Closure of 6 federal libraries angers scientists Cost-cutting moves at the EPA and elsewhere deny researchers and the public access to vital data, critics say. By Tim Reiterman Times Staff Writer December 8, 2006The NASA library in Greenbelt, Md., was part of John C. Mather’s daily routine for years leading up to the astrophysicist’s sharing…
This article comes out of of today’s edition of the Christian Science Monitor: As EPA Libraries go Digital, Public Access SuffersBy Mark Clayton For a new Democratic Congress facing big environmental issues from global warming to dwindling fisheries, the first step may be keeping the nation’s top environmental libraries from closing – and saving their…
There’s a great deal to be thankful for this year. Too much to write about here, really. So let’s talk about copyright instead: NEW YORK – Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the…
Thom Hickey described his experience speaking at a conference organized by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries on his blog. The conference title: The Future of the Catalog: Deconstruction or Reinvention? Personally, I’ve managed to convince myself that everything in the world of libraries is a matter of reinvention.…
An announcment from Duke University Press & Duke Libraries, care of Kimberly Steinle: For immediate release: Nov. 8, 2006 CONTACT: Mandy Dailey-Berman (Duke University Press, Journals Publicity Coordinator)mdberman@dukeupress.edu DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, DUKE LIBRARIES TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM STRATEGIES FOR PRESERVING ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY JOURNAL CONTENT DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University Press and Duke University Libraries will be…
For today’s most instructive Quotes of Note, I refer you to the Treasurer of the DNC. Yes, I can speak more plainly that this, but I think the point is well made. Vote tomorrow for something completely different. You’ll be glad you did.
First, read Bill Moyers. By now you know that I think it’s worth the time to listen to Moyers read a lunch menu out loud, but read him anyway. Read him again over the weekend. Then vote on Tuesday.
First, a big WooHOO! to Factcheck.org for receiving domestic and international awards. If you haven’t subscribed to their e-mail news listserv you’re missing a lot. I love this site. If you’re looking for truly professional (i.e., fair and thorough) analysis of political ads and such, this is the place to go (or at least the…
I found this news bit on Yahoo! News this morning. The article wasn’t written with libraries (or librarians) in mind in the strictest sense, but it’s interesting to me that the writer does in fact focus on a librarian in Kentucky with some very nice tribal work. Personally, I knew a long time ago that…
This article by Mark Hirschey appeared in the Oct. 2, 2006 issue of the Lawrence Journal-World. The title "Libraries Are Limited, Obsolete" describes it pretty effectively, but I think it’s worth reading, even if you don’t agree with it. Perhaps especially if you don’t agree with it, since I’m not convinced that Hirschey’s point of…