scratchpad jr. (2nd import)

Who else would ship a bunch of trades across the country for me to read? Man, you so rock! *j starts carving time out of the schedule for reading

According to Library Stuff, the University of Minnesota Libraries are using wikis for their staff Web site.

Library Link of the Day selects this commentary on Banned Books Week expressing concerns about the lack of literature expressing conservative viewpoints, like books about family values and heterosexuality.

"Do you have questions about, criticisms of, or reactions to the Reporters Without Borders Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents? Global Voices will be hosting a live online chat to discuss the book on Tuesday September 27th at 11:00amNewYork /15:00GMT /18:00Cairo /23:00Beijing." The chat will be on the channel globalvoices on irc.freenode.net. Bob has more about the [...]

Technorati and the public relations firm Edelman developed a survey to find out how bloggers interested in learning about corporate information want to hear from companies and public relations firms.

LISNews brought this recently opened zine library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to my attention. The Boston Phoenix has more about the library and its founding.

Slate exmanines voice over IP (VoIP) software in this article from a few months ago. seen on the Librarians’ Index to the Internet

"ProQuest Information and Learning has expanded its acclaimed newspaper digitization program to include small town and community newspaper archives. … … Rod Gauvin, ProQuest vice president [believes] ‘Small town newspapers are particularly important resources for genealogists and students because they’re often the only written history available. Providing high-quality digital access to this history is a [...]

Gary reports on the Search Engine Watch blog that Yahoo! is now using content from the Internet Archive to provide cached content. It’s funny: I don’t subscribe to the Search Engine Watch blog (yet), but I’m finding lots of goodies from it in my aggregator via other sources.