TVSPY.com: TV Viewers and Internet Users,Two Different Animals More on the lines that librarians need to market themselves and their libraries more effectively.

Ex Libris–an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies — issue 185 : CREATING YOUR NICHE ON THE NET …let’s take this a step farther and think about what internet niches our libraries could fill, what unique services we could render that would make librarians the go-to people for our bosses and for our local community. [...]

LIS Blogsource- A weblog for library weblogs. Now that’s metadata. It’s also a good idea, thanks guys. Already added to my RSS feeds.

Kansascity.com – Your Kansas City Everything Guide: Senator launches investigation into RIAA piracy crackdown The chairman of the Senate’s permanent subcommittee on investigations Thursday began an inquiry into the music industry’s crackdown against online music swappers, calling the campaign “excessive.” “Theft is theft, but in this country we don’t cut off your arm or fingers [...]

Feingold Introduces Legislation to Protect Personal Information U.S. Senator Russ Feingold today introduced the Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act. This legislation is aimed at protecting the privacy of law-abiding Americans by limiting the ability of the FBI to obtain library, bookstore, medical, and financial records and other sensitive personal information under the USA [...]

American Civil Liberties Union : MCA, et al. v. Ashcroft and Mueller The ACLU files the first legal challenge to the USA PATRIOT Act, taking aim at a section of the controversial law that vastly expands the power of FBI agents to secretly obtain records and personal belongings of innocent people in the United States, [...]

Mandrake Linux – Friendly Linux operating system for both servers and desktop combined with KDE gui is said to make for a decent replacement for Windows. For free it’s worth trying if you’re using a PC.