“Sauropod specialist Mike Taylor notes growing concern among scientists about the heavy-handed takedown practices of academic publishing company Elsevier, including serving DMCA notices on contributing authors who also self-publish their papers.
Elsevier censors self-publication by papers’ co-authors – Boing Boing.
EFF says:
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the enforcement of the Children’s Internet Protection Act, CIPA, which brought new levels of Internet censorship to libraries across the country. The law is supposed to encourage public libraries and schools to filter child pornography and obscene or “harmful to minors†images from the library’s Internet connection in exchange for continued federal funding. Unfortunately, as Deborah Caldwell-Stone explains in Filtering and the First Amendment, aggressive interpretations of this law have resulted in extensive and unnecessary censorship in libraries, often because libraries go beyond the legal requirements of CIPA when implementing content filters. As a result, students and library patrons across the country are routinely and unnecessarily blocked from accessing constitutionally protected websites.
(The Central Library in Cape Town, built inside an old drill hall. Photo via.)
Flavorwire went on the hunt for libraries that were born from unused and abandoned structures, from the large (drill halls and supermarkets) to the small (phone booths and shipping containers).
Click through to check out a few libraries that rose from the ashes of other structures,
Flavorwire » 10 Wonderful Libraries Repurposed from Unused Structures.
[thx for the idea, Emily]
Latest Library-related report from Pew says that 12% of readers of e-books borrowed an e-book from the library in the past year. But a majority of Americans do not know that this service is provided by their local library.
Source: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/06/22/libraries-patrons-and-e-books/
“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: An indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay”
Amen.
The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.