[LISNews] The LISNews For February 3rd 2009

Tue Feb 3 11:14:47 CST 2009

On Tuesdays we take a look at the stories that got the most comments in the last week.

-[1] - Lead Law Could Cause Big Headaches for Libraries
   http://lisnews.org/node/32597/
-[2] - Amazon’s Kindle 2 Will Debut Feb. 9
   http://lisnews.org/node/32570/
-[3] - Woman held in DUI fatal also charged in tiger case
   http://lisnews.org/node/32596/
-[4] - Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab
   http://lisnews.org/node/32583/
-[5] - EVERYTHING Is Harmful To Your Computer - Google Cites Human Error
   http://lisnews.org/node/32607/

And here's the latest from LISNews:

--How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge
- http://lisnews.org/node/32638/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 11:30 AM
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Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge: We need to fashion information tools that are designed to combat
agnotological rot. Like Wikipedia: It encourages users to build real knowledge through consensus, and the result manages to
(mostly) satisfy even people who hate each other's guts. Because the most important thing these days might just be knowing
what we know.

--Dallas libraries let you pay to check out hot titles
- http://lisnews.org/node/32636/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 11:06 AM
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A hot new book doesn't have to come with a high price tag for Dallas residents who are looking to save cash in this tough
economy.  The Dallas Public Library has launched a new program called the StreetSmart Express that lets people check out
popular books and DVDs for $5 each. Other items can still be checked out by Dallas residents at no cost.

--Chip Kidd
- http://lisnews.org/node/32635/
-Front Page Story by Bibliofuture Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 10:58 AM
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Chip Kidd Kidd is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He is known for the book covers he
has designed. There is a great video of a talk he gave at Google. The first ten minutes is about his new book that he wrote
but the final fifty minutes is about books covers he has designed. He show slides of the different covers and talks about
the thought process to create them. He also shows several slides of covers that never made it to production. This is
interesting because you get to see what the cover to "The Road" might have been if Cormac McCarthy had liked the first
proposal.  Video here.  

--It's Tough All Over, Even at the NYPL
- http://lisnews.org/node/32634/
-Front Page Story by birdie Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 10:42 AM
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I just received an appeal from Paul LeClerc, President of the New York Public Library.  Attached was a video  clip below
showing how the Library once helped President Barack Obama find a job  and "how our Library is continuing to help thousands
of New Yorkers find new jobs in this tough economy".  

--Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum  
- http://lisnews.org/node/32632/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 10:42 AM
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Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum  Open sharing of data has often collided with issues of ownership and licensing.
Nobody does more of a balancing act than librarians, who work to provide materials freely to patrons and other libraries
while protecting owners’ rights. LibLime (www.liblime.com), an upstart company that has provided open source software
solutions for libraries for several years (best known for its Koha ILS), has made its move to the next frontier of
openness—providing open data and open library content.

--University Park leaders to mull SMU agreement for Bush library, expansion 
- http://lisnews.org/node/32631/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 10:39 AM
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University Park leaders to mull SMU agreement for Bush library, expansion University Park leaders tonight will consider an
agreement with SMU that will bring the entities one step closer to the transfer of city land earmarked for school expansion
and the George W. Bush Presidential Library.   

--What Is A Link From LISNews Worth? Hint: A Lot
- http://lisnews.org/node/32630/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 9:49 AM
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Allow me to brag for a moment. I was doing some work on the LISHost stats last night and noticed I could see if LISNews has
any impact on the biblioblogosphere. You're probably familiar with our "Blogs To Read In..." list we've done for the past
few years, it's usually one of the most read stories of the year. I've always been really curious if being on this list in
particular makes any difference to a site, mostly because the list takes so long to put together. I'm generally curious if
on any given day a link from LISNews brings in any significant number of readers in general, but this post in particular
seems like it should mean something.  So I won't name the site, but I was pleasantly surprised at what I saw when I took a
look at the stats, a big jump in readership. Here's what I saw on one of the charts:    As you can see there was about a
40%-50% jump in sessions after the list was posted to LISNews. The numbers show an increase of about 300-400 sessions a day,
and that has been sustained for several weeks now.   I have no reason to believe this site is representative of all the
other sites, but at least I can see someone agreed with at least one of our picks. All the other numbers (hits, pageviews,
bandwidth) showed similar jumps, so the site has gained significant readership from being on LISNews. 

--Thinking about people as reference sources 
- http://lisnews.org/node/32629/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 7:59 AM
-Read 141 times - 3 Comments
An anecdote, and thinking about people as reference sources: "But it also got me thinking about how often we do (or don’t)
use other people as reference sources. Oh, sure, we refer students to other offices on campus when appropriate, or we call
up other offices to find out, for example, whether the dorm beds are regular-twin-sized or XL-twin-sized. But how often do
we call someone up or stick our head into someone’s office and say, “hey, do you happen to remember what the capital of
Zimbabwe is?”"

-- The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age
- http://lisnews.org/node/32628/
-Front Page Story by Blake Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 6:46 AM
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The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age: A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the
past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.

--New e-mail reflector
- http://lisnews.org/node/32627/
-Front Page Story by StephenK Posted Tuesday February 3rd at 2:05 AM
-Read 114 times - 0 Comments
This already went out on two e-mail reflectors I am subscribed to, so I doubt there is a web page spreading the word:  Hi,
colleagues:  A listserv FOLKSONOMY has been created. Please following the instruction below to sign on if you are interested
in this topic and would like to contribute some studies you have done on it. Also please help to spread the listserv and let
more people to join our discussion. Thank you.  Instruction of sign in and other commands: Here are some basic listserv
commands, Each command should be on it's own line, in an email to listserv at listserv.uic.edu   - Anyone can subscribe
themselves to folksonomy with:         subscribe folksonomy First_name Last_name   - Subscribers may be able to get a list
of subscribers with:         review folksonomy  - Archives may be available to subscribers with:         index folksonomy

--No Fines For "Sully" After Book Goes Down With The Plane
- http://lisnews.org/node/32626/
-Blog Entry by Anonymous Patron Posted Monday February 2nd at 8:21 PM
-Read 266 times - 5 Comments
Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is now every librarian's hero, too. When the US Airways pilot's plane ended up at
the bottom of the Hudson River on Jan. 15, so did a book he had checked out from the library at California State University,
Fresno, through his local library near Danville. Sullenberger contacted library officials and asked for an extension and
waiver of overdue fees because the book was in the airliner's cargo hold. Fresno State library officials said they were
struck by Sullenberger's sense of responsibility and did him one better: they're waiving all fees, even lost book fees, and
placing a template in the replacement book dedicating it to him.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Library-Waives-Fee-for-Sullys-Waterlogged-Book.html    

--Ontario Library Board and Municipal Authorities Negotiate on Space
- http://lisnews.org/node/32624/
-Blog Entry by birdie Posted Monday February 2nd at 2:39 PM
-Read 205 times - 1 Comments
The Argus Observer reports on talks that are currently underway between the city and the newly-formed Ontario Oregon Public
Library Board regarding how much, if anything, the city should charge the library for use of the facility, but county
officials have also made their voices heard on the issue.  “Our taxpayers stepped up to solve a problem and demonstrated a
community mindshare to financially support library services,” a letter submitted to the city by Judge Dan Joyce and
commissioners Louis M. Wettstein and Jim Nakano stated. “These services deserve as much funding as possible from the
voter-approved tax base.”

--What Do You Get Your Library Valentine?
- http://lisnews.org/node/32623/
-Blog Entry by Anonymous Patron Posted Monday February 2nd at 2:59 PM
-Read 160 times - 0 Comments
Scott Douglas's wife has two new blogs on her blog about what to get the book lover in your life for Valentine's Day: 
http://ourcitylights.blogspot.com/2009/01/library-valentines-day.html
http://ourcitylights.blogspot.com/2009/02/library-valentines-day-part-ii.html 

--Google's Got All the Marbles
- http://lisnews.org/node/32622/
-Front Page Story by birdie Posted Monday February 2nd at 8:52 AM
-Read 323 times - 3 Comments
Robert Darnton, head of the Harvard library system, writes in a lengthy article in the February 12th issue of the New York
Review of Books:  "Google will enjoy what can only be called a monopoly--a monopoly of a new kind, not of railroads or steel
but of access to information. Google has no serious competitors. Google alone has the wealth to digitize on a massive scale.
And having settled with the authors and publishers, it can exploit its financial power from within a protective legal
barrier; for the class action suit covers the entire class of authors and publishers."  He also discusses the economics of
professional journals and how the system has changed over the past hundred years.  A portion of his commentary:    "The
result stands out on the acquisitions budget of every research library: the Journal of Comparative Neurology now costs
$25,910 for a year's subscription; Tetrahedron costs $17,969 (or $39,739, if bundled with related publications as a
Tetrahedron package); the average price of a chemistry journal is $3,490; and the ripple effects have damaged intellectual
life throughout the world of learning. Owing to the skyrocketing cost of serials, libraries that used to spend 50 percent of
their acquisitions budget on monographs now spend 25 percent or less. University presses, which depend on sales to
libraries, cannot cover their costs by publishing monographs. And young scholars who depend on publishing to advance their
careers are now in danger of perishing." 

--Chinese 2009 Emerald Research Fund Award in LIS announced 
- http://lisnews.org/node/32620/
-Blog Entry by Anonymous Patron Posted Monday February 2nd at 3:00 PM
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UNITED KINGDOM, January 2009 – Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the Chinese 2009 Emerald Research
Fund in the field of library and information science (LIS).  The funding grant of up to £2,000 (approximately US $3,000
equivalent) should address the dissemination of knowledge for the social good with a specific focus towards the benefit of
mainland China.  To be eligible for the award at least one member of the research team must be based in mainland China. 
Each application is judged by a panel of experts. The research must be of significance, particularly highlighting how it
will benefit the social good. It must be original, innovative and demonstrate an outstanding contribution to theory and its
application. It must also illustrate the appropriateness and application of the methodology and demonstrate sound
implications for theory and practice. 	 The closing date for applications is 1 July 2009. An initial short-list will be
completed by August 2009 and winners will be announced in September 2009.  For submission requirements and how to apply,
visit http://info.emeraldinsight.com/research/awards/china_lis.htm or contact Kieran Booluck, Author Relations
Administrative Assistant at: kbooluck at emeraldinsight.com   -ENDS-      About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.com   Established in
1967, Emerald Group Publishing Inc. is the world’s leading publisher of management research. In total, Emerald publishes
over 700 titles, comprising 200 journals, over 300 books and more than 200 series and serials as well as an extensive range
of online products and services. Emerald is COUNTER-compliant, meeting the international code of practice for reports that
measure usage of online information products and services consistently.   Emerald’s publishing philosophy is “Research you
can use”, which means that our content is both rigorous and relevant, connecting the academic world with the world of
management practice.   The Emerald online collection of journals, abstracts and resources, Emerald Management Xtra, serves
business schools and management departments world-wide. For managers in corporate and public organizations, Emerald
Management First provides fast access to applied research, ideas, insights and interviews from the world’s best management
thinkers.    Contact   Arnaud Pellé  Corporate Communications Manager  Emerald Group Publishing Limited  Phone: +44 (0) 1274
777700  E-mail: apelle at emeraldinsight.com  

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