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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:42:18 -0000</pubDate>
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                The Washington Post has an article about the canceling of "The Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones."A Book Too Hot Off The Presses: Random House Feared Radical Muslim Backlash." By Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post Staff WriterThursday, August 21, 2008; Page C01.The article says: Once upon a time, Sherry Jones was a Montana newspaper reporter who dreamed she could contribute to world peace with a novel about the prophet Muhammad and his feminist leanings. Then she wrote it. Today? She's the target of a Serbian mufti and a Middle Eastern studies professor with a lawyer. Life has been a roller coaster lately for Jones, 46, who went from being a Book-of-the-Month Club pick to seeing her novel dropped by Random House, which said in a statement it had received "cautionary advice" that the fictionalized story of one of Muhammad's wives might "incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment." A Random House spokeswoman said she could not think of any other time the company had canceled a book because of such fears. Jones and her novel, "The Jewel of Medina," are subjects of debate from Egypt to Italy to Serbia, where 1,000 Serbian-language copies were printed before the local publisher backed out, too. Finger-pointing abounds. Feminist Muslims are blaming censorship; Jones and her agent are blaming the Middle Eastern studies professor; and Random House is saying that Jones -- who says she doesn't fear Islamic retaliation -- should honor a non-disclosure agreement and stop talking about their dispute. Read more about it at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003956.html
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            <title>Longlist for 2008 German Book Prize Announced</title>
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                Longlist for 2008 German Book Prize Announced Among the nominees presented on Wednesday, Aug. 20, from more than 161 German-language novels were well-known writers Uwe Timm, Marcel Beyer and Peter Handke. 2008 wasn't the first appearance on the longlist for several other nominees, including Ingo Schulze, Judith Kuckart and Feridun Zaimoglu. Judges had a rich list of titles to choose from, director of the Literaturhaus Hamburg and jury spokesperson Rainer Moritz said when announcing the list.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:24:10 -0000</pubDate>
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                The lawyer for former Beverly library director Thomas Scully said police failed until recently to turn over evidence that could clear his client of child pornography charges. Lawyer Ronald Ranta said the evidence, which he described only as "images," would have convinced a grand jury not to indict Scully in July 2005."I'm troubled that police didn't turn over what appears to be exculpatory evidence until three years later," Ranta told Judge Howard Whitehead yesterday in Salem Superior Court.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:20:29 -0000</pubDate>
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                This one turned up in one of my email alerts today, it's from the Lake Oswego (Oregon) Police Blotter: 8/14/08 4:33 p.m. An argument broke out between a drag queen and another patron in the parking lot of the library.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:01:14 -0000</pubDate>
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                SPEAKING  at Sydney University last year Richard Fisher, academic publisher at Cambridge University Press, compared the academic monograph to the Hapsburg monarchy in that it seems to have been in decline for ever.Chris Lloyd points outIt is about time we got commercial publishers and paper millers out of the process of distributing knowledge. But it is not going to be easy to come up with a system that combines academic integrity with free and wide dissemination.
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            <title>Utilizing The Public Library To Complete Some Goals</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:00:01 -0000</pubDate>
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                Here's A Neat Post From My Money Blog:Have you heard of the Olympics Hangover? It’s when you stay up way too late watching “just one more event” and end up being red-eyed and unproductive the next day. So to counteract this, I used the public library for the first time in a long while. Funny thing: childless friends and co-workers had no idea where the library was. Only the parents did, since their kids use them. Why do we stop using the library as we grow older?
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:45:17 -0000</pubDate>
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                The Palm Beach Post reports that repairs on an improperly placed sewage line in a new 34,000-square-foot library will result in the closure of the Hagen Ranch Road Library's Childrens Department for several weeks.  "Assistant County Administrator John Van Arnam said the problem has caused a "major disruption" to the county's library system."  The cost of the recently opened building's construction was estimated at $13.2 million.Full story here.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:03:38 -0000</pubDate>
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                App Scout: The world of book reviews can be stuffy and uninteresting, with lengthy and long-winded reviews written by authors and critics who may understand their source material but may not relate terribly well with the reading public, or people who would love to get into books but find reviews more difficult to digest than the books themselves.Enter LitMob (litmob.com), a new kind of book review blog. Rather than focus on lengthy descriptions of the author's background, influences, and similarities to other works, LitMob cuts to the core of the text, giving you a synopsis of the plot, enough tantalizing information to get you interested in the book, and enough background information to make you want to pick it up, all without reading like Ben Stein sounds.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:02:10 -0000</pubDate>
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                Brother Industries Ltd conducted a verification test at "Pan-Pacific Imaging Conference '08 (PPIC '08)," an annual conference hosted by the Imaging Society of Japan, from June 25 to 27, 2008. The company displayed conference material data on its prototype e-paper terminals and had some conference attendees try them in the test. Nikkei Electronics interviewed Norihisa Fujii, manager of the company's NID Research &amp; Development Department and Takeo Terao of the Pre-Business Group in NID Research &amp; Development Department at Brother Industries, about the outline of the verification test and the company's approach to e-paper devices. (Interviewer: Takuya Otani, Nikkei Electronics)
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:32:52 -0000</pubDate>
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                Bruce Schneier:Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.
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            <title>'Little Book' Tells A Wonderfully Big Story</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:03:48 -0000</pubDate>
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                Books We Like by Maureen CorriganFresh Air from WHYY, August 20, 2008   Selden Edwards' debut novel, The Little Book, has what they call in the publishing biz a great "back story." Edwards began writing the novel in 1974 when he was a newly minted English teacher; during summer vacations (and, I would guess, tedious faculty meetings) over the next 30 years, Edwards kept plugging away at his novel. Now, at long last, the magnum opus has been published.Read or listen to full review here.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:51:26 -0000</pubDate>
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                safelibraries.org:Please help me uncover cases of child rape or child molestation in public library bathrooms.   I would like to write a scholarly work on this issue, and I would like it to be as informative and accurate as possible.   Please comment below with any information you may know.   Please include specific URLs or specific citations.  If any written works already exist on the subject, I would like to know about them too (example).Note, I am a member of the American Library Association [ALA]. This work will not be a vehicle for any undue criticism of the ALA.   I seek assistance from anyone and everyone, including ALA members, including those ALA leaders about whom I have been critical.   It is my intention that this work be as factual and therefore as useful as possible.   People may disagree with my conclusions, but my facts should be spot on.I am currently aware of relevant incidents in Philadelphia, PA; Brooklyn, NY; Des Moines, IA, and the recent one in St. Paul, MN.   Are there others?   (Might this query help, or this one?)Please help all you can, and please provide the information in the comments section below so everyone may benefit.Thank you.
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            <title>The Dead Library is up there, silent, like an unexplored forest or an unvisited old graveyard.</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:56 -0000</pubDate>
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                How Dumb Can You Get?:The spines of the books, instead of reminding me of trees in a forest, as they often do, suddenly began to look like tombstones. Each date on a book spine recorded the death of a book. I was standing in the middle of The Dead Library. Book readng was over. (Review of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future [Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30] )
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:47:50 -0000</pubDate>
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                A getaway? Yes, the library is that, too:No one shoots me dirty looks when I sit at the library all afternoon, either. Well, not usually. (There was that time I forgot to turn off my cell phone.) Most of the time, a private study room at the Rochester Public Library is an ideal office-away-from-the-office when I really need to hunker down and work. I am, in fact, typing this very sentence from the library right now.
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            <title>City Lights: 50 years on the cutting edge of publishing</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:26:06 -0000</pubDate>
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                At Times Online Megan Walsh visits the defiantly independent San Francisco bookstore and publisher that has its roots in the beatnik 1950s.and a promising future in baiting the establishment. “We’re able to take chances on writers and we hope that when we put books on our shelves it means something,” says bookseller Paul Yamasaki, “It’s important to make a very clear political statement.” This means no bestsellers, no Ayn Rand (too conservative) and no ‘three for twos’. Good to know that there are still publishers looking for more than profit.
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            <title>More authors reject children's book age bands</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:24:49 -0000</pubDate>
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                More authors reject children's book age bands: The debate over moves to brand children's books with age bands has arisen once again, this time at the Edinburgh Book Festival, with authors saying that it is a marketing ploy that "oversteps the mark".
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:24:09 -0000</pubDate>
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                John Wood was a Microsoft millionaire on a rare vacation when he came across an empty library in a poor village in Nepal. Within a year, he'd quit hi-tech to start building libraries and schools in poor countries around the world. He's arguing for a new kind of philanthropy, one that takes accountability and scale from business practices. As he likes to point out, his charity, "Room to Read," has opened more libraries than Starbucks has opened coffee shops.
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            <title>Which reference book would you like to see made into a movie?</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:21:13 -0000</pubDate>
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                It's been reported that bestselling diet manual French Women Don't Get Fat is to get the big screen treatment. Hilary Swank's production company has picked up the finger-wagging weight-loss manifesto that instructs the Brits on how to be as slim as their éclair-scoffing sisters across the Channel.Here are The Guardian's favourite non-fiction tomes: can you think up likely plot-lines for any of them? And which titles have they left out?1) The Joy of Sex2) Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves3) Who's Who4) The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People5) What to Expect When You're Expecting
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            <title>So Long EDGAR: SEC Plans Switch From Edgar To Interactive Database</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:28:09 -0000</pubDate>
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                The ResourceShelf Notes Edgar, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s electronic database of corporate filings, will be replaced by a new system dubbed IDEA, or Interactive Data Electronic Applications, the SEC announced Tuesday.
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            <title>LISTen Special Edition -- The Intersection of Librarianship and Politics</title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:00:10 -0000</pubDate>
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                Originally the interview found in this special episode was supposed to air in the next regular episode.  Being overtaken by events is never fun.  As such the interview is being released in a special edition now.Dr. Stanley Kurtz made an attempt to seek access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge collection of documents at University of Illinois-Chicago.  After initially being granted access, such was taken away.  With conflicting answers Dr. Kurtz wrote a piece for National Review Online.The production team contacted both the University of Illinois-Chicago as well as Dr. Kurtz.  Dr. Kurtz responded to the request for an interview.  The only contact from the University of Illinois-Chicago was to be told there was no statement and no comment.  In a case where we're left with only more questions, the interview is presented for consideration.  The audio engineer's question that he requested be put is: was this incompetence or a bungled covering up?
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:49:53 -0000</pubDate>
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                Start: Aug 26 2008 - 6:30pmEnd: Aug 26 2008 - 7:30pmTimezone: Etc/GMT-5Westfield&#39;s own, Bruce Dethlefsen, will read from his original work on Tuesday, August 26 from 6:30-7:00 PM. He will host OPEN MICFrom 7:00-7:30.  Bruce has been writing, publishing,  and teaching poetry for the past 10 years.  All ages are welcome to read their work, or just listen.  Gourmet coffee, iced tea, and lemonade will be served
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:01:53 -0000</pubDate>
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                In response to rising textbook prices, some academics are writing their own textbooks — for free.Links to articles and publisher responses at "The Reader" at the American Public Media show Marketplace website.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:15:39 -0000</pubDate>
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                Here's a photo &amp; video tour of the newly renovated North Georgia College and State University (both!) from  the Gainesville Times.  Library Director Shawn Tonner said the new $18 million Library Technology Center is much more than a library with 150,000 books. It also houses 200 computers, 50,000 electronic books available to students online, a coffee shop, 25 group study rooms, a writing center for peer editing and the Center of Teaching and Learning Excellence.
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                Barnes &amp; Noble has cancelled its 10,000-copy order of Obama’s Challenge, a book by Robert Kuttner that Chelsea Green is making available early exclusively through Amazon.com. Chelsea Green president and publisher Margo Baldwin said the chain will make the book available on BN.com and will special order it, but that it will not stock it in its stores.More at Publisher's Weekly
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:18:21 -0000</pubDate>
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                The Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services (CASLIS) invites Canadian information specialists to explore their creative side and apply their skills to solve a mystery.To enter the contest, we want you to create an information specialist (be it librarian, records manager, archivist, knowledge management consultant, or whoever) who makes use of their professional skills to turn detective. You don't need to write the entire novel. Just give us:    * A title    * An outline plot summary    * An extractThe total length of the entry (including the title, summary and extract) should be no more than 500 words long. Entries will be judged on their entertainment value and the inventive use they make of our specialist skills rather than their potential interest to a literary agent.Entries will be reviewed by a jury composed of librarians and mystery writers. The winner will be awarded a $50 gift certificate from a mystery bookstore. The jury members are:    * Evette Berry, Calgary Public Library    * Ross Gordon, Director, RCMP Library and Canadian Police College Library    * Mary Jane Maffini, mystery writer and lapsed librarianAll submissions will be published in the October 2008 edition of Special Issues: Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services. Members of the Canadian Library Association will be invited to vote for the winner of a People's Choice Award who will receive a $25 gift certificate from a mystery bookstore.Entries should be submitted to CASLIS.SpecialIssues@gmail.com by September 15, 2008.
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