Archive for April, 2006
National Archives Says Records Were Wrongly Classified
WASHINGTON, April 26 — An audit by the National Archives of more
than 25,000 historical documents withdrawn from public access since
1999 found that more than a third did not contain sensitive information
justifying classification, archives officials announced Wednesday.
They said the removal of the
remaining two-thirds was technically justified, though many had already
been [...]
New Digital Books Offer Better Readability
By Chris BarylickSpecial to The Washington PostSunday, April 23, 2006; F07
Step
onto a Metro train any given morning and it’s easy to find people
feeding their appetites for information. Commuters regularly have their
faces buried in newspapers, magazines, novels — and sometimes even
Web-enabled cellphones — during the ride to and from work.
Soon,
they could [...]
From today's USA Today:
This is the story of a neighborhood that refused
to let violence kill a library; on the contrary, it has come to see the
library as a solution to the violence.
Despite predictions that the Internet would kill
the public library, library use has been increasing. According to the
American Library Association, the number of books and [...]
Money Magazine has released a survey of the 50 best jobs in America. As someone who is both a college professor and a lawyer, it was nice to see both jobs make the Top 50, but in terms of quality of life I would agree that being a college prof is the way to go. [...]
“You have no idea what they have here. I’m not the college-educated guy. I’m the street-educated guy. This has been my college.”
Mr.
Sabol, 49, is one of more than 63,000 entrepreneurs, investors and
small-business owners who have been trained at the business library to
search its thousands of print and electronic resources for real-life
business applications. The library is [...]
After doublechecking my calendar to make sure that it was no longer April 1st, I share the following announcement:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL – news), the maker of the Macintosh computer and iPod music device, on Wednesday rolled out a first-ever software patch to run Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system on its [...]
