Baby Boomer Librarian: 2005-09-25

Friday, September 30, 2005

NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?

Excellent story explaing 802.11n and Ultra-Wide Band (UWB)

Full article at: NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?: "802.11n or UWB?
Two major candidates are competing to become the wireless interface destined to feature in home digital equipment: IEEE802.11n, and Ultra-WideBand (UWB).

The day is coming fast when home digital equipment will have wireless interfaces, implementing wireless transmission of high-definition television (HDTV) imagery and high-speed swapping of still pictures and audio content with portable gear.

There are two major candidates for the wireless interface: 802.11n, a next-generation wireless local area network (LAN) built on spatial multiplexing using multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology, and Ultra-WideBand (UWB) wireless technology using ultra-wideband technologies such as Wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB). 11n offers a long range of up to 200m, and is viewed as the most likely contender for the home network backbone. UWB, on the other hand, is likely to make best use of its low-power, high-speed operation in short-range equipment interconnect, such as personal computers (PC) and portable equipment.

At present both 11n and UWB are being supported as industry standards by multiple groups in competition with each other, with no clear victor in sight. In 11n, the TGn Sync industry body primarily composed of home appliance manufacturers is in collision with the World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) group, comprised of mostly wireless LAN chip manufacturers, wireless LAN vendors and similar firms. In UWB the situation is similar, with the DS-UWB scheme based on direct-sequence spread-spectrum technology competing with Wireless USB using multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for the position of 'standard technology'. Equipment manufacturers have assumed the technologies would continue to coexist, watching and waiting to see if one falls by the wayside."

NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?

Excellent story explaing 802.11n and Ultra-Wide Band (UWB)

NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?

Excellent story explaing 802.11n and Ultra-Wide Band (UWB)

The Scout Report -- September 30, 2005

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The Scout Report
September 30, 2005
Volume 11, Number 39
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==   I N   T H E   S C O U T   R E P O R T   T H I S   W E E K ========

====== Research and Education ====
1. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
2. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
3. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book: FAA and 9/11
4. Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914
5. Renewable Energy Policy Project

====== General Interest ====
6. Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
7. Red Studio - MoMA
8. AARP
9. Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
10. A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
11. Western Trails: An Online Journey

====== Network Tools ====
12. SharpReader 0.9.6.0
13. DataparkSearch 4.33

====== In The News ====
14. Recent wine trade agreement between European Union and United States

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====== Research and Education ====

1. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean [pdf]
http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN

Established in 1948, the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) is
part of the United Nations’ broader initiative to foster coordinated
economic development schemes and relationships among Latin American nations.
Their web presence is quite formidable, and for persons interested in these
types of policy endeavors, this site warrants several visits. First-time
visitors can get an accurate sense of ECLA’s overall mission by reading the
headlines on the homepage, which draw attention to their economic analyses
and monitoring of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Visitors looking
for reports and publications can take a look at some of their more recent
works, such as the economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean as
well as papers on foreign investment in the region. The site is rounded out
by a very helpful interactive database which provides information on trade
for 33 of the region’s countries, along with 15 members of the European
Union. [KMG]

2. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies [pdf]
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcpds/

Founded in 1964, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
maintains a strong link to the Harvard School of Public Health along with
other policy institutes at the university. On their homepage, visitors can
read their latest press releases, learn about the activities of their
associates, and various fellowship opportunities. Along with these general
areas, the web-browsing public may be more interested in taking a look at
the “Publications” area of the site. Here they will find the latest edition
of their in-house newsletter, the Bow Street Bulletin, along with several
online books (such as “Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health”) and
their working papers series, which includes works dating back to 1991. The
site is rounded out by a selection of links that will lead visitors to
related online resources such as separate websites on road traffic injuries
and reproductive health rights. [KMG]

3. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book: FAA and 9/11 [pdf]
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB165/index.htm

The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book series has intrigued
and informed policymakers, students, and the general public for the past few
years. This latest release should be no different as it provides FAA
documents that deal with the attacks on the United States that occurred on
the morning of September 11, 2001. These particular documents were
referenced extensively in the first chapter of The 9/11 Commission Report
and help corroborate the observation that the FAA was under prepared as it
attempted to deal with these coordinated attacks. This particular
collection includes eight documents, including radar reports and extensive
chronologies that track the broader response of the US government in the
wake of the attacks until late October 2001. Some of the more compelling
materials include the FAA report titled “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack
Events: September 11, 2001” which provides the most comprehensive chronology
of the events of that day. [KMG]

4. Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914 [pdf]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/americas/americashome.html

The History of Medicine division of The National Library of Medicine has
been responsible for a number of fine online digital collections, and this
latest one is no exception. The Medicine in the Americas website provides
access to a number of key primary historical documents that deal with a
number of areas, such as women’s health, public health, and clinical works
of enduring historical value. Currently, there are a total of eight works in
the archive, and they include Clara Barton’s “The Red Cross of the Geneva
Convention” from 1878 and L. Emmett Holt’s 1894 work “The Care and Feeding
of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children’s Nurses”. For
many of the generally curious and those with a penchant for the world of
medical and scientific history, this website will be quite a find. [KMG]

5. Renewable Energy Policy Project [pdf]
http://www.crest.org/

Established in 1995 with funding from the Energy Foundation and the
Department of Energy, the Renewable Energy Policy Project (REPP) has spent
the past decade educating the general public about renewable energies. This
is accomplished by providing competent and rigorous policy analysis about
the myriad of issues surrounding the viability and sustainability of such
energy sources. Visitors to the site’s homepage will find clickable icons
(such as those depicting wind, solar, and hydrogen), and they can discover
the variety of resources associated with each type of renewable energy
source. These resources generally include a brief description of the REPP’s
work in each field, along with links to some of their more recent working
papers and policy briefs. For persons who hope to join the discussion about
some of these timely topics, the site also maintains a number of relevant
listservs, such as those dealing with bioconversion and strawbale
conversion. [KMG]

====== General Interest ====

6. Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/feature/feature.htm

Several thousands of years ago in the lower Mississippi River Delta, Native
Americans began constructing mounds to bury the dead. For the next fifteen
centuries, these various groups would build what may be called the first
dense urban settlements in what would later become the United States. Today
some of these former settlements and earthworks are overseen by the National
Park Service, which has seen fit to create this website to provide
information to the general public. Here visitors can review information
about these settlements, view a timeline of related events, and learn about
the complex nature of trade within and among these communities. The site
also has a “Delta Voices” section, which contains some brief quotations from
early explorers who traversed the area, along with comments from Native
Americans and perspectives from contemporary archaeologists and scholars.
[KMG]

7. Red Studio - MoMA [Flash]
http://redstudio.moma.org/

By collaborating with high school students, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
put together Red Studio, a Web site designed to connect teens with modern
art and today's working artists. Currently, Red Studio features an interview
with Shahzia Sikander, an artist born in Pakistan in 1969, who was educated,
and now lives here in the US. Conducted by six students, interview questions
range from what it's like for a young woman with a Muslim family to pursue a
career as an artist, if she's ever felt she has to censor her art, to what
type of music she likes. Red Studio visitors can view the interview as a
Flash presentation with sound, or read the complete transcript. There is
also an earlier interview with Vito Acconci, who is asked if he is an artist
or an architect, and why he always wears black. Another teen-orientated part
of the site is polls, so that kids can find out what other kids think about
the purpose of art, and what they like to do after school. [DS]

8. AARP [pdf]
http://www.aarp.org/

The American Association of Retired Persons has been advocating on behalf of
adults over the age of 50 for decades, and their website provides a host of
important information about their efforts and public outreach programs. From
their homepage, visitors can access sections that include “Issues and
Elections”, “Health”, and “Learning and Technology”. After taking a look at
a few (or all) of these areas, visitors would do well to continue scrolling
down the site’s homepage to the policy and research area. Here they can read
and download reports on the future of Social Security and Medicaid. The
publications area also contains important content, including advice on
financial planning and access to their in-house magazine. Keeping in touch
with the times, the AARP website also has an issues blog that helps keep
concerned visitors up to date with issues of interest to older persons.
[KMG]

9. Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection [Real Player]
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/JAZ/Pages/home.html

Over the past several years, the Louisiana Digital Library has assembled a
number of online collections that draw on the many archives and institutions
from around the state. One such noteworthy collection is the Louisiana State
Museum Jazz Collection, which has been assembled here with the kind
assistance of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Drawing on the
rich musical and cultural heritage of traditional New Orleans jazz, the
collection contains close to 700 photographs taken over the past nine
decades. Some of the photographic highlights include early portraits of
noted trumpeter Al Hirt and a rare photograph of Louis Armstrong’s childhood
bedroom. Visitors will want to use the basic keyword search to find
specific materials, or they may also elect to browse the images by title.
Perhaps the real highlights of the site are the 386 audio files that contain
some of the very important (and very obscure) recordings from this golden
age of jazz. Visitors will be delighted to listen to the 1919 Rag as
performed by Kid Ory and the “hot” version of Alexander’s Ragtime Band, as
rendered by Bessie Smith, accompanied by Fletcher Henderson’s Hot 6. [KMG]

10. A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/

In the century after Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, books and
other printed materials began to flourish, and in doing so, many artisans
began to decorate such items with marvelous woodcuts. Three centuries after
their publication, Lessing J. Rosenwald (the retired chairman of Sears,
Roebuck, and Company) acquired many of these masterworks at a sale sponsored
by their then owner, C.W. Dyson Perrins. Eventually, Rosenwald willed these
works to the Library of Congress, and they have just recently created this
online exhibit to complement a current exhibit in Washington, DC. In the
introduction to the exhibit, visitors can read about Rosenwald and Perrins,
and also learn a bit about how a woodcut is created. The exhibit itself is
divided into one section that deals with works from the 15th century, and
another that deals with the 16th century. Some of the highlights featured
here include images from a 1506 commentary on the Passion of Christ as
executed by the Swiss artist, Urs Graf. Another set of gems are the lovely
woodcuts from Jacob Wolff’s 1501 edition of Aesop’s life and fables. [KMG]

11. Western Trails: An Online Journey
http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/index.html

Based on a collaboration of very diverse institutions (including the
University of Wyoming and the Omaha Public Library), the Western Trails
digital database provides access to thousands of primary documents
associated with various aspects of Western US history. Visitors to the
website may want to dive right in and view some of the “trail” themed
collections, such as the Native American Trails or the Railroad Trails.
Within each of these sections, visitors will be able to read a brief essay
about each theme, complete with accompanying maps, images, and other primary
sources. Next to each essay are links to some of the discrete exhibits
created by participating institutions, such as those on the emigrant trails
of Wyoming or the Mormon trails in the San Luis Valley. What is perhaps most
impressive about the site is the very well-thought out search engine which
allows users to search each independently created database by creator,
title, keyword, or through a host of advanced options. The site is rounded
out by a selection of resources for educators to use in conjunction with the
digitized materials presented here. [KMG]

====== Network Tools ====

12. SharpReader 0.9.6.0
http://www.sharpreader.net/index.html

With more and more websites offering RSS feeds, curious users may be looking
for a program that can effectively handle all of this desired information.
The SharpReader application will allow users to corral these various feeds,
and also to view connected items in a threaded fashion. The program can show
these connections if they have the same link or if both items link to the
same external webpage. This version of SharpReader is compatible with all
operating systems running Windows 98 or newer. [KMG]

13. DataparkSearch 4.33
http://www.dataparksearch.org/

While many web search engines may offer a number of bells and whistles, this
rather novel application contains features that others might not have. With
DataPark Search 4.33 visitors can search within a group of websites and also
index multilingual sites with great ease. For those visitors who may have a
number of additional questions about the program, their site includes full
documentation materials and a forum where users can feel free to ask
questions. This application is compatible with all operating systems running
Windows 98 or newer. [KMG]

====== In The News ====

14. Recent wine trade agreement between European Union and United States
criticized

Europeans turn up noses over wine deal
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050928/IBWINE28/TPInternational/Americas

EU Lawmakers criticize EU-US wine trade deal
http://newsfromrussia.com/economics/2005/09/27/63825.html

EUROPA: Agriculture: Wine [pdf]
http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/markets/wine/facts/index_en.htm

EUROPA: Protected Designation of Origin/Protected Geographical Indication
http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/qual/en/1bbab_en.htm

Home Wine Making [pdf]
http://wineserver.ucdavis.edu/content.php?category=Winemaking

Free the Grapes!
http://www.freethegrapes.org/

The relationship between the Continent and the United States is perhaps best
viewed through the various cultural and political exchanges, which have
transpired through the efforts of both the public and private spheres of
influence. These initiatives have included those that have been largely
beneficent, such as the Marshall Plan, versus some cultural imports, such as
EuroDisney, which have been viewed with outright hostility and disdain. In a
related development this week, a number of members of the European Union’s
Parliament began to express strong reservations about a provisional deal
with the United States that would increase imports of American-made wine
into an already glutted European market. While the deal still has to be
officially approved by the EU member states, the voices of opposition have
already begun. If approved, the agreement would allow the import of American
wine made by methods that are banned in Europe proper. Some of these methods
include the use of ion extractors to reduce the wine’s acidity, the addition
of water before fermentation, and the addition of oak chips to speed up the
aging process. Speaking on behalf of many who are critical of this potential
agreement, Jean-Claude Martinez, a French politician, remarked “We have been
making wine since the Roman Empire, and not for a couple of hundred years
like the Americans. Wine is a civilization, it is a fine art.” [KMG]

The first link will take users to a piece from the Globe and Mail’s
Wednesday edition that discusses the proposed agreement between the European
Union and the United States. The second link takes visitors to additional
coverage on the wine agreement from this Tuesday’s edition of Pravda. The
third link leads users to a site from the European Union’s website which
provides information about the distillation, consumption,
production, and market situation of wine throughout the entire EU. The
fourth link leads to a related site that provides information on the various
products that are protected under the auspices of the EU, including such
notable favorites as Clare Island salmon from Ireland and Allgauer Bergkase
cheese from Germany. The fifth link leads to a guide
to home winemaking provided by the department of viticulture and enology at
the University of California-Davis. The sixth and final link leads to the
homepage of the Free the Grapes organization, which is a grassroots
coalition of consumers and wineries who seek “to remove restrictions in 22
states that still prohibit consumers from purchasing wines directly from
out-of-state wineries”. [KMG]

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==   Index for September 30, 2005 ==
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1. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean [pdf]
http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN

2. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies [pdf]
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcpds/

3. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book: FAA and 9/11 [pdf]
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB165/index.htm

4. Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914 [pdf]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/americas/americashome.html

5. Renewable Energy Policy Project [pdf]
http://www.crest.org/

6. Ancient Architects of the Mississippi
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/feature/feature.htm

7. Red Studio - MoMA [Flash]
http://redstudio.moma.org/

8. AARP [pdf]
http://www.aarp.org/

9. Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection [Real Player]
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/JAZ/Pages/home.html

10. A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/

11. Western Trails: An Online Journey
http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/index.html

12. SharpReader 0.9.6.0
http://www.sharpreader.net/index.html

13. DataparkSearch 4.33
http://www.dataparksearch.org/

14. Recent wine trade agreement between European Union and United States
criticized

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LISNews.com | Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia

Mention of this article is popping up all over the BiblioBlogosphere today but no one has posted the link to it on Wikipedia except for the article at CNET. It is quite interesting how many stories appear in such places as USA Today online and even on many blogs that talk about things on the web but do not bother to link to them. It even happens on LISNews.

Here is the short link to the actual article located on the Wikipedia website: http://tinyurl.com/bhu5f

For those of you who must have the full address, here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Improve_
this_article_about_Wikipedia&diff=next&oldid=2380831
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LISNews.com | Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia: "Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia

posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @12:55PM -107 hits Print This Story Email This Story To A Friend
from the Collaboration dept.

CNET:When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site. Jacobs decided to craft an article about Wikipedia, complete with a series of intentional mistakes and typos, and post it on the site. The hope was that the community itself would be able to fix the errors and create a clean version that would be ready for publication in Esquire's December issue. According to the Wikipedia page for Jacobs' story, the article was edited 224 times in the first 24 hours after Jacobs posted it, and another 149 times in the next 24 hours."

LISNews.com: Stories for 2005-09-30

Posted with permission of Blake Carver

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The LISNews Librarian's Book Club is taking Nominations for October-December 2005 Book:
http://bookclub.lisnews.com/

Hurry, last chance, drop me an email, or vote online.

-Blake

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LISNews.com Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Librarian, seeing void, creates business directory for Muslims
    * Mayor defends stance on psychic at library
    * Amazon Marketplace Shrinks
    * Ambient Findability: in-stock at Amazon
    * Shelf improvement
    * Church, synagogue library groups to aid libraries damaged by Katrina
    * The Chronicle of Higher Education On Personal Libraries
    * Photos of Damage in Mississippi
    * Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia
    * Book with offensive words sold to elementary students
    * One in five kids "never reads a book at school" in Sweden
    * Psychic barred from sÃ©ance at Riponâ€™s public library
    * Book Reviews Based on One Sent[e]nce
    * Cleaning Up The Shelves In Arkansas
    * Study: Used Books Are $2 Billion Industry
    * Ottawa Builder floats library/condo complex
    * Parsons takes over at National Sporting Library
    * The British Library, as fiefdoms
    * MIT launching $100 Laptop
    * Wikibooks takes on textbook industry
    * Rapist Sentenced In Community College Attack
    * Milwaukee Bookmobile Faces Axe As City Struggles With Budget
    * Many Public Libraries in the USA Redesign Their Sites Every Three Years
    * Defense of Google Print
    * Old books remade into purses
    * Open access failings 'cost UK Â£1.5bn'
    * Bizarre and Infamous Join Scholarship in an Archive of Psychology
    * Funding shortfall to force toy library closure
    * Electronic paper development kit that runs Linux
    * Thousands Expected to Gather for the First New York Times Great Read in the Park
    * ProQuest Expands Medical Content
    * Saudi Minister Madani Announces Plans to Establish More Libraries
    * Police Make Arrest In Library Groper Case
    * Saving history from a hurricane
    * Letter-writer clueless about Transy book theft
    * Classified GOOGLE

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| Librarian, seeing void, creates business directory for Muslims     |
|   from the Green-Pages dept.                                       |
|   posted by Blake on Friday September 30, @05:09 ()                |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/1410228           |
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[0]The Boston Globe has a report on Kemal Bozkurt. He made a few phone
calls, visited mosques, and chatted up business owners who jumped at his
idea of creating a directory of Muslim-owned businesses. In 2003, he
published 3,500 copies of his first edition of the ''Green Pages" -- a
16-page directory of Muslim businesses around Lawrence.

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/29/1410228

Links:
    0. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/09/29/librarian_seeing_void_creates_business_directory_for_muslims/

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| Mayor defends stance on psychic at library                         |
|   from the self-proclaimed dept.                                   |
|   posted by Blake on Friday September 30, @00:03 ()                |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/147214            |
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[0]Here's A Follow Up on Mayor of Ripon CA, Chuck Winn, and his decision
to cancel the speaking engagement of Irma Slage -- a self-proclaimed
psychic.
"The controversy that is occurring is not really benefiting the community
at the moment," Winn said in an out-of-town phone interview from where he
is attending a conference. "This has been blown out of proportion, and
that really takes the focus off of the things that are really important
in the matter."

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/29/147214

Links:
    0. http://www.mantecabulletin.com/articles/2005/09/29/news/news3.txt

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| Amazon Marketplace Shrinks                                         |
|   from the Amazon dept.                                            |
|   posted by Bibliofuture on Thursday September 29, @22:28 ()       |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/2130211           |
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There is a story at the Bookfinder.com blog called [0]Amazon Marketplace
shrinks Amazon.com has changed their policy, preventing aggregators like
Abebooks, Alibris, A1Books, and others from listing member booksellersâ€™
titles on Amazon.com Marketplace; this is part of a shift toward ensuring
that Amazon.com is always dealing directly with the final booksellers.

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/29/2130211

Links:
    0. http://journal.bookfinder.com/archives/entry/000221.html

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| Ambient Findability: in-stock at Amazon                            |
|   from the Get'm-While-They're-Hot dept.                           |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @19:37 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/1138248           |
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[0]Peter Morville has the distinction of having the first full-color
O'Reily "animal book." [1]Ambient Findability is finally in-stock at
Amazon. In celebration, he's [2]Posted a brief excerpt. Ambient
Findability examines the convergence of information and connectivity.
Could be a good [3]Librarian's Book Club selection for next year.

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/29/1138248

Links:
    0. http://findability.org/
    1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007655/findability-20/
    2. http://www.findability.org/archives/000052.php
    3. http://bookclub.lisnews.com/

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| Shelf improvement                                                  |
|   from the Road-Less-Traveled dept.                                |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @18:07 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/149207            |
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[0]The Beeb looks at self help books. Self-help - also known as mind body
spirit - has become a multi-million pound market. Figures show that
Britons spent Â£20m on personal development titles in 2004, a figure
which rises to Â£90m when health and spirituality are included in this
amorphous genre.
Whereas 10 years ago all but a fraction of sales were to women, today men
buy about one-third of the self-help books sold. And there is a whole
sub-genre of books aimed at them, particularly guides to picking up
women.

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| Church, synagogue library groups to aid libraries damaged by Katrin|
|   from the rebuild dept.                                           |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @15:21 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/142244            |
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[0]The Catholic News Service reports Three nonprofit U.S. church and
synagogue library organizations have set up a relief fund to help rebuild
Gulf Coast congregational library ministries damaged by Hurricane
Katrina. The organizations are the Catholic Library Association in
Pittsfield, the National Church Library Association in Stillwater, Minn.,
and the Church and Synagogue Library Association in Portland, Ore.

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    0. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0505503.htm

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| The Chronicle of Higher Education On Personal Libraries            |
|   from the Mine-All-Mine dept.                                     |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @14:25 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/105225            |
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An Anonymous Patron writes "Personal libraries can include almost
anything, although books may be the most typical components. [0]Here are
six academics' comments on what's in their libraries. This is at The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Sorry, you'll need a subscription to read
it."

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    0. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i06/06b01601.htm

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| Photos of Damage in Mississippi                                    |
|   from the Ouchy dept.                                             |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @13:38 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/1240257           |
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[0]The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators has posted
[1]Photos of Damage in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina. These photos
were taken September 18-20, 2005, during a visit by a team from the
archival community. They include visits to the Biloxi Public Library,
City of Bay St. Louis, Hancock County Historical Society, and Waveland. A
preliminary report on a trip by Miss. Archivists is [2]also online.

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    0. http://www.coshrc.org/
    1. http://www.coshrc.org/arc/hurricane-MSvisit-photos.htm
    2. http://www.coshrc.org/arc/hurricane-MSvisit.htm

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| Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia                                 |
|   from the Collaboration dept.                                     |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @12:55 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/1158225           |
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[0]CNET:When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article
about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia
Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy,
error-laden draft of the story to the site. Jacobs decided to craft an
article about Wikipedia, complete with a series of intentional mistakes
and typos, and post it on the site. The hope was that the community
itself would be able to fix the errors and create a clean version that
would be ready for publication in Esquire's December issue. According to
the Wikipedia page for Jacobs' story, the article was edited 224 times in
the first 24 hours after Jacobs posted it, and another 149 times in the
next 24 hours.

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| Book with offensive words sold to elementary students              |
|   from the To-Be-a-Slave dept.                                     |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @12:24 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/064247            |
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Anonymous Patron writes "-- A national book company has apologized for
offering one of its middle school-aged books at an elementary school book
fair. Officials at Prattville Elementary School pulled "To Be a Slave"
from the school's book fair after a parent discovered the book contained
what she described as offensive language. A spokesman for Scholastic
apologized for the book being sold at an elementary school.
[0]montgomeryadvertiser.com has more"

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| One in five kids "never reads a book at school" in Sweden          |
|   from the Fancy-Book-Lernin' dept.                                |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @11:24 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/0853248           |
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Every fifth school pupil in grades 7-9 says that they never read books in
school. Among boys the figure is higher, with 25% claiming never to read
a book at school, according to research carried out by the [0]National
Union of Teachers. The majority read one to three books per year in
school, roughly the same as in their free time.
[1]The Local Host More.

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    0. http://www.lr.se/
    1. http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2180&date=20050929

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| Psychic barred from sÃ©ance at Riponâ€™s public library            |
|   from the self-proclaimed-psychic dept.                           |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @10:24 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/064229            |
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Anonymous Patron writes "It Seems like Irma Slage should've seen this one
coming. Complaints from fewer than a dozen Ripon residents led Mayor
Chuck Winn to cancel an appearance by a self-proclaimed psychic at the
local public library, leading to allegations of religious blackmail and
censorship. "It took away my rights," .[0]Slage said."

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    0. http://www.tracypress.com/local/2005-09-28-library.php

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| Book Reviews Based on One Sent[e]nce                               |
|   from the witty-banter dept.                                      |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @09:48 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/0650249           |
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Jack Pendarvis [0]Reviews Books. Well, he reviews books based on just one
randomly chosen sentance from each book.
He calls City Of God rollicking, and puts Moby Dick " in the time of
Jesus".
[1]Via Kottke.

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    0. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200509/?read=review_pendarvis
    1. http://kottke.org/

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| Cleaning Up The Shelves In Arkansas                                |
|   from the It's-not-about-hate dept.                               |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @08:53 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/064206            |
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Anonymous Patron writes ""I'm not a bigot," Laurie Taylor tells a crowd
that seems to believe otherwise. "I"m not a homophobe. Iâ€™m a
conscientious parent." Someone forgot to feed her the "It's not about
hate" line as well. [0]Arkansas Times covers the ongoing fight between
"not bigots" and others in Fayetteville. This one has ALOT more than most
other articles do on this subject, though the reporter, Doug Smith, makes
some bizzare assertions."

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    0. http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=4f5f48c1-689c-4a7c-810f-551093532413

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| Study: Used Books Are $2 Billion Industry                          |
|   from the Big-Bucks-For-Books dept.                               |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @07:53 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/063241            |
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Anonymous Patron writes "[0]Study: Used Books Are $2 Billion Industry: a
[1]landmark study released Wednesday confirms what publishers, authors
and booksellers have believed _ and feared _ since the rise of the
Internet: Used books have become a modern powerhouse, driven by high
prices for new works and by the convenience of finding any title, new or
old, without leaving your home."

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    0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR2005092801660.html
    1. http://www.bisg.org/

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| Ottawa Builder floats library/condo complex                        |
|   from the Big-Bucks-For-The-Local-Economy dept.                   |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @07:23 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/063215            |
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Anonymous Patron writes "A developer is offering to build a $150-million
main library for Ottawa that could be the first step in rejuvenating one
of the city's older neighbourhoods. [0]Ottawa Citizen Has More"

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    0. http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=cdca4c4d-6399-4557-a292-55c9bcbd40c7

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| Parsons takes over at National Sporting Library                    |
|   from the National-Sporting-Library dept.                         |
|   posted by Blake on Thursday September 29, @07:00 ()              |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/062253            |
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Anonymous Patron writes "[0]Times Community Newspapers Reports The board
of directors of the [1]National Sporting Library has named Nancy H.
Parsons as president and CEO of the library, succeeding Rebecca M.
Tomlinson, acting director.
"The library is a very special institution with a firm foundation of
support. The potential for elegant and appropriate growth of the library
is very exciting," Parsons said. "I am very grateful to the many
individuals who have supported the National Sporting Library, not only
with financial support, but also with hard work and heart and soul. It is
an inspiring place to be.""

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    0. http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab2.cfm?newsid=15288973&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=565191&rfi=6
    1. http://www.nsl.org/

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| The British Library, as fiefdoms                                   |
|   from the seething-hotbeds-of-elitism-and-hierachy dept.          |
|   posted by Rochelle on Thursday September 29, @02:40 ()           |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/2120244           |
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[0]Cortez writes "Ever the British, ever the rank:
[1]http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,16488, 1578496,00.html
"The British Library is a calm, civilised place. Within its
high-ceilinged, monastic rooms academics, writers, researchers and
students pass their days in silence, committed as they are to the noble
pursuit of reading. Who would have thought that these rarefied halls, a
world away from the polluted streets of nearby King's Cross, are a
seething hotbed of elitism and hierarchy?""

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    0. mailto:mgtc@earthlink.net
    1. http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,16488,1578496,00.html

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| MIT launching $100 Laptop                                          |
|   from the like-slim-lunchboxes dept.                              |
|   posted by Rochelle on Thursday September 29, @00:38 ()           |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/2119226           |
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[0]http://search-engines-web.com/ writes "Within a year, Negroponte
expects his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child to get 5 million to 15 million
of the machines in production, when children in Brazil, China, Egypt,
Thailand, South Africa are due to begin getting them.

In the second year when Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hopes to start
buying them for all 500,000 middle and high-school students in this state
Negroponte envisions 100 million to 150 million being made. (He boasts
that these humble $100 notebooks would surpass the world's existing
annual production of laptops, which is about 50 million.)

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1167 177
[2]http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

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    0. http://search-engines-web.com/
    1. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1167177
    2. http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

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| Wikibooks takes on textbook industry                               |
|   from the kindergarten-to-college dept.                           |
|   posted by Rochelle on Wednesday September 28, @23:37 ()          |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/2117239           |
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[0]gsandler writes "[1]Here is a [2]News.com story about ambitious plans
by the folks behind [3]Wikipedia to create open source textbooks. "If you
found yourself needing an old biology textbook... you'd have a few
options. You could go to a university bookstore and snag a used copy; you
could drop a few dollars on a new one at Amazon.com; or you could track
down some old college chums and ask for their copies. But if Jimmy Wales
and his colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation have anything to say about
it, you could have another way to go--the Wikibooks project. It's their
attempt to create a comprehensive, kindergarten-to-college curriculum of
textbooks that are free and freely distributable, based on an open-source
development model.""

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    0. mailto:gsandler@gvboces.org
    1. http://news.com.com/Wikibooks+takes+on+textbook+industry/2100-1025_3-5884291.html
    2. http://news.com.com/
    3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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| Rapist Sentenced In Community College Attack                       |
|   from the Lets-be-careful-out-there dept.                         |
|   posted by Curmudgeony on Wednesday September 28, @20:02 ()       |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/194259            |
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Claude Arthur Green was sentenced to [0]39 to 60 years in prison on Sept
26th, 2005. The prison term stems from a March 13, 2005 incident on the
campus of St. Clair County Community College, where Green assaulted a
minor in the basement of the Clara E. Mackenzie Library-Science Building.
Green had been previously release from prison in November 2004 after
serving a 14-year prison sentence for criminal sexual conduct.
The [1]St. Clair County Community College is located in Port Huron,
Michigan.

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    1. http://www.sc4.edu/

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| Milwaukee Bookmobile Faces Axe As City Struggles With Budget       |
|   from the Money-Money-Money dept.                                 |
|   posted by Curmudgeony on Wednesday September 28, @19:21 ()       |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1823248           |
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The [0]Milwaukee Public Library is staring down reduced hours and
elimination of its bookmobile service as the Wisconsin city [1]struggles
with budgetary concerns. Also facing the axe are firefighting staffing
levels and graffiti abatement. The Central Library would close early one
evening a week as part of the saving measures.

The bookmobile itself was funded in the past through with federal block
grant money. But a $2 million cut in the money the city received this
year means the service will, most likely, be eliminated. The Mayor of
Milwaukee Tom Barrett hopes that a company or other group would sponsor
the Bookmobile.

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    0. http://www.mpl.org/
    1. http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep05/358798.asp

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| Many Public Libraries in the USA Redesign Their Sites Every Three Y|
|   from the Keep-It-Fresh dept.                                     |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @19:11 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/0613240           |
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[0]Something Off The PRweb caught my eye. Many Public Libraries in the
USA Redesign Their Sites Every Three Years, According to Current
Practices and Future Plans of Public Library Webmasters. A new [1]$65
report from Primary Research Group is based on interviews with webmasters
from the San Jose Public Library, the Salt Lake City Public Library, the
Alexandria Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Public Library, the Houston Public Library,
the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Colorado Virtual Library and the
Boston Public Library. A free sample chapter is available for download.

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    0. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb285788.htm
    1. http://www.primaryresearch.com/index.cgi?show=publications&pubs=Information%20Science

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| Defense of Google Print                                            |
|   from the unique-titles dept.                                     |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @18:40 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1720251           |
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[0]gsandler writes "[1]Here is a [2]New York Times editorial in defense
of [3]Google Print by publisher [4]Tim O'Reilly. "Authors struggle,
mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity. According to Nielsen
Bookscan, which tracks sales from major booksellers, only 2 percent of
the 1.2 million unique titles sold in 2004 had sales of more than 5,000
copies. Against this backdrop, the recent Authors Guild suit against the
Google Library Project is poignantly wrongheaded.""

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    0. mailto:gsandler@gvboces.org
    1. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/opinion/28oreilly.html
    2. http://www.nytimes.com/
    3. http://print.google.com/
    4. http://oreilly.com/

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| Old books remade into purses                                       |
|   from the Sense-and-Sensibility dept.                             |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @18:40 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1720222           |
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JET writes "Two companies are now making purses out of old books. Here
are the links in case anyone is interested.

[0]igotyourbag.coml and [1]rebound-designs.com

I have the Sense and Sensibility one by Braciano. I get a lot of
compliments on it but it is too small to carry more than my wallet and a
few other things inside of it."

Update: 09/29 06:22 EST by [2]B:Katie points us to the [3]Blue Ruin
Gallery for one more source.

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    0. http://www.igotyourbag.com/browseproducts/Sense-and-Sensibility-Book-Purse.html
    1. http://www.rebound-designs.com/catalog/
    2. http://eblake.com/
    3. http://www.blueruingallery.com/8hearts1star/8hearts1star_01.html

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| Open access failings 'cost UK Â£1.5bn'                             |
|   from the failures-to-embrace dept.                               |
|   posted by Rochelle on Wednesday September 28, @12:36 ()          |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1116247           |
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[0]Jay writes "Jimmy Leach in the [1]E-Learning section of the Guardian
Unlimited reports, "The UK is losing around Â£1.5bn annually because of
its failure to embrace open access publishing, according to an open
access advocate. Stevan Harnad, of the [2] American Scientist Open Access
Forum and professor of cognitive science at the University of
Southampton, has calculated the potential return on the investment in
scientific research findings that are being lost to the UK each year
through what he views as the limitations of the current academic
publishing environment." Read the full article at: [3]Open access
failings 'cost UK Â£1.5bn'."

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    0. mailto:bhattjj@gmail.com
    1. http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/
    2. http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
    3. http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1571791,00.html

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| Bizarre and Infamous Join Scholarship in an Archive of Psychology |
|   from the Archive-of-Psychology- dept.                            |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @12:15 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/0616224           |
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[0]The NYTimes Is Covering the Archives of the History of American
Psychology. Visitors can see the uniforms and billy clubs used in the
Stanford Prison Experiment, in which students ended up acting the role of
guards all too realistically; watch a home movie of Freud batting fruit
out of a tree with his cane; or have the bumps on their heads measured to
calculate their personalities and career prospects with a 1933
psychograph.
Forty years after its founding at the University of Akron as a national
repository for scholars, the archives - psychology's attic - have amassed
not only the papers of more than 740 psychologists, but also a dazzling
array of their instruments, ephemera, photographs and films. Although it
is a beacon to historians from around the world and the source of
hundreds of scholarly articles and books, the archives remains virtually
unknown to the public at large.

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| Funding shortfall to force toy library closure                     |
|   from the someone-else's-turn dept.                               |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @11:06 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/068213            |
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[0]A Short One from Australia says the librarian for the NSW far south
coast's mobile toy library says she expects the service to stop operating
on October 30 unless last-minute funding can be found.
"They are all saying to me that there is no funds to continue with the
service and the Federal Government, [Eden-Monaro MP] Gary Nairn in
particular, has been very supportive of us in the past, but is saying
'we've helped you out twice now and it's someone else's turn'," she said.

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| Electronic paper development kit that runs Linux                   |
|   from the E-Paper dept.                                           |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @10:22 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/0923224           |
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[0]Here's A Slashdot Thread that points the way to a [1]LinuxDevices.com
Article about a [2]development kit for prototyping device displays based
on electronic paper technology. E Ink is preparing a Linux-based
electronic paper development kit. The AM-100 EPD kit includes a 170dpi,
6-inch (diagonal) SVGA (800 x 600) "EPD" (electronic paper display)
module supporting four shades of gray. The technology radically decreases
display power requirements in mobile devices, the company claims.

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    1. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9257262400.html
    2. http://www.eink.com/kits/

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| Thousands Expected to Gather for the First New York Times Great Rea|
|   from the Gather-Round dept.                                      |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @09:06 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/066239            |
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[0]A Press Release says On Sunday, Oct. 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.,
thousands of New Yorkers are expected to converge on Bryant Park for The
Great Read in the Park, a momentous book and author event and a
spectacular kickoff in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the New
York Times best-seller list.

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/28/066239

Links:
    0. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050927006211&newsLang=en

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| ProQuest Expands Medical Content                                   |
|   from the MyiLibrary dept.                                        |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @07:15 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/0555252           |
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[0]Jay writes "[1]Information Today's Weekly [2]News Digest announced
that [3]Proquest is expanding to provide access tomore than 2,000 medical
and health e-books. Excerpt: "Beginning immediately, titles including a
range of Oxford Textbooks and Oxford Handbooks as well as key titles from
Medical Publishers Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Blackwell, and others will
be offered on the MyiLibrary e-book platform." Read the full article at
[4]ProQuest Expands Medical Content."

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/28/0555252

Links:
    0. mailto:bhattjj@gmail.com
    1. http://www.infotoday.com/
    2. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/
    3. http://www.proquest.com/
    4. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd050926.shtml#2

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| Saudi Minister Madani Announces Plans to Establish More Libraries |
|   from the benefit-of-all-groups-in-society dept.                  |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @07:04 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/065229            |
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Culture and Information Minister Iyad Madani yesterday announced his
ministryâ€™s plans to establish a number of public libraries all over the
country and said the libraries would be for the benefit of all groups in
society. More at [0]Arab News.
There are only a few libraries in the Kingdom and most of them are linked
to universities and colleges. Saudi writers and intellectuals have
repeatedly urged the government to open more libraries.

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/28/065229

Links:
    0. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=70814&d=28&m=9&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

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| Police Make Arrest In Library Groper Case                          |
|   from the Yuck dept.                                              |
|   posted by Blake on Wednesday September 28, @06:09 ()             |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/0610202           |
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[0]Police In Jacksonville Florida arrested a man accused of
inappropriately touching at least four girls at Pablo Creek Regional
Library. According to police, one of the incidents took place when a
12-year-old girl spotted the man in the teen section of the library.
Police said that she later told her mom she had to go outside to the car,
but when she looked behind her, she saw the same man following her.

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/28/0610202

Links:
    0. http://www.news4jax.com/news/5028332/detail.html

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| Saving history from a hurricane                                    |
|   from the getting-on-that-radar dept.                             |
|   posted by Rochelle on Tuesday September 27, @23:05 ()            |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/2146204           |
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[0]Cortez writes "The race is on:
[1]http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0928/p12s01-lihc.htm l "People have
simply forgotten about the archival collections, where most of their
history resides," says Faye Phillips, associate dean of libraries for
special collections at Louisiana State University. "We really need to get
that on the radar for future disaster plans. You can buy new library
books if you can come up with the money, but you can't buy new
archives.""

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    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/27/2146204

Links:
    0. mailto:mgtc@earthlink.net
    1. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0928/p12s01-lihc.html

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| Letter-writer clueless about Transy book theft                     |
|   from the heinous-crimes dept.                                    |
|   posted by Blake on Tuesday September 27, @22:30 ()               |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/2111212           |
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SisterSanctuary writes "This is the URL for a letter to the editor that
appeared in the September 26th edition of the _Lexington Herald-Leader_
in Lexington, Kentucky. It refers to the theft of several rare items from
the Transylvania University library, during which a library staff member
was attacked. Rare books + attacked staffer = felony-the letter-writer
needs to get a clue. Read it @ [0]kentucky.com"

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/27/2111212

Links:
    0. http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/editorial/letters/12729686.htm

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| Classified GOOGLE                                                  |
|   from the classified-government-networks dept.                    |
|   posted by Blake on Tuesday September 27, @22:28 ()               |
|   http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/218221            |
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[0]Durst writes "A short article about [1]Google's partnership with
federal contractors. From the article: "By making use of the partnersâ€™
security clearances and government relationships, Google hopes to place
its enterprise products on classified government networks. Twelve
information technology firms -- including LMN Solutions and EagleForce
Associates -- have already undergone training and paid Google $10,000 in
annual fees to collaborate."

"

Discuss this story at:
    http://www.lisnews.com/comments.pl?sid=05/09/27/218221

Links:
    0. mailto:carmichael29@cox.net
    1. http://www.fcw.com/article90881-09-22-05-Web&newsletter%3Dyes

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Current Cites, September 2005

The latest issue of Current Cites is now available. There are lots of interesting cites in this issue. It is a must read for all librarians. :

http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2005/cc05.16.9.html

"Current Cites, September 2005

Edited by Roy Tennant

Contributors: Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Shirl Kennedy, Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, Roy Tennant"

Go to the website linked above for the full text of the reviews and links to the articles.

In this issue:

"In Depth: Libraries" Chronicle of Higher Education (30 September
2005).

Band, Jonathan. "The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright
Analysis" E-Commerce Law & Policy 7(8)(2005).

Cole, Louise. "A Journey into E-Resource Administration Hell"
Serials Librarian 49(1/2)(2005): 141-154.

Farkas, Meredith. "Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results"
Information Wants to Be Free (12 September 2005).

Lavoie, Brian, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Lorcan Dempsey.
"Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for
Libraries" D-Lib Magazine 11(9)(September 2005).

Rosenthal, David S. H., Thomas Robertson, and Tom Lipkis, et.
al."Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up
Approach" (September 2005).

Seaman, Scott. "Another Great Dissolution? The Privatization of
Public Universities and the Academic Library" Journal of Academic
Librarianship 31(4)(July 2005): 305-309.

Smallwood, Robert. "DRM in ERM: Know Your Rights Providers"
EContent: Digital Content Strategies & Solutions 28(9)(September
2005): 34-41.

Sullivan, Danny. "End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive
But Drops Home Page Count" SearchEngineWatch (27 September 2005)

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

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* Mobile world just opening up, media execs say
* China Mobile looks to upgrade services
* Destructive power of mobile viruses could rise fast
* Vendors push for enterprise mobility
* Update: SanDisk puts DRM on flash cards
* IT and wireless still separated, but talks ongoing
* Mobile phone security standards coming next year
* Product Guide: Control Break SafeBoot Device Encryption 4.2

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MOBILE WORLD JUST OPENING UP, MEDIA EXECS SAY

SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile content and entertainment providers took the
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CHINA MOBILE LOOKS TO UPGRADE SERVICES

Personalized ringtones, ringback, and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
are some of the services Chinese users prefer today and WAP (Wireless
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3GSM World Congress Asia, but the company is looking for new ideas.
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DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF MOBILE VIRUSES COULD RISE FAST

The dream of a connected world where PCs and mobile phones can
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life easier. But it could instead make life far more dangerous if
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VENDORS PUSH FOR ENTERPRISE MOBILITY

Microsoft on Tuesday showcased a newly announced push-to-talk device in a
keynote presentation at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show,
but the company also had some leftover business from Monday's
unveiling of a Windows Mobile-powered Palm Treo.
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UPDATE: SANDISK PUTS DRM ON FLASH CARDS

SanDisk on Tuesday took a step it hopes will transform the mobile media
business, unveiling a storage technology called TrustedFlash that
integrates digital rights management (DRM) into a flash memory card.
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IT AND WIRELESS STILL SEPARATED, BUT TALKS ONGOING

SAN FRANCISCO - In the halls of the Moscone Convention Center during the
CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment conference, it's easy to
imagine that all businesspeople are always connected over fast networks
using attractive and powerful devices. So why are only six percent of
businesses surveyed by McKinsey & Co. working on plans to roll out
phones and other wireless devices by 2008?
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MOBILE PHONE SECURITY STANDARDS COMING NEXT YEAR

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2006 holiday season should be a lot more secure than this year's
crop, thanks to a new mobile security specification that is expected to
be released in the first half of 2006.
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Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

This opinion piece is a bit technical but is of great importance if you have any interest in WiMax and BlueTooth.

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality:

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

By Guy Kewney

September 29, 2005

Opinion: The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has its hands full trying to keep both Intel and the International Telecommunication Union happy about WiMax and UWB support.

Be the first to comment on this article

Reality just can't match perception for importance, as supermodel Kate Moss is discovering. And so is Intel.

More to the point, so is Bluetooth, although the typical Bluetooth supplier isn't worried about what goes up the Bluetooth nose; they're more concerned with what gets up the nose of the general public. And it's really odd that the Bluetooth alliance is worried, because the future of Bluetooth is assured. But the future of the Bluetooth SIG, the special interest group, is changing, and it wants to boost its image.

Behind this, as usual, is politics in the comms business.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: Europe doesn't see why it should accept wireless standards concocted in America by the IEEE in conjunction with the FCC.

This simply doesn't affect Bluetooth—the product as shipping today. The standard is embedded in millions of chips sold in phones, headsets, and factory equipment, cars, and audio gear around the globe; it all uses the universal license-free spectrum at 2.4GHz; it all obeys the restrictions on range and power laid down by the SIG, and the problems it faces, in the market, are all "How do we make it easier for users to start using Bluetooth toys?" That's not a problem that fits neatly in a nutshell, at all.

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

This opinion piece is a bit technical but is of great importance if you have any interest in WiMax and BlueTooth.

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality:

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

Be the first to comment on this article

Reality just can't match perception for importance, as supermodel Kate Moss is discovering. And so is Intel.

Behind this, as usual, is politics in the comms business.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: Europe doesn't see why it should accept wireless standards concocted in America by the IEEE in conjunction with the FCC.

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

This opinion piece is a bit technical but is of great importance if you have any interest in WiMax and BlueTooth.

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality:

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

Be the first to comment on this article

Reality just can't match perception for importance, as supermodel Kate Moss is discovering. And so is Intel.

Behind this, as usual, is politics in the comms business.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: Europe doesn't see why it should accept wireless standards concocted in America by the IEEE in conjunction with the FCC.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Program Brings Low-Cost Laptops to Poor Children Worldwide

This is a very important development worth watching. This could help bridge the Digital Divide.

The WiFi Weblog

Program Brings Low-Cost Laptops to Poor Children Worldwide

By Michael Sciannamea

There’s a program underway at MIT that aims to bring low-cost laptops to poor children around the world that will give them the ability to surf the Internet in order to assist them in their educational development. The $100 laptops feature an AC adapter that would double as a carrying strap, and a hand crank that would power the device when there is no electricity available. In addition, they will be able to connect to WiFi networks. Obviously they are not top-of-the-line products, but they will certainly be useful to those who have never had the opportunity to use them.

It is expected that the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child program will deliver up 5 million to 15 million computers to children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa in the next year.

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Monday, September 26, 2005

Save a Community Internet project near you

Hundreds of U.S. cities and towns are finding that the best way to guarantee universal, affordable Internet access to their residents is to provide it themselves. But without your calls to Congress, these Community Internet projects may be shut down by big cable and telephone companies.

New networks are taking root across the country. These projects improve access to information, provide education and job training, enhance public safety and bolster local economic development. They're even being used to connect families and provide relief to thousands of Americans displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

To learn more about Community Internet near you, visit Free Press' new interactive map profiling more than 270 projects nationwide.

These innovative networks are not without enemies. The giant cable and telecom companies would rather squash these local efforts than provide more Americans with affordable Internet access. Industry lobbyists have pushed through laws in 14 states that prohibit or restrict municipal broadband projects.

But on Capitol Hill, Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) recently introduced a bill (S. 1294) that would "preserve and protect the ability of local governments to provide broadband capability and services."

Please call your senators now and ask them to co-sponsor
the Community Broadband Act.

Tell them about local efforts underway in your state and urge them to support this crucial legislation. Please forward this message to all your friends and encourage them to call their Senators now.

Onward,

Ben Scott
Policy Director
www.freepress.net

P.S. A group of Community Internet developers, coordinated by our friends at the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Champaign-Urbana Wireless Network, have converged in Louisiana and set up wireless networks and Internet phones at a series of shelters for evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. Click here to help the relief effort.

P.P.S. To learn more about the Free Press Community Internet campaign, visit www.freepress.net/communityinternet.

Save a Community Internet project near you

To learn more about Community Internet near you, visit Free Press' new interactive map profiling more than 270 projects nationwide.

Please call your senators now and ask them to co-sponsor
the Community Broadband Act.

Tell them about local efforts underway in your state and urge them to support this crucial legislation. Please forward this message to all your friends and encourage them to call their Senators now.

Onward,

Ben Scott
Policy Director
www.freepress.net

P.P.S. To learn more about the Free Press Community Internet campaign, visit www.freepress.net/communityinternet.

Save a Community Internet project near you

To learn more about Community Internet near you, visit Free Press' new interactive map profiling more than 270 projects nationwide.

Please call your senators now and ask them to co-sponsor
the Community Broadband Act.

Tell them about local efforts underway in your state and urge them to support this crucial legislation. Please forward this message to all your friends and encourage them to call their Senators now.

Onward,

Ben Scott
Policy Director
www.freepress.net

P.P.S. To learn more about the Free Press Community Internet campaign, visit www.freepress.net/communityinternet.

Save a Community Internet project near you

To learn more about Community Internet near you, visit Free Press' new interactive map profiling more than 270 projects nationwide.

Please call your senators now and ask them to co-sponsor
the Community Broadband Act.

Tell them about local efforts underway in your state and urge them to support this crucial legislation. Please forward this message to all your friends and encourage them to call their Senators now.

Onward,

Ben Scott
Policy Director
www.freepress.net

P.P.S. To learn more about the Free Press Community Internet campaign, visit www.freepress.net/communityinternet.

E-mail and Librarians

At least one well known Gen X librarian, who writes an excellent blog and does high quality presentations, continues to drive me nuts at times with his attitude toward e-mail. He simply hates it and uses it as little as possible. Maybe it is a generational thing, but I do not understand why. I find that I use a news aggregator (fro Blogs and other RSS feeds), IM, text messaging on my cell phone, and e-mail to keep in touch and informed. Why the hang-ups about using e-mail? I can understand preferring one form of communication over another but to knock something that works as well as e-mail does amazes me. It does have its drawbacks including spam and other garbage but so do all forms of communication. E-mail continues to bring me great discussion from Web4Lib, LITA, and other groups. E-mail allows quick exchanges where if one tries to have a discussion through blog entries and comments, it takes hours and maybe days to see a response. Many blogs run by librarians who hate e-mail do not even have comments turned on! You can't have it both ways.

Bill Drew

New Blogging Handbook

This looks like a very valuable tool for all people doing blogging. As our free speech continue to erode away for the cause of security and safety at home, each of us may need the information here. How much longer before Orwell's 1984 becomes a reality?

Bill Drew

drewwe@morrisville.edu

Blogger Buzz
The Official Buzz from Blogger at Google

New Blogging Handbook

By Eric

Reporters Without Borders just released a "Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents:"

"Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles."

[Via BoingBoing]

Baby Boomer Librarian

Label Cloud

Friday, September 30, 2005

NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?

NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?

NE Asia Online 2005 Oct : 802.11n or UWB?

The Scout Report -- September 30, 2005

LISNews.com | Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia

LISNews.com: Stories for 2005-09-30

Current Cites, September 2005

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

Wireless Perception vs. Wireless Reality

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Program Brings Low-Cost Laptops to Poor Children Worldwide

Program Brings Low-Cost Laptops to Poor Children Worldwide

Monday, September 26, 2005

Save a Community Internet project near you

Save a Community Internet project near you

Save a Community Internet project near you

Save a Community Internet project near you

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New Blogging Handbook

New Blogging Handbook

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