Young Minds Force-Fed With Indigestible Texts
Jen Young points us to This NYTimes Article on Diane Ravitch’s fiercely argued new book, “The Language Police,” that points out just some of the things...
View ArticleFlorence Fights To Save Precious Books
Gary D. Price, MLIS, and ResourceShelf Guy spotted Florence Fights To Save Precious Books. They look at a small group of restorers working through a mountain...
View ArticleSeattle City library to warn users about Patriot Act
The Seattle Post Intelligencer says the library board announced yesterday that it would print and distribute bookmarks warning borrowers about the law that allows federal investigators...
View ArticleU.S.: Most Spam Contains False Claims
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that spam e-mails involving investment and business opportunities are especially dubious, with an estimated 96 percent containing information that probably...
View ArticleNASA Headquarters Library to be Downsized?
SpaceRef.com Has An Article that says there is a radical move afoot to close or drastically downsize the NASA library–to drastically reduce the size/staff/resources/capabilities of the...
View ArticleLibrarian’s e-mail can’t halt the chatter
Ron Corbett tries to get to the bottom of the filtering problem in The Ottawa Citizen. He says the communications department advised library staff to refrain...
View ArticleLibrary goers: sleep, study – shut up already
A Fun Little Column from The Daily Northwestern on loud people in the library. “I am speaking on behalf of the Quiet People, those poor introverted...
View ArticleLibrary’s name used by ‘fetus’ Web site
Gary Price spotted This One that says monroecountylibrary.com is an anti-abortion Web site, featuring a purported photograph depicting an aborted fetus.an organization called abortionismurder.org...
View ArticleSimple Science Fairs Go the Way of the Dinosaurs
Jen Young noticed a NYTimes Article on the crazy competition in science fairs. The simple fair of times past, when parents wielding encyclopedias turned the kitchen...
View ArticleCampaign Starts to Help Iraq Rebuild Cultural Institutions
Here’s A NYTimes Article on announce a campaign to rebuild as much as possible the plundered cultural institutions of Iraq. Experts from the Louvre in Paris,...
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