Chiho Aoshima - Depeche Mode

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World In My Eyes (Razormaid), mp3
I Feel You, mp3
Walking In My Shoes, mp3

Child Online Protection Act Overturned

Wed, 07/23/2008 - 09:07 — Blake

A federal appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a Clinton-era law that would have forced websites with adult material to verify visitors' ages, dealing another blow to the government in a 10-year court battle over net censorship.

The 3rd U.S. Circurt Court of Appeals upheld on Tuesday a 2007 lower-court decision that the Child Online Protection Act violated the First Amendment since it was not the most effective way to keep children from visiting adult websites.

This Cuban library lends DVDs about state torture

A government critic's collection includes Bibles, books by Cuban defectors, and positive biographies about Fidel Castro. THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY LIBRARY: That’s what Carlos Serpa, a government critic, calls his home library in Isla de la Juventud, Cuba. His collection includes Bibles, books by Cuban defectors, and positive biographies about Fidel Castro and “Che” Guevara.

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Daft Punk

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Something About Us, mp3

Beresford Egan - Imogen Heap

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Pierre-Narcisse Guerin - Mahalakshmi & U. Srinivas

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They Used -What- as a Bookmark? by birdie

Always good as a conversation starter...the things people leave in books that are not traditional bookmarks. Thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a marriage certificate from 1879, a baby’s tooth, a diamond ring and a handwritten poem by Irish writer Katharine Tynan Hickson are just some of the stranger objects discovered by booksellers. And then there's the strip of bacon.

Abebooks has a listing of these items...some mundane, some bizarre, some deeply personal. What have you found?

Miriam Schulman - Cypress Hill

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How I Could Just Kill A Man, mp3
Tequila Sunrise, mp3

Guide of the Week: Federal Budget Process

There are few things more complicated than the US federal budget process. This week's guide:

U.S. Government Documents: The Budget Process (Jerry Breeze, Columbia University, 1999) Last Updated sometime in 2008

Can help you untangle the fiscal knots that is the United States Budget. This selective guide points to information about the current budget, including state by state budget impacts as well as historical data and background materials.

This guide also has a federal budget calendar which can help you see when different budget publications becomes available. Finally, Jerry provides a section on News and Commentary which draws from non-governmental sources.

The next time you are faced with a concerned citizen or a student writing about an aspect of the US budget, point them to this guide. Then see what else is available from the Handout Exchange. Don't see the subject you're looking for? If you're a documents librarian why not research the subject yourself, put a guide together and link that to the Exchange? Or build a guide on the Exchange wiki itself?

Keep Up With Technology, Keep Up With Teens

Since 2002, there has been a 15 percent increase in circulation and a 40 percent increase in visits, so reports the Conshocton Tribune(Central Ohio).

Young adult librarian RoseMary Honnold explains: "That grew out of a meeting I had with a tech club that I specifically put together to see what teens would be interested in. They asked for free Internet time and we talked about gaming. We acquired funds from various sources and add equipment as we go." Currently the library has a Nintendo Wii, a Playstation 2, the game Rock Band for the PS2, ten laptops and laptop games. Games can be projected on a movie screen through the use of a projector.

"I just come down to have fun. I check my MySpace, I play Rock Band, I hang out with my friends," said Justine Givens, 16. "It's a great place for teens to hang out."

$1 Million to study video games

by effinglibrarian

School of Information Awarded $1.2 Million from IMLS for The Study of Digital Librarianship, Video Game Industry

"The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has received $1.2 million from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) to prepare students for librarianship in a digital world..."

Aren't library schools supposed to prepare students for librarianship in whatever world exists at the time? So up to the point of awarding this grant, library schools have only been preparing students for librarianship in the Bronze age world? the Stone world? the strange World of Sid and Marty Krofft?

"The project will focus on providing doctoral students with a deep understanding of digital librarianship..." Oh, they have money for the new nerds. Nerd 2.0.

"Assistant Professor Megan Winget was awarded $255,040 to advance her research in the video game industry's methods, behaviors and attitudes for the purpose of building more meaningful models of collection and preservation of complex, community-built digital creations."

Preservation of video games? Yeah, they're called Ziploc bags. I think the one-gallon size will hold a Sony PlayStation. Buy some kitchen garbage bags for a PS3. For $250,000, you should be able to stock up.

Why are they studying the video game industry for preservation? The industry's view has never supported backwards compatibility, hence no preservation, only disposal and the purchase of new hardware. The only preservation in the gaming world is done by individuals and fans of video games.

The story says that part of the grant is to educate professors on archival storage, which I guess means to teach them to not touch the contacts on the Atari 2600 game cart. I can see these archivists discussing the best way to bag that Intellivision console, whether the controllers should be bagged individually or in pairs, and in what temperature to store it all for future generations. I wonder if they know about the landfill piled high with ET: the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 carts.

Tell them to call me if they want a box of Atari ST or 3DO games. Yeah, 3DO; I even owned stock in the company. Yeah, I'm a dope.

Via Keller - Seal

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Kiss From A Rose, mp3
Paye For The Dying, mp3

Library confrontation points up privacy dilemma

Library Director Amy Grasmick sits in the Kimball Public Library's children's room where public access...

RANDOLPH, Vt. - Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up.

They weren't kidding around: Five state police detectives wanted to seize Kimball Public Library's public access computers as they frantically searched for a 12-year-old girl, acting on a tip that she sometimes used the terminals.

Flint demanded a search warrant, touching off a confrontation that pitted the privacy rights of library patrons against the rights of police on official business.

"It's one of the most difficult situations a library can face," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of intellectual freedom issues for the American Library Association.

Investigators did obtain a warrant about eight hours later, but the June 26 standoff in the 105-year-old, red brick library on Main Street frustrated police and had fellow librarians cheering Flint.

"What I observed when I came in were a bunch of very tall men encircling a very small woman," said the library's director, Amy Grasmick, who held fast to the need for a warrant after coming to the rescue of the 4-foot-10 Flint.

Library records and patron privacy have been hot topics since the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Library advocates have accused the government of using the anti-terrorism law to find out — without proper judicial oversight or after-the-fact reviews — what people research in libraries.

But the investigation of Brooke Bennett's disappearance wasn't a Patriot Act case.

"We had to balance out the fact that we had information that we thought was true that Brooke Bennett used those computers to communicate on her MySpace account," said Col. James Baker, director of the Vermont State Police. "We had to balance that out with protecting the civil liberties of everybody else, and this was not an easy decision to make."

Brooke, from Braintree, vanished the day before the June 26 confrontation in the children's section of the tiny library. Investigators went to the library chasing a lead that she had used the computers there to arrange a rendezvous.

Brooke was found dead July 2. An uncle, convicted sex offender Michael Jacques, has since been charged with kidnapping her. Authorities say Jacques had gotten into her MySpace account and altered postings to make investigators believe she had run off with someone she met online.

Flint was firm in her confrontation with the police.

"The lead detective said to me that they need to take the public computers and I said `OK, show me your warrant and that will be that,'" said Flint, 56. "He did say he didn't need any paper. I said `You do.' He said `I'm just trying to save a 12-year-old girl,' and I told him `Show me the paper.'"

Cybersecurity expert Fred H. Cate, a law professor at Indiana University, said the librarians acted appropriately.

"If you've told all your patrons `We won't hand over your records unless we're ordered to by a court,' and then you turn them over voluntarily, you're liable for anything that goes wrong," he said.

A new Vermont law that requires libraries to demand court orders in such situations took effect July 1, but it wasn't in place that June day. The library's policy was to require one.

The librarians did agree to shut down the computers so no one could tamper with them, which had been a concern to police.

Once in police hands, how broadly could police dig into the computer hard drives without violating the privacy of other library patrons?

Baker wouldn't discuss what information was gleaned from the computers or what state police did with information about other people, except to say the scope of the warrant was restricted to the missing girl investigation.

"The idea that they took all the computers, it's like data mining," said Caldwell-Stone. "Now, all of a sudden, since you used that computer, your information is exposed to law enforcement and can be used in ways that (it) wasn't intended.'"

Ina Lukauskaite - System Of A Down

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Psycho, mp3
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Paul Delvaux - Madonna

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Dress You Up In My Love, mp3

Giuseppe Mariotti - Dragonforce

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Storming the Burning Fields, mp3
Operation Ground and Pound, mp3

Sanjay Kumar - Atmosphere

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God's Bathroom Floor, mp3
Tears for the Sheep, mp3
Nothing But Beats, mp3

Brita Seifert - Mozart

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Piano Sonata No.11 in A, mp3

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin - INXS

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Beautiful Girl, mp3

Claudia Olivos - Janis Joplin

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Roller Skate Song, mp3

Archann - Lenny Kravitz

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Spencer Tunick - John Butler

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Unknown - Queen

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Balthus - Jimi Hendrix

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Red House, mp3
The Wind Cries (WTC Tribute), mp3

Arthur Braginsky - Steve Winwood

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Spanish Dancer, mp3

Andrew Gonzalez - Jose Gonzalez

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El Greco - Jose Feliciano

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Chico and the Man, mp3
El Tango de Roxanne (with Ewan MacGregor), mp3

Art Garfunkel's Favorite Books

[Thanks to Anonymous for this post]

Since the 1960's, Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader. Since 1968, Mr. Garfunkel has been keeping a list of every book he has read.(Index of Books). We also present the following list of books which have been designated by Mr. Garfunkel as his favorites. The books are indexed here in the order in which they were read.

1.	Jun 1968	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	The Confessions	1781	606 pp.
2.	Jun 1968	Erich Fromm	The Art of Loving	1956	146 pp.
3.	Oct 1968	P.D. Ouspensky	In Search of the Miraculous	1949	389 pp.
4.	Feb 1969	L.N. Tolstoy	War and Peace	1869	1444 pp.
5.	May 1969	Philip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint	1969	274 pp.
6.	Sep 1969	Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	1847	320 pp.
7.	Jan 1970	Johann Wolfgang Goethe	The Sorrows of Young Werther	1774	199 pp.
8.	Mar 1970	Garrett Mattingly	The Armada	1959	402 pp.
9.	Mar 1971	Bill Moyers	Listening to America	1971	342 pp.
10.	Jul 1971	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	1947	477 pp.
11.	Jan 1972	L. N. Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	1873	852 pp.
12.	Mar 1972	Albert Schweitzer	J.S. Bach, Vol. 1	1911	428 pp.
13.	Oct 1973	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	1797	430 pp.
14.	Oct 1974	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	1892	248 pp.
15.	Feb 1975	Robert A. Caro	The Power Broker	1974	1162 pp.
16.	Jun 1975	Henry James	Portrait of a Lady	1881	545 pp.
17.	Dec 1976	John S. Shelton	Geology Illustrated	1966	424 pp.
18.	Jan 1977	Saul Bellow	Humboldt's Gift	1973	472 pp.
19.	May 1977	C.G. Jung	Modern Man in Search of a Soul	1933	244 pp.
20.	May 1977	Charles Chaplin	My Autobiography	1964	497 pp.
21.	Sep 1977	Stephen King	The Shining	1977	447 pp.
22.	Jul 1977	Bulfinch	Mythology	1855	236 pp.
23.	Apr 1978	Charles Darwin	The Origin of Species	1859	460 pp.
24.	Apr 1978	Robert M. Persig	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	1974	406 pp.
25.	May 1978	Erik Erikson	Childhood and Society	1950	424 pp.
26.	May 1978	Marcel Proust	Swann's Way	1928	325 pp.
27.	Jul 1978	Plato	The Last Days of Socrates Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, Phaedo	390 b.c.	199 pp.
28.	Aug 1978	Fydor Dostoevsky	The Idiot		642 pp.
29.	Sep 1978	Robertson Davies	Fifth Business	1970	268 pp.
30.	Dec 1978	Jack Kerouac	On the Road	1955	310 pp.
31.	Aug 1979	Jean Rhys	Good Morning, Midnight	1974	190 pp.
32.	Sep 1979	Richard Price	Ladies' Man	1978	264 pp.
33.	Sep 1979	Jean Rhys	Voyage in the Dark	1934	159 pp.
34.	Nov 1979	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	1896	164 pp.
35.	De 1979	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	1726	360 pp.
36.	Jan. 1980	Isaac Bashevis Singer	The Slave	1962	287 pp.
37.	Sep 1980	Jean Dorst	The Life of Birds, vol. 1	1971	341 pp.
38.	Sep 1980	Marcel Proust	Within a Budding Grove	1920	386 pp.
39.	Feb 1981	Edward Gibbon	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged)	1787	713 pp.
40.	Feb 1981	J. P. Donleavy	The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman	1977	402 pp.
41.	Mar 1981	James Joyce	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	1916	253 pp.
42.	Jun 1981	Gary Zukav	The Dancing Wu Li Masters	1979	332 pp.
43.	Jul 1981	David Halberstam	The Powers That Be	1979	1027 pp.
44.	Oct 1981	Saint Augustine	Confessions	398 a.d.	347 pp.
45.	Jan 1982	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	Don Quixote	1604	940 pp.
46.	Jan 1982	Virginia Woolf	A Room of One's Own	1929	118 pp.
47.	Feb 1982	Baldesar Castiglione	The Book of the Courtier	1518	345 pp.
48.	Mar 1982	D.M. Thomas	The White Hotel	1981	240 pp.
49.	Apr 1982	Leon Edel	Henry James - The Middle Years: 1882--1895	1962	389 pp.
50.	Jun 1982	Johan Huizinga	The Waning of the Middle Ages	1919	335 pp.
51.	Jun 1982	Honoré de Balzac	The Black Sheep	1842	339 pp.
52.	Oct 1982	Robert G. Weisbord	Ebony Kinship	1973	220 pp.
53.	Feb 1983	William James	The Varieties of Religious Experience	1902	500 pp.
54.	Mar 1983	Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	1927	124 pp.
55.	Jun 1983	Emil Ludwig	Napoleon	1926	682 pp.
56.	Aug 1983	Henry David Thoreau	Walden	1854	247 pp.
57.	Aug 1983	Peter Gay	The Enlightenment (The Rise of Modern Paganism)	1966	419 pp.
58.	Sep 1983	W. Somerset Maugham	The Razor's Edge	1944	314 pp.
59.	Sep 1983	Vladimir Nabokov	Lectures on Literature	1980	382 pp.
60.	Jan. 1984	James Joyce	Ulysses	1921	783 pp.
61.	Mar 1984	J.D. Salinger	Nine Stories	1953	198 pp.
62.	Ap. 1984	Thomas Mann	The Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man (The Early Years)	1955	378 pp.
63.	May 1984	L.N. Tolstoy	What is Art?	1896	191 pp.
64.	Oct 1984	Iris Murdoch	A Severed Head	1961	205 pp.
65.	Jan 1985	William M. Thackeray	Vanity Fair	1847	636 pp.
66.	Feb 1985	Thornton Wilder	The Ides of March	1948	204 pp.
67.	Mar 1985	Constantin Stanislavski	An Actor Prepares	1936	295 pp.
68.	May 1985	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	1852	590 pp.
69.	Jun 1985	Lucretius	On the Nature of the Universe	c. 54 bc.	256 pp.
70.	Jul 1985	Marcel Proust	The Guermantes Way	1925	425 pp.
71.	Aug 1985	Lao Tsu	Tao Te Ching	6 Cent. bc.	81 pp.
72.	Sep 1985	L.N. Tolstoy	Confession	1879	93 pp.
73.	Oct 1985	Richard Ellmann	James Joyce	1959	744 pp.
74.	Oct 1985	Herodotus	The Histories	446 bc.	624 pp.
75.	Nov 1985	Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth	1905	329 pp.
76.	Jan 1986	Virgil	The Aeneid	30-19bc.	336 pp.
77.	Ap. 1986	Julian Jaynes	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind	1976	446 pp.
78.	Sep 1986	William Kennedy	Ironweed	1983	227 pp.
79.	Nov 1986	Vladimir Nabokov	The Enchanter	1939	95 pp.
80.	Dec 1986	Harold C. Schonberg	The Lives of the Great Composers	1970	627 pp.
81.	Dec 1986	David A. Stockman	The Triumph of Politics	1986	411 pp.
82.	Jan 1987	Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan	1651	729 pp.
83.	May 1987	Carrie Fisher	Postcards from the Edge	1987	218 pp.
84.	Jun 1987	Marcel Proust	Cities of the Plain	1913	378 pp.
85.	Oct 1987	Rudyard Kipling	Just So Stories	1902	158 pp.
86.	Oct 1987	Peter Ladefoged	Elements of Acoustic Phonetics	1962	108 pp.
87.	Nov 1987	Mark Twain	Life on the Mississippi	1882	352 pp.
88.	Feb 1988	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Notes from the Underground	1864	158 pp.
89.	Apr 1988	George Eliot	Middlemarch	1872	908 pp.
90.	Jun 1988	Francis Parkman	The Oregon Trail	1849	286 pp.
91.	Jan 1989	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	1853	975 pp.
92.	Mar 1989	E.L. Doctorrow	Billy Bathgate	1989	323 pp.
93.	Jul 1989	Brenda Maddox	Nora - The Real Life of Molly Bloom	1988	381 pp.
94.	Aug 1989	Sanche de Gramont	Epitaph for Kings	1969	428 pp.
95.	Oct 1989	Sigmund Freud	Civilization and Its Discontents	1930	104 pp.
96.	Jul 1990	Mark Twain	Innocents Abroad	1867	492 pp.
97.	Jul 1990	Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar	1963	216 pp.
98.	Nov 1990	Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	1927	716 pp.
99.	Nov 1990	Fredric Dannen	Hit Men	1990	327 pp.
100.	Feb 1991	Will and Ariel Durant	The Story of Civilization VIII: The Age of Louis XIV	1963	74 pp.
101.	Mar 1991	Thomas L. Friedman	From Beirut to Jerusalem	1989	525 pp.
102.	Apr 1991	Marcus Aurelius	The Meditations	177 ad.	129 pp.
103.	May 1991	Marcel Proust	The Captive	1921	289 pp.
104.	Au. 1991	Oscar Hijuelos	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	1989	407 pp.
105.	Nov 1991	John Updike	Rabbit, Run	1960	249 pp.
106.	Nov 1991	William Styron	The Confessions of Nat Turner	1966	429 pp.
107.	Jan 1992	H.G. Wells	A Short History of the World	1922	357 pp.
108.	Feb 1992	Swami Prabhavananda	The Sermon on the Mount according to Vendanta	1963	126 pp.
109.	Apr 1992	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The House of Seven Gables	1851	245 pp.
110.	Dec 1992	Camille Paglia	Sex, Art and American Culture	1992	287 pp.
111.	Fe. 1993	Hermann Hesse	Demian	1919	179 pp.
112.	May 1994	Franz Kafka	The Trial	1920	256 pp.
113.	May 1994	Daneil Defoe	A Journal of the Plague Year	1725	256 pp.
114.	May 1994	Jean Rhys	After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie	1931	191 pp.
115.	Aug 1994	Henry Kissinger	Diplomacy	1994	835 pp.
116.	Dec 1994	Gustav Janouch	Conversations with Kafka	1923	201 pp.
117.	Jan 1995	Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh	1903	444 pp.
118.	Apr 1995	Stendahl	The Red and the Black	1830	574 pp.
119.	Mar 1996	Robert D. Kaplan	Balkan Ghosts	1993	300 pp.
120	Ma. 1996	Gustave Flaubert	Flaubert in Egypt	1850	222 pp.
121.	Jun 1997	Charles and Mary Lamb	Tales from Shakespeare	1807	313 pp.
122.	Oct 1997	Keith B. Richburg	Out of America	1997	254 pp.
123.	Dec 1997	David Denby	Great Books	1996	463 pp.
124.	May 1998	Patrick Süskind	Perfume	1985	263 pp.
125.	Au. 1998	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	1952	469 pp.
126.	Nov 1998	D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	1913	484 pp.
127.	Feb 1999	Arthur Golden	Memoirs of a Geisha	1997	428 pp.
128.	Apr 1999	Russell Banks	Cloudsplitter	1998	758 pp.
129.	Oct 1999	Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson	Raising Cain	1999	267 pp.
130.	May 2000	Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God	1937
131.	Aug 2000	Jacques Barzun	From Dawn to Decadence	2000
132.	Nov 2000	Jakob Walter	The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier	1830
133.	Mar 2002	Elizabeth Gaskell	Wives and Daughters	1866
134.	Dec 2002	Harold Nicolson	Good Behavior	1955	285 pp.
135.	Feb 2003	Charles Bukowski	Post Office	1971	196 pp.