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"Hi Dale, I'm a teacher librarian & recently started a community based blog for getting boys to read - http://GettingBoysToRead.com. Please send me a friend request if you'd like to network, share ideas, and learn more about getting…"

May 26, 2009

"Anything that I ever did that was ultimately worthwhile,
initially scared me to death."
- Betty Bender

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Librarian Who Resisted FBI Says Patriot Act Invades Privacy

So I call this an act of heroism and a powerful stand for democracy in America. I can remember when an FBI agent spoke in Medford, Oregon about how the Patriot Act was seldom used--garbage. I am sorry, in my humble opinion, this country was founded on other principles than those used to defend and enforce the Patriot Act. Thank you George Christian.

From The AP: A…

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Posted on April 13, 2007 at 7:21pm

Challenging Your Dark Side: Teaching Google Book Search and Google Scholar

When Google first introduced Google Scholar and then shortly after entered into an agreement to digitize books, many librarians and academic scholars believed they had sited the Death Star. Scholar and Book Search had all the making of leading individuals further astray on the Internet and further away from the resources in libraries. Where Scholar evoked questions of adequacy, Book…

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Posted on April 4, 2007 at 6:59pm

To Copyright or Not to Copyright

So okay, I am browsing around through MySpace videos and YouTube. Wow! I am discovering video after video from scenes in movies to bands from every era.

When I see a clip of Santana's Soul Sacrifice from the Woodstock movie or a clip

of Traffic doing Mr. Fantasy or the Doors playing Moonlight Drive, I think, this

is a clear violation of copyright.

But wait, where the heck has this stuff been for the…

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Posted on March 13, 2007 at 10:11pm — 3 Comments

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At 5:41pm on March 14, 2007, Dale Vidmar said…: ;-) I always love giving away the prizes, so it was fun to get a cameo this year. Who knows, maybe conferences will start having keynote prizegiverouters. The only rule would be that you are not allowed to use PowerPoint to give out any prizes.

Thanks for the add. Hope all is well up there in Portland.