Library Juice Number 1:9 - March 11, 1998
Contents of this issue: 1. Background materials on Iraq/US crisis 2. ENTERWeb: The Enterprise Development Website 3. National Opportunity NOCs: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds 4. Draft of ALA's 21st Century Intellectual Freedom Statement 5. Excerpt from Charles Willett's response to above draft 6. ACCESS TO WEB-BASED RESOURCES FOR USERS WITH DISABILITIES 7. Celebrating Women's History Resource Center--Gale Research [frames] 8. Encyclopedia of (GASP!) Trotskyism 9. Forest History Society Web Pages 10. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Online 11. _Library Hi Tech_ now online 12. National Bio ethics Advisory Commission Cloning Report 13. Catalogs received- MSRRT Newsletter: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/msrrt 14. Upcoming Conferences and Events, from EPIC Alert, with subscription info 15. Two short letters relating to libraries in war time 16. Follow-up to "Librarians Against War: an open letter" 17. Correction: URL for Progressive Librarian ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Background materials on Iraq/US crisis Mark Rosenzweig suggests the following website as the "best source of background material and bibliographic references for the study of the Iraq/US crisis. It is a special issue of MERIP REPORTS. Please distribute as necessary." http://www.merip.org/ircrisis.htm ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. ENTERWeb: The Enterprise Development Website http://www.enterweb.org/ ENTERWeb, provided by Jean-Claude Lorin of the Canadian International Development Agency, is an annotated and rated metasite concerning small and medium sized enterprise development in both developed and developing countries. Sites are listed in 24 topical categories including entrepreneurship, incubators, and microcredit. They are available geographically or via an alphabetical index. Though small for a metasite, each of the several hundred resources is carefully annotated and rated from average to outstanding (rating criteria or process is not given). Resources include both original content and other metasites. Users can view the site in English or French. [JS] [From the Internic Scout Report: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/lists/ ] ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. National Opportunity NOCs: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds http://www.opportunitynocs.org/ The Management Center of San Francisco, California provides this site, the web counterpart of a weekly jobs and information publication by the same name. The heart of the site is an interactive nonprofit job search. Jobs can be searched by region, state (although not all states are represented), or keyword. Job postings contain job descriptions and application information. Users can also view job postings made in the last week, two weeks, or month. In addition, briefly annotated links to information about the nonprofit sector are available. Note that while the job searching is free, there is a fee for organizations who wish to post nonprofit jobs. [JS] [From the Internic Scout Report: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/lists/ ] ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Draft of ALA's 21st Century Intellectual Freedom Statement Subject: Libraries: An American Value: The draft 21st Century Intellectual Freedom Statement The draft 21st Century Intellectual Freedom Statement, "Libraries: An American Value," to be presented to the ALA Council for adoption at the 1999 Midwinter Meeting can be found at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/pe/statement.html which is linked from a memo from President-Elect Ann K. Symons and the chair of the 21st Century Intellectual Freedom Statement Committee, June Pinnell-Stephens, found at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/pe/statement_memo.html ______________________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 Office: 800-545-2433, ext. 4225 Fax: 312-280-4227 E-Mail: dwood[at]ala.org ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Excerpt from a letter to SRRT members from Charles Willett, on the above draft: "The draft text fails to address social concerns. It asserts that American libraries historically and at present are bulwarks of freedom and democracy, implying that they provide accurate information and a wide range of opinion across the spectra of class, race, gender, sexual preference, age, occupation, nationality, citizenship, political ideology, and status within the criminal justice system. This simply is not true. Libraries have been and are still heavily biased in favor of established, conservative, white, male, middle-class values. "Freedom" and "democracy" are code words for corporate corruption and exploitation at home and imperialism abroad. "As an example, take the stunning upsurge of anti-war protests and demonstrations across the country -- our own SRRT letter among them -- during the recent Iraq crisis. The information on which they were based did not come from local libraries. Most libraries carry hardly any left-wing publications. Similarly, all the mainstream media -- piled high in libraries across the country -- were rigged, as was the "town meeting" in Columbus, Ohio, fed live by CNN into millions of homes. Fortunately, the rigging went awry, because thousands of activists found OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION besides libraries and the media. Here in Gainesville, where we held a rally and a teach-in, an amazing amount of information from independent groups and individuals was collected and disseminated within a few days through the Internet and e-mail. "No reaffirmation of sweet platitudes by ALA can smother the stench within America's institutions. Before libraries can claim to defend intellectual freedom, they must begin to address honestly the underlying economic and social injustices that generate and perpetuate hatred, fear, prejudice, ignorance, censorship, misinformation, injustice and violence domestically and worldwide. If others share my concerns, would a small group of SRRT/AC members be interested in drafting an open letter or resolution for SRRT/AC approval to publish and to send to June Pinnell-Stephens, Chair, Intellectual Freedom Statement 21 Committee? --Charles ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. ACCESS TO WEB-BASED RESOURCES FOR USERS WITH DISABILITIES Featured Site: I would appreciate a little feedback from list members on this one. Link at: http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/search.htm I would appreciate your comments on this free search engine. This will help me to decide on how to rate it. If you're looking for a quick and easy way to search domain names, check out WebSitez. This service searches domain names and ONLY domain names, which can come in very handy when you only know part of a site's Web address. ---------------- NOTE: More information on how to design Web page that are accessible can be found at: http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/dis.htm ------------------ ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Celebrating Women's History Resource Center--Gale Research [frames] http://www.gale.com/gale/cwh/cwhset.html The 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement is commemorated with this site by Gale Research. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Astronaut Shannon Lucid, and US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright are just three of the newer additions to the list of over 60 brief biographies. Educators looking for ways to celebrate Women's History Month will find sixteen different activities described for various age groups, including round table discussions, public awareness campaigns, and reading. The Trials section provides background on ten trials of historical significance to women in the United States. Visitors can also test their women's history IQ in a 20-question quiz or scroll through a timeline of key events in women's history. [AG] [From the Internic Scout Report: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/lists/ ] ________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Encyclopedia of (GASP!) Trotskyism I would like to inform you that the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism online (ETOL) is now available at the following URL: http://www.trotskyism.org Fraternally, Luciano Dondero <dond001[at]pn.itnet.it> ________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Forest History Society Web Pages ANNOUNCEMENT The Forest History Society is a non-profit educational institution established in 1946 to promote the study of human interaction with the natural environment from a historical perspective. We invite you to visit our new web pages at: http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/ containing information on the Society's: * Library * Archives * Photograph Collection * Oral History Program * Publications - including the journal _Environmental History_ * Awards and Fellowships * Membership Benefits and providing search access to the Society's: * Bibliography of over 23,500 records on the history of: forests and forestry, environmental protection, land use, natural resources management, parks and protected areas, wildlife conservation, and related topics * Archival Guide listing 6,500 records describing: forest and conservation history collections at over 450 universities, historical societies, and government archives in the United States and Canada Future plans for the web site include: environmental education pages for teachers and students; pages relating to U.S. Forest Service history; finding aids for the Society's archival collections; online order and membership forms; and more historic photos. Suggestions for improvements are very much appreciated. Please feel free to share this information with other interested parties. ---------------------- Cheryl Oakes Librarian/Archivist Forest History Society 701 Wm. Vickers Ave. Durham NC 27701-3162 coakes[at]acpub.duke.edu http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Online Subject: [FYI] Studies in Bibliography Online To: IFLA-L[at]INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA "STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY" ONLINE: 50 YEARS OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE ON THE WEB <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/> The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is pleased to announce a major new website for literary study, textual scholarship, and bibliographical analysis, which can be accessed on the Internet at <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/>. In addition to information about the society, visitors will find several large electronic text resources. In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Bibliographical Society has made freely available in electronic form the first forty-nine volumes of its flagship journal, "Studies in Bibliography", a premier publication of bibliographical studies worldwide. Users may search the entire contents of all the volumes published 1948-1996, making this a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and research institutions alike. ________________________________________________________________________________ 11. _Library Hi Tech_ now online The tables of contents plus article-abstracts for recent issues of the peer-reviewed journal _Library Hi Tech_ are now on available on the Web at: www.lib.msu.edu/hi-tech <http://www.lib.msu.edu/hi-tech> We will continue to add new issues as they appear, and we hope to add full text versions of back issues at some time in the not too far distant future. The space for this site has been provided by Michigan State University Library. Best wishes... Michael *************************************************************** Michael Seadle, seadle[at]pilot.msu.edu <mailto:seadle[at]pilot.msu.edu> Michigan State University Library phone: 517-432-0807; fax 517-432-1191 Editor, Library Hi Tech *************************************************************** ________________________________________________________________________________ 12. National Bioethics Advisory Commission Cloning Report Subject: Re: Cloning report online? To: GOVDOC-L[at]LISTS.PSU.EDU http://bioethics.gov/bioethics/pubs.html A print version can be requested online. We received ours within a week. On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:03:59 -0600 Clare Beck <LIB_BECK[at]ONLINE.EMICH.EDU> wrote: > This year's hot document in my library is Cloning Human > Beings: report...of the National Bioethics Advisory > Commission, PREX 1.19: B 52/C 62. I just spent half an > hour clicking around the WWW, trying to determine if there > is a copy online. Before spending any more time searching, > I thought I'd check whether someone on govdoc-l knows of an > Internet source. - Clare Beck lib_beck[at]online.emich.edu ----------------------------------------- Marie Greenhagen Documents Department School of Law Library Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493 ________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Catalogs received, MSRRT Newsletter, http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/msrrt Nonprofit Aperture is an important photography publisher whose works by Jock Sturges have been attacked recently by body-phobic zealots. New and recent titles: Juarez: the laboratory of our future, Antonio Turok's Chiapas: el fin del silencio/the end of silence, Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide's Images of the spirit and Dona Ann McAdams' Caught in the act: a visual history of contemporary multimedia performance. (20 East 23rd St., New York, NY 10010, 1-800-929-2323, FAX: 212-598-4105; http://www.aperture.org). Filmakers Library distributes independent films and videos of all kinds, including such recent titles as "The Artist Was a Woman" and "South Central Los Angeles: Inside Voices." (124 E. 40th St., New York, NY 10016, 212-808-4980, FAX: 212-808-4983, info[at]filmakers.com, http://www.filmakers.com). Forthcoming from Pathfinder Press: Frank Kofsky's John Coltrane and the jazz revolution of the 1960s and White Business, Black music. (410 West St., New York, NY 10014, 212-741-0690, FAX: 212-727-0150). Shen's Books specializes in children's literature dealing with Asian culture. Recent titles include Jouanah: a Hmong Cinderella and To swim in our own pond: a book of Vietnamese proverbs. (821 South First Ave., Arcadia, CA 91006, 1-800-456-6660, FAX: 818-445-6940, info[at]shens.com, http://www.shens.com). Writers and Readers new titles include Aliona Gibson's Nappy: growing up Black & female in America, Ron David's Toni Morrison for beginners, and Deborah Wyrick's Fanon for beginners. (P.O. Box 461, Village Station, New York, NY 10012, 212-982-3158, FAX: 212-777-4924). New poetry from West End Press: Paula Gunn Allen's Life is a fatal disease: selected poems, 1964-1994, Levi Romero's In the gathering of silence, and nila northSun's A snake in her mouth. (P.O. Box 27334, Albuquerque, NM 87125). Noble Press new titles include When divas get ready (an African American gay mystery), Soulful travel (a Black travel guide), and Spirit speaks to sisters: inspiration and empowerment for Black women. (1020 S. Wabash. Ste. 4-D, Chicago, IL 60605, 312-922-3910, FAX: 312-922-3902). Cinco Puntos Press new and recent titles include Modelo Antiguo: a novel of Mexico City, The late great Mexican border: reports from a disappearing line, and Message to the nurse of dreams: a collection of short fiction, the latter part of the "Hell Yes! Texas Women" series. (2709 Louisville, El Paso, TX 79930, 1-800-566-9072). Monthly Review Press recent titles include Gender politics in Latin America: debates in theory and practice and Doug Dowd's Blues for America: a critique, a lament, and some memories. (122 W. 27th St., New York, NY 10001, 212-691-2555, mreview[at]igc.apc.org; http://www.igc.org/MonthlyReview/mrpress.htm). Hungry Mind Press new and recent titles (Fall 97): John Jiler's Sleeping with the mayor (about New York's "Kochville," sprung from a vigil against homelessness) and Without a guide: contemporary women's travel adventures. (1648 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105, 612-699-7038, FAX: 612-699-7190, hmindpress[at]aol.com). Beacon Press new titles include Geoffrey Canada's Reaching up for manhood: transforming the lives of boys in America, Nancy Mairs' Waist-high in the world: a life among the non-disabled, and I begin my life all over: the Hmong and the American immigrant experience, by Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong. (25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108-2892, info[at]beacon.org; http://www.beacon.org). Cleis Press' latest offerings include PoMoSexuals: challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality, Pam Keesey's Vamps: an illustrated history of the femme fatale, and Tristan Taormino's The ultimate guide to anal sex for women. (P.O. Box 14684, San Francisco, CA 94114, 415-575-4700, FAX: 415-575-4705, cleis[at]aol.com; http://www.sapphisticate.com/c leis.htm). ________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Upcoming Conferences and Events, from EPIC Alert, with subscription info ETHICOMP98. March 25-27,1998. Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Sponsored by the Centre for Computing and Social Reponsibility Contact: http://www.ccsr.cms.dmu.ac.uk/conf/ccsrorgconf.html Medical Privacy in the Information Age: Access, Ethics and Accountability Friday, March 27, 1998. Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by The Women's Law Center of Maryland. Contact: conf98[at]wlcmd.org 1998 IEEE Symposium on IEEE Computer Society, Oakland, CA, May 3-6. Sponsored by IEEE and IACR. Contact: http://www.research.att.com/~reiter/oakland98.html ACM Policy98. May 10-12, 1998. Washington, DC. Sponsored by ACM and USACM. http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/policy98/ 1998 EPIC Cryptography and Privacy Conference. June 8, 1998. Washington, DC. Sponsored by EPIC, Harvard University and London School of Economics. Contact: info[at]epic.org INET'98, July 21-24, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland. Sponsored by Internet Society. http://www.isoc.org/inet98/ Advances in Social Informatics and Information Systems, Baltimore, MD, Aug. 14-16, 1998. Sponsored by the Association for Information Systems Contact: http://info.cwru.edu/rlamb/ais98cfp.htm CPSR Annual Conference - Internet Governance. Boston, Mass, Oct. 10-11. Sponsored by CPSR. contact: cpsr[at]cpsr.org (Send calendar submissions to alert[at]epic.org) ======================================================================= Subscription Information ======================================================================= The EPIC Alert is a free biweekly publication of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to epic-news[at]epic.org with the subject: "subscribe" (no quotes) or "unsubscribe". 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For more information, e-mail info[at]epic.org, http://www.epic.org or write EPIC, 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 301, Washington, DC 20003. +1 202 544 9240 (tel), +1 202 547 5482 (fax). If you'd like to support the work of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, contributions are welcome and fully tax-deductible. Checks should be made out to "The Fund for Constitutional Government" and sent to EPIC, 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 301, Washington DC 20003. Individuals with First Virtual accounts can donate at http://www.epic.org/epic/support.html Your contributions will help support Freedom of Information Act and First Amendment litigation, strong and effective advocacy for the right of privacy and efforts to oppose government regulation of encryption and funding of the National Wiretap Plan. ________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Two short letters relating to libraries in war time To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> Subject: Re: Wars, conflicts and our forum--Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction MIME-Version: 1.0 X-To: Yvonne Farley <farleyy[at]wvlc.wvnet.edu> X-Cc: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Yvonne Farley wrote: > There is a book which documents the 'apolitical' route: PUBLIC LIBRARIES > IN NAZI GERMANY by Margaret Stieg. I just received a letter today from _People's Culture_ editor Fred Whitehead who writes: "In the last issue of your newsletter you mentioned Margaret Stieg's book _Public Libraries in Nazi Germany_. I immediately located this book and am reading it now. It's bone-chilling, I assure you, manily because almost none of the librarians there made a significant protest against banning of authors, burning their books, etc. It's not so much the horror of the crimes themselves, as the silence about them..." Yvonne, thanks for the "heads up" on this. The book was published in 1992 by University of Alabama Press. --Chris D. To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> Subject: Re: Wars, conflicts and our forum--Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction MIME-Version: 1.0 X-To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> X-Sender: bcorliss[at]rs6a.wln.com Not all librarians "went along" in Europe during World War II. While I was an ALA Library Fellow at the American Library in Paris I had a chance to read some of the documentation that chronicled how the staff of that particular library resisted Nazis. For a more complete history of this library see their website at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alp/ BTW, this library came into existence as an ALA initiative to send books to soldiers during World War I. Bonita Corliss * Bonita C. Corliss, Co-Chair * *** Gay Lesbian Bisexual Librarians Task Force *** ***** American Library Association ***** ******* bcorliss[at]spl.lib.wa.us ******* ________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Follow-up to "Librarians Against War: an open letter" What follows is a follow-up letter from members of SRRT Action Council thanking all those many librarians who signed the "Librarians Against War: an open letter" and calling for continued vigilence. For those of you who distributed the original letter to various listserve, please do the same with this follow-up. Thanks to all. Elaine Harger, SRRT Sec'y 49 Osborne Terrace Newark NJ 07108 973/623-7642 home 212/569-0290 ext. 404 work eharger[at]tao.agoron.com ************************************ March 10, 1998 50 W. 96th Street #3D New York NY 10025 To All Who Signed the Open Letter "Librarians Against War": The Social Responsibilities Round Table Action Council of the American Library Association thanks all those librarians, library workers and library students who supported our "Librarians Against War: an open letter," which expressed our collective opposition to the US-initiated plans to bomb the nation of Iraq. We applaud all those who have played a role in staying the hand on the levers of military destruction, including the offices of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. We view with alarm, however, the continued build-up of military forces poised to strike at Iraq. We urge our fellow librarians-for-peace to remain vigilant in the face of the on-going military deployment. We on SRRT Action Council voice our support for an end to military preparations. We call for an end to the embargo and sanctions which are crippling the Iraqi people and hitting hardest at the children of Iraq. In solidarity, SRRT Action Council Members: Josephine Anemaet; Carol Barta; Sanford Berman; Kim Edson; Yvonne Farley; Elaine Harger; Larry W. Heiman; Al Kagan; Mark E. Martin; Veronda J. Pitchford; Mark Rosenzweig; Wendy Thomas; Charles Willett ________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Correction: URL for Progressive Librarian Greetings, I announced this last week and put a period at the end of the URL, which messed it up for some users. Once again, the full text of the most recent issue of Progressive Librarian is up on the web; new print issue is due out soon. Subscription is inexpensive; details at the website. The URL so that it will work: http://home.earthlink.net/~rlitwin/proglib.html Hope you enjoy it. Here's the table of contents of issue 12/13: Issue no.12/13, Spring, Summer 1997 ARTICLES The End of Information and the Future of Libraries, by Phil Agre A House Divided Against Itself: ACRL leadership, Academic Freedom & Electronic Resources, by John Buschman A Primer on WIPO & Database Extraction Rights, by James Love Corporate Inroads & Librarianship: The Fight for the Soul of the Profession in the New Millennium, by Peter Mcdonald GII: Global Power Grab, by Vigdor Schreibman DOCUMENTS Speech by the Superintendent of Documents at ALA Statement of Robert L. Oakley on the GPO Budget Notes from the Front Lines at SFPL From France: Libraries Losing their Reason ADDED ENTRIES William F. Birdsall's The Myth of the Electronic Library,, reviewed by Mark Rosenzweig 7 Years of Progressive Librarian, Tables of Contents (this page) Notes on the Contributors __________________________________________________________________ Rory Litwin mailto:rlitwin[at]earthlink.net PO Box 720511 phone: (408) 286-6409 San Jose, CA 95172 http://home.earthlink.net/~rlitwin __________________________________________________________________
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