Hi. Today is a link-dump day because I’ve been getting so much good stuff in email I’ve been filing it, waiting for a free day. Today is that day. Less talking, more blogging. Oh yeah, and I have a Creative Commons license on this site now. Still fine-tuning it, but the upshot is: use what you want for non-commercial use with proper attribution and a similar license attached to what you make, and it’s fine by me.
Author: jessamyn
librarians as preservers of historical record
My favorite link of the week, possibly the month. Librarian Tony Greiner tracks down a Time magazine sidebar article that went missing online, and in several — but not all — full-text databases. The sidebar was critical of invading Iraq and was pulled sometime right before Bush ordered the invasion of Baghdad. Greiner tries to find out why, and gets a weird collecftion of answers and non-answers. Mentioned over at info-commons a few days back.
The concentration of print media outlets into a few corporate hands remains cause for concern. Would this column appear here if Library Journal were owned by Time-Warner? It is vital that larger libraries continue to keep and use printed indexes and copies of the historical record.
the filter wars continue in florida
State of Florida considers legislation to require filters on all public library computers, since 46% of FL’s public libraries don’t take Erate money and so aren’t mandated to filter by CIPA. [thanks dsdlc]
one more NLW post…
Seems like the American Chemical Society removed the “quiet please” portion of their National Library Week campaign [though you can still see it on their t-shirts]. [thanks mita]
computers are hard? no, they just look that way
Libraries, Wired and Reborn. I really like the computers we have in our public library, thanks to the Gates Foundation, however technology without staff training and staff funding only reinforces the “computers are hard” myth at our rural-ish public library. [thanks all]