House Bill 2222: More Info

HB 2222:

An Act relating to public libraries; stating legislative intent; requiring public libraries to have an Internet safety policy; requiring policies to have technology protection measures that protect against access to certain visual depictions; providing for certain enforcement of policy; allowing libraries to limit access to other material; authorizing libraries to disable technology protection measures for certain types of research and use; providing definitions; providing for noncodification; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.



District 45 Rep. Thad Balkman is the author. His website is http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/Members/hd45.htm

The text of the bill is located at http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/HB2222_int.rtf

Do you know who your state Rep is to find out how they feel about this bill? If not go to http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/findrep.htm to find out their name and then give them a call!

CNN.com - Ashcroft warns of Bush veto on scaled-back Patriot bill - Jan. 29, 2004

CNN.com - Ashcroft warns of Bush veto on scaled-back Patriot bill - Jan. 29, 2004: "The legislation also would reinstate standards in place prior to passage of the Patriot Act regarding library records by forcing the FBI to show it has reason to believe the person involved is a suspected terrorist or spy. In addition, the bill would impose expiration dates on nationwide search warrants and other Patriot Act provisions, providing for congressional review."

Super Bowl XXXVIII Background, History, News, Tickets, etc: by the George the Football Librarian

Yes--your eyes are not playing tricks on you...I have found reference to a Football Librarian. :-) So, what kind of classes do you have to take in Library School to qualify as a Gridiron Librarian?

Super Bowl XXXVIII Background, History, News, Tickets, Betting: "A summary of information on the web, with additional information from George, our American Football Librarian"

SSRC :: Culture, Creativity and Information Technology Program :: Digital Cultural Institutions Project – Summer 2004 Awards Competition

SSRC :: Culture, Creativity and Information Technology Program :: Digital Cultural Institutions Project – Summer 2004 Awards Competition: "The project will seek to integrate lines of research on a range of providers and mediators of digital cultural goods and services -- from digital libraries and online museums to commercial online vendors of music and books, search engines and portals, open and collaborative knowledge archives, and file-sharing networks, among others. This mandate includes consideration of the technical, architectural, and cross-institutional issues that shape aggregation and access, such as metadata standards and digital rights management." Deadline is March 5

Trend Micro - Free online virus Scan

Worried about the latest Virus? Try this free online virus scan to see if you are infected!

Trend Micro - Free online virus Scan: "Scan Your PC: Ease your mind and scan your PC for viruses.
Scan Now. It's Free! "

The Chronicle: Colloquy Live Transcript: The Promise of 'Open Access' Publishing

The Chronicle: Colloquy Live Transcript: The Promise of 'Open Access' Publishing: "The Promise of 'Open Access' Publishing
Thursday, January 29, at 1 p.m., U.S. Eastern time

Will the movement to make journal subscriptions free revolutionize scientific publishing? And will it save universities money? "

GNU EPrints 2 - GNU EPrints Archive Software

GNU EPrints 2 - GNU EPrints Archive Software: "GNU EPrints is free software which creates online archives. The default configuration is a repository of the research output of an academic institution. An EPrint archive can be adapted for many more purposes. It has been developed at the University of Southampton in relation to a variety of projects."

McAlester News Capital & Democrat

McAlester News Capital & Democrat: "When $210,000 to upgrade Internet access at Oklahoma's public libraries became available a few days ago, the Southeast Oklahoma Library System - which includes the McAlester Public Library - didn't get any money because they didn't need it.

'That's because we're already there,' Wayne Hanway said of area libraries and their T-1 connections to the Internet. "...

Mapping the current and potential relationships between Initial Teacher Training providers and Museums, Archives and Libraries

Mapping the current and potential relationships between Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers and Museums, Archives and Libraries (MLA): "Museums, archives and libraries are an important potential resource for trainee teachers, enabling them to more readily and effectively meet the recently revised Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status. This project mapped current activity in this area and explored the scope for future collaboration and partnerships between ITT providers and museums, archives and libraries."

Even though this resource is from the UK it has some wonderful concepts that could be of great use here in Oklahoma. Take a look at it and see what you think.

Recommendations in the report include:

1) A joint advocacy task group - including representatives from museums, archives and libraries who are actively involved in this work, ITT providers, Partner Schools...to prepare advocacy information for use when exploring possibilities for actively supporting ITT work through MLAs (9.1).
2) Workshops to encourage sharing of expertise and network building - adaptation of the project workshop model as a basis for offering a series of Regional workshops to encourage sharing of expertise around ITT work with MLAs and to encourage partnership building (9.2).
3) Regional partnership building – encouraging the Regional MLA bodies to take up this issue, using the guidance offered by the second project workshop as a starting point (9.3).
4) Information skills training – encouraging the Regional MLA bodies to monitor the likely requirement for information skills training, with a view to ensuring that appropriate training be commissioned to help equip trainee teachers and teacher trainers with the skills they need to engage with materials and resources effectively, and to ensure that any such training is based on the available research knowledge about information skills development in schools, as well as on the Inspiring Learning Framework.

The Internet Scout Project

Do you know about Scout?

The Internet Scout - About Us: "Since 1994, the Scout Project has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata.
Located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus, and part of the University's College of Letters and Sciences, Scout has access to highly educated content specialists and a world-class array of computer science and library resources. Our eclectic staff blends academics and professionals from Library Science and Computer Science, along with graduate and undergraduate students studying the sciences, social sciences and humanities."

Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act

Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act: "A federal judge has ruled that a section of the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time any part of the sweeping 2001 anti-terrorism measure championed by the White House has been struck down."

Tech firms fail to squelch database bill | CNET News.com

Tech firms fail to squelch database bill | CNET News.com: "A congressional panel on Wednesday approved a proposal to curb database copying, ignoring the objections of technology companies that launched a last-minute lobbying campaign to kill the proposal."

DodgeGlobe.com:McNally: Politicians find danger to children ... in libraries 01/22/04

This isn't from Oklahoma--but it could happen here....


DodgeGlobe.com:McNally: Politicians find danger to children ... in libraries 01/22/04: "In the continuing effort to alert the nation to every possible threat to the safety of our children, politicians in Wisconsin have discovered a grave danger to childhood innocence: Young people are being lured into libraries.
No one really knows the full extent of the problem of reading among young people here. But the state Legislature isn't about to permit young people to ruin their minds -- and their eyes -- by reading anything they want from the shelves of their local library."

MSN Careers - Avoid these resume blunders - Career Advice Article

MSN Careers - Avoid these resume blunders - Career Advice Article: "A resume in and of itself may not get you that killer job, but if you blunder in composing it, you might kill any chance for an interview. Here are some blunders, big and not so big, to avoid when putting your resume together. "

Oklahoma HOUSE BILL HB2222:

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 49th Legislature (2004)

HOUSE BILL HB2222: Balkman

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to public libraries; stating legislative intent; requiring public libraries to have an Internet safety policy; requiring policies to have technology protection measures that protect against access to certain visual depictions; providing for certain enforcement of policy; allowing libraries to limit access to other material; authorizing libraries to disable technology protection measures for certain types of research and use; providing definitions; providing for noncodification; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
It is the intent of the Legislature to continue addressing the previously recognized problem of access to obscene material on computers owned or operated by public entities that continues to be a threat to Oklahoma families. In 1996 the Legislature first recognized this problem and directed, through passage of House Concurrent Resolution No. 1097, that state agencies and institutions within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education adopt policies prohibiting the acquisition, storage, or distribution of obscene material, to take immediate action to have removed from their computers and computer systems all obscene material, and to take all reasonable action to block access to obscene material via computers and computer systems. Not only is it a continuing problem that threatens Oklahoma families, it also poses a potential financial threat to public entities that may face lawsuits filed by persons exposed to obscene material but also may face lawsuits filed by employees that claim a hostile workplace because of being subjected to such material at work. Therefore, the Legislature declares that this act is necessary to ensure that public equipment or funds are not used to access, acquire, store, or distribute such material and public entities are protected from potential lawsuits.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-106 of Title 65, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Beginning January 1, 2005, any library which is in whole or in part supported by public funds including but not limited to public, academic, school, or special libraries shall have in place a policy of Internet safety that includes the operation of a technology protection measure with respect to any computer with Internet access that:
1. Protects against access by adults through such computer to visual depictions that are:
a. obscene, or
b. child pornography; and
2. Protects against access by minors through such computer to visual depictions that are:
a. obscene,
b. child pornography, or
c. harmful to minors.
B. Each library shall enforce the operation of technology protection measures as required in this section during any use of computers with Internet access.
C. The requirements of this section shall not prohibit a library from limiting Internet access to or otherwise protecting against materials in addition to those referred to in subsection A of this section.
D. A library may disable a technology protection measure to enable access only for a purpose and in a manner that is in accordance with the federal Children’s Internet Protection Act, P.L. 106-554 and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
E. As used in this section:
1. “Technology protection measure” means a specific technology that blocks or filters Internet access;
2. “Child pornography” has the meaning given the term in subsection A of Section 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
3. “ Harmful to minors” means any picture, image, graphic image file, or other visual depiction that:
a. taken as a whole and with respect to minors, appeals to a prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion,
b. depicts, describes, or represents, in a patently offensive way with respect to what is suitable for minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual acts, or a lewd exhibition of the genitals, and
c. taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value as to minors; and
4. “Obscene” has the same meaning given the term “obscene material” in paragraph 1 of subsection B of Section 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective October 1, 2004.

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OCLC INTRODUCES NEW CATALOGING PARTNERS PROGRAM

End your frustrating search for high-quality language or non-book bibliographic records. OCLC has partnered with vendors in a new venture to make cataloging more efficient. OCLC is working closely with distributors, importers, booksellers, and publishers to provide bibliographic information faster and full MARC cataloging at an overall lower rate. Participating vendors are designated as OCLC Cataloging Partners. Twelve vendors are currently in the growing program, including Books on Tape, Ediciones Universal, Libros sin Fronteras, and Midwest Tape.

OCLC and each partner guarantee a full record for each item on their active title list. OCLC staff edits each record to match your local cataloging practice. Libraries benefit by getting materials into circulation sooner, saving time and money. For more information about this new program, visit http://www.oclc.org/catalogingpartners/default.htm or contact Kay Vincent at Amigos, vincent@amigos.org or 1-800 843-8482 (972-651-8000 in the Dallas area), ext.2888.

Former Cherokee Advocate (Oklahoma) Editor named to head Gates Foundation...

Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy: "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today
announced that Greg Shaw has been named Director of Foundation-wide, Library,
and Pacific Northwest Advocacy and Director of the Pacific Northwest Program."

technician online | Libraries cancel Elsevier contract

technician online | Libraries cancel Elsevier contract: "The TRLN, which includes Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and NCSU, opted not to renew their contract with Elsevier after months of contract negotiations. A memo from Peter Lange, James Oblinger and Robert Shelton - provosts of Duke, NCSU and UNC-CH respectively - said that Elsevier did not offer TRLN a pricing model responsive to the needs of the member universities."

Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced grants to 18 states to help public libraries continue to provide no-cost access to computers and the Internet for the public. The Staying Connected challenge grants, totaling $5.8 million, are going to state library agencies in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia."

A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. Martha Brogan

A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. Martha Brogan

This 100-page report, commissioned by the DLF, provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters, and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH). Each service is annotated with its organizational affiliation, subject coverage, function, audience, status, and size. Critical issues surrounding each of these elements are presented in order to provide the reader with an appreciation of the nuances inherent in seemingly straightforward factual information, such as "audience" or "size."

MSN Careers - Seven Secrets to a Great Cover Letter - Career Advice Article

MSN Careers - Seven Secrets to a Great Cover Letter - Career Advice Article: "Aside from a resume, your cover letter is the most important job searching tool you must develop. A cover letter introduces you to potential employers and gives you the opportunity to draw the reader's attention to particular skills and experiences. Done right, a cover letter can move your resume to the top of the pile. If you are not sure how to make your cover letter stand out, here are seven secrets that will get you started in the right direction."

Open Access and Public Domain (December 2003)

Open Access and Public Domain (December 2003): "Though the term 'open access' has become ubiquitous, I find that it is occasionally confused with public domain, i.e., that material easily accessible on the net is also freely available for reuse of any kind. The fact that open access goes hand-in-hand with 'weightless' digital content, in which the direct incremental cost of 'one more copy' is essentially zero, makes the distinction somewhat slippery."

News-Star OnlinePioneer libraries implement Internet filtering 01/14/04

News-Star OnlinePioneer libraries implement Internet filtering 01/14/04: "To comply with state and federal laws while continuing to provide access to constitutionally protected information available on the Internet, the Pioneer Library System will implement a filtering system on its public computers beginning in January."

Bush OKs spam bill--but critics not convinced | CNET News.com

Bush OKs spam bill--but critics not convinced | CNET News.com: "President Bush signed the 'Can-Spam' bill Tuesday, creating the first federal law regulating spam, a move backers say will be a major step in the war against e-mail solicitations for pornography, Viagra, diet pills, get-rich-quick schemes and the like."

OCLC news

From the AMIGOS email update

OCLC ANNOUNCES NEW RESOURCE SHARING EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENT LIST: OCLC-SHARING-L

Keep abreast of what's happening with OCLC's resource sharing system by subscribing to OCLC-Sharing-L. OCLC is launching this new Internet announcement list to share news of upcoming enhancements to OCLC resource sharing related to interlibrary loan services.

To receive news and announcements automatically, subscribe at the OCLC Internet List Subscription Request page, https://www3.oclc.org/app/listserv/, to manage your subscriptions to all OCLC discussion and distribution lists. To add this new resource sharing list, select "OCLC-SHARING-L."


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ALA | FBI Almanac Alert Prompts Unintended Reactions

Just in case you didn't hear about this...
ALA | FBI Almanac Alert Prompts Unintended Reactions: "In the December 24 edition of its weekly online Intelligence Bulletin containing information on terrorism that goes to 18,000 police organizations nationwide, the FBI warned law-enforcement officers to be on the lookout for suspicious persons carrying almanacs, which could be used..." yep, you guessed it terrorist activities.

Blogging and RSS � The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators

Blogging and RSS � The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators: "The internet has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, and use information. But the promise of the Web as more than just a readable, searchable resource has been slow to be realized ... until now. Two new Internet technologies, Weblogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication), are redefining the way students and teachers use the Internet, turning them from mere readers into writers to the Web as well, and making it easier to filter and track the ever-growing number of resources coming online each day. In fast-growing numbers, educators across the country and throughout the world are finding just how powerful this new interactive Internet can be. "

Library Technology Guides: Library Technology Guides: Key Resources in Library Automation

Library Technology Guides: Library Technology Guides: Key Resources in Library Automation: "The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company. Whether you are in the process of selecting a library automation system, or just want to keep up with developments in the field, Library Technology Guide is the place to start."

Center for the Book Announces Target Stores as its First National Retail Sponsor

Center for the Book Announces Target Stores as its First National Retail Sponsor: "The Library of Congress' Center for the Book is pleased to announce that Target Stores has become the first national retail sponsor of 'Letters About Literature,' a popular reading and writing program for children and young adults. 'This is a wonderful development that gives 'Letters About Literature' new national visibility and participation, a new graphic identity and stronger ties to the educational community,' said John Y. Cole, Director of the Center for the Book."

EPICon 2004 Home

EPICon 2004 Home: "The 2004 EPIC conference will be held March 12th through the 14th at the Westin Hotel, Bricktown, Oklahoma City. Sponsored by EPIC, the Electronically Published Internet Connection, this international writers conference has a strong focus on electronic publishing. It is also where the winners of the 2004 EPPIE awards and Quasar awards will be announced. "

NewspaperDirect Launches Digital Newspaper Service For Libraries; New Service to Provide Libraries with Same-Day Print-on-Demand and Online Editions of the

NewspaperDirect Launches Digital Newspaper Service For Libraries; New Service to Provide Libraries with Same-Day Print-on-Demand and Online Editions of the World's Newspapers: "NewspaperDirect (www.newspaperdirect.com), a technology company specializing in the digital delivery of same-day editions of newspapers from around the world, will be launching a digital newspaper service for libraries at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting. This service enables libraries to provide their patrons with same-day editions of out-of-state and international newspapers."

TechTV | Dark Tip: AirSnare

TechTV | Dark Tip: AirSnare: "Boot leeches off your wireless network with this free download." Reviewed on the techtv show The Screensavers--this software, called AirSnare, works by monitoring MAC addresses, which are unique addresses assigned to each device on your network.

Then once you've made your wireless network free of free-loaders register your library at Wireless Librarian. Pioneer Library System has already registered why haven't you?

About Google Print (BETA)

What does this new google feature hold for libraries?

About Google Print (BETA): "On Google Print pages, we provide links to some popular book sellers that may offer the full versions of these publications for sale."

Elsevier to Close Three End-User Portals

Elsevier to Close Three End-User Portals: "An in-house employees’ newsletter, Elsevier Today, dated Dec. 3, revealed that a company review of portal operations had decided that “the contribution of this form of marketing to S&T's [science and technology] current business is not sufficient to continue the associated high investments.” Therefore, Elsevier plans to discontinue operation of its three end-user portals—BioMedNet (http://www.bmn.com), ChemWeb (http://www.chemweb.com), and ElsevierEngineering.com. "