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Haaretz – “An iPhone application that recently made its way into the Apple App Store has sparked some controversy – a digital version of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf translated to Spanish. The…

SF Chron – “San Francisco is bucking the national trend of diminished funding and services thanks to a budget set-aside, which received overwhelming approval by voters in 2007, and substantial…

Oakland Tribune – “City libraries soon will offer a new borrowing system that borrows from Netflix, the mail-based, no-late-fee movie rental service. For a monthly fee, library users will be able…

Toronto Star – “Writer, blogger and lifelong rabblerouser Cory Doctorow champions the sharing of intellectual property…[and]…will have mixed feelings when the news reaches him that employees of…

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Bloomberg – “Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. must limit the amount of time they keep Internet- search records after failing to justify keeping the information beyond six months,…

WSJ – “Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its…

Inside Higher Ed – “When does a library cease to be a library? What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an…

CSMp – “Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card.” Or so Peter Daining reminds us in his worthy post today on Tainted Green entitled “Libraries: The cheaper, greener alternative to book…

AP – “Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations. The…

State Library of Massachusetts Blog – “At a press conference on Thursday, October 29, the Governor’s Office announced that Governor Patrick is considering closing the State Library of…

Philadelphia Gay News – “Although trans woman Bobbie E. Burnett wants to leave her job at the Free Library of Philadelphia as soon as possible, she won’t leave yet. Burnett, describing her work…

The New York Observer – “The New York State Senate’s chief information officer team just launched an early version of their Open Legislation Portal today.”

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Whitney Gazette – “Oxford’s Bodleian Library has seen plenty of change in its 400-year history, but the electronic revolution must be its biggest challenge to date, with pundits forecasting that…