Could this lead to perpetual employment opportunities for freelance librarians? From today's Wall Street Journal: "Publishers say fact-checking is too costly" http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113858811205659673.html?mod=todays_free_feature . (If I can locate a less-time sensitive url that refers to this, I will edit it in.-th)

Update on Library FBI story in Massachusetts: FBI won't seize library records http://www.townonline.com/newton/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=416848&format=text .

Librarian vs. FBI success story: City demands warrant in FBI investigation http://www2.townonline.com/newton/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=414573&format=text . (the site takes forever to appear, but worth the wait)
Thanks to a member of the Solo List for posting this link.

"The Bad Guys Win" - what a DRM-heavy world may be like: http://tarmle.livejournal.com/80182.html . Yep, libraries are mentioned, and it isn't pretty. (Seen mentioned on BoingBoing http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/24/universal_drm_dystop.html )

OCLC's new newsletter: NextSpace http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/default.htm . This edition discusses 'rebranding'.

CNN article: Students prefer online courses
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/13/oncampus.online.ap/index.html
(thanks to Dorothy Knee for pointing this article my way)

The New York Academy of Medicine / National Library of Medicine Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness provides access to more than 1500 electronic publications related to public health preparedness.

The Current Awareness Update listing newly added resources to the database for the period of November and December is now available at: http://www.phpreparedness.info/update.php

For full database records, including annotations or to search this content by subject area, please visit: http://www.phpreparedness.info

Check out the Data Points section of iHealthBeat http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?action=dspclass&classcd=CL311 . Three press releases might be of big interest to you and/or your administration: Survey Looks At Barriers to PHR Adoption, by HIMSS; Doc's Attitudes About Technology Related to Internet Use, by Forrester; Survey: Small, Medium Employers More Likely to Offer Benefits Portals, by Forrester. There is also a link to the Data Points archive.

The Pew Internet Project has recently released a new report on how men
and women use the Internet. You can find the full report at:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/171/report_display.asp

Article in New England Journal of Medicine: Searching for the Right Search - Reaching the Medical Literature, NEJM, 5 Jan 2006 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/1/4
Check comparison of PubMed via Google and via PubMed.gov .

HIT Dashboard ( http://www.hitdashboard.com/ ) is a portal that tracks the interoperability health IT projects in the United States. The public side of the portal just shows where the projects are on a map. There is another level available to members of Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and a third level available to subscribers. With the growth of these projects (the portal will update data each quarter), libraries should recommend the site to administration so they can have access to all available data on each project. Question: would the data show any activity towards interoperability between electronic health records and library resources? [This information was found in Health-IT World, December 20, 2005 ( http://tmlr.net/jump/?c=17194&a=296&m=3491&p=1705874&t=164 ).]