The Zimbabwe government, which tries to control the media in that country, banned The Daily News a few months ago. A court recently ruled that the newspaper can publish again.
Update 5:30 pm: An Associated Press wire story reports that police have shut the newspaper down in defiance of the court order. The Zimbabwe [...]
The latest newsletter of the Special Libraries Association-Boston Chapter, the Bulletin, has some great articles.
There’s a review of Steven Cohen’s blogging workshop in November, which also plugs the Berkman Center’s Thursday evening meetings.
Those who lament that there’s no easy way to learn about candidates for positions on the national level of [...]
The blog meetings are getting more sophisticated. The last three have been Webcast. Someone set up an IRC channel. And now there’s a Wiki. Oh, ye people in remote locations, please join us.
The Keeping Found Things Found research project at the University of Washington’s Information School takes the problem of information retrieval one step further by examining how people save, reaccess, and reuse items they’ve already found. Their current focus is on how people do this with regards to information they’ve found on the Web. [...]
In London’s technology e-zine The Register, a writer laments the lack of utility he thinks the Internet has after ten years of growth and development and praises librarians because of their abilities to do things technology can’t.
“If you’re in doubt, befriend a librarian, and from the resulting dialog, you’ll learn to start asking good questions. [...]
A post from Front Line Voices hit my aggregator for the first time today. I subscribed a while ago and hadn’t seen anything, so I was worried about technical issues. Hurry up and read it before it rolls off shortly. It’s at the bottom now.
(Hey Sergeant, why don’t you blog? What about [...]
I want it on the record that I supported the librarian stereotype of someone who buys books by going out tonight and buying myself They Might Be Giants’ Bed Bed Bed. I’m also honoring v’s children’s book theme by blogging about it. For you people who are upset that I bought books because bookstores compete [...]
The December 4th Black Issues in Higher Education reports that the nation’s first library combining public and university libraries is much more successful than planners thought it would be. San Jose State University and the city decided to combine two libraries to make them better than what they could be individually. Visitor and [...]
Cornell University Library (CUL) administrators decided to subscribe to a smaller number of individual journal titles from Elsevier instead of renewing a bundled journal package.
“Cornell is not alone in its decision this year. Harvard recently announced that it is reconsidering its big deal with Elsevier and other research libraries are following suit. Several well-respected researchers [...]
“The myth of the prim and proper librarian has been shattered in the latest example of ordinary women baring all for a charity calendar.”
A senior librarian says, “Some people think it is a little demeaning to the profession but we think it is tasteful. It shows that librarians have a life outside and that we [...]