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Map of who owns the Arctic Do you know who owns the Arctic? As it turns out, it's a pretty messy subject: In August 2007 Russian scientists sent a submarine to the Arctic Ocean seabed at 90° North to gather data in support of Russia's claim that the North Pole is part of the Russian continental shelf. The expedition provoked a hostile reaction from other Arctic littoral states and prompted media speculation that Russia's action might trigger a "new Cold War" over the resources of the Arctic. America's Most Dangerous Librarians Photo: Antonin Kratochvil/VII | Cartoon by Steve Brodner They looked like they had walked off a film set, the two men standing at the door of the Library Connection in Windsor, Connecticut, as they flashed fbi badges and asked to speak to the boss. Director George Christian courteously shepherded them into the office. By the hum of the Xerox machine, one agent explained to Christian that the bureau was demanding "any and all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person or entity" that had used computers between 4 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. on February 15, 2005, in any of the 27 libraries whose computer systems were managed by the Library Connection, a nonprofit co-op of library databases.

Why RDA? Let’s first encounter head-on the questions from those who ask: “Why we don’t just amend AACR2 again, like we used to?” To address such questions, we need to: Examine the current cataloging environment -- and how it continues to evolvePerceive how Resource Description and Access (RDA) is an improvement over AACR2 as a tool for that environment The Cataloging Environment Catalogs are no longer isolated within the walls of an institution.

Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Citation: Logan DW, Sandal M, Gardner PP, Manske M, Bateman A (2010) Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol 6(9): e1000941. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 Published: September 30, 2010 Copyright: © 2010 Logan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this article.

Library Sleevefacing We’ve Moved! Our Library Sleevefacing portal is now over on tumblr, so head over to check it out. Claudine Yes, Virginia (Recently, The Charlotte Observer ran an article entitled, “Are School Librarians Going Way of the Milkman?” The article reported that Principal Lauren Fowler at Nathaniel Alexander Elementary had replaced her professional school librarian position with a teaching assistant stating, “I think we get more. Our children are not losing any value or knowledge of reading by running the media center the way we do.”

Tom Morris - Hari-gate: behind the scenes at Wikipedia I was asked by David Allen Green, the writer behind the Jack of Kent blog, to write about the situation with Johann Hari who recently apologised for various acts of journalistic malpractice including substituting interview copy with background material, and editing articles on Wikipedia using at least one pseudonymous account ( User:David r from meth productions - hereafter ‘David r’). I was going to write various things about it when the story originally broke. I originally had some doubts about some of the evidence that was presented linking accounts on two different wikis with an IP address, but further evidence turned up to show that there indeed was a link.

They Said It Couldn’t Be Done! For the first time ever in my life, I was ahead of a cultural trend. You know how some people are early adopters? Those who are super early to things are called beta testers.