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1. Library workers locked out in Victoria (The Globe and Mail)

2. Vancouver Library Under Fire for Hosting Controversial Author Called Anti-Semitic (Library Journal)

3. Library of Congress sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere $3 mil (Boing Boing)

4. Blatant Berry: The Vanishing Librarians (Library Journal) - Sauers

LJ’s John Berry “Writes” an “Opinion Piece” (Free Range Librarian)

5. Borders opens bookshelves to digital services (USA Today)

Slideshow of pictures from a concept Borders store (Bordersmedia.com)

6. Libraries Will Soon Move Into Bay Area BART Stations (NBC11.com)

7. Lexington County library bans social networking sites (The State)

Why? "Local law enforcement officers report that such sites are used to coordinate gang activity." and "Network security experts say the sites are becoming prime targets for malicious hackers." - Sauers

8. Publishers are braced for the slow death of the book (Times Online)

Yes, another article on the death of the book. But this quote was particularly interesting "would an e-book burning elicit the same horror as a real-book burning? Is it the paper or the words written on it that count? - bibliophile

9. Napster for Books (Business Idea of the Day) - Connie

10. Beijing libraries seek to lure readers amid TV, Internet competition (Mathaba News Agency) - Chadwick

11. Amazon pooh-poohs (ingenious) New York net tax plan (Channel Register)

12. CrossRef launches free citation look up tool for bloggers (Confessions of a Science Librarian)

Bloggers among you: who will use this new tool? - Connie

13. Federated Search: ProQuest Acquires WebFeat, WebFeat to merge with Serial Solutions (ResourceShelf)

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