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As I posted yesterday, Roll Call published an article that seemed to indicate the GPO was evaluating whether it would continue providing free public access to a range of government documents. The library community apparently reacted swiftly and strongly to this information, and late this afternoon, the Superintendent of Documents, Judith C. Russell, posted the …
From Roll Call Newspaper Online, this free excerpt (subscription req’d to read complete article) on news about GPO and future public access to government documents: “In an effort to reverse declining sales revenue at the Government Printing Office, Public Printer Bruce James announced Tuesday that the agency will consider charging fees for many of the …
Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them, by Chiara Fox: “Sitemaps and site indexes are forms of supplemental navigation. They give users a way to navigate a site without having to use the global navigation. By providing a way to visualize and understand the layout and structure of the …
On October 15, Idaho Senator Larry Craig was joined by colleagues from both sides of the aisle as co-sponsors to S.1709, the Security and Freedom Ensured Act of 2003 (SAFE Act), to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to place reasonable limitations on the use of surveillance and the issuance of search warrants, and for other …
From the Wall Street Journal: “As the federal deficit is widening, Congress is preparing to dig itself another hole — a $10 million pedestrian tunnel connecting the U.S. Capitol to the Library of Congress across the street.”
Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (Introduced in House, October 8, 2003) [H.R.3261.IH] Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Praises Introduction of Bill to Prevent Database Piracy Critics Fear Database Bill Will Hinder Research NetCoalition Letter on Database Draft American Library Association (ALA) website on Database Protection Legislation
Law Libraries with Innovative Systems, compiled by Anne Myers: “This list attempts to clarify which law libraries have their own systems and which share a system with another library or through a consortium. Libraries are listed alphabetically by name of institution under each category, with libraries outside the United States found at the end of …
The recombinant library: portals and people, by Lorcan Dempsey, VP, Research, OCLC. …”library time and resources should be freed to think about selection and use of the collection, not consumed by the messy mechanics of acquisitions and processing; and the user experience should be shaped by learning and research needs not by the arbitrary constraints …
As a follow-up to my September 18 posting, Ashcroft Relents on Releasing Info On Library Records, the CDT has published a copy of the Memorandum for Director Robert S. Mueller from AG Ashcroft, Patriot Act Section 215.
Microsoft Partners With Amazon: “The Amazon service will enable users to make purchases without launching a browser or leaving their Office document, presentation or email message. Users will also be able to take data from Amazon, such as book information for footnotes and bibliographies, and embed it in their documents.”
The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC’s Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS – Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist FOIA Facts: Inside the …
On the NBC Today show this morning, former Attorney General Edwin Meese apparently made the following statement in reference to the Patriot Act: “librarians are more interested in pushing p****graphy than fighting terrorism.” The American Library Association (ALA) President Carla Hayden responded as follows: “Similar to our current Attorney General, Mr. Meese chose to malign …
