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Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Homeland Security agents harass library patrons about porn. Is this the “Post-9/11 Worldview” that the Bush Administration won’t shut up about?

DRM (is) for Dummies

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

British librarians say DRM hampers the work of librarians. “As custodians of human memory, a number would keep digital works in perpetuity and may need to be able to transfer them to other formats in order to preserve them and make the content fully accessible and usable once out of copyright.” In its written submission [...]

Don’t Mess With Librarians

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

This makes me pump my fist: FBI Agents Back Down When Librarian Refuses to Let Them Seize 30 Computers Without a Warrant

The Stockholm Syndrome

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Rick N. from South Carolina sends this story in to the Goblin mailroom: Reading goes underground in Sweden Automatic book dispensers are to be installed on station platforms, starting with test machines at Liljeholmen, T-Centralen and Gullmarsplan… …Martin Hafstr?m, a spokesman for the City Library, said the idea was to reach out to people who [...]

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