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Online Consumer Privacy in the Spotlight
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by Paula J. Hane
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Choose Privacy Week is a national public awareness campaign that aims to educate the public on how to protect their privacy and understand their rights. This year, Choose Privacy Week is being held May 1-7, 2012. The timing for this public awareness campaign couldn't have been better. Within the past week, we've seen controversial cybersecurity legislation highlighted in the news and high-profile media coverage of Google's latest investigation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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LibLime Announces the Public Release of LibLime Koha 4.10
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LibLime, a division of PTFS, announced the public release of LibLime Koha 4.10, which has been in beta-production release among sponsoring libraries since February 2012. After completing a rigorous beta-testing phase, the application is now publicly available for all as a download at www.liblime.com/demos, as well as www.koha.org/liblime-koha.
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Unglue.it Officially Launches With Five Ebook Campaigns
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Unglue.it launched on May 17, 2012, with campaigns for books from five initial authors and publishers. Unglue.it is a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license. If supporters pledge an amount chosen by the books' rightsholders before a given deadline, those books will be released as "unglued" ebook editions. The site launched in alpha in January.
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Brill and Publishing Technology Celebrate Launch of Brill Online
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Publishing Technology, a provider of software and services to the publishing industry, and Dutch publisher and long-term partner Brill, announce the launch of the new aggregated scholarly portal, Brill Online Books and Journals. For the first time, all of Brill's content from 20 subject specialties across three imprints (BRILL, Global Oriental, and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) is integrated within a single resource. At launch, the site includes 175 journals and 2,400 ebooks, equating to more than 150,000 distinct articles and chapters.
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Contracting Government By Cutting Census Bureau Programs
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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On May 9, 2012, the U.S. House of Representative adopted the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013. In addition to cutting $20 million from this year's Economic Census, H.R. 5326 contained an amendment proposed by Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) that would eliminate funding—an estimated $2.5 billion over the next 10 years—for the American Community Survey (ACS). As one of the Tea Party officials who entered the House in 2010 on a platform to "streamline government and stop wasteful spending," Webster pointed to the intrusive nature of the census questions as his primary rationale for eliminating the program. In a statement released on May 10, the Census Bureau reported that eliminating the ACS would "mark the first time in the country's history that we would not collect and share vital economic and demographic measures of the country. These cuts would also keep us from conducting the 2012 economic census."
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