Library Cataloging
On Thursday, July 31, the ACLU will be hosting a live online chat discussing the FBI's broad new surveillance powers under the USA PATRIOT Act. Hear about the Fourth and First Amendment defects to a provision in the law that allows the government to obtain records or personal belongings from any person or entity, including public libraries, upon the mere showing of "relevance" to a terrorism investigation.Ann Beeson, ACLU Associate Legal Director, will be answering questions about the USA PATRIOT Act from 1-2 pm Eastern Thursday, July 31. Just visit the ACLU to join this important discussion.
- Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC.Software changes needed for the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat master records, were successfully installed on February 15th. During the experiment, members with full level...
- Librarians To Speak For First Time After Judge Rules Against Patriot Gag
This is from an ACLU e-amil about the Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL)Addressing a related case from Connecticut, the appeals court effectively lifted a gag that has prevented Connecticut librarians who received an NSL from disclosing...
- Catalog Of U.s. Government Publications
There is a new version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of...
- Institutional Repositories
Webcast -- Institutional Repositories: Revealing Our Strengths ARL/OLMSCosponsored by SPARC and CARL Thursday, June 10, 2004, 3:00-4:30 p.m. EDT (12 noon-1:30 p.m. Pacific)About the WebcastInstitutional repositories (IRs) represent a rapidly growing movement...
- Access
I have avoided speaking about politics because that was a limit I placed on myself when I began this 'blog. The time has come to bend if not break that self-imposed restriction. As catalogers, we try to provide access to materials. Our discussions...
Library Cataloging
USA PATRIOT Act
On Thursday, July 31, the ACLU will be hosting a live online chat discussing the FBI's broad new surveillance powers under the USA PATRIOT Act. Hear about the Fourth and First Amendment defects to a provision in the law that allows the government to obtain records or personal belongings from any person or entity, including public libraries, upon the mere showing of "relevance" to a terrorism investigation.Ann Beeson, ACLU Associate Legal Director, will be answering questions about the USA PATRIOT Act from 1-2 pm Eastern Thursday, July 31. Just visit the ACLU to join this important discussion.
- Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC.Software changes needed for the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat master records, were successfully installed on February 15th. During the experiment, members with full level...
- Librarians To Speak For First Time After Judge Rules Against Patriot Gag
This is from an ACLU e-amil about the Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL)Addressing a related case from Connecticut, the appeals court effectively lifted a gag that has prevented Connecticut librarians who received an NSL from disclosing...
- Catalog Of U.s. Government Publications
There is a new version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of...
- Institutional Repositories
Webcast -- Institutional Repositories: Revealing Our Strengths ARL/OLMSCosponsored by SPARC and CARL Thursday, June 10, 2004, 3:00-4:30 p.m. EDT (12 noon-1:30 p.m. Pacific)About the WebcastInstitutional repositories (IRs) represent a rapidly growing movement...
- Access
I have avoided speaking about politics because that was a limit I placed on myself when I began this 'blog. The time has come to bend if not break that self-imposed restriction. As catalogers, we try to provide access to materials. Our discussions...