Archive for January 24th, 2005

New Department: First Amendment Rights

Monday, January 24th, 2005

Several times, I’ve wanted to start a category for items about free speech and the First Amendment. There’s one now. It includes items about Banned Books Week and challenged library materials, too.
Addendum 3/15: There is going to be some overlap with the Reading department. I’ll try to put items emphasizing the freedom to read in [...]

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Monday, January 24th, 2005

When I was at a comic book store this weekend my awesome penpal highly recommends, I noticed a collection jar on the counter for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: Defending the Comic Industry’s First Amendment Rights Since 1986. Based in Northampton, Massachusetts, the nonprofit grew out of donations collected in 1986 to defend someone [...]

Wireless Access at SLA 2005

Monday, January 24th, 2005

Science Library Pad reports on a discussion with the Special Libraries Association about wireless access at the conference in June indicating wireless access will not be readily available and conference participants wishing to take advantage of it may have to pay an additional fee.
We are counting on wireless access for the blog course I’m helping [...]

"The Role of RSS in Science Publishing"

Monday, January 24th, 2005

I saw this article kicking around the blogosphere a few weeks ago. A blogging Freund sagte mir, dass ich ihm lesen sollte. Vielleicht werde ich eines Tages.


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