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“Chairman [John] Conyers and other leaders in the House Judiciary Committee conducted a thorough, open debate of H.R. 3845,” ALA President Camila Alire said.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/ca6706001.html

e-book version of Library World Record is now available from NetLibrary

Blog | xrefer.blogspot.com | Jul 2, 2009

Godfrey Oswald has announced that the new 2009 2nd edition of "Library World Records" is now available also as an e-Book from NetLibrary (following several requests from readers of the 1st edition for an eBook version compatible

http://xrefer.blogspot.com/2009/07/e-book-version-of-library-world-record.html

Library Industry Anticipates Record-Breaking Conference

News | januarymagazine.com | Jun 8, 2009

The library industry is gearing up for the 2009 ALA convention, this year to be held in Chicago on July 9th through the 15th. This year’s conference is anticipated to be a record-breaker. From Library Journal (who is definitely in a position to know about such things):There is joy among those who

http://januarymagazine.com/2009/06/library-industry-anticipates-record.html

Libraries record ‘ordinary’ stories

News | www.librarystuff.net | May 24, 2009

Vallejo Times Herald - Eleanor and James Moss are not the kind of people who usually make the history books, but they have stories worth remembering. The

http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/05/24/libraries-record-ordinary-stories/

Plaintiffs Win Round in Lawsuit on Patriot Act

News | www10.nytimes.com | Apr 4, 2009

The decision lifts the federally imposed order that is keeping a nonprofit organization from identifying itself as the recipient of a recent request for information from the F.B.I.

http://www10.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/nyregion/10library.html?_r=5&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Libraries See Record Traffic During Recession

News | www.topix.net | Mar 17, 2009

Libraries are booming. Indeed, the bad news on the economy is good news for libraries across the New York region, so long as they can escape the budget ax that is falling on many municipal services as cities ...

http://www.topix.net/com/bks/2009/03/libraries-see-record-traffic-during-recession

Trips to library 'thing of past' amid record rise in internet borrowing

News | www.telegraph.co.uk | Mar 3, 2009

Trips to the library could soon be a thing of the past as a record number of people opt to use the internet for most book borrowing services.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4932153/Trips-to-library-thing-of-past-amid-record-rise-in-internet-borrowing.html

What Libraries Can Learn from Facebook

Blog | librarygarden.blogspot.com | Feb 19, 2009

A colleague and I were discussing the recent Facebook TOS kerfuffle and she said she was fascinated by how much privacy people are willing to give away in exchange for a desired experience.

http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-libraries-can-learn-from-facebook.html

Biblios - “world’s largest database” of open bibliographic data goes beta!

Blog | blog.okfn.org | Dec 2, 2008

Biblios.net, the worlds largest database of freely-licensed library records, is now beta-testing. From their website: ‡biblios.net is a subscription-based, hosted version of the open-source ‡biblios metadata editor that we released earlier this year. In addition to the editor,

http://blog.okfn.org/2008/12/02/biblios-worlds-largest-database-of-open-bibliographic-data-goes-beta/

Launch of "world's largest database of freely-licensed library records"

News | www.earlham.edu | Dec 1, 2008

biblios.net is a recently-launched service by LibLime, billed as "the world's largest database of freely-licensed library records". (Thanks to Jacob Glenn.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/12/launch-of-worlds-largest-database-of.html