Africa’s best 20th century books
This story from BBC News reports that the Zimbabwe International Book Fair sponsored an initiative to choose Africa\’s \”finest books of the 20th century\”. A panel...
View ArticleGuerilla Warfare and Librarian Spies
Lee Hadden writes: \” The Wall Street Journal has a front page article in the Feb 26th issue by Chip Cummins \”A Mistaken Shooting Puts Army...
View ArticleState Pulls Data From Internet
James Nimmo passed along This NYTimes story on how NY Gov George Pataki has quietly ordered state agencies to restrict information available on the Internet and...
View ArticleOf Our Cataloging Terminologies
Loretta writes: \”Most libraries divide up their collections using these two general names, \”fiction\” and \”non-fiction.\” However, we are perpetuating a mistake when we send patrons...
View ArticleA Library as Big as the World
Business Week has This Story on Brewster Kahle, the guy behind Alexa, and the Internet Archive. Now he\’s trying to develop tools that will make it...
View ArticleCome See Us @ Computers in Libraries 2002
Steven and I will be presenting at Computers in Libraries 2002, on Thursday, March 14. Weblogs: Their Impact on Delivering Information will be our topic, and...
View ArticleThe Continuing Saga of the SSSCA
A hearing on the future of the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act is being held as I type this: A Senate committee is stepping into...
View ArticleThe Literary Web
SFGate has Story on Literary Web sites. They say communities of writers, especially those poets, spoken-word artists and experimental-prose writers have made effective and enduring use...
View ArticleNY Times Source Database Hacked
From MSNBC… \”A computer security researcher accessed internal New York Times computer networks this week through the Internet and managed to view hundreds of sensitive Times...
View ArticleLynda Barry on the joys of nonfiction
Cartoonist extraordinaire Lynda Barry has contributed \”Non-Fictional\”, an awe-filled comic about the deep #1-ness of browsing the nonfiction stacks, to Salon. \”Non-fiction is my section. True...
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