I’ll be at PLA conference next week for a whirlwind tour, from Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon. Tried to determine if the Washington State Convention Center sells wireless… no luck. Anyone else find out anything? I sent them a query a minute ago–I’ll post what I learn. Bookmark to:
The The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission just added an RSS feed for its recall information. What a terrific way to stay up to date with this information. Kudos! The feed is here: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.xml Bookmark to:
http://lisblogsource.net/aboutblogsource.htm Nice! I had personally groused that they needed this. It squarely places this resource in the biblioblogosphere for what it is–two guys and a blog, and a very useful one, at that. Bookmark to:
Yesterday, my partner and I tried to get married in San Francisco. We naively assumed that if we showed up at 3 p.m., we’d stand in line for a little while and be married by 4 p.m. at the very latest. We quickly discovered that hundreds of people were lined up to marry, including many […]
I received another letter from Acosta, which I’ll simply post verbatim, as I believe it speaks for itself. I’m rather flattered that this humble blog is worth even a nanosecond’s time of any national librarian, let alone lengthy, scolding messages at fairly regular intervals. Once again, I haven’t censored any comments about Cuba on this […]
Talk about pent-up desire! At 4 p.m. Sunday, at least 100 same-sex couples were camped out in front of San Francisco City Hall, waiting to get married tomorrow, Presidents’ Day. More on this later. Bookmark to:
“‘I would like to make an appeal to the world’s conscience,’ Paya said. ‘It seems like there is a lot of indifference about the reality of human rights in Cuba.’” Another important article about Cuba, in the Washington Post. Note the emphasis on the 75 dissidents arrested in the crackdown of spring 2003. This issue […]
The director of the National Library of Cuba has been e-mailing me fairly regularly (the messages are forwarded through an American librarian). I have been preparing responses to his messages, but have not rushed to publish because I wanted to get my citations correct (and frankly, because I have been busy with managing my running-dog […]
Former ALA president Nancy Kranich explains that “forcing libraries to choose between funding, equitable access, and censorship means millions of library users will lose, particularly those Americans who reside in the most poverty-stricken areas of the country.” http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/whyfilterswontprotect.htm I wish this article gave more thought to the elephant in ALA’s living room: the problem of […]
URL: http://sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/12/GAYMARRIAGE.TMP (Updated!) We interrupt this blog for an important announcement: dozens of same-sex couples were married today at San Francisco City Hall. Among the group were Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. two lesbians famous among gay rights activists. Neither lesbian is a librarian, but no doubt by the week’s end at least one gay […]