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From the Article:A magazine about sex will stay where teens can find it at the Ames Public Library.The Library Board of Trustees voted 6-1 Thursday to support Director Art Weeks’ recommendation to continue openly displaying a (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Library Technology
The Guardian:
As tax havens increasingly co-operate with international law, Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier is the latest to have his money seizedIt is 23 years since "Baby Doc" Duvalier was forced out of power in Haiti; but in the next few we (Read More)
The Guardian:
Share issue will cost the taxpayer another £5.8bnLloyds Banking Group is this week expected to announce the terms of its record-breaking £13.5bn cash call on investors. The share issue will require the taxpayer to pump an ext (Read More)
The Guardian:
THEY DIDN'T want Blair, because he was too famous. They derided Van Rompuy, because he wasn't. On two front pages (Guardian and Mail weirdly co-joined) it was a "Great EU stitch-up". They didn't, at the same time, seem to hav (Read More)
The Guardian:
Tightening the law on stolen data could ensnare journalists as well as crimes such as the T-Mobile scandalSo what is "the public interest"? Philosophical tangles don't come much knottier in a world where this defence of journ (Read More)
The Guardian:
Social networks that want to dominate a corner of cyberspace should remember AOLLIKE MANY people in his business, the technology publisher Tim O'Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service. He also has a Faceb (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Top 20 highest paid employees now unlikely to be identified unless they have boardroom rolesThousands of the highest-paid bankers in the City look likely to cling on to their anonymity as the government prepares to back down (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Teenage perpetrators of domestic violence are to be targeted by the government in a hard-hitting awareness campaign that reflects concern about physical abuse meted out by the young.The move, part of the government's Violence (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
True love may be the key to a long and happy marriage – but being a dentist or an agricultural engineer helps, too, according to new research.A paper that correlates occupations with divorce and separation rates, to be publis (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activitiesThe security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston' (Read More)
The Guardian:
Robert Yates returns to the streets of Liverpool, where he grew up, to report on a story of deprivation and hopeIn a parade of shops on County Road in Walton, north Liverpool, a couple of signs compete for attention. "Slip! T (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Ministers refuse to release details of five incidents last yearThe government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year.The breaches have prompted accusati (Read More)
The Guardian:
An increasing number of female jihadis are being recruited and trained to blow themselves up in the name of Islam. Alissa J Rubin visits an Iraqi jail to find out what makes young women turn themselves into killing machinesI (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Aaron Cohen travels the world, rescuing girls sold into prostitution. He tells Carole Cadwalladr why he does it – and how a suburban kid turned heroin addict became a human rights campaignerI don't know where to even start w (Read More)
Library Boy:
The Library Routes Project is a wiki-based project that seeks to gather information about "library roots" (how people got into librarianship in the first place) and "library routes" (career paths).The project was launched in (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians
TechCrunch:
Google Callendar is testing out a new feature that should make scheduling events a tad easier than it used to be by allowing you to see at a glance if the event you’re creating will conflict with the schedules of the people y (Read More)
ResourceShelf:
From the Web Site:Orphanet is a database of information on rare diseases and orphan drugs for all publics. Its aim is to contribute to the improvement of the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases. Orpha (Read More)
News Networks:
Libraries And Librarians,
Social Media Network
Topic:
Web
The Guardian:
After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vitalOne man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin, (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Of all the extraordinary bets struck on the exchange, these are the ones that will live on in punting loreFor the purists, today's big race at Haydock is the Lancashire Chase. You may never have heard of such a race title, bu (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Britain is full of license-plate cameras, cameras used to send you tickets if you're caught speeding, or driving in the bus-lane, or entering London's "congestion-charge zone" without paying the daily fee for driving in centr (Read More)
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