Reminder to take care with those emails!

Most, if not all of us, have been burned by email mistakes: sending emails to unintended recipients, mistakenly forwarding emails, forgetting to include promised attachments. This article details one such mistake, with costly results, and may remind the rest of us to take care!

From Otis White's Urban Notebook column at Governing.com, posted April 28, 2005
Don’t Hit ‘Send’! How to Delete a Convention

"Most veteran politicians (and all dishonest ones) know this bit of wisdom: Never put anything in writing that you can say on the phone. Never say anything on the phone that you can say in person. And never say anything in person that you can communicate with a wink. Let’s add one more: And never, ever discuss anything embarrassing in an e-mail. "

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Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide

If your library keeps videotape in any format, you may be interested in this free guide to videotape assessment and preservation from the Texas Commission on the Arts:

Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide
http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/

The guide can be viewed section by section or downloaded as a PDF. It includes sections on identifying videotape formats, longevity risks, condition assessment, conservation actions, and resources. Please note that this guide does NOT cover DVDs.

Documents in News: Rural Energy Action Council Report

KTOO radio and other Alaska media are commenting on the "new" Rural Energy Action Council report. This report can be found on the council's home page at http://www.aidea.org/RuralEnergyActionCouncil.htm.

I used to post this sort of thing to the AkLA-L list, but I've been thinking it might be better to post them here. Does anyone out there have opinions one way or the other?

Resources on new Pope Benedict XVI

Here are some resources if your patrons are looking for information on Benedict XVI, the new Pope and formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and International Theological Commission, and Dean of the College of Cardinals.

• Benedict XVI's official vatican biography.
  
• Documents of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. - Includes some texts by then Cardinal Ratzinger.
  
• EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier search on subject of Joseph Ratzinger.
  

The name that a pope takes as his own sometimes reflects the course a new pope wishes to take. Here are a few resources on Benedict XV (1914-1922) , whom Benidict XVI has publicly praised:

• Official biography and writings of Pope Benedict XV from the Vatican.
  
• biography of Benedict XV from WWI biography pages from BYU.
  
• Wikipedia (trust, but verify against other sources)biography of Benedict XV
  

If you've seen other resources, please post them in comments.

More thanks to Elise

Elise, Thanks for putting this together!

If enough of us work at this, it could be a really good resource and take pressure of the AkLA-L list.

I'm on vacation this week, but if I think of something worthwhile, I'll be back.

Thanks Elise!

Thanks, Elise, for creating this blog. I appreciate your willingness to try out new-to-AkLA things to improve the web site and intra-organization communication. This also presents members an opportunity to try the technology and become comfortable with it, to really get a feel for its pros and cons that is not really possible just from reading articles.

Way to go!

Getting Started

Hi everyone,
I've set up this blog for people to use for extended discussions on topics of interest where you don't necessarily want to use the list.

Anyone can add *comments* to posts made in this blog, but if you want to create a post on a new topic, you'll have to be an invited member of the blog. Email me at: webdeveloper@akla.org for an invitation.

To get started please add a comment to this post or experiment with trying to create a new post topic so I can see how things are working.
Thanks a lot!
Elise Tomlinson