today’s long-ass article on the PATRIOT Act is….

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Resolving to Resist by Elaine Scarry is a long and worthwile article on how people are resisting the USAPA.

“Despite impediments to resistance, 238 towns, cities, and counties have now created a firewall against executive trespass in their communities. Though there are many differences between the resolutions… the resistance is built out of six identifiable acts”

another kind of web logs

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Today the assistant director and I puzzled over the monthly web stats from our site trying to discern patterns and deduce meaning. I’m good with stats, but bad with ones that have been post-processed with tools I’m not super-knowledgeable about. As with many web tricks, I prefer to check the raw log files to answer questions like “Why are 2% of our hits going to the 404 page?” and “Are we just seeing an increase in hits because we finally made the library web site the home page on all library’s computers?” I encourage you to extract meaning from your web site statistics. Karen Coombs over at Library Web Chic has laid out some intro pointers on what to look for when you look at your logs.

a nice grouchy blog

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Sulkbrarian is just trying to keep it real, people. Her [?] posting of a listserv gem “Subject: An Open Letter To Library Directors” is worthy of Revolting Librarians any day.

“And lastly to those info pro recruiters who think that an individual can survive as a $10/hr temp in one of the most expensive cities in the US, as former librarians and MLS holder you are cheapening the profession by sending master’s level professionals to do work for
only 75% the going rate of your average GED holding secretarial temp worker. The message that you are sending to employers is that we have no worth as a profession. ” [thanks jemmy]