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World Book Night...One Week Left to Sign Up!

January 24, 2012 - 1:23pm — birdie

Most of us learned about the significance of April 23rd back in high school (the Bard's birthday), but now there's another reason to celebrate. April 23, 2012 is the first US World Book Night, when publishers will donate and volunteers will distribute free books to anyone who wants them. Want to be a part of it? Sign up as a volunteer on their site before February 1.

World Book Night premiers this year in the US. Bookstores & libraries will be distribution points. Did you sign up? What book do you want to distribute? I did (for Poisonwood Bible). Here are the book options, thirty in all.

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Decentralize, he said

January 17, 2012 - 3:32pm — StephenK

Internet grandee Dave Winer has posted at his blog a call to push for more decentralization of the Internet.

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CILIP/National Literacy Trust Press Release on School Libraries

December 13, 2011 - 5:16pm — StephenK

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, the British counterpart to the American Library Association, issued jointly with the UK's National Literacy Trust a press release condemning the announced 2012 closure of Hertfordshire Schools Library Services.

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HLS on OWS: How do Libraries Fit In?

November 18, 2011 - 12:37am — Anonymous Patron (not verified)

From Hack Library School: A discussion of the Occupy Wall Street library and other Occupy libraries and their role in showing us how much libraries are valued.

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Censorship Moves West

June 27, 2011 - 11:25am — StephenK

Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, writing at al-Jazeera English, notes that Internet censorship is moving westward and becoming a more mainstream notion in various countries.

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Most problematically, setting a precedent of blocking websites simply makes it that much easier for a government or ISP to extend filtering as they wish.

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