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The Associated Press Poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affaird Project, Interview dates August 6-8, 2007: AP article, One in Four Read No Books Last Year Poll: 1 in 4 Adults Read No Books Last Year; Biggest Readers Were Women, Older People
Press release: “Since its launch earlier this year, the WorldCat Registry continues to help libraries manage and share essential data that define their organizations, such as institution type, location, URLs for electronic services, circulation statistics and population served. National libraries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa recently agreed to load their files into the …
Knowledge Networks pays $300,000 to settle internal copyright complaint – “Firm’s marketing group distributed press packets to employees containing newspaper and magazine articles under copyright.”
“The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages. This website allows to search through the resources of 30 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, …
The Law Library of Congress is pleased to announce the following new resource: Webcast: A Panel Discussion – “Torture, Detainees, & the U.S. Military” [via Emily Carr/Law Library of Congress] SPEAKERS: Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, United States Army; Brigadier General James C. Walker, United States Marine Corps; Ms. Jacki Northam, National Public Radio Correspondent; Professor …
The Guardian: “Thousands of rare books and manuscripts in Iraq’s national library and archive, one of the country’s most important cultural institutions, are in peril after the occupation of the building by Iraqi security forces, the library’s director said yesterday.” Related: Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive: July 2007 …
Electronic 2007 Law Librarian Survey from ALM Research – Survey Says Librarians Like Their Jobs but Are Displeased With Vendors – “Electronic research was supposed to replace books and lower costs, but it’s done neither — and librarians aren’t happy about it.” THE CHARTS The Librarian’s Expanding Role Finances Resources Staffing Electronic Research
“I would like to announce the launch of the Texas Digital Library’s (TDL) blog, The Scholar’s Space, featuring a team of four contributors (including me), with more to come over the next few months. The Scholar’s Space joins scholarly communications blogs sponsored by friends at other colleges and universities, and national and international organizations. We’ll …
Documents, Leaks and the Boundaries of Expression, by Susan Nevelow Mart Librarians as Change Agents, by Mary Alice Baish Scanning and OCR with Acrobat 8, by Rick Borstein Guide to Short Form Open Access Legal Publications, by Ken Strutin Elder Resources on the Internet, by Marcus P. Zillman Gay/Lesbian Law Pathfinder, by Mark Plotkin The …
Press release: “A new collection of handy tools designed especially for libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and historic preservation and arts organizations has been released by the Heritage Emergency National Task Force. The tools are the result of the Task Forces Lessons Applied initiative to develop practical applications for the lessons from Hurricane Katrina, such …
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing, Protecting Children on the Internet, July 24, 2007. Links to witness statements “As the Senate Commerce Committee debates how best to protect children on the Internet, lawmakers must take special care to avoid overly simple solutions that would do more harm than good. In its zeal to …
Press release: “…on July 14…the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Apostolic Library) in Rome [closed] for at least three years of extensive renovation. For the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University, however, the world might just open up a little wider. The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, located in Pius XII Memorial library, holds …
