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Alexander Street Press is offering open access in March to its database, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. The idea, according to the press release, is to give librarians, students, faculty, and others the chance to explore the database’s content without passwords or fees. I used to think of Alexander Street as a [...]

With the rising availability of ebooks, and potentially etextbooks, how do we as libraries help our patrons to access these books?  The rising costs of textbooks makes education less accessible than before to students.  Yet, having textbooks on reserve causes problems – staffing, processing, replacing, checking for damage or missing pages.  eTextbooks would be a [...]

In community libraries, whether community colleges or public libraries, what is the purpose of the computers?  Should they exist solely to enable patrons to use databases and ebooks?  Should usage be for whatever the community member wants?  How do we control this?  At a community college, students are assigned to not only view databases, but [...]

Web sites are continually changing,  and I recently noticed that since it was the Web Site of the Week in November 2009, flightarrivals.com has some new features.  For a specific flight you now can track the flight as well as find if the flight is in the air, its speed, altitude, time in the air and the weather in [...]

Racial strife and genocide seem to be neverending. Despite the horrors of the Armenian slaughter and the Holocaust are two events that should have made the world stop and think, but history keeps repeating itself in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and in numerous hate crimes in local communities. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum works [...]