Remember, when you download internet porn…. [sfw]
Author: jessamyn
how do you learn virtref? here’s a curriculum.
Washington State has a statewide virtual reference project that has an online core competencies training curriculum for virtual reference. Lots of good linked reading and exercises.
why the USA PATRIOT Act isn’t the solution
How does academic freedom roll into this whole USA PATRIOT Act thing? An interesting opinion piece from the Salt Lake Tribune.
Security in a free country requires respecting our fundamental liberties, not discarding them before outsiders even try to take them away. The Patriot Act is, in large part, a distraction in the effort to reduce terror. Al-Qaida is no more likely to be stopped in the libraries and Web searches of the University of Utah than it is on the battlefields and among the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Free societies win because freedom and justice are stronger than their opposites. Even if we eliminate our own freedoms at home and fight brutally abroad, we will still be only a third-rate oppressor. We can never out-torture or out-spy or out-suppress al-Qaida or the dictatorships of the world.
Free societies win because freedom and justice are stronger than their opposites. Even if we eliminate our own freedoms at home and fight brutally abroad, we will still be only a third-rate oppressor. We can never out-torture or out-spy or out-suppress al-Qaida or the dictatorships of the world.
the sun never sets on the USAPA
Along the lines of what Dan was saying yesterday, lets keep our eyes open about PATRIOT II in that “won’t be fooled again” way, okay?
books and war
FDR reminds us that Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas [larger image]. Here’s another Books Are Weapons poster.