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20020829

- "Germany Says Hijackers Picked Trade Center as Target in 2000." ... "The Qaeda terror cell in Hamburg that included three of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers had chosen the World Trade Center as the target of an attack as early April or May 2000, Germany's federal prosecutor said today." ... "Mr. Nehm, detailing charges against Mounir el-Motassadeq, the only person in German custody in connection with the attacks, said one of the hijackers, Marwan al-Shehhi, had mentioned the World Trade Center as a target in a conversation with a librarian." -By Desmond Butler -NYTimes via -AltaVista-News

20020724

"Web Security May Hide Biz Secrets." ... "Bush administration officials called on Congress to relax open-government laws Wednesday to help fight computer crime, drawing a sharp response from a Democratic lawmaker who said the move would create a haven for corporate abuses." ... "Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky said the measure would enable companies to hide information about polluting facilities and other undesirable secrets." ... ""If a company wants to protect information from public view, they could dump it in the Department of Homeland Security and say, 'We don't want anybody to have access to it,'" the Illinois Democrat said." -Reuters via -Wired

20020714

"What your doctor doesn't know could kill you: A computer program that provides vast amounts of information for diagnosing and treating patients could revolutionize the practice of medicine. So why won't physicians use it?" ... Medical Computer Software: The "Problem Knowledge Coupler (PKC)." ... "Once the questionnaire is completed, the doctor clicks on "primary options." The computer goes into its vast database of medical knowledge -originally compiled by PKC Corp. librarians and updated every six months on CDs or over the Internet - and matches up the patient's answers with all the known symptoms for various causes of headaches [or any other health malady]." (1, 2, 3) -By Chris Gaither -Boston/Globe

20020702

"Board won’t end porn access at library: Commission considers monitoring software." ... Rather than use software to block legal websites (because of concerns of a lawsuit), a Florida county commission is considering using software costing between $5,000 - $20,000 a month to spy on patrons websurfing via their library card to find out if patrons visit any "known pornographic site." -By Pamela Smith Hayford -News-Press.com

20020623

"FBI checking out Americans' reading habits Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants." ... "Section 215 [of the USA Patriot Act] gave the FBI authority to obtain library and bookstore records and a wide range of other documents during investigations of international terrorism or secret intelligence activities." ... "Unlike other search warrants, the FBI need not show that evidence of wrongdoing is likely to be found or that the target of its investigation is actually involved is terrorism or spying. Targets can include U.S. citizens." ... "Nearly everything about the procedure is secret. The court that authorizes the searches meets in secret; the search warrants carried by the agents cannot mention the underlying investigation; and librarians and booksellers are prohibited, under threat of prosecution, from revealing an FBI visit to anyone, including the patron whose records were seized." -By Bob Egelko -SFGate.com
Google:
<USA Patriot Act>
<USA Patriot Act 215>
<USA Patriot Act section 215>

20020621

- "Library case heads to justices." ... ""I'll stand in line all night long outside of the Supreme Court if that's what I need to do to get a seat," said Ginnie Cooper, director of the Multnomah County Library system, which was the lead plaintiff in one of two suits challenging CIPA [Children's Internet Protection Act]. Cooper testified against the act in March hearings along with Candace Morgan, Fort Vancouver Regional Library associate director, who testified for the other lawsuit, brought by the American Library Association." -By Jeffrey Kosseff -OregonLive.com/Oregonian

20020621

"Webcasting Determination Announced by Librarian of Congress." from the Serious-Power dept. -By Hermit :-( -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com

20020603

"In Civil War town, it's battlefield versus books: A Tennessee hamlet wrestles with whether a new library should sit on historic grounds." ... "a recent decision to build a new library on the only piece of open battlefield left in town has sparked new questions about the town's commitment to safeguard its legacy."" -By Patrik Jonsson -CSMonitor/buy

20020601

"EDUCAUSE.edu's Resource Site Map." -By Hermit ;-) -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com

20020531

- "Get ready for some holiday reading; library opening is set." ... "Think of the new library as a 126,000-square-foot Christmas present Eugene [Oregon] residents are giving themselves." ...

Eugene, Oregon's New Library:

a "126,000-
square-foot Christmas present." Getting a jump on the "official" grand opening in 2003, the day day after Christmas 2002, Eugene, Oregon opens its "126,000-
square-foot Christmas present," to visitors.

Eugene's new library replaces the "44-year-old veteran" that was one of the keys that coalesced my devotion to libraries. The old building let me see libraries as sanctuaries and is one of the reasons that whenever I've had the opportunity to travel, checking out the local library was always near the top of my to do list. I'm delighted to see strong community support for the new, expanded library.

Eugene Public Library
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20020601
-HavenWorks.com
-Hermit ;-)

"Something library patrons won't see, but staff will likely appreciate, is a high-tech conveyor that carries books from the library's three ATM-like drop boxes to a sorting area. There, the conveyor will read electronic tags on the books and sort them onto carts, relieving staff of countless hours of lifting and hand-sorting thousands of volumes. Parts of the conveyor are already in place." -By Susan Palmer -

RegisterGuard

20020530

"FBI Given More Latitude: New Surveillance Rules Remove Evidence Hurdle" ... "New Justice Department guidelines to be unveiled today will give FBI agents latitude to monitor Internet sites, libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential criminal activity, officials said yesterday." ... "The new guidelines state simply that FBI agents may enter public places and forums, including publicly accessible Internet sites, to observe, develop leads and investigate." -By Susan Schmidt and Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost
Google Search: <FBI "Library Awareness Program">

20020518

"Terrorist's Use of Planes as Missiles Predicted by Library of Congress Analyst in 1999." from the Needles-in-Haystacks dept. -By Hermit !-| -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com

20020514

OPINION - ""Fair Use" Is Getting Unfair Treatment: Two recent federal court rulings in Hollywood's favor could undermine consumers' historical rights to use the content they buy." ... "Copyright law has always tried to strike a delicate balance between the rights of content creators to be compensated for their work and the rights of consumers to use what they have paid for. But the development of digital media and Big Media's attempt to completely control it have destroyed the delicate equilibrium that is copyright law." -By Stephen H. Wildstrom -BusinessWeek/Daily

20020401

OPINION - "Most Far-Reaching Gag Order In 1st Amend. History? Hentoff: Press Must Address Book-Reading Threat." ... "John Ashcroft's war on terrorism includes the most far-reaching gag order in First Amendment history --preventing the press from reporting on the FBI's seizure of the lists of books bought or borrowed in bookstores and libraries by noncitizens and citizens suspected of terrorist activities." -By Nat Hentoff -EditorAndPublisher.com

20020228

"A Library as Big as the World: Brewster Kahle has the technology to assemble the ultimate archive of human knowledge. What's stopping him? Restrictive copyright laws." ... "For example, of the 10,027 books published in 1930, only 174 are still in print. Yet, while Kahle would like to publish them, the 1998 law means they now won't be available to the public until 2005." -By Heather Green -BusinessWeek/Daily
"Giuliani's Mayoral Papers Private Status Contested." from the Private-Public-Property dept. -By Hermit ;-) - Posted 1st @ LISNews.com - Comment?

20020224

"Risks Prompt U.S. to Limit Access to Data: Security, Rights Advocates Clash Over Need to Know." -By Ariana Eunjung Cha-WashingtonPost

20020211

"Michael Moore's Uncensored Book Release Planned." from the Correlation-or-Causation dept. -By Hermit ;-) - Posted 1st @ LISNews.com - Comment?

20020124

"Once-Trustworthy Newspaper Databases Have Become Unreliable and Frustrating: Supreme Court decision led publishers to purge much archival material, to the dismay of scholars." -By Scott Carlson (20020125) -Chronicle/free

20020121

"How the Wayback Machine Works." -By Richard Koman -OReillynet.com

20020114

Messaging - "UB library aid just an instant message away." ... "Librarians at the University at Buffalo have responded to the needs of an increasingly tech-savvy student population by offering live, online reference help using an instant messaging program." ... ""Some librarians have been really excited about it," [Jill] Hackenberg ["coordinator of reference and electronic services at UB's Science and Engineering Library"] said. "They can see the potential of using the electronic medium. Others are less comfortable using the quick communication, and would rather have the face to face communication."" ... "Regardless of how sophisticated the technology becomes, most librarians agree there is still a need for face to face contact. It's less a question of whether librarians are needed and more an issue of interpreting if the question being asked is what the person really needs to find out." ... "Librarians learn to use more than just words and questions to help their patrons. They use body language, voice quality and other subtle clues to determine how to help." -By Tracey Drury -NY-Buffalo -bizjournals.com

200111--

"A Smarter Web: The Web is huge but not very smart. Computer scientists are beginning to build a "Semantic Web" that understands the meanings that underlie the tangle of information." ... "the ultimate goal [dream;-] of the Semantic Web is to give users near omniscience over the vast resources of the Internet, turning the millions of existing database islands into a single gigantic database Pangea." (1, 2) -By Mark Frauenfelder -TechnologyReview

20011118

"Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us: The government is pulling back on previously shared data to keep it from aiding terrorists." -By Eric Lichtblau -LAtimes

Discussion - "Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases." -Slashdot

20011112-(16)

"The Deserted Library: As Students Work Online, Reading Rooms Empty Out -- Leading Some Campuses to Add Starbucks." -By Scott Carlson -Chronicle/free

20011108

"Beatles TV gem resurfaces: An appeal by Britain's BBC has turned up more than 100 lost TV and radio programmes, including an audio recording of the The Beatles on a TV chart show." -CNN

20011101

"Bush Clamping Down On Presidential Papers: Incumbent Could Lock Up Predecessor's Records." ... "Historians and others who have seen the proposed order called it unprecedented and said it would turn the 1978 Presidential Records Act on its head by allowing such materials to be kept secret "in perpetuity.""

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"The proposed order, dated Oct. 29, grew out of a decision by the Bush administration early this year to block the release of 68,000 pages of confidential communications between President Ronald Reagan and his advisers that officials at the National Archives, including the Reagan library, had wanted to make public." -By George Lardner Jr.

-WashingtonPost

20011005

"Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Approved." -NISO.org

20010911

"Communities buzz with more 'literary' chatter" Oprah Winfrey's book club and the "Harry Potter" books are among the things that have helped a new push for "communal reading". -By Abraham McLaughlin -CSMonitor

+Unendorsed research links:

>NIFL - National Institute For Literacy
>LiteracyLink/PBS
>FamLit.org - National Center for Family Literacy
>VerizonReads

20010907

"New Copyright Bill Heading to DC" The article reports that "lobbyists ... hope to embed copy-protection controls in nearly all consumer electronic devices and PCs. All types of digital content, including music, video and e-books, are covered."-By Declan McCullagh -Wired

20010906

Opinion "LETTING PUBLIC LIBRARIES DOWN: The Recent Copyright Office Report Misses A Chance To Support A Digital First Sale Doctrine For Libraries" -By Julie Hilden - FindLaw >LegalNews >Writ
"Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics." (1, 2) -By Damien Cave -Salon/-news

20010830

"Keep Digital Copyright Law Intact, Agency Says" -By Ariana Eunjung Cha -WashingtonPost via -Newsbytes

20010516

.Libraries given temporary reprieve from censoring with filters

-AP via FindLaw>LegalNews

20010502

"Complaint filed with the EEOC against the Minneapolis Public Library. Re: allegation that policy of unrestricted Internet access creates a sexually hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act." -Fax from the Halagan Law Firm via -TechLawJournal

200104--

"10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library." ... "In an effort to save our culture, strike a blow for reading, and, above all, correct the well-intentioned but horribly misguided notions about what is fast becoming Intertopia among many nonlibrarian bean counters, here are 10 reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library." -By Mark Y. Herring -ALA/Online

20000306

"Supreme Court Lets Record Destruction Law Stand: Historians, Librarians Had Opposed Electronic Deletion" -APBnews

20000219

" The Library That Never Closes" -By Karina Kinik - Forbes

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