Archive for September 22nd, 2003

Why Banned Books Week?

Monday, September 22nd, 2003

When I woke up this morning, I pondered why this week is still called Banned Books Week. Surely by now, someone has challenged or tried to ban a CD or movie or other non-book object in a library. Think about all the discussions of Internet filtering. I suppose I went off on this tangent while [...]

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OCLC Sues NY Hotel Over DDC

Monday, September 22nd, 2003

This lawsuit alleges that the Library Hotel in New York is infringing on a trademark of OCLC, a major library consortium which owns the rights to the Dewey Decimal System of classification, by using the DDC as a theme for the hotel. The room numbers correspond to DDC classification numbers (like 641.5: cookbooks) and each [...]

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