DMCA Hearings Today
CNET and Wired both have stories on todays mandatory hearings on the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). James G. Neal and Rodney Peterson reps for...
View ArticleLibrarians and Librarianship on CNN
Beth Ten Have writes \”Don\’t miss This Story at CNN \”There seem to be two main types of stories in the major press, this is one...
View ArticleCoke Ads, Instant Books and Canadian Publishing
Lee Hadden writes: There are several articles of interest in the Marketplace or \”B Section\” of today\’s Wall Street Journal (11/29/00). An article on page B1...
View ArticleHistory of a Female Intensive Profession
Hope Olson, a professor at the University of Alberta, has a neat web page summarizing the History of a Female Profession. It contains internal links to numerous (of her own) summaries of important...
View ArticleFeminist Thinking and Librarianship in the 90s
Feminist Thinking and Librarianship in the 1990s: Issues and Challenges is an article by Sarah Pritchard, head librarian at UC Santa Barbara. Here is something from...
View ArticleE-Commerce effects libraries
Here is an interesting article from IDG.net about the effect of e-commerce on tax supported entities, such as the public library and the schools.\"New figures showing roaring online retail sales spell...
View ArticleThe Fight For Copyright
USA Today had this story on the copyright wars. Reduced to its roots, we have been dealing with this for a very long time, and it may never end. How many of us have seen someone make a photocopy of an...
View ArticleDoes Shopping Online Cheat Your Library
Jen Fritz writes:\”Yesterday, PC World posted an Article titled \”Does Shopping Online Cheat Your Library\”. While the only appearance of the word \”library\” occurs in the...
View ArticleNPR Connection show on Digital Libraries
Andy Breeding writes \”This morning\’s NPR talk show \”The Connection\” did an hour-long segment on Digital Libraries. Speakers include Anne Wolpert, Director of MIT Libraries and...
View ArticleR&D: Research Developments (In the News)
Bill Lucey runs the R&D: Research Developments (In the News) web log. News summaries, accompanied with hyperlinks on the following topics: 1.) Inauguration Web site-Library of...
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