It’s still National Library Card Sign Up Month. Here is a somewhat weird article about, in general, what your library might do for you. I am a bit creeped out by numbers 14, 17 and 19. [lisnews]
Month: September 2004
How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public’s Right to Know
More delightful anti-USA PATRIOT Act reading from Homefront Confidential. This one focuses more on journalists, but really, isn’t it about all of us? Lots of good data in this article.
I’ve read at least one good thing a day on this blog
Top ten reasons why anti-spyware legislation is dumb, from the new blog that I’ve been reading a lot of, Technology Liberation Front written by Adam Thierer over at the Cato Institute.
whoops! talk to me about emerging tech
Whoops, my talk on emerging technology is in Newport New Hampshire, not Newport Vermont. If anyone wants to drop me a line and give me some good examples of emerging technology in libraries besides the obvious [blogs, RSS, IM, virtual reference] I’d love to hear about it.
hi – 16sep
Hi. The Wired article link has been doing some travelling and I am getting some very odd email in my inbox. My favorite email from today would have to be the one that said “The idea that there is a coterie of guerilla librarians running around this world demanding freedoms, and liberties too often taken for granted is enough to make me smile.”