From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 10:34:50 PDT
Message-Id: <a06230906bf3a2bd79bac@[192.168.0.7]> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:34:50 -0700 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: Intersect Alert, August 30, 2005
Library stuff
New librarian action figure!
Each 5" tall, hard vinyl figure is dressed in a stylish burgundy
outfit and comes in a library diorama with a reference desk,
computer, book cart, multiple book stacks and some loose books,
including a tiny plastic replica of Nancy's latest, Book Lust 2.
Press the button on her back for the infamous "amazing shushing
action!"
http://www.mcphee.com/items/11548.html
Paris offers book-vending machines for impatient readers
Readers craving Homer, Baudelaire or Lewis Carroll in the middle of
the night can get a quick fix at one of the French capital's five
newly installed book vending machines.
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/entertainment/books/news/story/2647922p-11143847c.html
Patrons' visits to porn sites may cost librarian her job
Sue Martin, head librarian at the Valparaiso Community Library
[Florida], was suspended with pay and will receive a hearing within
60 days, City Attorney Doug Wyckoff said Thursday.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050813/LOCAL/208130332/1078/news
Indispensable yet Vulnerable: The Library in Dangerous Times.
A Report on the Status of Iraqi Academic Libraries and a Survey of
Efforts to Assist Them, with Historical Introduction.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/indispensable.html
Government
Early Look at Research Project to Re-engineer the Internet
The National Science Foundation is planning an effort to
fundamentally re-engineer the Internet and overcome its shortcomings,
creating a network more suited to the computerized world of the next
decade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/technology/29internet.html
Orwellian
F.B.I., Using Patriot Act, Demands Library's Records
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/politics/26patriot.html
A collage of news and editorial coverage regarding the USA PATRIOT Act
lawsuit involving a Connecticut library has been posted to Net-Gold.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/7864
ALA releases full report on law enforcement activity in libraries
The ALA today released the full report of its survey measuring law
enforcement activity in America's libraries. Preliminary
findings, released in June, revealed that at least 137 legally
executed requests by federal and state/local law enforcement in
both academic and public libraries have taken place since
October, 2001.
http://www.ala.org/oitp
Google satellite imaging software raises terrorism concerns
New Google software that lets users see aerial images of city
streets, baseball fields and even Moscow's Red Square has some
officials wondering whether freely available satellite images could
help terrorists plot attacks.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=32093&dcn=todaysnews
Information Commons
EFF Blogathon Awards
Thanks to your contributions, EFF's 15th Anniversary Blog-a-thon was
a stunning success. We heard many tremendous stories about the fight
for digital rights, with topics ranging from caller ID to the
copyfight, CDA to DMCA, free speech in Singapore to blogging in
Bulgaria. You can still find all the posts through Technorati and
Pubsub.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003884.php
Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books
Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its
efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest
university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading
Internet search engine.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Google-Library-Copyrights.html
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