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Wednesday, 21st July 2004

Open access to US govt work urge

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Digitization
Source: ARL
ARL Endorses Digitization as an Acceptable Preservation Reformatting Option
From the announcement, "ARL has endorsed digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials. It encourages its members and others already engaged in digital reformatting and those interested in initiating these activities to make organizational and economic commitments to adhere to accepted standards and best practices in digital reformatting and to establish institutional policies to maintain digital products for the long term."
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Libraries--Robotics
Source: BBC
Robots Get Bookish in Libraries
From the article: "Professor Pobil thinks libraries are the best place to start introducing robots into public spaces, or at least to start showing that the technology is possible and works. 'A library is a semi-structured environment,' Professor Pobil told BBC News Online. 'You can meet other humans, but it is not like an airport or somewhere like that. So we think it is a good environment in which service robots are out there, working in a human environment, but it is still a controlled one.'"
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Internet
Source: New Scientist
Trillions More Internet Addresses May Emerge
"There are 13 root domain name servers that hold the master records for all such address mappings. But the range of numbers used under the current system, Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is slowly running out and about two thirds of the 4.3 billion numbers allocated have been used up so far. So a new set of rules, called IPv6, has been designed to take its place. IPv6 will increase the number of numerical addresses massively, increasing capacity to 340 billion, billion, billion, billion numbers."
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Internet
Libraries--Censorship
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Library User Cutting 'Bad' Words From Popular Book Series
"Davis County library officials are facing a mystery that only Jessica Fletcher could solve. It seems a library patron has been busy crossing out the 'hells' and 'damns' in books based on the the popular 'Murder, She Wrote' TV series and changing them to 'hecks' and 'darns.'"
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Scientific Publishing--Open Access
Source: The Scientist
Open access to US govt work urged
From the article, "A US House of Representatives committee has recommended that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide free access to all research it funds and asked the NIH to submit a plan by December 1, 2004, for how to implement the new policy in fiscal year 2005... 'This is the policy that many of us have been advocating for some time,' Peter Suber, from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., told The Scientist. 'It's an extraordinarily important step.' The response from publishers, however, was less positive."
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Hypertext
A New Issue of (Vol.5 No. 1) The Journal of Digital Information is Now Online
This "special issue" is titled, "Future Visions of Common-Use Hypertext."
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Public Libraries
Source: AP
Providence library lays off 21 workers
"The Providence Public Library laid off 21 employees and will close the Central Library for a week while the staff adjusts to the changes. The library cut seven librarians on Friday-almost half of the staff at the Central Library-and 14 members of the support staff, The Providence Journal reported."

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