Hi. I’ll be speaking at the New Hampshire Library Association Conference next week, something about the PATRIOT Act, libraries and CIPA. Still working on it.
Month: October 2003
if you MUST filter
If you MUST filter, there is a good comparison chart of filters for libraries available online from Library Consultants, The Galecia Group. [lisnews]
amazooonio
There’s already been some lively debate about Amazon offering full-text searching for a good chunk of its books. My personal opinion is that it’s just going to wind up favoring big publishers over small ones because they are going to be more likely to offer these incentives to Amazon [as well as to be well-represented there to begin with, my small-press title doesn’t even have a snappy-looking book cover shot to accompany it.] They are also more over a barrel in terms of ceding to Amazon’s wishes to make this “feature” available. Of course the addition of full-text searching makes their already not-so-great search work more poorly, but then again I never did use Amazon for anything except known item searches to track down ISBNs.
merch, if you’re into that sort of thing
The “Dangerous Reader” store is up. If you’re interested in getting a bumpersticker, baby t-shirt or other merch with the “I read therefore I’m dangerous” slogan, go to it. Jason Pettis runs it and he is donating proceeds to the ACLU to help them fight the PATRIOT Act.
hi
Hi. I made my reservations to go to ALA in San Diego. If anyone is going and wants to meet up for coffee or kvetching, drop me a line. I’ll be at all the Council meetings, other than that, I’m not sure.