Right next to each other in my RSS feed, and now on my calendar: Baby Carver & Baby Schwartz. Mazel tov, to both of you and your growing families.
two good links from resource shelf: IFLA & LOC
Two things stuck out from the most recent Resource Shelf posting by Gary Price today
“The Library of Congress has launched a new public Web site to cover the groundbreaking work of a special independent committee. By 2006, this committee will recommend changes to copyright law that recognize the need for exceptions to the law for libraries and archives in the digital age.”
Highlights released IFLA/FAIFE World Report 2005 on Intellectual Freedom and Libraries: Libraries, National Security, Freedom of Information Laws and Social Responsibilities. Of note: filtering use on the rise, digital divide still a problem, consequences of war on terror affecting libraries, intelelctual freedom issues still a problem worldwide, including this quote In Turkmenistan it was reported that libraries have been closed under presidential order, on the grounds that ‘no one reads’. Damn. Read more IFLA blogging from the Rambling Librarian
borrow a lesbian @ your library
Living Library project in Sweden lets people “borrow” other people of different backgrounds in an effort to dispell predjudice. Anyone have a better link than a USA Today article on this project? update: Jill sends two more short articles [one, two]
ALA bouncing back, becoming formidable legal foe
The American Bar Association Journal has an article about how ALA is becoming a force to be reckoned with as “one of the most active players in legal fights over technology, copyright, national security, censorship and privacy law.” It’s nice to see them bouncing back after the very depressing CIPA defeat a few years ago. [spacific]
a few of my favorite blogs
Meredith reflects on Walt’s biblioblogosphere piece and asks at the end “what other non-top 50 blogs would you recommend?” She’s picked a few that I would have included, so here are a few more from me. I think one or two of these were mentioned in Walt’s survey but maybe bear repeating.
Michael Golrick is a Councilor with me at ALA and he’s been at this library governance thing a lot longer than I have. He’s also a library administrator in Connecticut and a very nice man who has been helpful explaining the vagaries of Council etiquette and politicking to me.
Tales from the Liberry keeps it real and talks about what happened when he was outed as a library blogger at work.
Secret Library. Because poetics and libraries should never be far apart, and because I like orange.
A Librarians Guide to Etiquette frequently makes me laugh.
Feel-good Librarian tells real stories that make us all sound like noble heroes.
What are yours?