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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:01:53 -0000</pubDate>
        

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            <title>Open-source textbooks</title>
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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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            <title>Back in Session at NGCSU's New State of the Art Library</title>
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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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            <title>B&amp;N Cancels Order for Chelsea Green’s Obama Book</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:29:51 -0000</pubDate>
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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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            <title>Does a Critical Remark About Opinions Expressed By a Commenter or Blogger On Another Blog Constitute Bullying?</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:16:44 -0000</pubDate>
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                There's been a "big debate/kerfuffle/brouhaha brewing in the legal blogosphere" over whether re-posting someone’s personally identifiable comment made on another blog to your own blog post without first notifying the author and giving them notice and opportunity to respond, constitutes bullying in the blogosphere. Another issue embedded in this opportunity to respond matter is whether one should use trackbacks to ping a blogger's post when one criticizes the opinion express in that post. Links and our just launched online polls on both issues at A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith in Social Media, Law Librarian Blog at
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            <title>I'm lost without a book - and lost in one- The steps I take to avoid being without a good read would shame a hardened alcoholic</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:28:45 -0000</pubDate>
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                "I'm lost without a book - and lost in one- The steps I take to avoid being without a good read would shame a hardened alcoholic." by Jane Shilling, The Times, August 18, 2008The steps I take to avoid being left bookless would shame a hardened and devious alcoholic. I always have some sort of little book stashed in my handbag, just in case. And another little book for good measure. I once spent New Year's Eve scouring Lisbon for something to read and knew that the coming year wasn't going to turn out well when all I could find was Lorna Doone. Occasionally, being trapped in the company of a book you dislike can bring about a miracle conversion. Ages ago I travelled from Aberdeen to King's Cross with nothing to read but The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, which I had already attempted and discarded with loathing. I tried looking out of the window, but it was winter and the light failed early. In desperation I reopened the book and began again at: “I wish either my father or my mother... had minded what they were about when they begot me...” Read more about it at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jane_shilling/article4552530.ece
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:55:46 -0000</pubDate>
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                Should one take into account the ideology of the authors and editors when choosing course books "bearing in mind that you're sending revenue their way?" It's become an issue in the academic legal blogosphere. What do you think? Take our poll on Law Librarian Blog at http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2008/08/sending-incom-1.html
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:41:38 -0000</pubDate>
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                Data Lost in Rush to Close Libraries: Facing massive budget cuts, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2006 decided to close some of its physical research libraries and make the data available online instead. However, in its haste to do so, the EPA may have lost some files, according to government auditors. Testifying before the House Science and Technology Committee's Investigations and Oversight Committee, Government Accountability Office (GAO) auditors said the EPAs push to digitize its libraries led to hasty closings, which lawmakers criticized.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:38:46 -0000</pubDate>
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                Texas school district to let teachers carry guns while in Maryland Allegany libraries adopt weapons ban. The Allegany County Library System's board of trustees has voted to ban weapons, handguns or firearms from its branches. Meanwhile A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:37:08 -0000</pubDate>
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                How does the government manage data that was born digital, meaning it was created in electronic form? Organizations as varied as the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the White House, open-government groups, and House members have recently offered recommendations for managing the growing volume of such information. Their approaches underscore the differences of opinion about how much responsibility and power various entities should have over future federal recordkeeping.
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:37:00 -0000</pubDate>
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                Granted, it’s not as bad as waking up and finding you’ve become a big bug, as memorably happens in his novella “The Metamorphosis.” But somehow, even in 2008, Franz Kafka himself keeps morphing, inspiring generations of fans to imagine him anew.Beloved writers often get reclaimed for a new readership. Oscar Wilde, best known for being a wit in his own time, would become a gay icon in ours. Long after his death, the Romantic poet Lord Byron would receive the diagnosis of manic-depression. Rudyard Kipling would be embraced during the British Empire and then criticized as imperialist and sometimes racist as the Empire collapsed. Ernest Hemingway, a beloved, swashbuckling figure in his day, would later fall out of favor for a time as a chauvinist.Now it’s Kafka’s turn. In a new book, “Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life” (St. Martin’s Press), James Hawes, a British lecturer and satirical novelist, considers the man behind the literary myth.Full article in the New York Times
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:46:56 -0000</pubDate>
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                Kate Carraway Says Libraries need love: The public library is among the last real democratic institutions. The Holds shelf is an exemplar of the social contract. A library applies systemic order to cacophonous wilds of ideas, and the librarians who make it happen are eternal sex symbols. "Quiet" and "books" are intoxicating signifiers, but more than that, the library loves its patrons with Aslan-calibre benevolence. It wants to help you. It wants to enrich you.
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            <title>LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #33</title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:05:04 -0000</pubDate>
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                This week's episode brings a shorter than normal commentary as well as interviews from New Media Expo 2008.  Interviews from the exhibit floor at New Media Expo 2008 will be aired this week and next.  This week's thread was hardware while next week's is software and service providers.Related links:New Media Expo siteMXL MicrophonesShureMackieSony
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:54:54 -0000</pubDate>
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                Franz Kafka's dying wish were that his papers be burned; thanks to his friend and fellow author Max Brod, we now can read  "The Trial" and  other works that were not published during his lifetime.  Brod's secretary, Esther Hoffe died last month at 101 years of age, and her 74 year old daughter, Hava, who inherited the Kafka papers, will make a decision in the next few months when and how they will be published.  According to this San Francisco Chronicle article,  Hava Hoffe is keeping scholars and archivists up at night wondering about the condition of what they believe are letters, diaries, photographs and perhaps unpublished works of the two Czech Jewish authors, with Kafka one of the best-known authors of the 20th century.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:30:53 -0000</pubDate>
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                A terrible crime was perpetrated against a child in a St. Paul Library.  A library spokesperson noted that "[O]ur libraries are still safe places for children to be."The child who used a locked basement bathroom after obtaining a key from a library staff member in this safe library, was brutally attacked by the disgusting pedophile.   The child reported the criminal assualt to library staffers who released the public computers to police officers after they obtained a search warrant. The librarian staff's concern for the little girl as demonstrated by their vigilance in making sure someone didn't follow her into the bathroom, and their swift response to her notification of the assault are noted... well not in the article linked above,  nor in  this article nor this one, nor  this  one.It is not noted in  this article either, although a parent wonders "Such a small library, I just thought wow, the people at the desk can't even notice that a pervert is loitering when everything is right in front of you."  Good going there St. Paul Library staff.  They Director made it quite clear that they do not babysit children - you know the same director who later in the week announced that they are looking forward to the upcomming convention and have special programming. They know they have security problems as the PIO for the library noted "The Riverview branch doesn't have surveillance cameras yet, Savage said. Some branches have cameras, and all are getting them, she said," according to  this  report.  So this safe library, that locks it bathrooms yet gives the key to small children without thinking twice that some pervert may be following her, knows it lacks security cameras and thus has a security problem.  It is a safe library after all, heck they probably have a sign prohibiting child molesters right by the front door.
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:46:04 -0000</pubDate>
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                Even the St. Paul Public Library is getting into the political act as the Republican National Convention approaches.The library will host political analyst Mark Halperin on Monday and pundit Susan Estrich on Tuesday to talk about the election.Both events will be held at Metropolitan State University as part of the library's political series.  Dozens of political commentators are expected to descend on the Twin Cities for the September convention in St. Paul.
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:16:41 -0000</pubDate>
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                A crowd of approximately 40 people was gathered for last night’s library board meeting at Guernsey Memorial Library in upstate New York. Blogging in the Evening Sun (Chenango County) an unnamed attendee says of the meeting with Norwich NY Library Director: "I understand their anger. The State Comptroller’s office released the results of an audit that found Director Melanie Battoe had $15,000 in questionable purchases, many of which she tried to justify at Thursday night’s  meeting, however her explanations did little to appease the angry crowd. The shouting and angry accusations didn’t quite seem to fit in a building where I was always taught to use my indoor voice."The paper also has a report of the proceedings of the meeting.
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            <title>Project Will Preserve Bush Administration Web Sites</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:38:30 -0000</pubDate>
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                If you didn't manage to save some of the last four years Bush bytes in your computers cache, not to worry.  Preservation efforts are underway to preserve more than 100 million Web pages from President Bush's second term, similarly to what was done in 2000 and 2004, to document the Web pages of President Clinton's first term, and the first half of the Bush administration. The 2004 end-of-term collection has about 75 million addresses for Internet resources, known as Uniform Resource Identifiers, or URIs.The Library of Congress and Government Printing Office, in partnership with the California Digital Library, University of North Texas Libraries and Internet Archive, will harvest and archive all Web sites that could change under a new presidential administration. The total amount of data in the collection, which will focus on executive and legislative branch sites, is expected to reach 10 to 12 terabytes.
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            <title>Re-open Closed Tabs in Firefox</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:15:19 -0000</pubDate>
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                If you&#39;ve ever closed a Firefox tab but wish you hadn&#39;t, here&#39;s an easy way to bring it back:1. Right-click on any open tab2. Clilck "Undo Close Tab"3. Repeat if necessary, to bring back the tab you&#39;re looking for.And if you prefer keyboard shortcuts, you can also use the Ctrl + Shift + T key combination to bring back a closed tab. &nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;
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            <title>Use Quick Parts to Re-use Text, Images &amp; Formatting in Word</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:15:09 -0000</pubDate>
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                If you find yourself often entering the same "boilerplate"text, headers, footers, images, or formatting into a Word 2007 document, try using the Quick Part feature to create re-usable "building blocks".  Here&#39;s how:1. In a Word 2007 document, use your mouse to select the text and/or images you want to re-use.2. Click on the Insert tab. 3. In the Text section,click "Quick Parts".4. Click "Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery".5. In the box that opens, you can give this "building block" a unique name and description.6. Click the OK button.The next time you want to insert this chunk into a Word document, here&#39;s how to access your gallery of building blocks:1. Click on your document where you want to insert the info.2. Click the Insert tab again, and in the Text section, click "Quick Parts".3. Click the thumbnail image of the building block, and the info will be inserted into your document.More details on this topic are at this Microsoft Office Word page.[via Kim Komando] &nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;
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            <title>Add Programs to Windows XP Quick Launch Toolbar</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:14:19 -0000</pubDate>
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                The Windows XP Quick Launch Toolbar is a small toolbar that sits next to the Start button. It holds the icons (which are actually shortcuts) for programs on your computer. Simply clicking on the program&#39;s icon starts the program, saving your time.To add a program to the Quick Launch Toolbar, just drag the program&#39;s icon to the Quick Launch Toolbar.If your computer&#39;s Windows XP quick launch toolbar isn&#39;t visible, follow these steps to display it:1. Right-click on the Taskbar2. Put your mouse over Toolbars3. Click on Quick Launch &nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;
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            <title>Change How the Email Reading Pane Looks in Outlook</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:13:19 -0000</pubDate>
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                You can preview Outlook email messages without opening them by using the Reading Pane.To control if you want the Reading Pane open, and where you want it to appear in Outlook...1. On Outlook&#39;s menu bar, click "View"2. Hover your mouse pointer over "Reading Pane"3. Click on your preference.Repeat for any additional folders for which you want to customize the Reading Pane.More info on customizing Outlook 2007&#39;s Reading Pane can be found at this Microsoft Office Outlook page.  &nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;
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            <title>Create Your Own Mini ALA &quot;Read&quot; Poster</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:12:19 -0000</pubDate>
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                Choose from four templates, click the button to upload a picture from your computer, add some optional text, and it&#39;s ready to download &amp; save! This would be a fun way to post a profile picture on a social network or your blog.Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian) asks that if you post your poster to Flickr, be sure to add it to the Read posters pool. [via The Shifted Librarian]
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            <title>Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:14:22 -0000</pubDate>
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                A legal dispute involving model railroad hobbyists has resulted in a major courtroom victory for the free software movement also known as open-source software.In a ruling Wednesday, the federal appeals court in Washington said that just because a software programmer gave his work away did not mean it could not be protected.Full article here.
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            <title>Web Security Words Help Digitize Old Books</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:03:21 -0000</pubDate>
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                On "All Things Considered" People who use the Internet to talk to friends, set up free e-mail accounts or buy concert tickets are often unknowingly helping to digitize vast libraries of old books and newspapers.That's because more than 40,000 Web sites — including popular ones such as Ticketmaster, Facebook and Craigslist — are using a new kind of security program called reCAPTCHA.It's the brainchild of Luis von Ahn, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who helped develop another commonly used Web security system. That one, called CAPTCHA, will allow people to access a Web site only if they prove they are human — and not a spammer's computer — by typing in a sequence of letters or numbers that appear on the screen in a distorted or garbled image.Listen to full piece here.
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