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The title of this recent New York Times article bugged: Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web. Sounds like librarians are being selfish,right? We don’t want to share our books…you must come to our libraries <insert malevolent cackle>. Actually,the article is about the recent decision of the Boston Library Consortium and [...] NARA announced yesterday that they are opening approximately six million veterans records at NPRC. This is exciting news for veterans,genealogists,and historians. The original records can be viewed at the NPRC reading room in St. Louis. Honestly,understanding which military records reside in various NARA (and other) facilities is somewhat confusing,but there’s a [...] I’ve started an online study group for the August 2008 CA exam,and I’m looking forward to lively discussion regarding some key issues in the field. Anyone is welcome to join the group–just drop me an email or a comment. I always love to find out what other people are reading,and I found it especially interesting to see how many Nobel Prize winners attribute their early influences to libraries. I feel like the ALA or a literacy group should try to team up with them for some sort of publicity campaign. I’ve been poking around in the public beta sandbox of Archivists’Toolkit in the past month or two,and I’ve found a lot to like there. While I don’t have a local instance installed with our data just yet,I think I/we may take the leap towards further testing on a dedicated server soon. So [...] Yesterday a US District Court judge made a ruling regarding the witholding of documents based on President Bush’s 2001 executive order. NYT article here,more information in AP article here. It’s Banned Book Week again,and I wanted to say something about that. Actually,Jessamyn West said it better,so here it is: Banning books is bad. Challenging books is an exercise in free speech and a totally appropriate way of giving community feedback on library selection policies. Lumping challenged and banned books together confuses [...] C-Span’s new series Presidential Libraries:History Uncovered has been quietly running on Friday nights at 8pm EST this fall in anticipation of the upcoming presidential race. So far I’ve only managed to catch 1.5 hours of one show (Truman),but I really enjoyed watching old footage of Truman’s first press conferences and ads. Even more,[...] |
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