The US Copyright office wants to know how the public feels about Orphan Works. If you go to this website: http://eldred.cc/ you can get the whole story and some feedback from other people. “Orphan works are — broadly speaking — any copyrighted works where the rights holder is hard to find.” There are several reasons [...]
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orphan works
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
censorship site
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was just looking around on censorship news and whatnot for this blog and found a really cool website. It is the Index on Censorship site: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/. As far as I can tell it is documented both online and as a paper magazine. “Index on Censorship is one of the world’s leading repositories of original, [...]
public school libraries
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have recently come to realize that public libraries rest in the armpit of a list of possible areas for government funding and acknowledgement. Why would the government care about the literacy of its people? That will not make our politicians rich like oil does. The only way to get a lot of funding is [...]
more stuff in libraries
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The population of the United States is growing at an exponential rate. As we continue to grow, the population becomes more and more diverse. It is the job of the public libraries to accommodate to the residents of an area, and this means they must begin to carry books that will appeal to a broader [...]
scrotum
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I came across an article about the book we discussed a couple of classes ago: The Higher Power of Lucky. Everyone might not remember the name of it, but I am sure that anyone who was in class that day will remember it as the book that had the word “scrotum” on the first page. [...]
prison libraries
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am not really sure what is entitled to us by the First Amendment, but I thought we were guaranteed the right to view any text that was published and made public. I recently stumbleled across an article on the USA Today website entitled “Inmates Sue Over Clearing of Religious Books From Libraries”. In the [...]
legislation
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was just looking at this website: http://capwiz.com/ala/issues/alert/?alertid=10984226. It gives information on library and education legislation. The Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007 (H.R. 2419), Section 6302 would include “libraries in the rural telecommunications program: ‘Telemedicine, Library Connectivity, and Distance Learning Services in Rural Areas.’” This is a really great idea because it would [...]
library blogs
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While looking online for library news to write this blog on, I stumbled across several other blogs about libraries and library technology news. Now, I am not exactly a blog kind of gal. I do not picture myself continuing to keep one after this class is over. It has always seemed kind of silly and [...]
Libraries and the environment
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, today is Earth Day, one of my favorite holidays, which happens to fall right after one of my other favorite holidays. If you do not know what I’m talking about, then do not worry about it. As I was trying to think of what to write about for this blog, it struck me that [...]
world cat
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve come to realize that World Cat is a pretty convenient website to be able to access. As far as databases go, it is pretty general and easy to use. It can be accessed several different ways, and if I can use it then it absolutely must be user friendly. Yes, I am one of [...]
