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Information Today
June 10, 2002
Elisabeth Winter |
Judges Find CIPA Unconstitutional On May 31, just hours before its self-imposed end-of-May deadline, a three-judge panel in a federal district court in Philadelphia unanimously ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is unconstitutional.   |
Information Today
April 8, 2002
Betsy Winter |
CIPA Hearings Wrap Up; Decision Expected Next Month The case challenged the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which requires that libraries install filtering software on all computers with Internet access in order to receive federal funds. A decision is expected by the end of May... |
Reason
November 2003
Jesse Walker |
No Strings on Me: Librarians fight filters San Jose's is one of several library systems around the country that say they will refuse Washington's subsidies rather than accept the strings attached to them -- specifically, the requirements of the Children's Internet Protection Act. |
Information Today
February 3, 2015 |
ALA Educates Libraries About the E-rate Program The American Library Association launched the Got E-rate? initiative, which encourages library leaders to apply for internet discounts as part of the E-rate program. |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Information Today
July 23, 2013 |
IMLS and ALA Offer Health Insurance Resources The Institute of Museum and Library Services teamed up with the American Library Association to offer resources on health insurance issues for libraries before enrollment for the Affordable Care Act begins on Oct. 1, 2013. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
Libraries Face Up to Filters When a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that federally funded libraries must install software filters on public-access computers, the decision capped off a fiery debate over library patrons' First Amendment rights. Months later, it's clear the controversy isn't over. |
Information Today
December 16, 2014 |
E-Rate Program Increases Broadband Budget The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an E-rate program modernization order that will expand public libraries' broadband access. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 25, 2010
Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
Information Today
May 3, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place. |
Information Today
July 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. |
Information Today
April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Christopher Hunter |
Don't let McCain censor the Net New legislation that would require the use of filtering software by public libraries is unnecessary and unconstitutional... |
Information Today
July 9, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today
August 2000 |
TLC Unveils New Version of Site.Solution The Library Corporation (TLC) has announced the release of a powerful new version of its Site.Solution product, designed to enable libraries of all sizes and types to create new, or dramatically enhanced, Web sites---easily, affordably, and quickly. |
Information Today
March 28, 2013 |
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help? |
Information Today
April 28, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
Searcher
August 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - A Great Idea!! The Google Custom Search Engine lets knowledgeable users identify the sites and/or search strategies that they know will retrieve high relevance, high quality content matching the interests of their user communities. |
Information Today
June 18, 2012 |
Credo Reference Launches Literati Public Literati Public, developed in close partnership with public librarians, is a highly customizable solution that promotes the mission of public libraries by combining Credo's content with newly developed platform technology. |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
ONLINE
January 2001
Bill Mickey |
Open Source and Libraries An interview with Dan Chudnov, who spoke at length about open source and how library methodologies and philosophies run parallel with the motivations behind the free software movement... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2008
Matt Villano |
What Are We Protecting Them From? By mandating schools restrict internet access, CIPA and other federal and state legislation intend to guard students' safety online-but all they may be doing is keeping vital educational technology out of the classroom. |
| Information Today |
Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |
Information Today
February 23, 2009 |
Library Associations Oppose Repealing Public Access Bill, Urge Action The library groups say that the bill would amend the U.S. Copyright Code, prohibiting federal agencies from requiring, as a condition of funding agreements, public access to the products of the research they fund. |
D-Lib
April 2000
Suzanne Cohen, John Fereira, Angela Horne, Bob Kibbee, Holly Mistlebauer, & Adam Smith |
MyLibrary: Personalized Electronic Services in the Cornell University Library Library users who are Web users expect customization and interactivity. MyLibrary is a Cornell University Library initiative to provide numerous personalized library services to Cornell University students, faculty, and staff. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library. |
Searcher
January 2003
Melissa Barr |
Democracy in the Dark: Public Access Restrictions from Westlaw and LexisNexis Amidst a growing wealth of free, reliable information on the Internet, there is a poverty of access to the decisions and opinions of the courts that protect our liberties. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary |
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
Information Today
October 13, 2003
Barbara Quint |
RLG's Union Catalog Available on the Open Web Research Libraries Group, builder of one of the world's largest union catalogs of merged library holdings, has opened a Web-based version of its file to all users of the Web. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature... |
Information Today
July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Information Today
June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
Information Today
October 22, 2001
Barbara Quint |
A Second Tasini? National Geographic Loses to Freelance Photographers On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the National Geographic Society to overturn an appellate court decision over digitized photographs that had posed another test of the intellectual property rights of freelancers... |
Searcher
August 2002
Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
Information Today
March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
Information Today
September 2003
Dick Kaser |
Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. |
D-Lib
February 2009
Bonita Wilson |
Challenges and Opportunities Historically, libraries have been instrumental in helping individuals and businesses through difficult economic times |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis Moves Into the Public Library Market In what has to be viewed as a surprisingly low-key launch for a product in a brand new market, LexisNexis rather quietly announced its new Library Express service. |
Information Today
August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
Information Today
July 21, 2015 |
Senate Approves Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 The American Library Association shared the news that the U.S. Senate voted to reauthorize and amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S.1177). |
Information Today
November 2001
Paula J. Hane |
More Disaster Recovery Resources Companies that suffered in the attacks are ensuring that their employees and their families are safe and cared for, and are then providing contingency plans for offices, data, and equipment. Other companies are generously reaching out to offer whatever support and aid they can... |
