Courtesy of Harper’s Index, by way of a colleague in NY:
“Percentage of the 958 same-sex unions granted to Vermont residents since July 2000 that have since been dissolved : 3 [Vermont Department of Health (Burlington) ]”
“Percentage of U.S. heterosexual marriages that are dissolved within five years : 20 [National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, [...]
I found several comments I thought I had approved for this site–I’m still figuring out the new features in 3.0. In case you wondered..!
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As noted earlier, Michael Stephens recently posted some guidelines for bloggers. I’ve been turning the issue of 21st-century netiquette around and around in my head, particularly after a recent incident where a librarian in need of attention flamed me repeatedly on a professional list. I signed back on that list, but it concerns [...]
Steven Cohen caught that the Census is offering RSS feeds for its updates. Pretty nifty; I’ve added that to the FRL blogroll. I had asked the Census PIO to consider adding a feed for its Facts for Features, which I just adore. (I can see the meeting now: “You mean Karen G. Schneider asked [...]
A May 28 press release on the ALA site advises us that ALA and Walgreens are “partnering” to “bring Medicare information to libraries.”
Although corporate partnerships can play a positive role for ALA, it concerns me that the Walgreen “partnership” places ALA (and participating libraries) in the role of uncritically promoting the Medicare Drug [...]
A library patron and self-described “activist” (in this context, presumably, also a euphemism for “jerk”) has been banned from the library for a year for using the “f-word” in an exchange with a librarian. It wasn’t his first altercation. Good for the director to stick up for her staff and enforce reasonable [...]
See: http://www.tametheweb.com/ttwblog/archives/000255.html
Very good guidelines all around!
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An update on the wireless issue. Some folks had wanted to know why ALA couldn’t buy this for everyone, or why Only Council was getting this “perk.” That’s because this is a maiden voyage for ALA and they want to get it right. (Remember how you kvetched at the minor problems when ALA launched [...]
Leonardo Bruzón Avila, an independent Cuban librarian jailed for more than two years without charge or trial, has been released from prison for reasons of poor health. Mr. Bruzón Avila, the director of the 24th of February Library, has been diagnosed with a case of paraplegic muscular dystrophy. He is third independent librarian to be [...]
See: http://www.sixapart.com/log/2004/06/updates_to_lice.shtml
“We’ve already created new pricing for educational users and we’ll be posting that along with our updated personal edition pricing early this week…” With any luck (for them as well as for us), they listened. From inside 3.0, I can tell you I can do some of the things I was worried about [...]
