Introduction - who am I?
| Yeah, who am I?| Aaron Dobbs/Aaron the Librarian in for Greg Schwartz who's doing the good daddy thing tonight |
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Intros
| Who's here tonight - check in slower, dangit! |
Michael Sauers, Laura Carscaddon, David Fiander, Courtney, Tom Peters, Karen Scheider (sans mic), library
1. Library secure for kid porn (Denver Post)
|^This totally calls for Monster Truck announcer voice |
Libraries and police unite for tougher law on library criminals (BusinessNorth.com)
|^More like "libraries in compromising position observing porn users" |
2. Broadcast won't violate library policy (The Hawk Eye)
|^Splitting hairs for Democracy |
3. SEC Investigates Omaha Database Company (AP via Yahoo! News)
|^Hahaha, read that as OBAMA Database company |
| great / horrifying quote -- The New York Times reported in May that InfoUSA, which compiles consumer information and sells it to direct marketing companies and others, sold the names of senior citizens, including millions with Alzheimer's disease and others whom it identified as gamblers, with labels that said things such as, "These people are gullible." |
4. Unsure what to buy children? Borders pushes safety of books (Detroit Free Press)
|^May I suggest The Higher Power of Lucky? |
5. Librarian: 'Just say no to Wikipedia' (The Express-Times)
|^Can we say "You're missing a teachable moment!"? |
Balance in everything: Wikipedia v the librarian (Enquiring Minds Want to Know)
|^Ah, yes, leveraging the teachable moments |
6. findingDulcinea, Librarian of the Internet, Launches in NYC (PR Newswire)
|^and I quote: "A recent survey showed that 85 percent of all search queries fail" -- obviosuly they don't use Google, which (as we all know) succeeds in almost every search |
7. University of Michigan librarian defends Google scanning deal (ars technica)
|^I was okay with this quote about the Google book scanning project until that last 3 words: "the University of Michigan ... and Google are changing the world for the better." |
| Transcribe Michael Sauers's quote on this - it's great! |
| Tabled the in depth license agreement discussion for research and discussion next week? |
8. Amazon Kindle
|^Happy happy, joy joy? To be continued... |
Closing -
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