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“The Library of Congress preserves the nation’s cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library’s traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites…In 2004, the Librarys Office of Strategic …
From PERC: Patient Education Resource Center [U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center], “lists of information sourcesrelating to a specific cancer diagnosis or issue. The purpose is to help newly diagnosed patients and their loved ones find sources of information and support. The guides are not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to provide starting points for information …
Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?, by Susan Nevelow Mart Beyond Google and Yahoo: Advanced Search, by Tom Mighell and Sabrina I. Pacifici. CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com – Congressional Scandals, Corruption and Misbehavior, by Paul Jenks Setting …
Press release, May 19, 2006: “U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced legislation that would preserve the open and democratic character of the Internet. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (9 pages, PDF) would ensure that all content, applications and services are …
BusinessWeek.com: Life On The Web’s Factory Floor – Who do you think turns all those words into an easy click? “Behind the seemingly magical offerings of the Internet are thousands of human beings madly inputting data around the clock…The number of third-party, offshore companies that will perform contract work has more than doubled since 2002, …
Press release, May 18, 2006: “Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) today introduced the Free Flow of Information Act (12 pages, PDF), a bill seeking to protect the public’s right to information through a free press. This legislation would provide appropriate protections …
5/18/2006 – Press release: Sensenbrenner, Conyers Introduce Bipartisan Net Neutrality Legislation [H.R. 5417: Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006] Related documents and links: The Economics of Net Neutrality, Robert W. Hahn, Scott Wallsten. Related Publication 06-13. Apr 2006. “This essay examines the economics of ‘net neutrality’ and broadband Internet access. We argue that mandating …
DisabilityInfo.gov “contains links to information of interest to people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and other community members.” This site is the May 2006 recipient of the Gold Award from the American Association of Webmasters for outstanding design and content. Related: ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law Web site
The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, Final Report, March 17, 2006, prepared for the Library of Congress by Associate University Librarian Karen Calhoun of Cornell University (52 pages, PDF) A Critical Review of The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, April 3, …
“SmartLinks provides ‘pre-queried’ searches on health policy topics (Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Electronic Medical Records, Children’s Health Coverage, Public Health Preparedness, Drug Safety and Regulation, Stem Cell Policy, Drug Reimportation, VA Health System) in several different internet search engines. You’ll get results from: PubMed, Kaisernetwork Daily Headlines, HighBeam Research, Google Uncle Sam, Google Scholar, and …
As reported by Declan McCullagh, the text of new legislation to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, FCC Orders VoIP and Broadband IP Compliance With Law Enforcement Surveillance – today Reuters reports that in a case [American Council of Education v. FCC, 05-1404] before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the FCC’s surveillance order was met with skepticism by Judge Harry Edwards, who called …
