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Reagan Library Can’t Find Items, Says Report
I read something like this and I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry: LOS ANGELES – The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum can’t locate or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan’s White House years, according to a published report. An audit by the National Archives inspector general concluded
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Wisdom from Old Sam Clemens
"Americans too often teach their children to despise those who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and
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NIH Open Access Mandate in Danger
This note came over the LITA-L listserv from Charles W. Bailey over at Digital Scholarship. It’s worth reading. In the interest of getting this out to as many folks as possible, I’ll just post the e-mail in its (slightly edited) entirety, active links and all: Peter Suber reports that the NIH open access mandate may
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Economist to Put Archive Dating Back to 1843 Online
Even if I were not already a hard core fan of the Economist, I’d think this was a Great Idea: More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. The archive will contain more than 600,000 pages of the weekly
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Vatican Publishes Knights Templar Papers
Here’s one for rare book collectors around the world: Vatican Publishes Knights Templar Papers. Enjoy!
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Magna Carta For Sale–U.S. Constitution Next?
The UK Independent says that the Only Copy of Magna Carta in Private Hands to be Sold in New York. I’m temped to say something truly obnoxious such as wonder whether the U.S. Constitution can be far behind, seeing as how the current regime in Washington D.C. has little apparent use for it, but I
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Chaos, Catalog Migrations, and Beer
Everything is is chaos. If you own a house with a mortgage you may lose it if you’re not careful. The FDIC may not do much to preserve your bank account if push comes to shove. The financial elites are wrecking what’s left of the economy, the ex-spooks are suggesting that the rabble can analyze
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Obligatory 9/11 Post
I’ve written on this subject before (here and elsewhere) and I don’t think I have anything genuinely new to say on it, so I’ll stick to the things that are old but still true. The "Still True Today" category is a new one that I blatantly stole from Matthew Miller’s book "The Two Percent Solution:
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Architect Selected for Bush Library
The story is here. I won’t make any jokes about how much room they’ll need to house both books, but I am wondering of the book about the pet goat will be part of the collection. I’m pretty sure that Richard Clarke’s book about what went on prior to 9/11 won’t be, but that’s the
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New Political Reality Check Website Arrives
If you enjoy the kind of non-partisan research on politics that Factcheck.org provides, you might want to take a good look at a new competitor, Politifact.com. They have a top notch research staff and a very accessible style of presentation. We’ll see how they evolve over time. In the mean time I’ll post the link