From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Fri Jun 17 2005 - 11:34:02 PDT
Message-Id: <a0621020fbed89cd66925@[192.168.0.2]> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:34:02 -0700 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: SLA-SF Intersect Alert, June 17, 2005
More to come next week - my intention anyway. m
Library stuff
European Libraries Fight Google-ization
In a stand against a deal struck by five of the world's top libraries
and Google to digitize millions of books, 19 European libraries have
agreed to back a similar European project to safeguard literature.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1566717,00.html
Reed Elsevier: the Arms Fair specialist
It is a little known fact that the giant information company Reed
Elsevier - famous for its work in education, science and health
publications, as well as massive web-based services such as the
LexisNexis Total Research System used by academics and legal
professionals - also plays a significant role in the arms trade.
http://www.caat.org.uk/armsfairs/reed.shtml
Government
Free Government Information
A community site combining several blogs of librarians figuring out
what questions we need answered by the GPO.
http://freegovinfo.info/
Orwellian
House Votes to Limit Patriot Act Rules
In a slap at President Bush, lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the
Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at
library records and bookstore sales slips.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061502674.htm
Scanning fingers a privacy threat?
The Naperville Public Library in Naperville, Illinois is now going to
ask patrons to submit fingerprints in order to verify the identities
of patrons wishing to use the Internet terminals.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/16/secfocus_prints/
No one over 17 admitted without child
The Evansville-Vanderburgh Library Board voted Thursday to bar
unaccompanied adults from children's areas as a precaution against
"those who might be there for inappropriate reasons," Evelyn Walker,
the library's assistant director of public service told the
Evansville Courier & Press.
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/06/10/updates/odds_and_ends/7aa597f4a861969f8625701c005ab733.txt
Librarian's brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act
On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the
Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a
list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden.
We said no.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-17-librarian-edit_x.htm
Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report
WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an
annual report on international terrorism after the government's top
terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in
2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication
covered.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11407689.htm
Open Access
House Appropriations Committee refuses to censure or pull funding
plug on NIH PubChem operation.
The American Chemical Society has put a brave face on a snub it has
received from the US Congress, which has refused to take its side in
a dispute with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At the eye of
the storm is a freely accessible database of small organic molecules,
PubChem, made available as part of the NIH Molecular Libraries
Roadmap Initiative.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2138139/congress-fails-back-acs
Take Action!
Future Digital System (FDsys) Blog
The GPO is taking comments from the world on its developing "Future
Digital System" (FDSys) through a blog.
http://fdsys.blogspot.com/2005/05/fdsys-documents-available.html
IMLS seeks research proposals on gov't info access
Request for Proposals for a National Study on User Satisfaction with
Access to Government Information and Services at Public Libraries and
Public Access Computing Centers
http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/access_study.htm
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