Businesses don't always make the best custodians for culture and history, part #947: "The fate of "Paper of Record," a digital archive of early newspapers with a particularly strong collection of Mexican newspapers, may be cited in the years ahead as an example of the dangers of purchase by a large entity. Paper of Record [...]
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Sad News: "Judith Fingeret Krug, longtime director of American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and executive director of the Freedom To Read Foundation (FTRF), died April 11 after a year-long fight with stomach cancer." Visit Longtime ALA Intellectual Freedom Leader Judith Krug Dies – Library Journal
"According to a report by Credit Suisse, YouTube is on track to lose roughly $470 million in 2009….YouTube will manage to rake in about $240 million in ad revenue in 2009, against operating costs of roughly $711 million." Visit The Costs of YouTube (YouTube is Doomed)
Blizzard Entertainment has decided that Archivists are suitable for use in games as heroic characters. What's not to like about that? Kinda like Librarian Avengers. "I have the utmost respect for the archivists, these warriors of myth and legend. We know their names: Alimet Two Quills, master of illumination with both left and right hand; [...]