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Intros

1. Response to the show and the greening of CiL from Jane Dysart

Comment from Jill O'Neill on event planning and wifi

Sent to Greg and read with permission - "I made a point this morning of listening to last night's Uncontrolled Vocabulary about Computers in Libraries. It was really quite interesting. But I did want to make a point of saying something about wi-fi as a meeting organizer myself.

Hotels are turning to third party organizations as service providers for wi-fi at conferences. This means the pricing in most hotels for wi-fi makes it prohibitive in terms of costs to conference providers. It's not treated as part of the general meeting packages that hotels offer.

That doesn't excuse us (meaning meeting planners) from trying to offer it where possible, but this is very much something still in transition. As those on the call noted, CiL deserves credit for offering it, even imperfectly, because I know it must have cost them thousands of dollars."

2. War Declared on Library of Congress by Venezuela (Friends of Cuban Libraries)

3. The state of libraries: Funding down, but gaming up as way to attract young people (International Herald Tribune)

Does Gaming Promote Reading? (The Shifted Librarian)

Chiming in On the Biggies (The Other Librarian)

4. Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can't publish them (Boing Boing)

Related documents (Scribd)

5. Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology (Chronicle of Higher Education)

An argument against Shyftr and communities built around full-text RSS feeds (Online Media Cultist)

6. Liberate and disseminate (Times Higher Education)

7. Would robot librarians do better? (Denver Post)

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