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Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom: Christmas Book Drive!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:05:00 GMT

The CLA Student Chapter at the University of Alberta is currently running it's annual Christmas book drive. Last year the organization donated 251 books to local community partners and hopefully we can help them exceed that number this year.

UK: Digital Economy Bill (Now Before Parliament) Will Address Orp...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:16:51 GMT

From a British Library News Release:The British Library has welcomed the commitment to address orphan works legislation announced in todays Digital Economy Bill. As one of the UKs leading research institutions, the Library has long argued that educators and researchers will profit

Comment: Two outstanding questions over phone hacking

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:19:55 GMT

Despite a gentle Press Complaints Commission (PCC) report and News International's attempts to play the affair down, the Guardian's phone hacking exposé just

Book review: Censorship in South Asia

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:30:00 GMT

"Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time to reveal its ever-contested presence in Indian cinema and beyond." —Maria Khan, Feminist Review

From PW: Grimmelmann on Google Settlement's Rights and Wrongs

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, whose made a name as a thoughtful and timely scholarly observer of the Google Book Search settlement (via his Laboratorium blog and other writings), in this week's Publishers Weekly writes about "what's right, what's wrong, what's left to do.

Index on Censorship and English PEN call for further political co...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Two leading freedom of speech campaigning organisations yesterday called for further political commitment to a Libel Reform Bill, but said they are encouraged by the Justice Secretary's proposals for 'wholesale' libel law reform.

Beavis and Butthead Go to the Discovery Layer

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:13:17 GMT

Uhhh Hey Beavis. This scholarly recommender service wants to know how I rate this article.

Shield Law for Journalists Stalls Again in Senate | Kansas City i...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:25 GMT

By Emily Mullin - a Senate Committee Once Again Put Off Voting on a Bill That Would Give Journalists More Rights to Protect Confidential Sources in Federal Courts.

Why I voted Yes on the SLA name change

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:27 GMT

A few years ago I was asked to speak at an Enterprise Information Management conference in San Francisco. It was very exciting, the first time I had been asked to speak somewhere. I was slated to speak on the second day, but after attending the first day of sessions I was very nervous. It became

MLA successfully urged cultural institutions to support learning ...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:46:00 GMT

More than 3,000 museums, libraries and archives, after receiving encouragement from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) have signed the "learning revolution" pledge

Two Upcoming ISO Ballots

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:43:19 GMT

Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s Voting Representative to NISO, has notified us of two new items coming up for ballot early in the New Year.The first is for ISO/DIS 27729, International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). The ISNI “… specifies the International Standard name identifier (ISNI) for the

Library Copyright Alliance releases issue briefs on international...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:22 GMT

The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) announces a new series of issue briefs on current topics relating to international copyright and libraries. Written by Janice Pilch, Association of Research Libraries visiting program officer on international copyright and LCA international copyright advocate,

ACTA - Quite possibly the biggest threat to your internet to date...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:34:15 GMT

There's been a lot of traffic about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the last week or so, but not nearly enough. In a nutshell, instead of proposing legislation through transparent and traditional channels (Congress, Parliament, etc), member countries seem...

IFC Announces Banned Books Week Display Contest Winner

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:41:36 GMT

The winner of the 2009 Intellectual Freedom Committees Banned Books display contest is the Henrico County Public Library System for its innovative involvement of the library building and its users in its Banned Books week display. The runner-up this year is the Jefferson Madison Regional

The First World War ended, we get a day off

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:08:23 GMT

The Editors Weblog (and all of France) will be taking a day off to remember the Armistice with Germany, November 11, 1918. See you on thursday!...

Parliament must act on libel | Afua Hirsch

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:40:00 GMT

Afua Hirsch: With firms like Carter Ruck questioning the law, MPs can no longer ignore the clamour for change

GoogleBS gets another extension

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:50:04 GMT

Google, and its co-conspirators in the Google Book Settlement deal the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have been given yet another extension by Judge Denny Chin in their attempt to render the settlement legal. According to a report on Wired, the group now

Libel Laws Lead Foreign Newspapers To Consider Abandoning UK

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:18:44 GMT

"Britain's reputation for 'libel tourism' is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned."...

Early English Laws

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:32:54 GMT

Early English Laws is a project to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta, 1215

The latest book-banning news: Catholic school board proposes a li...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:34:26 GMT

Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews In the past year or so, a handful of parental complaints have resulted in books such as Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and Harper Lee's To Kill a

When Weeding Is Wrong: A principal asks for banned books to be re...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A parent of one of our eighth graders came into the library and began pulling books off our shelves. She ended up stacking 15 books on the circulation desk—including The Giver, The Chocolate War, Monster, and Looking for Alaska—and demanded that we permanently remove them from our collection.

Criminal defense lawyers to honor Randolph Stone for lifetime ach...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

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White House, Senate Strike Balance on Reporter Protections

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.

IL2009: I Wanna Be 2.0 Too: 10 LOLcat Laws of Web Services for Sm...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:36:24 GMT

IL2009: I Wanna Be 2.0 Too: 10 LOLcat Laws of Web Services for Smaller, Underfunded Libraries This was my first session this year at Internet Librarian,

New Laws for Catalogues

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:33:39 GMT

Jim Weinheimer posted these as a contribution to the current discussion The Five Laws of *Library Catalogs* for the 21st CenturyFive Laws of *Library Catalog Records* for the 21st CenturyI