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Enrich Your Active Reading Life!
I picked this article up from Michael Masterson’s Early to Rise newsletter. (Masterson has written a few books, none of which I have read–yet–but I get his newsletter delivered to my mailbox every morning, and so far that’s a decision I’ve been happy with.) I won’t say that it’s applicable to absolutely everyone, but he
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Personal Liberties in the Age of Terrorism
Here’s a conference for librarians who find themselves both in the NYC metropolitan area and interested in the state of civil liberties: “Personal Liberties in the Age of Terrorism”, which being hosted by the New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO to you Visigoths) on May 13 from 9:00am – 2:30pm at the Brooklyn College Library.
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“Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy.”
"Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would see those words in black and white—and beneath a SECRET stamp, no less. For three years now, we in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) have been saying that the CIA and its British counterpart, MI-6, were ordered by their countries’ leaders to "fix facts"
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Resource Shelf = Da Bomb!
I don’t know when or if Gary Price actually sleeps, but I’m glad he doesn’t (or sddesn’t seem to, anyway.) His Resource Shelf website is one of the best things I’ve seen in online Libraryland in a long while. (Not that I get out that often but when I do, and I find something like
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An Open Letter to Deroy Murdoch of the National Review Online
A few days ago I found this article from the National Review online, where Deroy Murdoch claims that the only way to defend the lives of Americans is to limit access to our libraries to nice people. How we’d do this is to make sure the PATRIOT Act applied to libraries. The upshot is that
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Do Libraries Still Matter? You Betcha!
A coworker turned me on to an article by Dan Akst in the most recent Carnegie Reporter. The article is entitled “Do Libraries Still Matter?”, and one would hope that the answer to the question is still ‘yes!” although one can also see the questioners point of view. It’s definitely worth looking at, and not
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How to be Your Own Publisher
I found this article in the NY Times’ Book Review section yesterday, and while self-publishing has had an inarguably democratizing effect on the world of literature and research over the past decade, I personally think it’s had the side-effect of dropping the average worth of the content of those subjects just abit (mor than a
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In Praise of Library Personnel
I subscribe to the technical service librarians listserv that Margaret Mauer runs off of Ohio’s Kent State U. servers, and while I rarely post, it’s always interesting to see what librarians halfway across the country (well, okay a third of the way, but that’s kind of wordy) are doing differently from those of us in
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Academy Library Newsletter, April 2005
Welcome to the April 2005 issue of the Academy Library Newsletter. The newsletter is published quarterly to keep you updated on our products and services, changes the library collection and available resources, and other bits of interesting news. We’d like to particularly draw your attention to the piece titled "New Publication Policy for NIH-Funded Research"
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Friday Joy, Tax Day Blues
A Public Service Announcement First of all, click here to print Form 4868, which is the extension to file for 2004. I met Joanne from the Regional Medical Library group on line for coffee this morning; we’re both dressed in black to remember the victims of April 15 2005. Today is kind of weird—on the