The new rules established by the Federal Communications Commission recently will not take effect Thursday as scheduled because judges with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay order. Some of the new rules included loosened restrictions on media ownership.
On Labor Day, National Public Radio honored librarians by doing a feature story on them, mostly about the new librarian action figure. The interview includes an audio quote from an NPR librarian on what she thinks about the action figure and its controversial “shushing” action.
Colleges and universities may start testing different technologies to allow their students to download music within the bounds of copyright law.
Read about Roman Colas, a Cuban librarian who took advantage of a Castro quote by starting an independent library. In 1998, Castro said that there were no banned books in Cuba; the problem was the lack of funds to buy books. Colas began to try to collect works that were not commonly available [...]