World Digital Library to be launched on 4/21

LC, UNSECO, and other major institutions are attempting to provide a digital library with unique cultural materials from around the world.

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-070.html

Twitter and Google Searches can be Combined

Allows searchers to use both search interfaces
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-twitter-search/9653/

In the Kindle, all e-books could be audiobooks

It is the choice of the publisher whether or not to allow their text to talk technology

http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2009/march2009/kindleaudioflak.cfm

Unfortunately for some, copyright law may have been misunderstood in downloading

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#1432068424405706661

Scriblio 2.7 Released

Version 2.7 of the Open Source Social Library System has recently been released with better automation and automatic merging of records

http://about.scriblio.net/scribbles/category/news/

Open Letter about Open Source to Obama

An attempt to make the US govt use Open Source

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/software-vendors-encourage-obama-to-adopt-open-source.ars

Old Travel Videos on Internet Archive

A man who traveled the world all throughout the 20th century has some of his videos on an internet archive. You can preview it here.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Watson%20Kintner%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies