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

ALA's response to the lunacy that is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

Currently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to either remove all books from libraries to be tested for lead content or just ban all children under the age of 12. Fortunately, ALA will not let this happen

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/woissues/governmentinfo/cpsia/index.cfm