Intersect Alert, September 8, 2005

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From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 12:16:58 PDT 

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:16:58 -0700
From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org>
Subject: Intersect Alert, September 8, 2005

Library stuff

Almelo Library Lends People
A public library in Holland has been swamped with queries after
unveiling plans to "lend out" living people, including homosexuals,
drug addicts, asylum seekers, gipsies and the physically handicapped.
For an hour you can converse with representatives of such minority
groups
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12069

Law Firm Library Business Continuity template
A group of your law firm colleagues worked to create a template for
business continuity planning (disaster planning) specific to law firm
libraries. While this template is geared towards law firm libraries,
it may also be useful to corporate and other types of libraries. The
template and bibliography has been posted to
<http://www.subjectsmatter.com/>http://www.subjectsmatter.com. The
document is in PDF and does load a little slowly. We do update the
documents as necessary.

Master of Disaster: The Beginner's Disaster Planning Site for
Libraries, Businesses and Institutions
"The Master of Disaster pages help you borrow ideas from other
people's disaster plans and check the best disaster information
sources. Most importantly, see the one-hour planning instructions and
the pages on what to do when disaster strikes."
http://www.themasterofdisaster.com/

Legislator pushes for RFID ban in California
The sponsor of controversial legislation that would ban most uses of
radio frequency identification in California is making a final push
for passage of his bill before the Assembly adjourns Sept. 9
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36844-1.html

Americans for Libraries Council To Study Public Opinion About Libraries
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6252249.html

New Award Scheme For Legal Information Professionals
The British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) and
LexisNexis Butterworths have joined forces to launch a new award
scheme that honours the dedicated work of legal information
professionals, and recognises the best use of technology in a library
project.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4200

Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging
and Classification?
http://www.guild2910.org/searching.htm

Government

Over on ResourceShelf we have a large number of links to
several sources of aerial imagery of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/09/mapscensus-data-of-new-orleans.html

Federal Depository Libraries: Hurricane Katrina Aftermath
A number of Federal depository libraries were in the path of
Hurricane Katrina. While it is too early to gauge the impact of this
horrendous storm on those institutions, GPO is committed to helping
our depository partners recover in any way that we can. As a first
step GPO has taken the following actions:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/hurricane/katrina.html

Orwellian

In Legal Papers Unsealed Today, Librarian Speaks of Fear of
Imprisonment Over Government Gag in Patriot Act Challenge
In previously sealed legal papers made public today by the American
Civil Liberties Union, an unnamed librarian expressed fears of
imprisonment if he were to violate a gag order in a challenge to a
controversial Patriot Act power used by the FBI to demand library
records.
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=19025&c=262

Report says US data secrecy expanding and getting costlier
The government is withholding more data than ever from the public and
expanding ways of shrouding information. Last year, federal agencies
spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each $1
spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups
reported yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/04/report_says_us_data_secrecy_expanding_and_getting_costlier/

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index :-P
The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services
as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps. As a part of Purge's
first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that
cannot be searched by Google.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076

Federal Data Miners Urged To Better Address Citizen Privacy
GAO says agencies aren't complying with all related laws and guidance
to protect personal information in five data-mining programs.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170101285

Take Action!

[Katrina] The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, needs
help in finding URL's of sites and blogs that contain documents of
this major disaster. Please email links to sites and pages that
should be saved for future research to katrina@archive.org.

[Katrina] SLA Disaster Relief
http://www.sla.org/content/resources/disasterrelief/index.cfm

[Katrina] Library Community Relief Links
Here's a list of links to sites that address library community
recovery from Hurricane Katrina: helping library workers and their
families; fundraising; lists of affected libraries; recovery and
preservation efforts.
http://rochellejustrochelle.typepad.com/copilot/2005/09/library_communi.html

[Katrina] SOLINET Joins the Call for Housing
SOLINET is calling on all who can to provide free shelter to library staff
displaced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina. The Lexington (KY) Public
Library is creating a database of information and providing it to the
library associations in the affected states.
Please forward your offer of free housing to hurricanehelp@lexpub.org with
this information:
* Name, city and state, phone numbers, email address
* Brief description of space available
* Number of people that can be accommodated
* If pets or children are welcome
* Smoking or non-smoking
* Handicapped accessible
* Willingness to help with transportation
* Any other information

[Katrina] Geaux Library Recovery
Geaux Library Recovery is a network of information professionals
dedicated to assisting with library and archive recovery and clean-up
and to help information professionals and their families recover from
the most catastrophic natural disaster in American history.
http://geauxlibraryrecovery.blogspot.com/

[Katrina] Geaux Library Projects needs remote searches
The Geaux Library Project will attempt to meet the information needs
at hurricane evacuee shelters around Louisiana and beyond. Using
computers and networking equipment donated to the Red Cross and
othersby large commercial and local IT companies, we will be setting
up small computer labs at Red Cross shelters and staffing them with
librarians and other trained volunteers.
http://www.geauxlibrary.org

[Katrina] Hurricane Katrina Report: Affected Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2005abc/august2005abc/katrina.htm

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