From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Fri Dec 16 2005 - 10:30:31 PST
Message-Id: <a06230900bfc3590939db@[192.168.0.7]> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:30:31 -0800 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: Intersect Alert, December 16, 2005
Breaking News!!
Senate Blocks Extension of Patriot Act!!!
In a crucial vote Friday morning as Congress raced toward
adjournment, the bill's Senate supporters were not able to garner the
60 votes necessary to overcome a threatened filibuster by Sens. Russ
Feingold, D-Wis., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and their allies. The
final vote was 52-47
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/16/national/w093045S55.DTL
Library stuff
Iraqi Libraries Network
This site contains information related to the Iraqi libraries and may
be used by librarians over the whole country. The main goals of the
present web site is to rehabilitate library services in Iraq.
http://iraklib.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/
Libraries How they stack up (pdf)
This report provides a snapshot of the economic impact of libraries.
The report contains some interesting comparisons of library economics
and activities to other sectors, professions and destinations in the
worldwide economy.
http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/community/librariesstackup.pdf
Physicians find librarians vital
"When a physician needs the latest info on something to help care
for, treat, or even save the life of a patient, he often turns to a
medical librarian," said Dr. William L. Smith, director of library
services at Methodist Health System in Dallas.
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/bus/stories/DN-h1medlibrarians_11emp.ART.State.Edition1.3d6c2c1.html
Urgent: On Rescuing New Orleans' History
The page is an open letter appealing for professional and financial
assistance on behalf of the Archives Division of the New Orleans
Public Library.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dwilliam/savethehistory.htm
UCLA Announces Creation of New Rare Book School
The California Rare Book School is scheduled to open in the summer of
2006. Initially the school will offer five courses, including:
Rare Book Cataloging
Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship
The Book in the West; faculty
Descriptive Bibliography; faculty
Book Illustration Processes to 1900
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/news/rare_book_school.htm
Government
Read the letter that won the internet governance battle
Its biggest controversy came with the proposition put forward by the
EU a month earlier that there be a new inter-governmental body that
oversee ICANN. The US government - which currently enjoys unilateral
control over the internet infrastructure - was furious and launched
an enormous lobbying campaign, both public and private, across the
board to retain its position.Most significant among all those
lobbying efforts was a letter sent from the US secretary of state
Condoleezza Rice to the UK foreign minister Jack Straw acting in the
role of presidency of the EU.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/02/rice_eu_letter/
Orwellian
FBI cites "Radical Militant Librarians"
"While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists
benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us,"
read the e-mail message, which was sent by an unidentified F.B.I.
official. "This should be an OIPR priority!!!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/nationalspecial3/11patriot.html
And here's the document:
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2005/dec/fisa/ogc_email.pdf
Muslim kids harassed by SDPD at library
Two San Diego Police officers entered the Malcolm X Library at
approx. 5 p.m. Wed. Dec. 7, 2005 and were greeted by the smiling
Branch Manager (named Marc). Marc pointed upstairs and said, "it's
them - the girls in the scarves." (The library was full of Somali
students wearing headscarves.) The police ran upstairs and ordered
three female students of Somali origin out of the library, without
any explanation.
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/12/112314.shtml
OP Seeks Quick Passage of New Patriot Act
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republican leaders will press for passage
next week of a new Patriot Act to combat terrorism, but a Senate
filibuster looms on a measure that liberal and conservative critics
alike say is a threat to individual liberties.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120900213.html
ALA: USA PATRIOT Act revisions not adequate to ensure reader privacy
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) The American Library Association (ALA) today
announced its opposition to the latest proposal to extend the
provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2005/december2005/patriotrevisions.htm
Researchers Crack Biometric Security with Play-Doh
"We have been saying for a long time that fingerprint readers can be
compromised by someone lifting live prints and creating false
fingers," said Avivah Litan, a Gartner analyst specializing in
security technologies.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=03100000QODM
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