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Archive for May, 2005

Homeland Security for the Sith

Monday, May 30th, 2005

By Risa Dickens
There is a scary blurring of boundaries on the Elite Torrents site these days. In response to heavy downloading of pirated “Revenge of the Sith” Homeland Security has stepped in to shut down this networked sharing.
I feel like sharing entertainment might actually be good for the homeland. You know, checking out an all […]

Sundays in the Summer

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

By Risa Dickens
Today we walked a long loop through frisbee games around the gazebo at the far end of the park to come sit behind the fenced in, tarp-covered monument and listen to the thundering drum circles. We sat just off the path on a slope above the roots of a line of crabapple […]

Libraries and the Information Society: The challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

By Alexandra Yarrow.
In Chapter 7 of her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, Christine Borgman writes that libraries often “risk being victims of their own success” (194). When libraries function optimally, they offer services that can easily go unnoticed by the general public. Processes such […]










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