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KPHO – “Camelback High School librarian Georgette Bordine says the two Audubon Society books checked out in 1959 and the money order were sent by someone who wanted to remain anonymous.”

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Google – “The changes we’ve made in our amended agreement address many of the concerns we’ve heard (particularly in limiting its international scope), while at the same time preserving the core…

AP – “Google Inc.’s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland’s strict tradition of personal privacy. The country’s privacy watchdog…

301Works – “The Internet Archive and founding companies announce today the launch of 301Works.org, a service to archive shortened Universal Resource Locators (URLs). This will enable redirect…

AP – “The future of Google’s plans to sell millions of books online could begin to take shape Friday. Google Inc. and book publishers are expected to show a federal judge in New York a new…

EFF – “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together today to launch Copyright Watch — a…

and the NFB is pleased

MyFoxBoston – “The former director of the Beverly Public Library who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography continues to fight for his public pension. Thomas Scully has appealed a district…

AP – “Some Purdue University students are calling for a faculty member’s firing after he wrote what he called “an economic case against homosexuality” on a personal blog. Purdue senior Kevin…

ACLU – “The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report recommending steps Congress should take to create the vigorous privacy oversight institutions that are desperately needed in…

AP – “Genealogy Web site Ancestry.com is opening up its entire U.S. military collection in honor of Veterans Day. The Provo-based company says anyone can search the collection for free through…

OCLC – “This brief call-to-action document includes a list of ten action items for libraries in today’s rapidly changing scholarly research landscape.”

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Wired – “Lawyers for Wolfgang Werle, of Erding, Germany, sent a cease-and-desist letter…demanding removal of Werle’s name from the Wikipedia entry on actor Walter Sedlmayr. The lawyers cite German…

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