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The Case for the Internet: A Human Right

David D. Burstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: The Internet, Internet, Human Rights, France, Economic Crisis, Economy, Libraries, Computers, New Media, Finland, Jobs, Technology, Technology News
David D. Burstein

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.

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LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIES -- Unappreciated And Underutilized!

Robert Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mainstream Media, Public-Schools-Education-Reform, Education, Librarians, K-12-Education, Libraries, Politics News
Robert Rose

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.

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'Twilight' Boosts Children's Book Sales In UK

BBC News | Angela Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Libraries, The Very Hugry Caterpillar, United Kingdom, YA Books, Where the Wild Things Are, Twilight, Young Adult Books, Books, Children's Books, Stephenie Meyer, Books News

The Twilight series of vampire books by Stephanie Meyer has boosted the sale of children's books and sales of picture books are also up....

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Kirkus May Be Revived

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Libraries, Publishing, Book Reviews, Book Publishing, Kirkus Reviews, Publishing Magazine, Bookstores, Books, Eric Liebetrau, Kirkus, Books News

NEW YORK — Kirkus Reviews, a longtime publishing magazine that was supposed to shut down, may be getting a reprieve. According to a posting Tue...

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New Google Book Settlement Aims Only to Placate Governments

Pamela Samuelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Antitrust, Settlements, Media News, Libraries, Google Books, Media News
Pamela Samuelson

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.

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In the Library

Alan Black | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Sharing, People, Reading, Libraries, Public Libraries, Books News
Alan Black

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.

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Cold Libraries Mean Perks For Union Librarians

nytimes.com | RUSS BUETTNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Work Environment, New York Public Library, Public Libraries, Libraries, New York City, New York, Extreme Temperature, New York News

Under a little-known contract provision titled "Extreme Temperature Procedures," unionized workers at branches of the New York Public Library can accr...

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Google And The New Digital Future

The New York Review of Books | Robert Darnton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Open Books Alliance, Google, Digital Library, Libraries, Books, Monopolies, Google Books Settlement, New York Review of Books, Digitization, Google Books, Books Online, Orphan Books, Copyright Law, Digital Books, Nyr, Books News

Robert Darnton The New York Review of Books November 9 is one of those strange dates haunted by history. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, s...

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Needed: Social Investment in An Informed Society

Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Education, Newspapers, Libraries, Public Universities, New Models, Downie, Business Models, Schudson, Information Needs, Journalism, Knight Commission, Media News
Peter M. Shane

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.

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Public Library Saved: 15,000 People Celebrate

The Huffington Post | Lori Wood | Posted 11.15.2011 | Books
Read More: Libraries in Crisis, Library, Public Libraries, Books, Libraries, Community, Salinas Public Library, Salinas Library, Books News

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...

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Trashgate: Borders Dumping Books, Stop the Waste

Mary Hall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Borders Dumping Books, Waldenbooks, Trashing Books, Trashgate, Borders Throwing Away Books, H&M, New Books, Bookselling, Publishing Industry, Sustainability, Climate Change, Store Closings, Layoffs, Green Living, Environment, Books News, Nonprofits, Ceos, Authors, The Recession, Take Action, Activism, Philanthropy, Protests, Facebook, Bestsellers, Corporations, Libraries, Borders, Job Losses, Books, Huffpost Books, Waste, Economy, Impact News
Mary Hall

I am distressed to learn that Borders books may be dumping books when closing its Waldenbooks Specialty Retail group.

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Why Won't Borders Donate Their Soon-To-Be-Trashed Books?

Erik Ose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Dumpstering, Economy, New Books, Sustainability, Philanthropy, Returns, Publishing Industry, Ceos, Activism, Climate Change, Waste, Environmental Destruction, The Recession, Job Losses, Bankruptcy, Huffpost Books, Corporate Misconduct, Books, Libraries, Nonprofits, Bookselling, Store Closings, Green Living, Facebook, Bad Business Practices, Bestsellers, Layoffs, Holiday Sales, Pulping, Corporations, Protests, Environment, Borders, Take Action, Waldenbooks, Authors, Books News
Erik Ose

Current Waldenbooks employees have come forward to alert the public that the company plans to dispose of many unsold books in the cheapest, easiest, least responsible way possible - by trashing them.

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Books Are Good for Leaving Messages

Alan Black | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Future, Time, Stephen Hawking, Twitter, Libraries, Media News
Alan Black

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.

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As Congress Prepares to Reauthorize the Patriot Act, Reader Privacy Must be Protected

Judy Platt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Censorship, Libraries, Patriot Act, First Amendment, Bookstores, Government Censorship, Books, Ala, Fbi, Books News
Judy Platt

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.

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Hickenlooper Budget Cuts Run Into City Council Opposition

The Denver Post | Christopher N. Osher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Parks and Recreation, Judy Montero, Budget Cuts, Libraries, Byers, La Alma, Denver City Council, John Hickenlooper, Denver, Denver News

Denver City Council members expressed concern Wednesday over Mayor John Hickenlooper's plan to transfer management of four city recreation centers to ...

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South African Children March For Libraries

The New York Times | CELIA W. DUGGER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: South Africa, Education, Libraries, Impact News

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...

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Don't Let 'Elites' Lock the Doors to the Library

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Philadelphia, Elite, Benjamin Franklin, Libraries, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

Public libraries, like schools or the fire department, are not luxuries. The public library is more than just our soul. It is our lifeblood.

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dementia, Brain Health, Tbi, Cognitive Assessments, Bill Reichman, Cognitive Bias, Neuroscience, Schizophrenia, Cognitive Training, Treatment, Dana Foundation, Stanford University, Augmented Cognition, Alzheimer?S Foundation of America, World Economic Forum, Brain Fitness Software, Frontiers, Workplaces, Augmenting Cognition, Aging, Brain Awareness Week, Lifestyle, MATRICS Cognitive Battery, Libraries, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurocognitive, Pharmacological, Society for Neuroscience, Brain Age, Torkel Klingberg, Cognitive, Cognitive Age, Baycrest, Schools, Cognition, Healthcare, Healthy Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years -- without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination.

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Public Libraries: Community-Based Health Clubs for the Brain

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Brain Books, Murali Doraiswamy, Neuropsychological, Mind Games, Aging, David DiSalvo, Willpower, Libraries, Brain Teaser, Cognitive Abilities, Cognitive, Health Clubs, Daniel Goleman, Intelligence, Genes, Mini Mental State Exam, Brain, Public Libraries, Games for Health, Memory Tests, Richard Nisbett, Books, Serious Games, American Society on Aging, Cognitive Health, Mmse, Alzheimer´S, Healthy Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Libraries are taking on a new mission to help promote cognitive health in their communities and using the concept of brain fitness.

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Libraries Save Money And Other Resources

thedailygreen.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Green Living, Paper Waste, Paper, Reducing Waste, Books, Giy, Libraries, Green News

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...

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Libraries Are America's Lifelines. Leave Them Alone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Books, Libraries, Information Age, Public Libraries, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

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.

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Farewell to Judith Krug, Champion for Intellectual Freedom

Patricia Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Intellectual Freedom, Banned Books, Banned Books Week, Libraries, Judith Krug, First Amendment, Judith Krug Obituary, Constitutional Rights, Chicago News
Patricia Martin

Ever vigilant about protecting Americans' Constitutional rights, Krug liked to snuff out First Amendment powder kegs before they exploded in people's faces.

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Saving Money and Expanding our Community in Difficult Times

Mallika Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Money, Reading, Saving, Economy, Recession, Books, Libraries, Healthy Living News
Mallika Chopra

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.

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Not in My Backyard? Puh-leeeeze!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Virginia, County Government, Nature Centers, Budget Cuts, Neighborhoods, Libraries, Economy, Arlington-Virginia, Foster Care, Cwla, Econmic Crisis, Books, Reading, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

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?

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Who Is Our Government For?

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Democracy, Constitution, Power, Libraries, Politics News
Dave Johnson

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...

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