The August 2006 American Libraries has an interesting story about censorship thwarted. Apparently the Nampa Public Library in Idaho was willing to let a donor with $10,000 walk away rather than bend to his desire to have several books, legitimate sources of information about sex, be removed from the stacks. Yay, Nampa PL! The would-be [...]
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Identified Needles
There is an interesting story on C|Net News on libraries using RFIDs. A few quotes: “RFID makes the painstaking task of sniffing out misplaced books much easier, according to proponents. Library staff need only peruse the facilities with a handheld RFID reader, which triggers each book within a few feet to identify itself via a [...]
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