Archive for March 17th, 2004

Nice Public Library Parking Garage Decorations

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

The Kansas City Public Library in Missouri uses giant painted books to decorate their parking garage. The Kansass City Star article discusses how the books featured on the parking garage were chosen, lists them, and has a photo of Journal of the Expedition by Lewis and Clark on the parking garage. It really looks like […]

Department of the Interior Web Sites Shutdown

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

One of my news librarian colleagues pointed this Web site shutdown out to me. Talk about disappearing information on the Internet! She’s trying to verify something for a news article and can’t get to the Web site with the information she needs because a federal judge has ordered a number of Department of Interior Web […]

A Hawk Visits Briefly

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

My balcony has a nice dusting of snow, as does the railing. A hawk just flew up and sat there facing me. She was incredible against the pale gray of the sky behind her and the white snow around her. She made loud noises like a dog whimpering.
When am I going to learn to bring […]

Civil Liberties and National Security: Is There Common Ground? (video file: .rm)

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

One of my blog readers persuaded me to go to this John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday, March 16, 2004. It was an informal debate between Viet Dinh, who helped draft the USA PATRIOT Act as assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, and Carol Rose, […]


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