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Happy Choose Privacy Week!

An important question to think about:  Who's Reading the Reader? "Libraries, vendors, and publishers must work together to tackle the issues of online privacy and develop practices that respect the core value of reader confidentiality."



Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• How to get kids to read — let them pick their own damn books 
• Building Small, Cheap, Dedicated Catalog Stations: Do-It-Yourself Rasberry Pi OPACS Sounds like a fun project...
• Brunswick County Shuts Down Repeat Challenge to Absolutely True Diary 
• Ben Hatke Shares the Love for Kids Comics with CBLDF! 
• Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last 
• May 1, 1923: Joseph Heller is born 
• There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds – combined 
• Nepal begins to assess its cultural losses after earthquake
• Net & Tech
• Your emails can be read by investigators if 180 days or older 
• Health & Science
• Scientists Develop Enzyme That Can Convert Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type 
• Beijing Olympics Study Links Pollution to Lower Birth Weight 
• Insurers ignore ObamaCare birth control rule 
• One in six species faces extinction as a result of climate change Related: Climate Change Could Empty Wildlife From Australia’s Rainforests 
• Undersea volcano appears to be erupting off Oregon, Washington coast 
• Russian Spacecraft Falling To Earth Poses No Danger – We Have Survived Bigger Objects 
• Authority Issues
• Six officers charged in death of Freddie Gray 
• Wayne Co. asst. prosecutor resigns over Baltimore post 
• 2 Indicted in George Washington Bridge Case; Ally of Christie Pleads Guilty 
• Other (Serious Stuff)
• LSU students march on State Capitol in protest to higher education budget cuts: but Jindal out of state (as usual) 
• Democrats Press FCC to Unmask Koch-Backed Groups