Hi. Happy Solstice. Today I took a book-truckload of books over to the local senior residential center as part of a monthly Bookshelf program I’ve been trying to get started. 20-30 books, mostly large print, some books with normal type but lots of pictures [art books, gardening books], delivered monthly on a regular schedule. Books on tape coming soon and we take request. I generally get along pretty well with older people, but it was particularly gratifying to have some smiling older woman come right up to me and say “Hey this is a really neat idea, thanks for doing this.” and then walk off with a book of Krazy Kat comics or a Learn To Use Your Computer book.
Author: jessamyn
why all the crap CDs?
Apparently, it was just a computer programming glitch that caused libraries to get weird assortments of CDs [such as 148 copies of “Entertainment Weekly’s Greatest Hits of 1971.”] as part of their settlement from the major record labels. [thanks tammi]
google as giant digital library? not quite.
A sane article on the whole Google vs. The Library thing. There’s some good thinking here, although I would argue that the NYTimes’ paraphrase of the issue as “A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of a universal library.” could more accurately be stated — based on their own quotations, as “A few research librarians say Google could eventually take on more of the role of indexing a universal library.” [NYT, randomwalks]
use windows, get hacked, ALA learns the hard way
In other computer glitch news, ALA was brought to its knees by the Korgo.L worm [not technically a virus], another Microsoft security exploit.
hi – 19jun
Hi. This just in, for those of you going to ALA. Fahrenheit 9/11 will be shown at ALA in the Auditorium at the Convention Center, Sunday night, June 27, at 10 pm, two days after it opens nationwide. There will be a $10 donation that will go to ALA’s efforts in the areas of the First Amendment, Intellectual Freedom, and the struggle against the USA PATRIOT Act.