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Librarians to the Rescue

Posted by michael on from the meme-wars dept.

Duke Machesne writes "Citing concerns over materials being distributed to American students by the BSA, MPAA, and RIAA's evil minions, the American Library Association will begin distributing its own, more balanced material this winter. The material will deal with insignificant and oft-overlooked details like fair use. More information on Wired News."

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  1. Re:Go librarians! by michaeltoe · · Score: 5, Informative
    We barely used our libraries at school, we usually got our information off the web.

    This wasn't because the information in the libraries was bad (actually, it had a lot of good stuff), but as high school students we were generally lazy.

    Better than college though, where publishers will force people to buy whole new editions of math books just because they changed the order of the problems at the end of each chapter.

  2. We need your help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Librarians are getting overruled these days, not just by national directives such as the USA PATRIOT Act, but by activist governors.

    Last month the South Dakota governor removed a section of the state library Web site because it gave health advice to teens.
    http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife /2004 4-07-13-sd-censor_x.htm

    This month the Kansas governor had rap CDs removed from all libraryies.
    http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/06/li brary y.cdsettlement.ap/index.html

    A Librarian