’s “Enemies of the Internet” list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents’ attempts to communicate online, said Reporters Without Borders’ Washington director, Clothilde Le Coz.”

Out of Order

Steven — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:26:49 +0000

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Originally uploaded by shannonmcneice

The Internet in America: A YouTube Interview with the FCC

Steven — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:57 +0000

White House – “If you’re reading this, then you’re probably on the Internet — via your laptop, your mobile phone or other handheld device, or maybe even through your television. But even in 2010, millions of Americans do not have access to the wealth of information made available on the Web. Even though the Internet was invented in the U.S. over 20 years ago, many Americans lag behind in both access to the Internet and speed of connections, which is why the Federal Communications Commission (or the FCC, the federal agency that regulates the U.S. communications industry) is launching its much-antipated National Broadband Plan next Tuesday, to lay out its strategy for connecting all Americans to fast, affordable high-speed Internet.”

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