Boing Boing: NYT changes, back-dates article after Wikipedia fact-checkers find error Sometime yesterday, the entire last section of the NYT article, which (according to the NYT website) was NYT’s most emailed article for the last two days, was changed … No letter or correction has been issued, however, calling attention to this error. It seems [...]

LISNews.org | LibLime Koha is Chosen by the Guggenheim Museum Tina N. Burger dropped by to spread The Word on The Guggenheim Museum going with Koha. The Guggenheim chose LibLime for its open-source expertise, and is confident that the partnership will better enable the museum to achieve its future library automation goals: “Working with LibLime [...]

I can’t help myself. It’s the 5 sites not related to libraries meme. I think someone got the Daily Puppy but I don’t remember anyone doing Cute Overload. Because mornings suck less when they start with a smile. There has been a lot said about the “mommy-bloggers” but I consider them contemporary diarists whose autobiographies [...]

Boing Boing: U of Nebraska to RIAA: here’s a bill for the time you’re wasting The University of Nebraska is so pissed off with the RIAA’s outrageous requests to help rat out students who file-share that it has sent the RIAA a bill for the time the University has wasted dealing with the RIAA’s demands. [...]

the goblin in the library » Twitter Me This adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Twitter: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Basically what I had thought, not for me. But who knows when the right situation might pop-up?

LibrarianInBlack: Getting staff to understand libraries and Second Life Kathryn Greenhill has created a fabulous presentation, available on Slideshare, about the role of libraries and librarians in the Second Life online game environment. Greenhill does a great job of explaining what Second Life is and how libraries can choose to fit in to this overall [...]

Gaming in the Library Much is happening in the world of gaming right now, and it’s not just a lot of teenage boys sitting in the basement staring at a screen for hours on end. No, gaming has tremendous potential for libraries to reach out to new users, offer new services, and help complement efforts [...]

Internet radio may be driven out of business within weeks by a Copyright Royalty Board decision that gives record companies a royalty rate that exceeds 100% of most webcasters’ total revenues…

Petition for OA to publicly-funded research in the US The organizations sponsoring the petition are the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), FreeCulture, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Public Knowledge (PK), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

It’s about trust, reliability, accuracy … Stacy on Web4Lib found one of her vendors giving her bad usage stats. When she called them on it, she was told it was a “known problem” and they would “hide” the bad data from her. It’s not even the only vendor that’s given her bad stats this year! [...]