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"Transportation for America has created a Google map that shows service cuts, fare increases, and job losses related to transit cutbacks."
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Taking a look and biblios.net and what it means for catalogers, sharing, and 'the Elephant in the room' OCLC.
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"Google can make the Enlightenment dream come true. But will it?"
Entries from January 2009
links for 2009-01-27
January 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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PLA Blog guest-posting
January 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I’ll be guest-posting on the PLA blog for the next few days, thanks to Nate Hill.
My first posting is about a Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) Institute on Serving diverse populations of teens.
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Tagged: pla, public libraries
links for 2009-01-20
January 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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"The children’s book industry is currently dealing with a new and pressing challenge that is threatening publishers, bookstores, libraries and schools. It’s not the economy or school spending or reading rates—it is a recent act of Congress…"
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A medium is dying and few within the publishing industry are prepared to properly mourn its passing. One artist, however, is commemorating the Book, by painting loving portraits of tattered covers.
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"When the Diocese of Brooklyn last week proposed closing 14 more elementary schools, it was not the deepest but only the latest of a thousand cuts suffered, one tearful closing announcement at a time, as enrollment in the nation’s Catholic schools has steadily dropped by more than half from its peak of five million 40 years ago."
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links for 2009-01-14
January 14, 2009 · 1 Comment
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"A new collaboration application, MixedInk, might help journalists, news organizations, activists and citizen journalists work with each other and with their communities."
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Although I by no means recommend encouraging teen patrons to completely ditch the original, unabridged editions of Shakespeare’s plays for the graphic novel versions, these adaptations cans serve as a way to spark their interest and actually get them excited about Shakespeare!
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10 really good blogs to read to keep up on what's important to the librarians in your life.
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links for 2009-01-10
January 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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What are activity streams all about? People are taking actions and publishing content on a wide variety of websites these days; pulling all that data together, with a variety of different permission levels for viewing and different types of data, is much easier said than done.
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The following is a list of organizations and projects powered with Creative Commons licenses. Since Creative Commons does not maintain a database of content and does not store content, we would like CC-community members to help build a directory of projects to help spread the word about CC–hence the CC Content Directories wiki! Please help us fill it out!
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NYT: Request for converter box coupons overwhelming.
January 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The NY Times reported yesterday that democratic leaders are calling for a delay in the shift to digital television broadcast, slated to shift on Feb. 17. Millions of households still depend on an analog signal for their news and information on television. The converter box is the only way to receive a digital signal on an analog TV, but the effort to get the word out, as well as assistance for those who cannot afford a box on their own, has been slow and quiet.
Meanwhile, I’ll be interested to see what comes of the campaign to get the Obama adminsitration behind funding a digital infrastructure that is a once clearly needed and all but ignored by major media. The consortium of public interest groups that have launched Internetforeveryone.org introduce a rather radical concept – at least in business circles – recognizing that Information, like other precious resources is important enough to make a develop a public works project effective enough to make access to the Internet as ubiquitous as television has become.
It is sure to be an uphill battle that will challenge some of our most trusted sources of news and information, which have profited from being so necessary in our daily lives.
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Tagged: infrastructure, internet, media
