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Democracy Now! | ACLU Files First Major Lawsuit Against Patriot Act. All right!

From boingboing.net, Travis Kalanick of Scour, Redswoosh is planning on running for CA governor .

Volume 21 Issue 3 of
“Electronic Library” is now available. Table of contents are as follows:

–Metadata mayhem: cataloguing electronic resources in the National Library of New Zealand.
–Electronic access to and the preservation of heritage materials.
–Linking people and information: Web site access to National Library of New Zealand information and services.
–A word in your ear: library services for print disabled readers in the digital age.
–Online in real-time? Deciding whether to offer a real-time virtual reference service.
–The digital divide: a global and national call to action.
–Developing digital libraries.
–Today’s computer industry: facing major challenges.

PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility: TRIPOLI Project Press Release

Lauren Weinstein and Peter G. Neumann
call on the Internet and Open-Source Communities to consider a proposal for the most significant and far-reaching changes to e-mail systems since the creation of the Internet and its ancestor ARPANET more than 30 years ago.

FBI targets Net phoning | CNET News.com
“According to the proposal that the FCC is considering, any company offering cable modem or DSL service to residences or businesses would be required to comply with a thicket of federal regulations that would establish a central hub for police surveillance of their customers. The proposal has alarmed civil libertarians who fear that it might jeopardize privacy and warn that the existence of such hubs could facilitate broad surveillance of other Internet communications such as e-mail, Web browsing and instant messaging.”

Ex Libris–an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies has an interesting article by Blake Carver ( Ohio State University and LISNews.com blogger par excellence) entitled, “Creating an institutional repository: a role for libraries.” He writes, and I agree, that libraries are not becoming superfluous relics, but are perfectly situated to be key players in the creation of institutional repositories. “This new system allows different parts of the campus community to be tied together via the library. The library then takes on a new centralized role which extends our traditional skills of preservation, cataloging, and access control.”

–Kindly gleaned from Walt Crawford’s “Sites & Insights, August, 2003″

mediareform.network : washington watch: Because of public pressure, the U.S. House overwhelmingly approved an appropriations bill that blocks one of the FCC’s new rules. The bill prohibits expanding the number of American TV viewers one media
company may reach to 45%. It holds the cap at 35%. This is great news, but it’s not over.

No, it’s not a new form of shiatzu. In Educause Review July/August, 2003, “Deep Sharing: a case for a federated digital library” by David Seaman, the director of the Digital Library Foundation. The distributed online digital library (DODL) is a very exciting idea indeed, but it puts libraries directly in the path of the RIAA and others who want to constrict access and distribution of digital content. Stay tuned for the coming P2P/intellectual property battles.

“State-by-State Report on Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Information”: Released in June, 2003 by the Government Relations Committee and Washington Affairs Office, American Association of Law Libraries. This definitely has pertinent information as govt info librarians struggle to collect, preserve and disseminate e-docs from all levels of government.

Technology at Harvard Law: RSS 2.0 Specification moves to Berkman

“On July 15, 2003, UserLand Software transferred ownership of its RSS 2.0 specification to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. UserLand is a leading developer of tools that produce and consume RSS, and originator of the RSS 2.0 specification.

The specification, which was previously copyrighted, is now licensed under terms that allow it to be customized, excerpted and republished, using the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license.”