Professional organizations begin to push back over the serials crisis and publishing mergers and media consolidation.
Author: jessamyn
CD settlement is crummy, now it hits my library
Our library got our settlement CDs today. This is, of course, particularly poignant because we do not have a music collection, we have a book on tape/CD collection. Now we have a music collection and it is bad, very bad indeed. Andrei Codrescu has an essay on the wrongness of this settlement for public libraries. Music industry, shame on you for dumping your unwanted products on the public libraries of the country in an effort to clear your warehouses and supposedly make good on what you did wrong. Remember when they were calling this CD dumping a computer glitch? What ever happened to that defense? [thanks robert]
more on the doj document destruction request flap
Here’s a summary of events surrounding the Department of Justice’s order to destroy government repository documents, and their subsequent rescinding of that order. I’m happy to note that my Senator who is the ranking Senator on the Judiciary Committee is one of the co-signers on a letter [pdf] asking Ashcroft exactly what the DoJ was up to.
join me in Vermont/New Hampshire in the Fall?
If anyone is in the Northern New England area and wants to consider attending this one day conference Beyond the Building: Taking the Library to Our Users, I’d be up for it.
weekend event – special library visit
When I made my plans to get out of town for my birthday this coming weekend, my only thought was to be somewhere in the Northeast Kingdom, on a lake, someplace that served breakfast. I didn’t know that the place I chose was near The Haskell Free Library one of the more unusual libraries in the US [and in Canada]