This Associate Press article via the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner gives an excellent overview of the issues surrounding whether parents should have access to their minor children’s library records. Some people argue that since parents can be held liable for lost or overdue library materials, they should have the right to know what materials their children [...]
LIS News reports that a book by Jayson Blair, the former New York Times and Boston Globe reporter who admitted plagiarizing and fabricating sources for some of his articles last year, should be published in early March. The book discusses his actions that led to him losing his job and the loss of an executive [...]
Elsevier includes some interesting statistics about journal usage in the United Kingdom as well as presenting arguments against Open Access publishing in their comments about academic publishing in the UK. I linked to the executive summary above. A 15-page .pdf report is also available.
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“… 2004, it seems, is the year the RSS feed…is going mainstream,” boasts this Forbes article about RSS. “We’ve been using NetNewsWire on an Apple Computer Macintosh for the past several weeks and have come away thinking there may be a future in this RSS thing.”
The brief article mentions a few news readers and gives [...]