After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares ...

Here’s one from the Israeli website Haaretz.com about OCLC President Jay Jordan’s promise to save libraries from extinction. The next stage in the OCLC plan is to establish an efficient mechanism for ...

The publisher of Hillary Clinton’s memoir wanted people guessing about her revelations before publication, but those plans were spoiled on Wednesday as some of the book’s most colorful details were ...

This CBC Story that says the chair of the Ottawa Public Library Board proposes that Internet filters be placed on all library computers for six months while they develop a card swiper system that ...

It’s possible I’ve pointed to John Kupersmith’s Library Terms That Users Understand before, but if you missed it the first time, be sure to have a look. This site is intended to help library web ...

NY Times covers a new challenge that awaits literary biographers and cultural historians: e-mail. The problem isn’t that writers and their editors are corresponding less, it’s that they’re ...

Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, wound up a two-day visit to this dusty Siberian metropolis today, enlivening a historic state visit to Russia with an eclectic and energetic sampling of musical ...

This week’s program provides a bit of a news recap. Links to the issues mentioned and more can be found at the Erie Looking Productions blog.

One from Times of India: Inaugurating the two-day seminar organized by the Department of Library and Information Centre, St Agnes College, on Empowering Library Professionals in Managing Digital ...

The Boston Globe ran This Story that looks at the filtering issue and CIPA. The directors of the 35 public libraries in the Minuteman Library Network, which ranges from Watertown to Stow, voted on ...

The Chicago Trib has a story on how library director Colleen McCarroll of Shimer College, “the great books collection of the Midwest”, weeded its collection of 30,000 books down to 10,000 when the ...