[LISNews] The LISNews For November 7th 2011

Mon Nov 7 12:53:51 CST 2011

Happy Monday! It's the LISNews for November 7th, 2011...
 On Monday we start with the most popular headlines from the weekend:

And here's the latest from LISNews:

--Collating the Best Childrens Book Lists
- http://lisnews.org/node/39944/
Collating the Best Childrens Book Lists Publishers Weekly released its Best Books selections today (100 adult titles in various categories and 40 in childrens). The new “interactive” format features each
book’s cover, an annotation and link to the original PW review. EarlyWorld collated the titles from various lists into a spreadsheet, with ISBNs, so you can check the titles against your collection and
place orders for those you may be missing.  

--His Libraries 12000 So Far Change Lives
- http://lisnews.org/node/39943/
His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives One of the legendary triumphs of philanthropy was Andrew Carnegie’s construction of more than 2,500 libraries around the world. It’s renowned as a stimulus to
learning that can never be matched — except that, numerically, it has already been surpassed several times over by an American man you’ve probably never heard of.   

--LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #174
- http://lisnews.org/node/39942/
This week's episode is a quick one.   LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #174 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United
States License.  The links continue after the "Read More" break except for those on RSS feeds who will see them regardless of the break:               PCWorld Amazon&#39;s Prime Lending Library Collection
Now Viewable Online             I hear Al Jazeera English is opening a Chicago bureau | Bleader             Cable TV Holding Web Rivals at Bay, Earnings Show - NYTimes.com             Even as Internet
video viewing increases, the vast majority of American households are still paying for cable TV subscriptions and watching most video that way.             PCWorld One Laptop Per Child Plans to Throw
Tablets Out of Helicopters             Too many states are crushing net rights, says Foreign Sec • The Register             Hague: Web risks turning into city of ghettos • The Register             Cameron
loves net freedom â?? as long as no one&#39;s rioting • The Register             Biden: The internet ain&#39;t broke, let&#39;s not fix it • The Register             Facebook, Twitter just tools in Arab
Spring • The Register             Coyle&#39;s InFormation: Future Format: Goals and Measures             Open Course Library Launches 1st 42 Courses - bit.ly/tZ3DZP nice, let&#39;s hope others follow #cc
#oer #education             The problem with Amazon&#39;s Kindle Owners&#39; Lending Library - O&#39;Reilly Radar             Amazon bypasses library, lends Kindle books directly to Prime users           
 Strike one! New Zealand hit with first online infringement warnings             Only a Test: T-Mobile Jumps the Gun on Emergency Alert System Dry Run             T-Mobile scared me, and likely thousands
of other subscribers when it inadvertently conducted a test of a new cellphone-based emergency alert system this morning.             Technolog - AOL still has 3.5 million dial-up subscribers            
Hackers attack Palestinian servers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)             BBC News - Hewlett Packard to build servers using ARM-based chips             HP is to start making servers
using energy-efficient ARM-based chips, but experts warn of incompatible software.             BBC News - Ofcom reveals state of UK telecoms             Britons download about 17 gigabytes of data every
month over their home broadband connections, suggests a report.             BBC News - &#39;Hackers&#39; cut Palestinian phone and internet systems             The Palestinian Authority says hackers have
cut phone and internet services in the West Bank and Gaza - a day after the Palestinians&#39; successful bid for Unesco membership.             UK accused of double standards at cyberspace summit -
INTERNET - FRANCE 24             UK Foreign Secretary William Hague (pictured) opened the London Conference on Cyberspace Tuesday with a warning to countries who had blocked the internet to stifle
protests. Global and technology leaders from over 60 countries were in attendance.             NLS Works with Hospitals Serving Veterans - The Library Today (Library of Congress)             NLS Honors
Pioneers - The Library Today (Library of Congress)             CIA &#39;Open Source Center&#39; monitors Facebook, Twitter • The Register             Publishing News: Early response to the Kindle Lending
Library - O&#39;Reilly Radar             New The beginning of the end of feature phones and what it means for libraries – Stephen&#39;s Lighthouse             http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30201
            Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. On Monday, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
(SBCTC) released the first 42 of the state&#39;s high-enrollment 81 Open Course Library courses. The remaining 39 courses will be finished by 2013. Funded by the Washington State Legislature and the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Open Course Library joins the global open... 

--Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely
- http://lisnews.org/node/39941/
Acknowledging that some searches were giving people stale results, Google revised its methods on Thursday to make the answers timelier. It is one of the biggest tweaks to Google’s search algorithm,
affecting about 35 percent of all searches.  The new algorithm is a recognition that Google, whose dominance depends on providing the most useful results, is being increasingly challenged by services like
Twitter and Facebook, which have trained people to expect constant updates with seconds-old news.  It is also a reflection of how people use the Web as a real-time news feed — that if, for example, you
search for a baseball score, you probably want to find the score of a game being played at the moment, not last week, which is what Google often gave you.  Read more

--His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives
- http://lisnews.org/node/39940/
Room to Read, a charity founded by John Wood, builds libraries and fills them with books.  Nicholas Kristof piece in the NYT: His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives

--Andy Rooney dies
- http://lisnews.org/node/39939/
Article in the NYT: Andy Rooney, Mainstay on ‘60 Minutes’, Dead at 92  His book My War was a very good read.  Book description: My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War
II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to Paris for the
Liberation, and was one of the first reporters into Buchenwald. Like so many of his generation, Rooney's life was changed forever by the war. He saw life at the extremes of human experience, and wrote
about what he observed, making it real to millions of men and women. My War is the story of an inexperienced kid learning the craft of journalism. It is by turns moving, suspenseful, and reflective. And
Rooney's unmistakable voice shines through on every page.

--CIA’s ‘vengeful librarians’ stalk Twitter and Facebook
- http://lisnews.org/node/39938/
At the agency's Open Source Centre, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms - anything overseas
that anyone can access and contribute to openly.   An interesting quote: "The most successful analysts, Naquin said, are something like the heroine of the crime novel "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," a
quirky, irreverent computer hacker who "knows how to find stuff other people don't know exists." Those with a masters' degree in library science and multiple languages, especially those who grew up
speaking another language, "make a powerful open source officer," Naquin said.   For more: CIA’s ‘vengeful librarians’ stalk Twitter and Facebook
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8869352/CIAs-vengeful-librarians-stalk-Twitter-and-Facebook.html

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