Library Juice 3:16 - Library Juice is now a book and a blog

Library Juice 3:16 - April 26, 2000 Contents: 1. LIBREF-L Archives 2. Dutch web searching tutorial 3. Dot Com Statistics 4. World's largest Tetris game on the side of Brown U. Library 5. Judge rules library books are child pornography 6. New "Indexing Anarchism" site 7. French plan pits authors vs. librarian 8. May issue of American Libraries: Library Service to Poor People 9. Selection Policies for 16mm in Public Libraries 10. Vanity E-Books 11. Docster? 12. Karen Schneider contacted by US DOJ 13. UCITA 14. WHEN CORPORATE MEDIA COVER "INDEPENDENT MEDIA" 15. New TFOE web site 16. May Day 17. Beltane 18. Oh, Schlastlivchik! 19. Gorey, Edward Quote for the week: "There are two ways not to suffer from the inferno we are all living in every day. The first suits most people: accept the inferno and become part of it to the point where you don't even see it any more. The second is riskier and requires constant attention and willingness to learn: seek out and know how to recognize whoever and whatever, in the midst of the inferno, is not inferno, and help them last, give them space." -Italo Calvino Home page of the week: Priscilla Pratt http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/prattp/ _____________________________________________________________________________top 1. LIBREF-L Archives Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:49:33 -0400 From: librefed <librefed[at]kent.edu> Subject: LIBREF-L Archives (message from Moderator) MIME-Version: 1.0 I apologize for sending this to the entire list but I accidentally deleted an inquiry from a list member on how to search the archives. So, this may be a good refresher for others as well:-) The LIBREF-L archives are searchable via the Web: 1) http://listserv.kent.edu/archives/libref-l.html These are keyword searchable archives located here at Kent. The content goes back to mid-December 1995. 2) http://www.dejanews.com will allow you to search in the archives of bit.listserv.libref-l (The Usenet gateway version of LIBREF-L). These archives go back to about 1995. Leela Balraj, LIBREF-L Co-Listowner _____________________________________________________________________________top 2. Dutch web searching tutorial Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:58:26 +0200 From: schmitz <Roger.Schmitz[at]kub.nl> Organization: Tilburg University To: rory[at]libr.org Subject: announcement from the Netherlands Dear Rory, May I draw your attention to a free online basic tutorial on searching the Web developed by Peter van Tilburg and Roger Schmitz, librarians at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The approach is slightly European and /or Dutch. Titel: Searching the World Wide Web: a basic tutorial URL: http://cwis.kub.nl/~dbi/english/instruct/www/indexuk.htm Thank you, Roger Schmitz Tilburg University Library _____________________________________________________________________________top 3. Dot Com Statistics -- Network Solutions http://www.nsol.com/statistics/ Created and maintained by Network Solutions, this site provides easy access to recent (January 2000) and past domain registration statistics and trivia. US, International, and business domain statistics tables for 1998, 1999, and January 2000 are offered, as well as some other quick facts. An interesting and quick diversion, the site promises future monthly updates. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ _____________________________________________________________________________top 4. World's largest Tetris game on the side of Brown U. Library Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:05:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael A. Golrick" <mgolrick[at]sclc.org> To: publib <publib[at]sunsite.berkeley.edu> Subject: Libraries as physical games Hi - On a discussion list from my undergrad alma mater there was a reference to an article about the largest Tetris game in the world which is on the side of the 14 story Sciences Library at Brown University. http://projo.com/cgi-bin/frame_it.cgi?URL=/report/pjb/stories/03572751.htm Have fun! Michael Michael A. Golrick mgolrick[at]sclc.org Southern Connecticut Library Council 2911 Dixwell Ave, Suite 201 Hamden CT 06518-3130 203/288.5757 (voice) 203/287.5757 (fax) Connecticut Chapter Councilor (ALA Council) Connecticut Library Association President, 1999-2000 Check out the *new* SCLC Home page: http://www.sclc.org _____________________________________________________________________________top 5. Judge rules library books are child pornography Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:19:56 -0500 From: "Don Wood" <dwood[at]ala.org> Subject: [IFACTION:814] Judge rules two library books are child pornography, not art To: Intellectual Freedom Action News <ifaction[at]ala1.ala.org> from San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE Judge rules two library books are child pornography, not art http://www.uniontrib.com/news/metro/20000419-0010_1n19porn.html "San Diego police said yesterday that they will investigate a judge's ruling that pictures copied by a pedophile from books available at the San Diego downtown public library are child pornography." _________________________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/oif.html _____________________________________________________________________________top 6. New "Indexing Anarchism" site Subject: new 'Indexing anarchism' site Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:06:34 +0100 From: "john.patten" <john.patten[at]unn.ac.uk> To: worker-librarians-digest[at]lists.tao.ca Dear colleagues, hello there. As part of my Library course I've produced a portal of resources for indexing anarchist collections (This should support my dissertation which is to produce an anarchist thesaurus) See what you think of it: Indexing anarchism http://z1student.unn.ac.uk/users/j912826/index.htm Please don't tell me my anarchist links are not comprehensive - they're not meant to be. If anything else annoys you, let me know. Feedback from colleagues who've done something similar themselves, or more cataloguing than me would be welcome, likewise if you've had fun or horrors trying to organise a group of web resources Yours JOhn _____________________________________________________________________________top 7. French plan pits authors vs. librarian Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:12:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Tsang <dtsang[at]sun1.lib.uci.edu> To: PLGNET-L <PLGNet-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu> Subject: French plan pits authors vs. librarians A French plan to charge 5 francs for each book loan in a library to fund authors' retirement plans is sparking controversy. See Liberation this week: http://www.liberation.fr/livres/2000avril/20000422sama.html To get a translation of most of the article, go to: http://world.altavista.com/ and enter the url for the article in the box Translate Please. and change in the pull down menu to French to English, and click on Translate. Daniel C. Tsang Bibliographer for Asian American Studies, Economics and Politics Machine-Readable Data Files Librarian Lecturer, School of Social Sciences 380 Main Library University of California PO Box 19557 Irvine CA 92623-9557 USA dtsang[at]uci.edu (949) 824-4978 (949) 824-2700 fax homepage: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang add suffix for news: /netnews1.htm politics: /pol.htm economics: /econ.htm asian american studies: /aas.htm soc sci data archives: /ssda.htm public opinion: /pod.htm AWARE: /aware.htm host, "Subversity" on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County now each Friday from 5-6 p.m. from Oct. 1, 1999 on; selected shows now on RealAudio e-mail: subversity[at]kuci.org http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity KUCI live on the Web: http://kuci.org/listen.html N.B.: This is NOT official University of California correspondence. _____________________________________________________________________________top 8. May issue of American Libraries: Library Service to Poor People From: kmccook[at]chuma.cas.usf.edu To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l[at]ala.org> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:56:21 -0400 Subject: [SRRTAC-L:4516] POOR PEOPLE The May issue of American Libraries has been posted on the ALA webpage. The theme is library service to poor people. It won't be mailed for a week or so. The editorial notes it is dedicated to Sanford Berman, the SRRT poor/homeless webpage URL is provided and Karen Venturella's book and the ALA PPP noted. The consolidation of these concerns is in response to SB's challenge when I was OLOS Chair to get the PPP out in front. This is a small step, but a step. Kathleen de la Peña McCook Coordinator of Community Outreach, College of Arts & Sciences Professor, School of Library & Information Science, University of South Florida, CIS 1040, Tampa, FL 33620 813-974-9182 http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/faculty/mccook.html kmccook[at]chuma.cas.usf.edu --- Editor's note: http://www.ala.org/alonline for American Libraries Online http://libr.org/HHP for SRRT's Homelessness Hunger & Poverty Task Force _____________________________________________________________________________top 9. Selection Policies for 16mm in Public Libraries - Steve Fesenmaier Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:41:07 -0400 From: Steve Fesenmaier <fesenms[at]wvlc.lib.wv.us> Organization: WVLC Rory Litwin has posted my 1979 MLS thesis on his website. It was my second thesis that I wrote after I had moved to WV in Sept. 1978. My first was rejected by my jealous advisor, Harris McClaskey - it was called "Cinema Anti-therapy". The basic theme was that various filmmakers such as Les Blank, Werner Herzog, and Dusan Makavejev made films which showed individuals who were labelled mad or insane were in fact sane, fighting an insane culture. It was eventually published in a national magazine, "Film/Psychology Review". That led to an interview in "Behavior Today" magazine, the second largest psychology magazine in the country; and a live interview with a radio psycholgist in Detroit. I was invited to several international conferences on cinema therapy. This second thesis has been used all over the US, including by media librarians who gave presentations at NYLA - Jean Haynes, media librarian for Jamestown, NY, used it. McFarland, one of the profession's leading publishers, asked me to write a book on visual illiteracy in the profession one summer after I attacked Randy Pittman, then editor of av for Library Journal. He panned one of my two favorite films - WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM by Dusan Makavejev - in his video review. I mentioned my MLS thesis, stating that I had shown that librarians did not even KNOW WHAT THE BEST FILMS WERE, SO HOW COULD THEY PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTE THEM? People wrote in all summer, mainly supporting me, some attacking me. I did not write the book for McFarland - why write a book about visually backward librarians who could only read books...whereas they needed to watch hundreds of films, and learn something about the field. For years I taught film courses and worked for the University Film Society in Minneapolis, and here in WV I have taught film courses, co-founded the WV International Film Festival 15 years ago, worked on many films including "Matewan", "East Wind, West Wind: The Life of Pearl Buck", "Books Our Children Read", written film criticism for 20 years in my own quarterly, "Zoopraxographic" and for statewide magazines -Appalachian Intelligencer, WV Arts News, and for the last decae, Graffiti. Everyone seems to love what I have done, here in WV and in Minnesota - except my fellow bureaucrats, both at the University of Minnesota and here at the WV Library Commission. I was transferred out of Film Services in January 1999 by David Price, the new director of WVLC. I am now the research librarian for the agency - the first one. I continue to write for Graffiti, and to help program WVIFF, the Charleston Jewish Film Festival, and many other events, both around the state and US. Every day I think about the great need to "educate the educators" - in my case, the library directors, librarians, and library staff. I will continue to do so until I die. - Steve Fesenmaier, Charleston, West Virginia April 21, 2000 SELECTION POLICIES FOR SIXTEEN MILLIMETER IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES Stephen L. Fesenmaier http://libr.org/rory/Fesenmaier.html _____________________________________________________________________________top 10. Vanity E-Books Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:59:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." <thennen[at]haplr-index.com> To: publib <publib[at]sunsite.berkeley.edu> Subject: e-vanity fare? Most libraries have a policy regarding the inclusion of self-published or vanity press works. But what of vanity e-books?M.J. Rose has a relavant piece in Wired magazine titled E-Books for Writers, Not Readers. It is at: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35722,00.html He notes that ìwhile 5 percent of the survey respondents said they bought Stephen King's e-book, Riding the Bullet, less than 1 percent claim to actually have read it.î So was the shooter firing blanks, one wonders? The survey was by the Book Report Network at: http://www.bookreporter.com/brc/index.asp Rose goes on to note that there are over 24 million writers in the United States but less than 5 percent have been published. Companies such as Xlibris, iUniverse, and Mightywords are wooing the other 95 percent, often as not to what used to be called vanity publishing. And the public library issues are thought provoking, indeed. http://www.iuniverse.com/ http://www.xlibris.com/ http://www.mightywords.com/ I am reminded of Richard Brautiganís Library for Books Nobody Wants. The concept is in his book, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. The book is out of print, and only available in libraries :-) And, as an aside, how is this for the great Amazon.com as clueless? Though it is out of print, they offer two options - e-Bay, natch, but also other "historical romances!" Kerouac, Ginsberg and Brautigan would have gotten a great HOWL out of that! I saw the best dot coms of my generation destroyed by... ah well. Bruatigan's main character was a librarian at a mythical library. The library was at at 3150 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. At this library anyone who wrote a book could add it to the shelves. Books were accepted in any form. There was no Dewey Decimal arrangement, nor any other order to the library. The author alone decides on which shelf the book should be. Brautigan is rumored to have self-published a work in 1968 entitled "The San Francisco Library: A Publishing House." No more than 10 copies are thought to exist. http://www.riza.com/richard/library.shtml Brautigan was at one time a best selling beat/hippie author. Early in his career, he like many beat authors and poets, had trouble getting his stuff published. One can speculate on this as his motivation for the library in his novel. According to the site just noted, a manuscript library from Brautigan is being housed at the Burlington VT(Fletcher Free Library). The library is not accepting any new submissions :-) Mayonnaise jars serve as bookends! So, for library planning purposes we will soon have some questions -questions that Brautigan's librarian may have asked upon a time. Do we supply only the e-book titles we purchase/select? Or do we take donations of e-vanity fare? If we take donations, wonít we need to read them first? If not how do we assure they are consistent with our collection development policies, not to mention consistency with the state and federal laws for our library? And e-book plates for donated vanity fare, what do we do with them? I have no answers here, only questions that I think Brautigan, among others may have liked. But I do have an observation, to Joe Schallan and others - I still think its a great time to be a librarian. So sign me once again, datcalmguy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. http://www.haplr-index.com 6014 Spring Street Racine,WI 53406 Voice: 414-886-1625 Fax: 414-886-5424 thennen[at]haplr-index.com "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" - George (Dubya)Bush at Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 http://www.nancysnetwork.com/bushisms.htm _____________________________________________________________________________top 11. Docster? Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:59:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Thomas J. Hennen Jr." <thennen[at]haplr-index.com> To: publib <publib[at]sunsite.berkeley.edu> Subject: Docster: Earth's Most Distibuted Library? Napster, the music copying site has taken the college set by storm and unnerved the CD music business to no end. See: http://www.napster.com/ Napster has been described as the first "killer ap" since the web browser. Hollywood and Nashville are taking notice, are we? See one view at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2553329,00.html Now there is a proposal from oss4lib for Docster for ILL of journal articles that is sure to get the legal types to sit up and take notice. The kernel of the idea is a bit like OCLC had for cataloging or like a lot of other automated systems since: write once, read many times. The author, Dan Chudnov, has a brilliant proposal for massively distributed journal articles that are currently being photocopied again and again throughtout the library world. He proposes copyright compliance, privacy for users, and a host of other things that will strike any librarian as needful. Steve, Karen and Steve, this has to be an adjunct to the Earth's Largest Library- perhaps the earth's most distributed library? Try this for one quote and then see the article: "unny how napster doesn't care about dublin core or MARC. It doesn't need a circulation module. It doesn't even matter what kind of computer you have, as long as you have a working client and decent bandwidth. Think of the implications of applying this model in our libraries. With all the advances in standardization of e-print archives and such (see the Open Archives initiative), we already have high hopes about the future of online publishing. With that solved, maybe the napster model could help us deal with our favorite legacy format: bound journals." See the proposal for Docster at: http://www.haplr-index.com/Docster.htm oss4lib is Open source systems for libraries. Their mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. They maintain a listing of free software and systems designed for libraries and track news about project updates or related issues of interest. They are mostly from Yale University. http://oss4lib.org/ The box outside of which we must think is a real shape shifter, no? Sign me as datcalmuy Thomas J. Hennen Jr. http://www.haplr-index.com 6014 Spring Street Racine,WI 53406 Voice: 414-886-1625 Fax: 414-886-5424 thennen[at]haplr-index.com _____________________________________________________________________________top 12. Karen Schneider contacted by US DOJ From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs[at]bluehighways.com> To: ALA Council List <alacoun[at]ala1.ala.org> Subject: [ALACOUN:4619] US DOJ on Warpath Against Free Expression Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:34:30 -0400 Dear Council--not to deter anyone from the really important work of editing the Core Values Task Force statement, but the US DOJ has been contacting filtering experts in an attempt to persuade us to testify on behalf of the government's case for COPA. See: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35800,00.html The article notes that I was "reportedly" contacted; the USDOJ did call me by phone and followed up with a package of material, but my guess is that after they read my expert reports for the Mainstream Loudoun case, they realized I wasn't their gal. I may be critical of filters, but I'm even more critical of attempts to tighten a noose around the First Amendment. The idea that anyone under 17 could not legally access a wide variety of material scares the dickens out of me--I can't wait to see what "contemporary community standards" would boil down to. As for authors--well, I've always thought Stephen King lacked artistic value; I've heard that kids like his books, too... so let's take away his Rocketbook and throw him in the pokey! Between COPA and UCITA, we're rapidly approaching Fahrenheit 451... Karen G. Schneider kgs[at]bluehighways.com Assistant Director of Technology Shenendehowa Public Library, Clifton Park, NY http://www.shenpublib.org _____________________________________________________________________________top 13. UCITA Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:55:04 -0400 From: "Emily Sheketoff" <ES[at]alawash.org> To: <ALAcoun[at]ala.org> Subject: UCITA The following was prepared by Miriam Nisbet of the Washington office of ALA: UCITA - State Contract Law Intersects Federal Copyright Law What is UCITA? The Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) is a proposed state contract law developed to regulate transactions in intangible goods such as computer software, online databases and other information products in digital form. UCITA was originally intended to be a revision to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which has been adopted in almost all of the states and territories of the U.S. and which ensures consistent rules governing contract law from state to state. Because the two legal bodies charged with drafting changes to the UCC failed last year to agree on a draft, the proposed statute is being introduced in each state as a stand-alone addition to the state's legal codes. Publishers and large software producers are the primary supporters of UCITA. Libraries, consumer protection groups, and a number of businesses have been among those opposing the enactment of UCITA as it has been introduced in several states starting in the Fall of 1999. Why are libraries concerned about the proposed law? UCITA would validate terms in shrink wrap and clickable licenses that restrict uses by libraries that are otherwise allowed under copyright law. Currently, many software and information products are sold as shrink-wrapped packages or as products downloaded through the Internet from a vendor's web site. Although obtaining software and informa-tion products through the Internet is a convenience for everyone, libraries included, when a buyer breaks the wrapping or clicks "ok" with his or her mouse, that buyer is entering into a contract or license with terms that may restrict otherwise legitimate uses of the product, such as legally transferring the software or digital works; publicly discussing the product; or providing access to other users. Moreover, the buyer likely does not even know that he or she has agreed to those contract terms. In other words, UCITA would allow an end run around currently legitimate practices under the copyright exceptions for fair use, first sale, and preservation. Is UCITA being introduced in your state? If you become aware that UCITA is being proposed in your state legislature, please let ALA's Washington Office know by contacting Miriam Nisbet, Legislative Counsel, at 1-800-941-8478 or at <mnisbet[at]alawash.org>. For additional information: ALA Washington Office web page: http://www.ala.org/washoff/copyright.html 4CITE Coalition web page: http://www.4cite.org/HotNews.htm _____________________________________________________________________________top 14. WHEN CORPORATE MEDIA COVER "INDEPENDENT MEDIA" By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate During the recent protests in Washington against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the leading cable news network became fascinated with "independent media." Journalism free of huge economic interests -- what a concept! "Modern-day demonstrators say you just can't trust folks like us, the so-called corporate media," a CNN anchor explained, introducing a report that aired repeatedly over a two-day period. Correspondent Brooks Jackson took it from there. "They call themselves the independent media," he said, and that means working without ties to the large corporations of the media world. "Global corporate media? Gee, that would be us," Jackson deadpanned, "CNN, owned by Time Warner, soon to be merged with America Online. They don't like us very much. They want to tell their story their way." Naturally, CNN proceeded to tell their story CNN's way. The report allowed the "independent journalists" just a few tightly snipped words in edgewise. But at least one incisive remark made it through the network's editing gauntlet: "We believe that objectivity is, in fact, a myth -- that everyone has a bias, everyone has an agenda -- and that corporations like major news corporations have a corporate bias." Well, getting even a few seconds to make that point on CNN amounted to a bit of a breakthrough, although the correspondent's narration was intent on maintaining a bemused tone. Meanwhile, as usual, self-satire on CNN's part appeared to be inadvertent. Midway through the report, one of the independent journalists complained that on television, "Usually the corporate folks get the last word." Sure enough, a minute later CNN's Jackson got the last word, reading the end of the script as he noted "some unintended irony -- a protest against globalism covering itself on the World Wide Web." It was the kind of quip that goes over big in network studios, a smirky tag line with insight more apparent than real. In this case, the correspondent provided an easy cliche -- obscuring the vast distinction between international solidarity and corporate globalization. Gathering in the nation's capital to take action on behalf of human rights, economic justice, labor rights and environmental protection, thousands of protesters understood from the outset that mainstream news was unlikely to illuminate the key issues. Efforts by independent journalists have made alternative coverage available at www.indymedia.org and other websites. These days, news stories about "independent media" often emphasize the use of digital technology. But the most important successes are human rather than technical. No matter how modern the streaming audio and video, it wouldn't matter much if people across the country and around the planet weren't eager to find out what anti-corporate demonstrators are doing and why they're doing it. Within the appreciable constraints of corporate journalism, the mass media's coverage of the protests against the IMF and World Bank included some valuable reporting. For instance, Time magazine's April 24 edition had a short trenchant piece headlined "The IMF: Dr. Death?" Such content exists in mainstream media today because -- for years and decades -- activists as well as small (and yes, independent) media persisted in challenging the power of corporate globalizers while large media outlets could hardly have seemed to care less. Yes, corporate sensibilities usually get the last word. But not always. So, we conclude here with words from one of the great American journalists and media critics of the last century, George Seldes. For several decades, he struggled to boost journalistic independence as a crucial antidote to the convergence of big money and media power. "Only in democratic countries," he wrote in the 1930s, "is there the beginning of a suspicion that the old axiom about the press being the bulwark of liberty is something that affects the daily life of the people -- that it is a living warning rather than an ancient wisecrack. A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press." If cable television had been around then, top news editors at CNN would probably have considered Seldes to be an odd sort of fellow. He was an independent journalist who believed in eternal vigilance as a prerequisite for the free flow of information. "Never grow weary of protesting," he advised. "In this sensitive business of dealing with the public which depends on faith and good will, protest is a most effective weapon. Therefore protest." *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** To read a related article by Norman Solomon about elite press reaction to the demonstrations in Washington, go to: http://www.IntellectualCapital.com/issues/issue366/item9108.asp _____________________________________________________________________________top 15. New TFOE web site Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:35:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Frederick W Stoss <fstoss[at]acsu.buffalo.edu> To: ... Subject: [MEMBER-FORUM:1652] NEW ENVIRONMENTAL LIBRARY/INFORMATION SITE LAUNCHED Greetings on the Eve of Earth Day 2000! The American Library Association's Task Force on the Environment (TFOE) announces its new Website at: http://www.ala.org/alaorg/rtables/srrt/tfoe/ The Task Force on the Environment was created in 1989 and established in the spirit of the 20th Anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, and announces its new Web site on the eve of the 30th Anniversary of Earth Day. Librarians, publishers, vendors, and others interested parties from a wide variety of settings -- public libraries, school libraries and media centers, college and university libraries, government agencies, public interest groups, and other information providing enterprises -- comprise the Task Force on the Environment. TFOE is one of seven issue-oriented task forces of the American Library Association's Social Responsibility Round Table. The objectives of TFOE are to: Promote awareness for environmental issues among ALA, its members, other librarians, and the public concerned about the quality of the environment Unite librarians and information professionals for mutual benefit and support Provide TFOE members with opportunities for career development, skills enhancement, and leadership experiences Facilitate networking among peers and professional associates Provide services, programs, and publications that assist TFOE members and others in their careers, places of work, homes, and in their communities The TFOE Web site is a site launching readers to other resources on topics such as: Acid Rain Global Warming Ecology The U.S. EPA Lead Poisoning Earth Day 2000 Environmental Health Love Canal Superfund Green Investing Community Outreach Sustainability The TFOE Web site also provides links to the proposed National Library for the Environment, the Electronic Green Journal, the National Biological Information Infrastructure, and an extensive collection of Internet Environmental Reference Sites (full-text dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, news, test methods, reports, standards, maps and atlases, year books) and databases. Membership in TFOE provides a professional forum for librarians and other information providers whose work involves issues and concerns related to environmental quality and conservation of the Earth's natural resources. You join the Task Force on the Environment by becoming a member of the ALA Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT) http://libr.org/SRRT/. TFOE maintains an eMail discussion list, as a forum for issues and resources related to the environment. To join this list send the message Subscribe TFOE to majordomo[at]ciesin.org. Don't provide your name and keep the subject line blank. To post a message to the TFOE list, send your message to TFOE[at]ciesin.org. For additional information about TFOE or SRRT contact Fred Stoss <fstoss[at]acsu.buffalo.edu>. TFOE and SRRT are administratively linked to ALA's Office of Literacy and Out Research Services (OLOS). Happy Earth Day! Fred Stoss Coordinator, Social Responsibilities Round Table Past-Chair, Task Force on the Environment Science and Engineering Library University at Buffalo State University of New York fstoss[at]acsu.buffalo.edu _____________________________________________________________________________top 16. May Day Reclaiming May Day http://www.tao.ca/ainfos/A-Infos98/3/0036.html The Anarchist Origins of May Day http://www.tao.ca/ainfos/A-Infos98/3/0076.html "May Day, the Workers' Day," by Ann McInerney http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/016.html Pagan Origins of May Day http://www.planet.net.au/innovations/may96/mayday.html Celebrating May Day in Hawaii http://members.home.net/starview/beenthr7.htm International Cannabis Coalition - A Brief History of May Day http://www.schmoo.co.uk/may.htm May Day in the USA - A Forgotten History http://pciweb.baka.com/14850/9505/history.html May Day 1951 - by Howard Fast http://www.trussel.com/hf/mayday51.htm Yahoo's May Day page http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Holidays_and_Observances/May_Day/ Labor Day and May Day http://www.math.uni.edu/~campbell/gened/labour.html "What is May Day's Meaning for Today?" by Chris Mahin http://www.tao.ca/earth/damn/mayday/mayday_meaning.html "May Day in the Middle Ages," a quilt by Denise Cross http://dmarie.com/1600/0001558.htm Infoshop.org's May Day Page http://www.infoshop.org/mayday2000.html .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Date: 28 Dec 99 10:17:12 GMT From: Martyn Lowe <martynlowe[at]usa.net> To: <akagan[at]uiuc.edu>, <rory[at]libr.org> Subject: Well worth looking at. CC: jessamyn <spaz[at]jessamyn.com> Hej Rory ! Hej Al ! There is an interesting development that you might like to see - This is a followup to various actions this year. You will find the details upon the following website: http://www.freespeech.org/mayday2k/ It has info' about the Seattle protests too. Martyn .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Mayday Listening On Monday May 1 2000, KPFA in conjunction with LaborNet and LaborFest will be programming a day devoted to working class issues. From writer Tillie Olson and Mumia and labor to South Africa and El Salvador, make sure you and your fellow brothers & sisters are tuned in for this exciting and historic day of labor programming. You can also find the full schedule for the programming at http://www.labornet.org. Solidarity Has No Borders! Tentative Schedule of Programs Listen Live World Wide On http://www.kpfa.org Monday May 1, 2000 ------------------------- Mike Alewitz LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT Email: lamp[at]igc.apc.org - Website: http://www.igc.apc.org/laborart .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. _____________________________________________________________________________top 17. Beltane To: "ResPool Research Network" <respool[at]listbot.com> From: "Elsa Hazell" <elsamarc[at]pcis.net> Subject: Beltane Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:50:41 -0500 ResPool Research Network - http://rtiess.tripod.com/respool.htm I would like some information on Beltane, as celebrated by the Scottish and the ancient Celtic people. any one know of a good website for that? Elsa .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. There is a brief description and cross references to other entries at Encyclopedia of the Celts: http://celt.net/Celtic/celtopedia/indices/encycintro.html Cheers, Dena Thomas Theatre and Dance Librarian University of New Mexico .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. From: "Jean Packard" <jean.packard[at]baltsun.com> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:58:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Beltane Mime-Version: 1.0 ResPool Research Network - http://rtiess.tripod.com/respool.htm A Celebration of MAY DAY by Mike Nichols http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7280/beltane.html BELTAINE CUSTOMS The Gathering of the Clans http://www.tartans.com/beltaine.html Beltaine Fires http://www.dalriada.co.uk/archives/beltain_fires.htm Beltane - May Day http://www.whitemtns.com/~tarna/beltaine.html Irish Fire Festivals: Beltaine http://www.aislingact.org/beltaine.html BELTAINE by Branfionn MacGregor, copyright 1998 - All Rights Reserved http://technovate.org/earthclan/belweb.html _____________________________________________________________________________top 18. Oh Schlastlivchik Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:35:12 -0400 From: Jean E Dickson <dickson[at]ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU> Reply-To: UB Libraries Distribution List <UBLIB-L[at]LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU> Hi! This is from the Slavic librarians' list -- I thought you might like this quote from Russian TV. --Jean ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:02:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Braden <marker[at]tiger.cc.oxy.edu> I suspect that many in the United States have seen this, but I'll highlight a quote from it, for our esteem and amusement. Knight-Ridder newspapers distributed an article about _OhSchlastlivchik_, the Russian version of _Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?_. Among the interesting facts and comments is this one by the program's host, Dmitry Dibrov: "The questions shouldn't be too easy, but they shouldn't be too hard either. This isn't for librarians and Ph.D.'s. It should be for the average human mind." Greetings to all you Above-Average Minds. I hope a librarian sneaks in and wins the 1 million rubles. --Mark _____________________________________________________________________________top 19. Gorey, Edward -- 1925-2000 http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/02/15/gorey/ Gloomy wit and a wry humor support the myth that Chicago-born Edward Gorey was British. This site provides an introduction to the works that have established Gorey as an artist/writer in a class by himself. Readers seeking a thorough bibliography will turn to Greg Forschler's site or the anonymous Goreyography. - mr From: Librarians Index to the Internet - http://lii.org _____________________________________________________________________________top L I B R A R Y J U I C E | http://libr.org/Juice/ | | Library Juice is supported by a voluntary subscription | fee of $10 per year, variable based on ability and | desire to pay. You may send a check payable in US funds | to Rory Litwin, at PO Box 720511, San Jose, CA 95172 | | Original material and added value in Library Juice | is copyright-free; beyond that the publisher makes | no guarantees. 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