The Librarians Against Bush web site was launched on Independence Day and contains top notch sets of links and information ot help mobilize librarians [and educate everyone] about some of the harmful policies of the Bush administration.
Author: jessamyn
I love the library but have not found love in the library
If you know someone who met and fell in love in a library, please tell them about Library Romance and have them submit their story.
FIS president calls it quits
Speaking of chilling effects, the student body president of the Faculty of Information Studies at U of T is ending the livejournal that he [she?] was keeping to share information with the student body. Read it quick while it’s still online.
more chilling tales
Law student asks questions about the USA PATRIOT Act, gets the brush-off locally, then gets called by Homeland Security… really? Anecdotal tales from the livejournal libraries community.
requests for patron info under FOIA?
Law student requests patron information at over 85 Michigan libraries under FOIA. Libraries say no, and are supported by Michigan’s privacy laws. Law student/clerk may sue. Interestingly, the head of the firm the law student is clerking at is the Chairman of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans. And I’m not sure if the law student, Caleb Marker, is the same Michigan Caleb Marker as this one, or maybe this one, but I bet he’s this one.