What stands out after an initial review of the Google Book Search agreement is that changes were made to placate the governments of France, Germany, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice.
Alan Black | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
By the end of the world, a prophet called Anderson Cooper from the distant land called CNN went around saying "Follow me" on something called Twitter.
David D. Burstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
Finland and France have declared internet access a legal right for all citizens. Here's why I hope the United States and all other countries will follow their and grant internet access as a human right.
Peter M. Shane | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
The current moment of journalistic ferment is actually part of a larger and more alarming story. The United States is dramatically under-investing in the production and circulation of knowledge.
David Rothman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for Americans of different ages, along with the means to encourage schoolchildren and others to use it.
Alan Black | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
Libraries are about people. Not books. Although without them, we would have no libraries. When we gather under the sanctuary of a roof to read together, we know we belong.
Judy Platt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
Readers need to make it clear to their members of Congress and Senators that the privacy of what they read is non-negotiable and that they're entitled to that privacy whether the books they read are borrowed or bought.
Robert Rose | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Librarians are an often overlooked resource that is vital to education. In this economy, they might slip completely out of sight unless we do something to stop it.
The Huffington Post | Lori Wood | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books
Salinas, CA -- October 5, 2009 -- On Sunday, September 27, 15,000 people--that's ten percent of the town's population--turned out to celebrate the 100...
The Denver Post | Christopher N. Osher | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
Denver City Council members expressed concern Wednesday over Mayor John Hickenlooper's plan to transfer management of four city recreation centers to ...
The New York Times | CELIA W. DUGGER | Posted 09.25.2009 | Impact
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Thousands of children marched to City Hall this week in sensible black shoes, a stream of boys and girls from township scho...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Public libraries, like schools or the fire department, are not luxuries. The public library is more than just our soul. It is our lifeblood.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years -- without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
Libraries are taking on a new mission to help promote cognitive health in their communities and using the concept of brain fitness.
thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Instead of buying small mountains of books, CDs, DVDs and even magazines that you barely use, check materials out of your neighborhood library, or rel...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
New York City's public library systems are once again under siege, on the chopping block, threatened with draconian cuts in the face of New York City's Great Recession.
Patricia Martin | Posted 05.15.2009 | Chicago
Ever vigilant about protecting Americans' Constitutional rights, Krug liked to snuff out First Amendment powder kegs before they exploded in people's faces.
Mallika Chopra | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living
I marvel that if it weren't for the uncertainty of the recession, I would have pushed off this incredible opportunity to teach my girls that a love for books is separate from the need to accumulate them.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
We are blessed with many community-based libraries, all within a few miles of one another in North Arlington. Would it really be such an inconvenience to cut the hours of one?
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
dday, writing in Giving Away The Tax Argument at Digby's Hullabaloo blog, asks why so many California newspapers have "tax increase calculators" but n...
Karen Dionne | Posted 03.07.2009 | Style
If more book-lovers become book-buyers, perhaps the publishing industry's woes will ease, and the 14% who buy more than 20 books a year will explode next time Random House takes a survey.
Shunit Harpaz | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
There is a great potential for a positive change in our society, a change where people take charge of serving the public, living a life that is meaningful and satisfying.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
There is a longstanding preemptive element to the public library: for every child or teenager with their head in a textbook or glazing through that day's homework is one less idle mind wreaking criminal havoc.
Twanna A. Hines | Posted 01.31.2009 | Media
I heard Facebook removed a picture of a breastfeeding woman, and Craigslist tightened the reins on their erotic services section. However, I wasn't overly-concerned with electronic censorship -- until it directly affected me.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
Just an initial effort to think about human settlements as they might develop during coming years. An Obama Village would have a population of plus o...
Pamela Samuelson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media