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Libraries and the federal government are on the same side in this privacy case. A rare book company snooped through customer email accounts to see when customers were contacting Amazon. The First Circuit ruled that this did not violate the Wiretap Act because the emails were stored, ignoring the instantaneous nature of email. This is a bad decision that must be rectified by legislation (see EPIC Alert Aug. 4, 2004 #5) or court appeal.
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Searchpath, a new Libraries service, is an interactive online tutorial about finding and using worthwhile information sources in the libraries and on the Web. Searchpath will help students save time, produce higher quality research, and get higher grades. Try Searchpath now!
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Libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and collections may be browsed efficiently. Some libraries have additional galleries beyond the public ones, where reference materials are stored. These reference stacks may be open to selected members of the public. Others require patrons to submit a "stack request," which is a request for an assistant to retrieve the material from the closed stacks.
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Bhutan, a 2004 gift of an anonymous donor to the Libraries, joined the Book Arts Collection in the Special Collections Division. The Book Arts Collection is a group of 14,000 pieces, both historical and modern, of examples of book making of various forms. While it certainly will hold the record for size, there are many elements of Bhutan that fits it into a collection of equally stunning works. The lure of the book has long appealed to artists and size always has been a special challenge. Bhutan is reminiscent of the large antiphonaries of the medieval period, books of song meant to be sung from by a large group and big enough for everyone to see. There are huge 18th Century engravings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi so large they had to be folded to be bound into books.
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Libraries on both the Albany and Troy campuses serve The Sage Colleges. The collections, hours, services and policies reflect usage by The Sage Colleges' diverse student body of full- and part-time students in a range of programs from associate through graduate degree levels. The two Libraries' combined holdings include over 370,000 volumes of books, serials and microforms, almost 16,000 printed and electronic periodical subscriptions (with over 55,000 volumes of bound periodicals) and over 34,000 media items, including 21,000 art slides in the Albany Library, covering sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing and more. Other collections include: College Archives and Special Collections; the Helen L. Verschoor Fine Arts Collection (Albany); and the Carol Ann Donohue Memorial Poetry Collection, 20th century poetry in English (Troy).
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Libraries were filled with parchment scrolls as at Pergamum and on papyrus scrolls as at Alexandria: export of prepared writing materials was a staple of commerce. There were a few institutional or royal libraries like the Library of Alexandria which were open to an educated public, but on the whole collections were private. In those rare cases where it was possible for a scholar to consult library books there seems to have been no direct access to the stacks. In all recorded cases the books were kept in a relatively small room where the staff went to get them for the readers, who had to consult them in an adjoining hall or covered walkway.
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