I’m moving next week and I don’t know when I’ll get back online so I’ll see you soon.

<blockquote USATODAY.com – Librarian’s brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act Our government has always possessed the power to obtain library records, but that power has been subject to safeguards. The Patriot Act eliminated those safeguards and made it impossible for people to ask a judge to rule whether the government [...]

Tinfoil + Raccoon: Public Library Salary Survey Michael (Library Dust) McGrorty has been working hard as of late, and, as a result has posted a starting salary survey for the 30 largest US library systems. 

Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you’re attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog. What a great way of providing a community calendar. You just post to the site and use the RSS feed to pull the [...]

YourTotalSite.com / Simple Design Tips for Non-Designers Web design is an interestingly unique skill. Due to its infancy, it is a career in which many professionals have very little formal training. Designers may not have training in programming and programmers rarely have training in design. As much as I understand and appreciate design, I’m more [...]

Starting June 1st, yours’ truly will become the Electronic Services and Reference Librarian in the Volpe Library of Tennessee Tech. I’m extremely excited about this, I was impressed with the way the library is a part of the campus and the community and how open they were to new ideas.

Boing Boing: Hillary “RIAA” Rosen: iPod DRM is cruel and unfriendly! Hilary, Rosen, former head of the RIAA tries to listen to music

E-LIS RSS Feed I’ve been using E-LIS for a while, but I didn’t realize that they had come out with a feed for the latest additions to their database. It looks like a great resource. I would request a way to get a feed from a search though.

VoiceOver and Safari: Screen reading on the Mac | 456 Berea Street The new Mac operating system has a screenreader built in. As Roger says, buying a Mac Mini is less than half of a Jaws license (good for cash-strapped libraries).

Judge blocks Anti-Piracy Ruling at Forever Geek Basically, there was a recent decision by the FCC to force all manufacturers of Televisions (and anything capable of receiving a TV signal.. that’s right computers too…) to install technology capable of interpreting a “broadcast flag” that would signify a program was not to be allowed to be [...]