According to this article, Bradley University has joined over 200 other universities participating in the ultra-high speed broadband Internet2 consortium. This project is a collaboration between academia, government and industry, and not available to the public. According to Jeff Huberman, dean of Bradley’s communications school, “Boundaries become irrelevant with Internet2. It’s an entirely different playing… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2003
Bibliography on Electronic Sources of Information
The May 1, 2003 edition of the Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information, by Marian Dworaczek, is now available. It “deals with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes over 1,500 indexed titles and is updated… Continue Reading
Barriers Still Impediment to Web Access for Disabled
See these two articles, one free and the other from the New York Times ($$), that discuss how a user community “unintentionally left out of the so-called digital revolution has been the severely disabled.” Continue Reading
EU Websites Lacking Privacy Protections
Contrary to the EU Data Protection Directive (pdf), a recent study determined that approximately 44% of European websites surveyed lack required privacy protection policies. The results indicated the greatest complaince was evidenced by UK sites and the worst by French sites. Continue Reading
Entertainment Industry Anti-Piracy Campaign Goes Covert
The entertainment industry is working with software developers, such as Overpeer Inc., to create applications that will thwart P2P filing services and networks. Although such efforts pre-date the recent decision in favor of filing sharing companies Grokster and Morpheus, the focus on a software solution appears to have a renewed purpose and impetus. According to… Continue Reading
P2P Piracy Prevention Act
Point: The Truth About The Peer to Peer Privacy Prevention Act, by Rep. Howard L. Berman. “In July, three colleagues and I introduced H.R. 5211, the Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act. The bill ensures that copyright owners won’t face liability for using reasonable, limited self-help to prevent the theft of their works on peer-to-peer… Continue Reading
New Book On Legal Issues for Libraries
Marylaine Block reviews a new book by Mary Minow and Tomas A. Lipinski which focuses on the many legal issues that confront today’s libraries, including the Patriot Act, fair use, web filtering, censorship and web site accessibility. The Library’s Legal Answer Book is targeted at the public library community, but this work by two expert… Continue Reading
Florida Net Filtering Bill Proceeds
On April 23, the Florida House passed HB 415: Relating to Internet Access in County and Municipal Libraries. The related Senate Bill, CS/SB 1250: Relating to Public Libraries/Computers has been referred to the Criminal Justice Committee. Continue Reading
Digital Learning
Creating a Unified Digital Campus to Satisfy the Needs of 21st Century Learners:..”institutions must strive to unify all of their disparate technology applications and systems into a single digital campus.” From the Michigan Virtual University. Continue Reading
Updated Search Engine Resource
See Search Engines by Search Features by Greg Notess for a useful comparison of search engines according to their specific features (Boolean Capabilities and Constraints, Proximity, Truncation & Stemming, Case Sensitivity, Field searching, Limits and more). Continue Reading
Privacy, E-Gov and the Public
“The U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget offering comment on their work to develop privacy guidelines for e-communications between government agencies and the public.” From the letter: “In particular, we are offering comments on the development of public… Continue Reading
Web Resources on KM
Knowledge in a Click! by Robert J. Ambrogi references a number of websites and portals focused on KM applications related to or specific to the legal environment. Continue Reading
