October 9, 2008
We would like to remind you that the Library will be open this Saturday and Sunday, and that we are closed for Thanksgiving Day on Monday, October 13th. Have a safe and happy holiday from all of us at...
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3:45 PM
December 1, 2006
In the days following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iraq National Library and Archive was burned and looted. What was lost forever can scarcely be imagined, but only estimated. Yet it was not just the National Library...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
9:11 AM
November 16, 2006
That the Administration of George W. Bush has been hostile to science has become well-known, especially environmental and climate change science. For instance, the Bush Adminstration imposed draconian budget cuts on the Environmental Protection Agency, which resulted in the EPA...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
9:51 AM
November 7, 2006
The CBC News Service issued a reminder last week that the U.S. Patriot Act allows government officials there to examine data-stores as part of routine surveillance. “Conceivably, the searches of a student or faculty member doing work on a sensitive...
Posted by Dobson-J at
10:47 AM
November 9, 2005
After months of waiting, Winnipeg's new Millennium Library was finally unveiled to the public in downtown Winnipeg Tuesday morning. The former Centennial Library closed almost two years ago to make way for $20.7 million in renovations. It reopened Tuesday...
Posted by Dobson-J at
9:38 AM
September 9, 2005
The calamity in the Gulf states has taken thousands of lives and caused incalculable damage to property and infrastructure. But, as it is now becoming apparent, it has also taken an emormous toll on the written memory of the region....
Posted by Michael Dudley at
8:41 AM
September 6, 2005
Much in the same vein as Morgan Spurlock's television program, "30 Days" (which has featured episodes in which people are matched with members of some group towards whom they hold deep-seated prejudices), the Swedish "Living Library Project" will allow people...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
2:08 PM
August 26, 2005
Scarcely six weeks after the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the United States government rushed into law the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, or USA PATRIOT Act, which...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
9:00 AM
July 22, 2005
It has been an interesting week for North America's libraries. In the United States, the Congress has voted to make the USA PATRIOT Act permanent, giving the federal government greatly enhanced powers over surveillance. One of the most controversial provisions...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
4:23 PM
July 11, 2005
The looting of Baghdad may have long since fallen off the front pages, but, as Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt on the alternative press website TomDispatch put it, the loss of its museums and libraries constitutes a "crime against history."...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
1:59 PM
June 6, 2005
In the past week, several articles have appeared on the Internet and in the alternative media that have highlighted some of the political and financial pressures facing libraries in the United States. Just days ago we posted a story about...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
3:45 PM