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Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program – Back Issues available from 1996-2008, HTML Version (and PDF from 2001). Note – the Federal Depository Library Program website is now located as follows: “The FDLP Desktop serves as a centralized resource for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), which disseminates U.S. Government information to the American …
Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book search project, from the New York Review of Books, Google & the Future of Books, by Robert Darnton “How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between …
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum: “The George W. Bush Library holds millions of pages of official records documenting the two-term administration (2001-2009) of the nation’s forty-third president, as well as donated historical materials that document Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and his personal papers as Governor of Texas. In addition to these textual records, …
WSJ – Folks Are Flocking to the Library, a Cozy Place to Look for a Job Books, Computers and Wi-Fi Are Free, But Staffs Are Stressed by Crowds, Cutbacks: “A few years ago, public libraries were being written off as goners. The Internet had made them irrelevant, the argument went. But libraries across the country …
News release: “For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts. Reading on the Rise documents a definitive increase in rates and numbers of American adults who read literature, with the biggest increases among young adults, ages …
Presidential Libraries: The Federal System and Related Legislation, Updated November 26, 2008. “Through the National Archives and Records Administration, the federal government currently manages and maintains 12 presidential libraries. Inaugurated with the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955, these entities are privately constructed on behalf of former Presidents and, upon completion, are deeded to the federal …
News release: The staff of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service has released its most recent Monitoring Report on Universal Service. This report reflects information on the telephone industry filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) through June 2008. This report, with a few exceptions, reflects data filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …
News release: “After the 2008 presidential election, the Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) Advisory Committee and the Committee on Legislation (COL) held meetings with the ALA Washington Office to discuss the key issues and concerns the library community must communicate to the new Administration during this time of transition and throughout Obamas presidency. Following …
News release: “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 20062007, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of ARLs 123 member libraries. Of these member libraries, 113 are university libraries (14 in Canada, 99 in the US); the remaining 10 are …
A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement: Jonathan Band’s article outlines the settlements provisions, with special emphasis on the provisions that apply directly to libraries. The settlement is extremely complex (over 200 pages long, including attachments), so this paper of necessity simplifies many of its details.
Best Careers, 2009: “U.S. News profiles 30 careers that offer strong outlooks and high job satisfaction. Here’s what’s new in 2009…as well as a look at 13 cutting-edge careers, viable now and poised for future growth. They stem from megatrends like globalization, digitization, and the wave of environmentalism sweeping the world.” See the entry for …
How to Publish Without Perishing, by James Gleick: “As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every …
