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Librarians issue file-sharing support
News In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians. The librarians' entry into the political fray over whether file-swapping networks should be shut...
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
Librarians mutiny over Moore's Law bounty
News Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, California-based Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine.
[April 15, 2005, 9:50]
Librarians mutiny over Moore's Law bounty
Talkback It's strange. Why Mr Gordon Moore himself didn't keep a copy of the original with him?
[April 15, 2005, 23:55]
Techies wage war on copyright cartels
News Cyberrights advocates, open-source evangelists and even librarians met at Stanford Law School on Thursday in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 -- a piece of legislation that gives music producers...
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
French cry havoc over Google's library plans
Talkback This kind of massive undertaking also requires the cooperation of French and EU librarians. Are these librarians willing to help or do they just want to protest and make accusations of American imperialism?
[February 22, 2005, 18:53]
NHS library traffic shows healthy growth
News The figures were released as part of Health Libraries Week, which saw NHS librarians across the UK promote the wide range of digital knowledge resources now available. Nick Rosen, NeLH partnerships manager, said: "We are all delighted with the work...
[December 29, 2004, 14:30]
Designing a Corporate Intranet
White Papers Corporate intranets are a new and important area of involvement for corporate librarians. They offer a different and exciting way for librarians to use their information organization and handling skills.
[September 14, 2007, 5:50]
EndNote
Downloads Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians use EndNote (patent pending) to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists...
[August 26, 2009, 2:00]
Library Institute Creates 21st-Century Web Site for New Generation of Industry Professionals
White Papers The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for librarians and information specialists, wanted a Web site that would integrate with its back-end membership database.
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog Comment I don't think the bureaucracy wants to begin a pattern of messing with our librarians (a truly great and noble vocation in the corridors of time). Here Here! So, just one slip and it's frustration city.
[October 16, 2008, 20:17]
British Library lends itself to intellectual-property wisdom
Talkback Who says that the Library is lead by true librarians? Given the state of affairs around us, worldwide, one should see clearly that the best of people are often governed by the ignorant and foolish. And guess which ones are lobbied to whatever...
[March 20, 2006, 20:22]
Using Hard Disks for Digital Preservation
White Papers The LOCKSS system is a tool librarians can use to preserve long-term access to content published on the web. It has three main functions. It collects the content by crawling the publisher's web sites, it distributes the content by acting as a proxy...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Avid Interplay Web Services
White Papers Avid Interplay has a feature rich toolset which includes applications designed to meet the needs of media librarians, production assistants, loggers, editors and many more. Avid Interplay is a non linear workflow management system that is able to...
[November 24, 2008, 23:00]
Napster case makes strange bedfellows
News Librarians are part of a constituency, which includes ACLU members, some doctors, ISPs and consumer electronics manufacturers, who fear a ruling that closes Napster would have a grave effect on new technology companies and consumers.
[September 14, 2000, 15:09]
2003 World Almanac - US Government
Downloads The Database contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable RecordsBush Administration, including Branches of US Government, President, Vice President, Cabinet Department Heads, White House Staff, Executive Agencies...
[February 4, 2003, 6:00]
Choir Librarian
Downloads Librarians of choirs, symphony orchestras, opera companies, etc.can put their whole music library in their pocket. Track checkouts: who has what music. Track musicians' names & addresses. Quickly pop up a list of tenor soloists or locate a...
[January 30, 2006, 6:00]
Techies less happy than hairdressers
News Techies have lower levels of job satisfaction than hairdressers, librarians and lorry drivers, despite earning higher salaries than are paid by many other professions. Hairdressers ranked second in the overall job-satisfaction league table behind...
[August 6, 2007, 16:58]
Apimac PAD Editor X
Downloads PAD files help software authors to provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings.
[August 28, 2006, 8:00]
DRM is failing, MPs told
News Appearing at a hearing conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), senior representatives from the British Library said they were frustrated that DRM is stopping librarians from giving the public long-term access to content.
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Researchers fight Red Hat's Fedora trademark
News Computer scientists at Cornell University began working in 1997 on a project to build a software tool, mainly for the benefit of librarians, that would blend content from various internal and external sources and present them in a unified form...
[November 24, 2003, 10:15]
