Librarians to P2P critics: Shhh!
The Globe And Mail is running a CNET Story on the five major U.S. library associations filing a legal brief Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and...
View ArticleLife’s Unanswered [Reference] Questions
Lee Hadden writes: “If you are interested in Reference Services, be glad you don’t routinely get questions like these. Try these (for fun) Life’s Unanswered Reference...
View ArticleVoice over IP via WLANs
Voice Via WLANs on Horizon September 29, 2003 By Carmen Nobel With new products that support voice communication via WLANs, several companies are working toward the...
View ArticlePreserving Ephemera of Recall Campaign
rteeter writes “The New York Times has this article on archivists rushing to preserve material from the California recall election. (Registration required)” They say With just...
View ArticleTime Wild West Web was tamed
John Duncan writes spotted A Toronto Star Column that says it’s time for the Wild West we once proudly called the Internet to grow up. I...
View ArticleBomb book tests U.S. free speech
Steve M. Cohen donated This One on Lyle Stuart, the , 81-year-old president of maverick publisher Barricade Books, who they say, is an old hand at...
View ArticleThe festival of school libraries
News From Russia has a Short Piece that says The wife of the Russian President, Ludmila Putin, has opened a festival of school libraries – “Bibliobraz.”...
View ArticleElectronic Databases and Google: How do we promote quality?
Anonymous Patron writes “With libraries paying more and more each year in subscription fees for on-line databases, what are librarians doing to drive traffic to these...
View ArticlePATRIOT act being used against journalists
Anonymous Patron writes ” This should sound frighteningly familiar: “Citing a provision of the Patriot Act, the FBI is sending letters to journalists telling them to...
View ArticleFrom Wired News – technology to restore waterlogged books
Ellen McCullough writes “It Sucks, but That’s a Good ThingA very absorbent powder called Super Slurper is useful beyond diapers and oil filters. The new product...
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