RE: [DDN] new article - designing a G3/G4 computer lab for $2,000

Here's the permalink to Phil's article: http://www.macusingeducators.com/2005/02/designing-g3g4-computer-lab-for- 2000.html so you can still find it after it scrolls off the page. Post it on your websites! This is really neat. However, I have two questions related to the sustainability

RE: [DDN] Copyrights

Your best option is to do as some have suggested, use some music that is under a permissive license (like creative commons) or contact the copyright holders and ask permission to use it (contact the record label). Ross IANAL (as we librarians say) but I agree with that statement. I've done

RE: [DDN] The Sun Sets on the Prepcom

boundless energy and hope within civil society. There is still a hell of a lot of work to be done, Andy, that's the real point. You will continue to need to go to huge conferences where most of the energy seems to be directed toward planning more huge conferences. That's part of your job. But

RE: [DDN] oh metadata song

I am laughing so hard I have tears running down my face... will blog by end of work day. Librarians will groove on this. I have my own longstanding contribution to the Metadata Songbook, but it's unrecorded (Metadata, metadata, tiny little thing... metadata dance, metadata sing...). I need to

[DDN] FW: [DIG_REF] The New Digital Divide

Forwarded with Matthew's permission. Several librarians questioned the data in the message, The New Digital Divide. Karen G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dig_Ref [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew R. Marsteller Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:38 AM To:

RE: [DDN] Internet access at libraries better than ever - but oftenrationed (fwd)

I have seen the lines at the urban public libraries, where people might wait one or two hours to get half an hour on a computer. Anyone who thinks there is no digital divide has not been to these libraries. I don't know what it would be like to depend on library access, but there's a definite

RE: [DDN] Nonprofit Blogging: The Shape of Things to Come

A quick search for masschusetts library blog (without quotation marks) had some interesting results. See: http://tyngsboroughpubliclibrary.blogspot.com/ Are you including library in your definition of nonprofit? If so, you should be able to talk to a couple or three who can enrich your

[DDN] FW: [MEMBER-FORUM:725] Hurricane Katrina Report: Affected Libraries

Of interest to DDN. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Wood Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MEMBER-FORUM:725] Hurricane Katrina Report: Affected Libraries Hurricane Katrina Report: Affected

[DDN] FW: New Orleans Public Library blogspot for postings

Please help the librarians of NOPL reconnect. Their webserver and mailserver are not working. Share widely. Karen -Original Message- NOPL Contact List: post-Katrina http://nopl.blogspot.com Tony Barnes reports, Kim Tran staffer moved my old files there and is continuing [to update

RE: [DDN] Cedar Pruitt's departure from DDN

Hi Joe, edc's overhead is closer to 35 percent. But that isn't the major factor - it's more that there's been a downturn in funding digital divide projects and online communities Andy Carvin Here's my take. I manage a service that like many good projects began as a volunteer project