We've been contacted by the BPL about making arrangements to
discuss the problems with digital restrictions management
DRM and what might be done about it
http://defectivebydesign.org/blog/1120
http://defectivebydesign.org/about

see also
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=defectivebydesign+bpl&m=tags

Digital Restrictions protest photos. Boston Public Library
http://www.flickr.com/photos/makoshark/sets/72157600127273939/show/with/2255532118/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/makoshark/

MAKOSHARK IS STRONG

Many people haven't yet used interlibrary loan readily available at our branch public libraries for books, audio and video not on the shelves within the immediate Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville and other Massachusetts' libraries systems.

Better software is being developed for tracking what titles library users/customers/consumers ask for.

Alternately new book suggestions, audio suggestions and video suggestions can be submitted for local branch libraries' collections.

Hints, tips and pointers for more effective use of interlibrary loan...

Branch Boston public libraries

Many people haven't yet used interlibrary loan readily available at our branch public libraries for books, audio and video not on the shelves within the immediate Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville and other Massachusetts' libraries systems.

Better software is being developed for tracking what titles library users/customers/consumers ask for.

Alternately new book suggestions, audio suggestions and video suggestions can be submitted for local branch libraries' collections.

Hints, tips and pointers for more effective use of interlibrary loan...

Branch Boston public libraries

by Ben Schwartz
http://bemasc.dynalias.net/wordpress/?p=843

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I spent the afternoon today at this protest against the stupid DRM
systems that libraries use for their digital audiobooks
(Mom, you know all about this and how annoying it is).

The protest was outside the main entrance to the Boston Public
Library, which distributes these restricted media files.

We handed out hundreds of pamphlets and talked to countless

Libraries: Kick DRM out!

http://DefectiveByDesign.org has announced an action against libraries
that support DRM on their collections.

Boston locals can join them this
Saturday from
1pm to 3pm at the
Boston Public Library's main branch,

and non-locals are encouraged to stage an action against
their own library if it's using DRM.

http://journal.wjsullivan.net/212943.html
http://defectivebydesign.org

see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
http://defectivebydesign.org/about

By John Markoff
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/27/business/library.php

The Boston Public Library is also interested in scanning local Boston and Massachusetts documents and is in the process of creating its own digital archive.

Boston Public Library President Bernard A. Margolis
Massachusetts
http://bpl.org/general/seniorstaff.htm

Dear Bernard A. Margolis,

Problematical library use.
Please arrange it so that permanent URLs for entries in the BPL catalog at http://bpl.org
can be referred to for letting other library users/customers/consumers
know about a book's catalog entry.

Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.

[ photo by Robert Spencer ]
Bernard Margolis, president of The Boston Public Library.

The research libraries, including a large consortium in the Boston area, are instead signing on with the Open Content Alliance, a nonprofit effort aimed at making their materials broadly available.

by Katie Hafner
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html

For Bernard Margolis the predicament of the lib is also an opportunity to go on to a better more inspired library environment. We can only hope Massachusetts can find a way to keep this creative talented skilled BPL President.

The kind of leadership City of Boston officials get are are of lesser creativity, talent and skill who can go along with this wrongheaded machine of municipal government.

bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/...belichicks-playbook/