Uncontrolled Vocabulary #69 – Begun, the Star E-Wars have.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #69 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Chadwick Seagraves, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana

Topics:

1. Library Waives Fee for Sully’s Waterlogged Book (NBC Los Angeles)

2. Children’s Books Get One-Year Stay from Anti-Lead Law (AL Online)

3. Berkeley departments skirmish over 3M contract (San Francisco Chronicle)
Berkeley library given waiver to sign 3M deal (San Francisco Chronicle)

4. Dallas libraries let you pay to check out hot titles (Dallas Morning News)

5. Watched Any Good Books Lately? HarperCollins Tries ‘Video Books’ (Washington Post)

6. Libraries and copyfraud (Ragesoss 2.02)
Ball State Copyright Conference

7. Guinness World Records book in school libraries (Nebraska Library Commission)
Message posted to SYSTEMS mailing list

8. My Top Tech Trend: Social software deathwatch (See Also…)

9. Amazon To Drop Microsoft, Adobe e-Book Formats (Publishers Weekly)