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1. Scope
This Lending and Use Code defines the privileges and responsibilities of persons who borrow or use materials from the University of Texas Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.
2. Availability of Resources
It is the responsibility of the Libraries to make resources readily available for loan and library use to the greatest number of users.
Ordinarily at most circulation desks there is no limit on the number of items a borrower may check out. However, for some materials, such as those on reserve or in special collections, limitations may be placed.
3. Eligibility and Identification
For a list of categories of persons eligible to use or borrow library materials, see Categories of Library Users. Those who are eligible to borrow materials must present an appropriate ID or library card. In the interest of academic fairness, if borrower's primary role at The University of Texas at Austin is a student role, the student status takes priority over other valid statuses. Borrowers who are eligible for an official University ID card are not eligible for a University of Texas Libraries Courtesy/Special Borrower card, even if they are also participants in reciprocal lending programs which grant them another status.
Anyone may use materials from the open shelves within the library. Materials are lent only to borrowers who present valid (current) University of Texas at Austin identification cards or University of Texas Libraries borrower cards. Library use privileges for limited circulation and closed stack materials may be granted if authorized by appropriate staff.
4. User and Borrower Responsibility
- Users and borrowers are expected to treat library materials and equipment in a responsible manner which will help to preserve them and to ensure availability for other users.
- Borrowers are responsible for returning materials by the date/time due. If no due time is specified, materials are due before the circulation desk closes on the due or recall due date. The responsibility ends when the materials are checked in at an appropriate location. Restrictions are posted at individual book returns. Return receipts are issued upon request. If an item is recalled, it will be due on the date stated on the recall notice.
- Borrowers are responsible for maintaining with the University and the Libraries current email and postal mailing address information.
5. Release of a Borrower's Name
The Libraries may not release the names or the identification numbers of users or borrowers who are using or have used library materials or services. The Texas Public Information Act exempts library records from open government provisions of Texas law and specifically prohibits the release of protected information. (See Appendix_3 of this Lending and Use Code.)
6. Renewals
Most materials may be renewed if not needed by another borrower. Some materials may not be renewed. Limited circulation, reserve, most audiovisual, and specially designated materials may be renewed only at the circulation desk from which they were checked out.
Other general collection materials are renewable upon presentation at any automated circulation unit of the University of Texas Libraries. Alternatively, by logging in to My Library Account through the Library Catalog, borrowers may at any time renew general collection materials which have been checked out for a seven-day or longer loan period. Renewal by telephone is not available.
Borrowers are encouraged to take advantage of online renewal, which offers more convenience than in-person presentation of materials at a circulation desk. However, a borrower's responsibility for timely renewal includes a level of planning and awareness which anticipates that the desired method of renewal may be inaccessible. For example, computer downtime or telecommunications problems which prevent the use of online renewal do not relieve the borrower of the responsibility to renew library materials on time to avoid overdue charges.
7. Holds and Recalls
- Recalls. Any user may request the library to obtain for him or her materials checked out to another borrower. Any borrower may keep recalled materials for fourteen days from the original check-out date. However, materials recalled for reserve use are due immediately. When a recalled item is returned, the requestor is notified and the item is held for the requestor for eight days. Limited circulation items are not eligible for recall.
- Holds. Any user may request the library to hold currently checked-out materials when they are returned, or to retrieve currently available Fine Arts AV material, or available items in Library Storage or at the Collections Deposit Library, and send these items to the designated library for pickup. The due date of a checked out item does not change when a hold is placed. When the item is returned and/or ready for pickup, the requestor is notified, and the item is held for the requestor for eight days. Most limited circulation items are not eligible for hold.
Library staff will use the most appropriate procedure for obtaining material for a requestor. Requests placed by borrowers through the Library Catalog will be processed as recalls whenever possible.
Any library borrower should be aware that an item may be recalled from at any time, and that failure to return the item by the recall due date will result in a block on checkout privileges.
8. Searches
Any user may request the library to locate an item which is not on the shelf or currently checked out. The requestor is notified of the results of the search. Items from the general collection are held for the requestor for eight days. Items which circulate for library use or other short loan periods are not held, but the requestor is notified that they have been located.
9. Definition of Loan Periods
Materials are due on the date or at the time indicated on the date due slip, as stated when borrowed, or as noted on the online renewal screen in My Library Account. The materials must be checked in by that date/time to avoid a fine. When a specific time due is not indicated, materials are due by the closing time of the circulation desk. In most libraries the circulation desk closes fifteen minutes before the library closes. In these units materials returned after the posted closing time of the circulation desk may be checked in the next day the library is open and may incur fines. Materials returned to a book return must be checked in at an appropriate location by the due date/time to avoid a fine. Book returns are cleared on a regular basis, daily or as posted. Restrictions are posted at individual book returns.
The following loan periods are available to borrowers:
Due on the end of semester due date. Approximately a month before that day, the due date is changed to the next semester loan due date. A summer semester loan extends over both summer school sessions.
Due twenty-eight days from the date checked out. If the circulation desk is closed on the twenty-eighth day, due the next day the circulation desk is open following the twenty-eighth day.
Due fourteen days from the date checked out. If the circulation desk is closed on the fourteenth day, due the next day the circulation desk is open following the fourteenth day.
Due seven days from the date checked out. If the circulation desk is closed on the seventh day, due the next day the circulation desk is open following the seventh day.
Due three days from the date checked out. If the circulation desk is closed on the third day, due the next day the circulation desk is open following the third day.
Twenty-four hour:
Due twenty-four hours after checkout. If the cirulation desk is closed twenty-four hours after checkout, due one hour after the circulation desk opens.
Due two hours from the time checked and may be checked out for overnight use if closing time intervenes before the two hours are up. Two-hour items checked out overnight are due one hour after after opening on the next day the circulation desk is open. Library-Use only items, if checked out on Two-Hour loan less than two hours before desk closing, are due by the time the desk closes.
Restricted to use within the library. Library-use materials are due at the desk from which they were checked out before the desk closes. Exact due times are set by library staff.
Due on the end of semester due date. Approximately a month before that day, the due date is changed to the next semester loan due date. A summer semester loan extends over both summer school sessions. The item is checked out to the carrel rather than to the individual to whom the carrel is assigned. It must remain in the assigned carrel with the carrel flag visible. The checkout transaction to a carrel becomes invalid if the carrel assignment is not made for the corresponding semester.
10. General Policies Governing Loan Periods for Types of Materials
General collection:
University of Texas at Austin borrowers:
- Semester loan to Students and Employees
Non-University of Texas at Austin borrowers:
- Twenty-Eight-Day loan to Courtesy Borrowers, including Graduate and Undergraduate Students from other institutions
- Semester loan to Special Borrowers from other institutions
Loan periods for bound and unbound periodicals vary by library, but generally are Two-Hour or 3-Day: some libraries restrict periodicals to Library-Use. Borrowers with special needs may request a longer loan period, which may be granted at the branch level.
Rare book and manuscript materials:
Library-Use loan.
Reference materials:
Reserve materials:
Two-Hour, Twenty-four Hour, or Three-Day loan. Some reserve materials may be Library-Use.
Microforms; Maps; Audio-visual materials; Vertical file materials; Software; Equipment:
Loan period (as defined in section 9 above) determined by library depending on type of materials.
Special collections may have limited loan periods as determined by the library. For example:
New Books Collection (PCL):
Fourteen-Day loan.
11. Notification to Borrower of Overdue Material
Materials are due on the date or at the time indicated on the date due slip or checkout receipt, as stated when borrowed, or as noted on the online renewal screen in My Library Account. If an item is recalled, the new due date is shown on the recall notice, and the item must be returned no later than that date. The library is not responsible for notifying borrowers that materials are overdue but does send reminders and overdue notices as a courtesy. Failure to receive a reminder or overdue notice does not excuse the borrower from the responsibility of renewing or returning items by the due date and time.
12. Library Fines, Fees, and Item Costs
a. Fines
Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, and Courtesy Borrowers are assessed fines for late return of materials. Fines are assessed according to Appendix 1 to this Lending Code, entitled Fine and Fee Schedule, for each day of the year that a library is open.
A borrower is assessed a fine as of the time the item is checked in. A borrower who is billed for an overdue item is not charged an overdue fine, but if the item is later returned the borrower will be charged the overdue fine or billing service fee, whichever is greater.
b. Fees
1. Processing Fees
A processing fee is asssessed when an item is billed as overdue, or declared by the borrower to be lost. The processing fee covers the costs of updating records, and, if necessary, aquiring and cataloging a replacement.
2. Billing Service Fees
A billing service fee is assessed when an item is billed as overdue. The billing service fee covers costs of searching shelves, sending notices and bill, and updating records. It is not canceled if the item is later returned.
3. Damaged Material Fees
A damaged material fee is assessed for the repair or replacement of material damaged while in use by or checked out to the user or borrower.
c. Item costs
A borrower is assessed an item cost when an item is billed as overdue or declared by the borrower to be lost. The cost assessed is either the current replacement cost or a default cost based on the average item cost of the subject area as determined by the appropriate bibliographer. Changes in default item costs are reviewed and recommended by Research Services Division staff and implemented after library, University, and Regental approval.
An item cost may be cancelled or refunded if a billed item is returned. Instead of the item cost, a replacement copy of the item may be accepted if provided by the borrower. The library reserves the right to determine whether a replacement is acceptable.
A billed item which is returned after its records have been withdrawn must be forwarded to the appropriate bibliographer in order to be considered for reinstatement, in accordance with Policy Memoranda Nos. 18 (Withdrawal Policy) and 20 (Reinstatement Policy). If the item is reinstated, the item cost will be canceled or refunded to the borrower. If the item is not reinstated, or if the transaction is so old that the Office of Accounting no longer maintains an online record of the bill or payment, the item cost will not be canceled or refunded. In this case the borrower remains responsible for the item cost if it has not yet been paid.
A sign listing library fines and fees is posted in each library.
13. Abuse of Library Privileges or Materials
Library privileges may be suspended for borrowers and users who fail to abide by the provisions of this Code or who have unpaid library assessments. Procedures for suspension of library privileges are described in Appendix 2 to this Code, entitled Billing Procedures.
Failure to return an item that has been recalled may also result in suspension of library checkout privileges.
The library may refer cases of irresponsible use of library materials or equipment to the appropriate administrative or legal authorities for sanctions. Irresponsible use includes, but is not limited to:
- allowing water, food, or other substances to damage items,
- alteration, disbinding, or mutilation of materials or files,
- deliberate misplacement within the library,
- deliberately keeping materials known to be needed by others in order to gain an unfair academic advantage,
- theft.
14. Borrower Right to Appeal
Borrowers have the right to appeal library assessments or the suspension of library privileges as described in Appendix 2 to this Code, entitled Billing Procedures. Initial inquiries concerning an assessment or the suspension of privileges should be made at the circulation desk which initiated the assessment in question.
15. Categories of Library Users
In terms of library checkout privileges, for users with multiple statuses, University of Texas at Austin status takes priority over non-University of Texas at Austin status, and if a user's primary role at the University is a student role, then student status takes priority over faculty or staff status.
University of Texas at Austin Students
These borrowers may check out general collection materials on Semester loan:
- Undergraduate or special students
- Graduate Students
University of Texas at Austin Employees
These borrowers may check out general collection materials on Semester loan:
- Current and retired faculty *
- Current and retired administrative and professional staff *
- Formally appointed Visiting Scholars *
- Current and retired classified staff
Special Borrowers
These borrowers may check out general collection materials on Semester loan:
- University of Texas Regents *
- University of Texas System administrative and professional staff *
- Other University of Texas System component institution faculty and professional staff
- Other faculty and staff of institutions with which the University of Texas Libraries has established lending agreements
*These categories of borrowers are eligible for the Proxy Borrower privilege. An eligible Borrower may arrange to have a Proxy Borrower check out materials for use by the sponsoring Borrower. Information on the Proxy Borrower privilege is available in a separate publication at circulation desks and online on the printable Proxy Borrower application form.
Courtesy Borrowers
These borrowers may check out general collection materials on Twenty-Eight Day loan:
- Adult Texas residents not included elsewhere
- University of Texas at Austin institute or workshop participants
- University of Texas at Austin Extension Division students
- University of Texas at Austin Austin Ex-Students' Association members
- Spouses or domestic partners of University of Texas at Austin faculty, administrative, professional and full-time classified staff (if not enrolled as students)
- University of Texas at Austin non-student temporary staff (appointed for less than 20 hours per week or less than 4 1/2 months)
- Students at other Texas institutions of higher education, patrons of libraries and members of groups, businesses, agencies, organizations, etc. with which the Libraries has lending agreements
Members of the general public not included in the categories noted above may use materials from the open shelves within the library.
June 2007(World Wide Web Version)
A. Overdue Charges
All charges are per item per transaction.
1. Two-Hour, Twenty-Four Hour and Library-Use charges:
$3.00 per hour or fraction thereof per item
$36.00 maximum fine per item
2. Three-Day:
$6.00 per day or fraction thereof per item
$36.00 maximum fine per item
3. Seven-Day charges:
$1.00 per day or fraction thereof per item
$35.00 maximum fine per item
4. Fourteen-Day, Twenty-Eight-Day and Semester Loan charges:
$.60 per day or fraction thereof per item
$21.00 maximum fine per item
5. Materials recalled for Reserve or for the use of another borrower:
$1.00 per day or fraction thereof per item beginning with the first overdue day after the recall due date.
$35.00 maximum fine per item even if the item is already overdue when recalled.
Note: Faculty, Staff, and Special Borrowers are not assessed fines, but they are assessed damaged material and replacement charges.
B. Damaged Material Charges
Except in very unusual cases, the schedule below should be used to determine fees.
1. Repair
a. printed material which can be repaired without rebinding
b. equipment (including laptops)
Cost determined by appropriate library staff
2. Rebind
printed material which can be repaired only by rebinding
3. Replacement
a. charge for printed material too badly damaged to be repaired or rebound
See C
b. equipment (including laptops)
Cost determined by appropriate library staff
C. Replacement Charges
A user or borrower is assessed replacement charges when an item is damaged beyond repair, when an item is declared lost by the borrower, or when an item is billed as overdue by the library. Items are billed as overdue if they have not been renewed or returned within a specified time after the due date, depending on the loan period.
The replacement charge represents the cost to the library when an item is billed or lost, including the cost of purchasing and processing a replacement where applicable. The charge may include the following:
$25.00 processing fee
$25.00 billing service fee
+ replacement cost of item* and $25.00 binding fee if applicable
* The cost assessed for lost items is in most cases a default amount representing the average cost of items in a particular library or collection. Appendix 4: Default Item Costs provides specific information about the cost of replacing library materials. If there is a question as to the default cost assigned to a specific item, library staff may change the assigned cost to reflect the actual cost of the item, as determined from available sources of cost information. The cost assessed for lost equipment, including laptops and peripherals, is the actual market cost, at the time of loss, of replacing the lost item with identical or comparable equipment.
June 2007
I. Billing and Payment
Borrowers receive statements of library charges or bills by e-mail. If there is no e-mail address in the borrower's record, the bill is sent by postal mail. Failure to receive the statement of charges or bill does not excuse the borrower from paying the bill. Outstanding charges are viewable in My Library Account through the library catalog. Charges are due within 30 days of the billing date.
Library charges are transferred by batch processing to the University's Office of Accounting and are not payable until they appear in Office of Accounting What I Owe records.
Borrowers may pay bills online and by mail or in person at the Office of Accounting. Courtesy borrowers may also pay library bills directly to the library. Students, faculty, staff and special borrowers may not pay library bills at the library. For more detail, see Paying Library Bills.
II. Penalties for Non-Payment of Charges
Unpaid overdue charges trigger a University financial bar. A financial bar prevents students from registering, receiving a diploma or obtaining an official transcript. Other borrowers may have their checkout privileges blocked.
III. Appeals
A. University of Texas at Austin Students, Faculty, and Staff,
and Non-University of Texas at Austin Special Borrowers (Codes 3,4,5,6,7,8)
A borrower who questions a library charge should try to resolve the problem with the Circulation Desk Supervisor in the library where the charge was incurred. If the problem cannot be resolved, the borrower should submit a written appeal of the charges, as follows:
Student borrowers:
Student Library Appeals Committee
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin
Circulation Services Department
P.O. Box P
Austin, TX 78713-8916
Faculty, Staff, and Special Borrowers:
Faculty/Staff Library Appeals Committee
University of Texas Libraries
UT Libs-Circ Serv S5460
Appeals may also be subitted by email to the appeals coordinator.
The appeal should include borrower's name, UT EID, and current address, and should specify the materials involved, the library, the date the transaction occurred, and the grounds for the appeal. The deadline for submitting appeals is the end of the semester following the semester in which the charges were incurred.
The Library Appeals Committee will concern itself primarily with differences between the library staff's and the appellant's view of the transaction. Neither inability to pay nor disagreement with the fine structure is grounds for appeal. Charges under appeal will be waived and any financial bar placed as a result of those charges will be lifted while the appeal is pending. If the borrower has other overdue charges not under appeal, these charges must be paid to remove the financial bar.
Records used to decide an appeal are open to the borrower. The Committee will notify the individual, the library where the charges were assessed, and the Circulation Services Department when an appeal is decided. The Committee's decision is final and may not be further appealed.
B. Courtesy Borrowers
Courtesy Borrowers may appeal library charges within one year of the date the charges were billed.
A Courtesy Borrower who questions a library charge should try to resolve the problem with the Circulation Desk Supervisor in the library where the charge was incurred. If the problem cannot be resolved at that level, or in further discussion with the Courtesy Borrower Supervisor in the Circulation Services Department, the Courtesy Borrower should submit a written appeal to the
Head Librarian
Circulation Services Department
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Box P
Austin, TX 78713-8916
The letter should include the borrower's name, UT EID, and current address, and should specify the materials involved, the library, the date the transaction occurred, and the grounds for appeal.
The Head Librarian will consider primarily the difference between the library staff's and the borrower's view of the transaction. Neither inability to pay nor disagreement with the fine structure is grounds for appeal. Checkout privileges suspended as a result of the charges under appeal will be restored while the appeal is pending. If the Courtesy Borrower has other charges not under appeal, these charges must be paid to restore checkout privileges and lift the bar. Records used to decide an appeal are open to the borrower. The Head Librarian will notify the Courtesy Borrower and the library where the charges were assessed when an appeal is decided. This decision is final and may not be further appealed.
February, 2002
1.Confidentiality as a Guiding Principle
The University of Texas Libraries policy is that its circulation records and other records linking a library user with specific materials or services are confidential in nature. According to the Texas Public Information Act (as amended,1999) and in accord with established principles guiding the provision of library services, staff members may not release the names of borrowers who are using, or who have used, library materials or services. Exceptions are made only upon court order or subpoena, or when deemed necessary by University officials for internal investigations. (See also part 13 of this Lending and Use Code.)
Staff members are expected to evaluate circulation practices periodically to determine those areas where information leading to the identification of borrowers in relation to specific materials might be revealed. Examples of areas for examination include the placement of computer monitors or circulation terminals on which borrowers' records are displayed, the location of hold shelves with flagged books or search/hold/recall request slips, and the location of the work area for sorting and mailing notices.
2. Guidance for Staff
The Vice President and Chief Financial Officer is the University's liaison with judicial and law enforcement authorities and with other individuals and organizations in matters regarding official records of the University. The Libraries staff should direct inquiries from law enforcement representatives and from others to the Office of the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. A Libraries staff member may not release information except to the Office of the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer or to a Libraries administrator to be passed on to the Office of the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The University of Texas System Business Procedures Memorandum 32-09-99, Texas Public Information Act, establishes each component institution's Chief Financial Officer as the custodian of records for that institution.
An exception to the usual guidelines regarding release of library records concerns an internal investigation of possible student misconduct. Student Judicial Services, a division of the Office of the Dean of Students, serves as arbiter in internal matters relating to student library records. For example, when academic dishonesty is suspected, as when an instructor believes that a reserve item is being held by one student to deprive others, the instructor makes a request to Student Judicial Services to investigate the situation. In such a case, library staff may be asked to release a student's name to Student Judicial Services or to a University of Texas Libraries administrator for passing on to Student Judicial Services, but does not release protected information directly to the faculty member.
A student's parent is included in prohibitions relating to the release of information. A parent can be advised to talk with the student for more information concerning a bill.
In all matters related to confidentiality of records, the Libraries Associate Director for Public Services can assist library staff members and those requesting the release of information.
3. Relevant text from the Texas Public Information Act
(Excerpted from the Texas Government Code)
- Establishment of an exception for library record
Sect 552.124. Exception: Records of Library or Library System
(a) A record of a library or library system, supported in whole or in part by public funds, that identifies or serves to identify a person who requested, obtained, or used a library material or service is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 unless the record is disclosed:
(1) because the library or library system determines that disclosure is reasonably necessary for the operation of the library or library system and the record is not confidential under other state or federal law;
(2) under Section 552.023; or
(3) to a law enforcement agency or a prosecutor under a court order or subpoena obtained after a showing to a district court that:
(A) disclosure of the record is necessary to protect the public safety; or
(B) the record is evidence of an offense or constitutes evidence that a particular person committed an offense.
(b) A record of a library or library system that is excepted from required disclosure under this section is confidential.
Sect 552.021. Availability of Public Information
Public information is available to the public at a minimum during the normal business hours of the governmental body.
Sect 552.023. Special Right of Access to Confidential Information
(a) A person or a person's authorized representative has a special right of access, beyond the right of the general public, to information held by a governmental body that relates to the person and that is protected from public disclosure by laws intended to protect that person's privacy interests.
(b) A governmental body may not deny access to information to the person, or the person's representative, to whom the information relates on the grounds that the information is considered confidential by privacy principles under this chapter but may assert as grounds for denial of access other provisions of this chapter or other law that are not intended to protect the person's privacy interests.
(c) A release of information under Subsections (a) and (b) is not an offense under Section 552.352.
(d) A person who receives information under this section may disclose the information to others only to the extent consistent with the authorized purposes for which consent to release the information was obtained.
(e) Access to information under this section shall be provided in the manner prescribed by Sections 552.229 and 552.307.
B. Establishment of a penalty for distributing confidential information
Sect 552.352. Distribution of Confidential Information
(a) A person commits an offense if the person distributes information considered confidential under the terms of this chapter.
(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by:
(1) a fine of not more than $1,000;
(2) confinement in the county jail for not more than six months; or
(3) both the fine and confinement.
(c) A violation under this section constitutes official misconduct.
4. Guidelines from the American Library Association (ALA)
A. American Library Association (ALA) Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records
from the American Library Association Policy Manual.*
52.4 Confidentiality of Library Records
Adopted January 20, 1971; revised July 4, 1975, July 2, 1986, by the ALA Council; and current on the ALA web site November 2001.
The ethical responsibilities of librarians, as well as statutes in most states and the District of Columbia, protect the privacy of library users. Confidentiality extends to "information sought or received, and materials consulted, borrowed, acquired," and includes database search records, reference interviews, circulation records, interlibrary loan records, and other personally identifiable uses of library materials, facilities, or services.
The American Library Association recognizes that law enforcement agencies and officers may occasionally believe that library records contain information which may be helpful to the investigation of criminal activity. If there is a reasonable basis to believe such records are necessary to the progress of an investigation or prosecution, the American judicial system provides the mechanism for seeking release of such confidential records: the issuance of a court order, following a showing of good cause based on specific facts, by a court of competent jurisdiction.
The American Library Association strongly recommends that the responsible officers of each library, cooperative system, and consortium in the United States:
1) Formally adopt a policy which specifically recognizes its circulation records and other records identifying the names of library users with specific materials to be confidential.
2) Advise all librarians and library employees that such records shall not be made available to any agency of state, federal, or local government except pursuant to such process, order, or subpoena as may be authorized under the authority of, and pursuant to, federal, state, or local law relating to civil, criminal, or administrative discovery procedures or legislative investigatory power.
3) Resist the issuance or enforcement of any such process, order, or subpoena until such time as a proper showing of good cause has been made in a court of competent jurisdiction.
*Note: See also the ALA Policy Manual, 54.16 (On Professional Ethics), point 3: "We protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted."
**Note: Point 3, above, means that upon receipt of such process, order, or subpoena, the library's officers will consult with their legal counsel to determine if such process, order, or subpoena is in proper form and if there is a showing of good cause for its issuance; if the process, order, or subpoena is not in proper form or if good cause has not been shown, they will insist that such defects be cured.
B. Suggested Procedures for Implementing "Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records"
(Adopted by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, January 9, 1983; revised January 11, 1988 and available at the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee web pages.)
1. The library staff member receiving the request to examine or obtain information relating to circulation or registration records will immediately refer the person making the request to the responsible officer of the institution, who shall explain the confidentiality policy.
2. The director, upon receipt of such process, order, or subpoena, shall consult with the appropriate legal officer assigned to the institution to determine if such process, order, or subpoena is in good form and if there is a showing of good cause for its issuance.
3. If the process, order, or subpoena is not in proper form or if good cause has not been shown, insistence shall be made that such defects be cured before any records are released. (The legal process requiring the production of circulation records shall ordinarily be in the form of "subpoena duces tecum" [bring your records] requiring the responsible officer to attend court or the taking of his/her deposition and may require him/her to bring along certain designated circulation records.)
4. Any threats or unauthorized demands (i.e., those not supported by a process, order, or subpoena) concerning circulation or registration records shall be reported to the appropriate legal officer of the institution.
5. Any problems relating to the privacy of circulation and registration records which are not provided for above shall be referred to the responsible officer.
C. Policy Concerning Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information about Library Users
Adopted July 2, 1991, by the ALA Council
The ethical responsibilities of librarians, as well as statutes in most states and the District of Columbia, protect the privacy of library users. Confidentiality extends to "information sought or received, and materials consulted, borrowed or acquired," and includes database search records, reference interviews, circulation records, interlibrary loan records, and other personally identifiable uses of library materials, facilities, or services.
The First Amendmentís guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press requires that the corresponding rights to hear what is spoken and read what is written be preserved, free from fear of government intrusion, intimidation, or reprisal. The American Library Association reaffirms its opposition to "any use of government prerogatives which lead to the intimidation of the individual or the citizenry from the exercise of free expression ... [and] encourages resistance to such abuse of government power...." (ALA Policy 53.4). In seeking access or in the pursuit of information, confidentiality is the primary means of providing the privacy that will free the individual from fear of intimidation or retaliation.
Libraries are one of the great bulwarks of democracy. They are living embodiments of the First Amendment because their collections include voices of dissent as well assent. Libraries are impartial resources providing information on all points of view, available to all persons regardless of age, race, religion, national origin, social or political views, economic status, or any other characteristic. The role of libraries as such a resource must not be compromised by an erosion of the privacy rights of library users.
The American Library Association regularly receives reports of visits by agents of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to libraries, where it is alleged they have asked for personally identifiable information about library users. These visits, whether under the rubric of simply informing libraries of agency concerns or for some other reason, reflect an insensitivity to the legal and ethical bases for confidentiality, and the role it plays in the preservation of First Amendment rights, rights also extended to foreign nationals while in the United States. The governmentí:s interest in library use reflects a dangerous and fallacious equation of what a person reads with what that person believes or how that person is likely to behave. Such a presumption can and does threaten the freedom of access to information. It also is a threat to a crucial aspect of First Amendment rights: that freedom of speech and of the press include the freedom to hold, disseminate and receive unpopular, minority, "extreme," or even "dangerous" ideas.
The American Library Association recognizes that, under limited circumstances, access to certain information might be restricted due to a legitimate "national security" concern. However, there has been no showing of a plausible probability that national security will be compromised by any use made of unclassified information available in libraries. Thus, the right of access to this information by individuals, including foreign nationals, must be recognized as part of the librarianís legal and ethical responsibility to protect the confidentiality of the library user.
The American Library Association also recognizes that law enforcement agencies and officers may occasionally believe that library records contain information which would be helpful to the investigation of criminal activity. If there is a reasonable basis to believe such records are necessary to the progress of an investigation or prosecution, the American judicial system provides the mechanism for seeking release of such confidential records: the issuance of a court order, following a showing of good cause based on specific facts, by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Materials from the Perry-Castañeda Library and the Benson Latin American Collection
Materials from other libraries:
Bound journal volumes:
Circulating CDs and Audio visual equipment which circulates on Library-use loan
(for example, audio cassette recorders, headphones, remotes):
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Jurors will have to decide if a man acted in self-defense or committed murder in the death of another man at a Gainesville construction site two years ago.
Attorneys made opening statements Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial of Frank Salonko, 29. Officers arrested Salonko following a shooting at the Portofino subdivision in which another man, Erick Schulz, 40, was fatally wounded.
The day of the shooting, Schulz had been trying to protect his nephew and prevent any problems with Salonko, Assistant State Attorney Marc Peterson told jurors.
�Erick Schulz was just trying to be a good uncle. This man gunned him down in cold blood,� the attorney said, referring to Salonko.
Salonko, who has a Bell address, had worked for a construction company and was coming to pick up his final paycheck from the business� foreman, Schulz� nephew Jeremy Lawson, at the construction site on April 14, 2006, Peterson said.
Salonko�s paycheck was going to be cut due to some missing equipment, and Lawson had asked Schulz to be at the site so he wouldn�t have to deal with Salonko by himself, Peterson said.
Salonko also had called Lawson, saying the foreman had some of his tools.
Peterson said that, based on the phone conversation and Salonko�s reputation of being short-tempered, Lawson thought he might need someone to back him up when the former employee arrived at the site.
Another employee had contacted Salonko to tell him that workers from a different construction crew, working at the same site, wanted to harm him, Peterson said.
Peterson described Salonko as pulling up to the site �like a bat out of hell� that Friday afternoon. He was carrying a gun and had other weapons in his car, Peterson said. Schulz got between his nephew and the other man and asked what was going on. As soon as Schulz spoke, Salonko pulled a gun out from his shirt and fired, the attorney said.
Schulz was hit in the stomach, both legs and back, Peterson said.
But Salonko�s attorney, Robert Corse, said Salonko thought he was in danger of being attacked at the site.
When he was confronted by Schulz, a large man he didn�t know, Salonko was afraid, Corse said.
Salonko backed up from Schulz and fired his gun into the ground, Corse said. A struggle followed, and Schulz was fatally injured.
Others at the site, including Lawson, attacked Salonko, severely beating him, Corse said.
Due to his injuries, Salonko was hospitalized for several days afterward before he was transferred to the jail and charged with murder.
Corse told jurors they would hear conflicting testimony about the struggle with some testimony that Salonko wasn�t the aggressor.
Salonko, who sat quietly in the courtroom listening to the lawyers� statements, is also accused of attempted first-degree murder.
If convicted as charged, he would face life in prison.
The case is expected to go to the jury for deliberation later this week.
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Jurors will have to decide if a man acted in self-defense or committed murder in the death of another man at a Gainesville construction site two years ago.


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News to start your week!
Melvyn Krauss has a great piece at Bloomberg.com titled, "Why More Women are Winning at Musical Chairs". Krauss, emeritus professor of economics at NYU and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, provides a thoughtful discussion and on the history and progress of women in the field of conducting.
And, a reminder of the progress that still needs to be made. Irish composer and conductor Eimear Noone, who is well known for her work composing scores for video games, was awarded over $700k by a jury in a case surrounding the discrimination she experienced when pregnant. Read more at CBS Los Angeles.
We shared information about The Dream Unfinished's concert several weeks ago in NYC titled Sing Her Name. WPA President Liane Curtis was able to attend this important event, and has a review at the Boston Music Intelligencer.
And, as always, don't miss out on the monthly Into The Light Radio quiz! Have a listen and submit your guess here.
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BATS is the Bay Area theater scene's longstanding reminder not to plan everything so rigidly. A little bit of spontaneity can lead you in unexpected directions, and the joy of turning happy accidents into compelling art drives the veteran improvisational group.
The pinnacle of this year's work, the 18th Annual Summer Improv Festival, runs each Thursday, Friday, and Saturday through Sept. 8, with events that include BATS veterans and guests; there are also workshops for students on Sundays. Main company players (Diane Rachel, Kasey Klemm, Paul Killam, Rebecca Stockley, William Hall, and Zoe Galvez) assemble for tomorrow's Director's Cut! Praise or Punishment, a 105-minute show composed of 13-minute scenes. If the audience judges the scene a "hit," the director has a shot at ending the evening as the most praised, but if the scene is deemed a "flop," they'll be subjected to reportedly humiliating onstage punishments.
Director's Cut! Praise or Punishment starts Friday, August 17 at 8 p.m. at Fort Mason, Bldg. B (at Marina and Buchanan), S.F. Admission is $17-$20.
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Virtual infrastructure licensing and technical support challenges
Focus Consultant Craig Newell discusses virtualization licensing and technical support challenges.
When moving to a virtual world, operating system (OS) and application licensing and support become more complex and less defined than in physical server environments. Organizations preparing to implement a virtual infrastructure should examine the operating systems, applications, and suites of applications in use across the organization and the impact that a virtual infrastructure may have on them. This tip covers the often-overlooked issues surrounding operating system and application licensing and vendor support in a virtualized data center.
Operating system and application licensing
While many independent software vendors (ISVs) have been slow to spell out the licensing strictures for running their software in a virtual infrastructure, some vendors have begun to set specific virtualization policies. For example, Microsoft has defined their Windows Server licensing policies for any virtualization environment (using server virtualization software from VMware, Microsoft or Xen), as follows -- the Microsoft Windows Server license will allow a specified number of active concurrent virtual operating system instances on a single hardware device -- physical server, blade, etc. -- and an unlimited number of "powered off" instances. Specifically, Windows Server Enterprise Edition allows up to four instances of Windows to run on one physical system, while Datacenter Edition allows an unlimited number of concurrent Windows virtual machines on one physical server. Microsoft has a calculator tool available online to estimate the number of licenses and costs involved in running the various editions of Windows Server in any virtualized environment - Windows Server – virtualization licensing calculation tool
Within Microsoft's application software product lines, licensing policies vary significantly by product. For example, this year Microsoft changed the licensing on SQL Server to support a license policy more in line with the Windows Server policy for Datacenter Edition. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition now allows unlimited virtual instances under one licensed server.
For users moving to a virtual client approach such as VDI, the licensing issues for client software and applications (e.g. Windows/XP and Microsoft Office) also need to be considered. Since each virtual desktop currently requires its own license for the OS and application software, depending on your agreement with Microsoft, this can require purchasing retail boxed copies of Windows/XP and any other desktop applications, just to obtain the required licenses, even though the VMs will likely be installed from virtual golden images.
As for other application vendors, Oracle is holding on to its original licensing model based upon the number of physical CPUs or processor cores in a socket on the bare metal server. Even with its own announcement of Oracle/VM, Oracle is continuing this virtualization-unfriendly policy. Other ISVs tie licensing of an application to the number of virtual processors the application has access to. Others license based upon the number of processor sockets --independent of cores -- within the hardware device.
Approaches to virtualization licensing from the various application ISVs still continue to vary greatly. When you start asking your vendors about licensing and virtualization, you may find that your specific vendors still have no clear policies for this new infrastructure model. As virtualization becomes more ubiquitous through market growth of additional virtualization vendors (e.g. Citrix/Xen and Microsoft in addition to VMware) and through OEM deals including embedded hypervisors like ESX 3i and Xen OEM edition, more application ISVs will have to evolve their policies. For those that don't, virtual licensing costs may be another reason pushing users to open source.
Application support
In general, vendors also have been slow to address the support issues concerning running and supporting applications in a virtual world. (However, large enterprise customers with support contracts have been more likely to get better support, though unofficially).
Officially, Microsoft has not supported its operating systems in virtual environments other than its own. That has limited official support to Microsoft Virtual Server because that's the only Microsoft server virtualization platform shipping to date.
Therefore, Microsoft, along with other vendors, may tell you, as an average organization, that you have to replicate issues in a physical environment before they will provide support. This requires you to perform a virtual-to-physical migration, with software such as PlateSpin's PowerConvert, to migrate a virtual server to a physical server, and then request support.
Virtualization may be the final impetus needed to get vendors to face up to the need to support their products in heterogeneous environments. This will put additional strain on vendor technical support groups since they will now need to understand how the various virtualization technologies work with their own offerings and what the optimal configurations are for their applications to be able to function well.
IT organizations need to put pressure on the OS and application software ISVs to push for support of their products in a virtual world. Before moving to a virtual infrastructure, you should get explicit knowledge regarding your specific operating systems and application software ISVs' policies on supporting their software in a virtual architecture. The support (or lack thereof) from your ISVs may have a significant impact on how smoothly your virtualization implementation will go.
In response to customer demand for support for Windows running under any virtualization software, Microsoft this month announced a new Server Virtualization Validation Program, which will begin in June, 2008. It will allow virtualization vendors to self-test and validate certain technical requirements of their server virtualization software running Windows Server 2008 and prior Windows Server releases. Microsoft will then offer cooperative technical support to customers running Windows Server on validated, non-Windows server virtualization software.
Different priorities in virtual worlds
Unfortunately, there are no standards yet for licensing or support for virtual environments today. Be sure to understand your operating systems and applications vendors' licensing and support policies for running their software in virtual machines, (including any virtual concurrent licensing options). Each vendor's policies for both licensing and support in a virtual world may be different, even within their own product lines, and everything, of course, is subject to change.
Craig A. Newell is a senior consultant at Focus Consulting and has more than 15 years of experience in infrastructure, virtualization, networking, storage area networking, and blades and has managed and supported virtualization projects for major corporations and government agencies. Newell is a certified project management professional, as a certified wireless network administrator, and a certified business continuity planner and served as a technical editor for the book Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs.


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EDC NY Part 2/3: Fear and Loathing in Pacha- The Journey Rages On
Things were off to an up-close and personal start when we crammed 9 of us into an SUV on the way from the hotel to Pacha. Let me tell ya, there isn't a better way to bond with friends and new acquaintances than a crammed cab ride of about 40 minutes. I was really looking forward to the crowd at Pacha, because I had a feeling it would be a mix of people. By mix of people in this instance, I mean the normal club goers who would be all dressed up and such, and the riff raff that Pacha was letting in tonight due to hosting the EDC after party. Rumor had it that the dress code was lifted for that night so that people could make it there in time, so that was pretty considerate of the good folks at Pacha. This being said, it seemed to me as if there would be a great mashup (that's an EDM term, you guys) of regular people and overly tired EDC-goers who were still dressed like assholes, but in a club. I was considerate of my appearance at the club, so I shed my jean vest in lieu of some black jeans, a sweet Japandroids t-shirt and a new button up that really made me feel good about myself. I would consider myself more of the 'regular' people crowd at Pacha, as opposed to my buddy Steve, who was dressed more like the EDC asshole who was at this nice club in a tank top. At least both sides of the coin was represented in our group.
|Dress to impress, Steve. I'm not impressed.
|Pacha, from the balcony and with confetti
|Stefon is a regular at Pacha
|Waiting for Guns N' Roses
|Following the epic dance off
|Don't trust this man with a pretzel. Or sunglasses.
|This night would've sucked without a Ricky photobomb.
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Global media leader embarks on cloud-first, digital transformation with AWS; migrating thousands of virtual machines and leveraging AWS's machine learning capabilities to drive more personalized viewer experiences
Turner has reengineered its end-to-end media supply chain on AWS for a
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decades of content to the cloud—including a 15-petabyte-sized library of
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"We're seeing media and entertainment companies leverage the on-demand, pay-as-you-go benefits of AWS to scale and cost effectively stream videos across a variety of devices, broadcast programs, and publish content around the world," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "AWS is enabling industry leaders like Turner to experiment and innovate at a rapid pace with less financial risk. Turner is delivering more relevant and meaningful content to its viewers using AWS to offer tailored viewing experiences and targeted advertisements across every screen. We look forward to seeing their momentum continue as they leverage AWS to create new media and entertainment experiences in the cloud."
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With two quick flicks of a wrist, a Turkish-made shoe has become an international hit.
Ramazan Baydan designed the "Ducati Model 271" some 10 years ago. So when Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi leapt to his feet last week and sent a pair of size-10s whizzing past President George Bush's ear, Baydan recognized them instantly.
"I couldn't have missed it, no way," Baydan told the New York Times. "As a shoemaker, you understand."
Since the unpleasantness, Baydan has received orders for more than 300,000 pairs of the infamous shoe. He normally sells only 75,000 a year. It goes without saying that Baydan plans to add more staff.
And of course, the shoe will likely be rechristened "The Bush Shoe" or "Bye-Bye Bush."


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|Complete credited cast:
|Humphrey Bogart
|Linus Larrabee
|Audrey Hepburn
|Sabrina Fairchild
|William Holden
|David Larrabee
|Walter Hampden
|Oliver Larrabee
|John Williams
|Thomas Fairchild
|Martha Hyer
|Elizabeth Tyson
|Joan Vohs
|Gretchen Van Horn
|Marcel Dalio
|Baron St. Fontanel
|Marcel Hillaire
|The Professor
|Nella Walker
|Maude Larrabee
|Francis X. Bushman
|Mr. Tyson
|Ellen Corby
|Miss McCardle
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire with no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically employed in the family business but never showing up for work, spending all his time entertaining, and having been married and divorced three times. Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but whom David hardly notices till she goes away to Paris for two years and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds she's captured David's attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself also falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her. Written by Brian C. Madsen <email@example.com>
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Homeowners often get problems when they are looking for the comfort of their home. Surely, there are some possibilities which might happen that the homeowners need to deal with. Of course, the maintenance of the home and any parts and stuffs there will be really needed. We have to deal with its maintenance well and we can simply enjoy anything there. If you are using the hot tub and have a hot tub at home, of course maintaining it is a must so that it will help you to prevent any worse problems which are possible to happen. The maintenance is needed not only for the hot tub but also for its cover.
For sure, the cover will be completely needed to protect it well. Still, we also need to maintain it well in order to give the perfect protection to the hot tub. Sometimes we could not deal with that properly because we do not know how to clean inside of your hot tub cover and even cleaning the outside is something tricky with the inside to be much more challenging to clean it well. What we need to do is dealing with the simple way on cleaning it up well by considering how to get the deep cleansing for both outside and inside of the hot tub cover.
There are some ways which you can deal with on cleaning up your hot tub cover, including cleaning up inside of your hot tub cover. What you need firstly is about preparing the stuffs needed, such like the cleaner which is gentle with non abrasive ingredients, protection product which is oil free as like, and also damp cloths or sponges. It is better to avoid the products which contain alcohol, oil, dishes soap, detergent, and bleach.
Firstly, it is good to deal with the outside of the hot tub cover. Getting the cover to be wet by using the gardening hose is a good beginning. It helps to remove the dust and dirt on the surface area without dealing with the friction. After the water becomes run off, you can apply the cleaner which is non abrasive to your damp cloth or sponge. Then, wipe the cover surface using the sponge or cloth. You need to remember to deal with the underside. Then, you can apply the protector spray which is oil free. Make sure that it has been mildew and moss free. You can remove them first before applying the protection spray.
Then, the next is dealing with the cleaning way for inside of your hot tub cover. You also need to deal with the problems of the moss and mildew which also can happen to the inside of the cover. The first step to clean it up is by unzipping the cover really carefully and then removes the foam. Then, clean the inside side by brushing it well and never forget to use the cleaner which is non abrasive. Then, spray it well once again using the gardening hose. It will be effective to rinse it well by minimizing the risk of friction.
Then, dry it well using towel and let it dry airy couples of hours. Then, after that, you can dry it well by exposing it to the sunlight. Never forget about the foam. You need to ensure that it is completely dry well because it will affect on the growth of the moss and mildew. After they are completely clean and dry, you can reassemble them properly. Once again, make sure that the foam is still in a good condition and feasible to use. When you find the foam is already waterlogged or even it is rotten, it means it is the time for you to make a replacement. That is such a simple but effective way not only on cleaning the hot tub cover but also on maintaining it.


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The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is located at 7001 Freret Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The library is near the intersection of Broadway and Freret streets, and a short distance from historic St. Charles Avenue and Audubon Park.
Expanded online option on uptown campus
Daily parking permits can be purchased online at parking.tulane.edu for $5 and printed from anywhere. This is a great option for guests or Tulane affiliates who do not have an annual parking permit but occasionally need to park on the uptown campus.
New pay station in Diboll Garage
For short term parking, we have a new pay station in Diboll that accepts credit cards and cash. Need to park on the uptown campus for the day but didn't buy an online permit and can't make it to the office in the LBC? Choose space 50 on the meter and place your receipt on your dashboard when you park in any unmarked space around campus.
Yes, the same app that you use to park on city streets is coming to the Tulane uptown campus! Look for the signs on our parking meters and in the Claiborne Avenue lot. ParkMobile gives you great flexibility for short term parking on campus. If you don't have the ParkMobile app, you can download it from the Android or Apple App stores.
Use public transportation to travel to Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.
Freret Bus - The Freret bus stops between Howard-Tilton Memorial Library and Jones Hall.
St. Charles Streetcar - Take the St. Charles streetcar to the Tulane University/Audubon Park stop. Walk through the academic quad between St. Charles Avenue and Freret Street, continue walking under Stern Hall, cross Freret Street at the traffic light crosswalk, turn left. You will pass the Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse, then pass Jones Hall (where Special Collections are located), and the library will be the six floor white building.
Driving directions to Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
- After the exit for Causeway Boulevard in Metairie, you will be nearing the fork of I-10 and I-610, keep right to stay on I-10 E, follow signs for Interstate 10 E/New Orleans Business District.
- Go 1.6 miles.
- Take exit 232 toward Airline Drive/Tulane Avenue/Carrollton Avenue/LA-61.
- Go 0.5 miles.
- Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Carrollton Avenue and merge onto South Carrollton Avenue.
- Go 0.8 miles. (You will go through traffic lights at Palmetto Street/Washington Avenue, Palm Street, Earhart Boulevard and Walmsley Avenue.)
- Turn left onto Fontainebleau Drive.
- Go 0.4 miles.
- Turn right onto Broadway Street.
- Go 1.1 miles. (You will go through traffic lights at South Claiborne Avenue and Willow Street.)
- Turn left onto Freret Street at traffic light.
- Howard-Tilton Memorial Library will be on the left 0.1 miles.
- After crossing the Industrial Canal high rise bridge and passing the fork for I-610, you will be nearing the fork of I-10 and U.S. 90 Business West. You will pass exits for Elysian Fields Avenue, St. Bernard Avenue, Orleans Avenue, and Canal Street. As you are passing these exits, try to be in the middle lane of the three lanes of I-10.
- Use the left 2 lanes to take the U.S. 90 Business W exit toward Westbank/Claiborne Avenue.
- Keep in the right lane of the two lanes that exit to the left, follow signs for US 90 W/Claiborne Ave and merge onto US-90 W/S Claiborne Avenue.
- Merge onto US-90 W/South Claiborne Avenue.
- Go 1.8 miles. (You will go through several lights – Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Jackson Avenue, Washington Avenue, Toledano Street, Louisiana Avenue, Napoleon Avenue, Jefferson Avenue, Nashville Avenue)
- Turn left onto State Street which is the street after Nashville Avenue.
- Go 0.6 miles.
- Turn right onto Freret Street at traffic light.
- Howard-Tilton Memorial Library will be on the right 0.4 miles.


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A Revit User Group
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
1.5 CES LUs
Free and open to all; please RSVP as Ideate, Inc. provides lunch!
The new generation of high performance datacenters are capable of powering up to 30 MW's (more power than the entire town of Palo Alto) worth of servers; that thousands of server racks per datacenter. And to complicate these situations, these servers racks need to be refreshed every 2 years to keep up the with the advancements of server technology. All of these factors can create an administrative nightmare for even the most of savvy datacenter design and facility teams, particularly if they're still using CAD and spreadsheets to manage the flow of server racks. To address this problem, large companies are transitioning to using Revit and synchronizing their models to custom datacenter management software utilizing the Revit open API. In addition to saving them countless man hours, this new process has reduced costly human errors and has opened the doors to rapidly generating power maps of the supporting electrical equipment, cable infrastructure, accurate energy and CFD models to increase both the efficiency and capacity of these datacenters. This presentation will cover the newly developed workflows, the results, and the process of how we transition from CAD and spreadsheets to Revit and databases. We will dive into the development Revit families, how we established standardized shared parameters, and how we use plugins to synchronize our Revit models to secure SQL databases.
About the Presenter: Aryn Bergman has spent the past couple of years working at TL Circle as a BIM Developer and an Energy Analyst with a sharp focus on datacenters. He graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and spent the first 5 years of his career in the building industry as an Energy Analyst and an HVAC Design Engineer for the MEP Engineering Consulting firm Glumac. He then spent the next 3 years as a Senior Subject Matter Expert at Autodesk focusing on Green Building Studio and Revit MEP. In addition to developing BIM and energy analysis workflows for datacenters, he also provides energy audits and retro-commissioning services for existing buildings.
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- Learn how to utilize the "I" in BIM to manage IT Equipment in Datacenters.
- Save countless man hours and reduce human errors when synchronizing custom datacenters.
- Increase both efficiency and capacity of CFD models.
- Dive into the development Revit families and how we established standardized shared parameters.


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Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome…
Charlie Munger
Keppel came out with a S$619m loss last Thursday, the result of a corruption fine and other related costs. The subsidiary Keppel Offshore and Marine are where most of the problems lie, mainly as the result of Brazilian exposure. There is a good article here on how provisioning for losses on the Sete contracts and other jack up exposure Keppel has.
But I am intrigued by the recently "delivered" MPV Everest. Keppel reports on a Jan – Dec financial year, and on Dec 18 2017, a relatively quiet time of the year, it announced it had delivered the MPV Everest… Just in time to book the associated revenue for 2017 which would help prop up what had been a dreadful financial year for the Group.
Now for those not in the know, the MPV Everest is a strange beast, and one of the most expensive DSVs ever built (my previous thoughts on it are here). Marine Construction Services are taking the vessel, they are linked to Edison Capital who are linked to New Orient Marine Ltd, the legal purchaser, (an SPV formed to finance the vessel). MCS/ Edison have supplied their offshore tonnage to MRTS in Russia. Earlier in the year, about the time New Orient would need to have been organising take-out financing, shipbrokers I know were approached about marketing the vessel at an outrageously high day rates, seemingly desperate to back on to a financing deal. Now none can get Edison to tell them what is happening with the vessel.
The MPV Everest, at S$265m is by an order of magnitude more complicated and expensive than any vessel these companies have experience in. Admittedly, MRTS have taken the Toisa Paladin to Russia on a time charter previously, but this is on a different scale. And it is very hard to see without a long term charter, at significantly above current market rates, from an extremely creditworthy counterparty, any bank backing an SPV to provide takeout financing for New Orient Marine Ltd to pay Keppel? People who have been on the vessel have told me there have been some real problems in commissioning the dive system (although that would have been pushed to JFD).
I have also worked with an Eastern European contractor looking to get a vessel to MRTS, and if you think Indian companies don't like to pay for boats wait until you get feedback from a Russian company… so paying for this?
As I said before I have real doubts about the value and economic credibility of this vessel: it is ICE class but not NORSOK? And it is a BV classed DSV? The dive system is Lexmar? These characteristics make the resale value of the vessel, should there be an event of default, extremely hard to gauge but must point towards the extreme downside in value and in length of time taken to even get a sale. The DSV market itself is replete with lay-ups and loss making companies and this asset, unless it goes to Russia, has extraordinarily poor prospects for economic work in the short-to-medium term.
It is very strange that MCS, Edison, and MRTS (for whom the vessel was surely destined) have remained extremely quiet and their websites fail to reflect the enormity of the task they have completed? Verging on a world first? Announcing some work and plans maybe? A photo of the naming ceremony perhaps?
The vessel according to AIS has not left Keppel since delivery and here we are are six weeks later? It is not unusual for a vessel of this complexity to face sea trials, commissioning issues etc. But I have real doubts this is the case here. I look forward to the annual report with interest because there are only a few scenarios that would make sense here:
- Keppel have been paid and the vessel is merely undergoing the final few stages of fitout and sea trials;
- There is a handover issue between the "owner" and the yard, and actually New Orient Marine Ltd have not accepted delivery (and in all likelihood can neither pay for the vessel, nor in this market even want it);
- A nuclear scenario where Keppel have booked a sale of the vessel and moved the debt to the balance sheet and/or another entity. I hasten to add I have no proof of this, but it seems so extraordinary that New Orient Marine Ltd could actually have paid S$265m for this vessel that they have no work for? Maybe some of the S$54m of other unexplained writedowns was the start of a slow series of writedowns on this vessel? All the rig owners at Keppel are paying for delayed delivery because they have no work but this vessel, in the middle of the greatest ever OSV downturn, is simply going to float away and make money? I don't see it.
We will see. Russia is involved so you can never rule anything out here. Maybe I am being harsh given the Sete scandal, but Keppel just doesn't strike me as a yard that did a lot of due diligence on customers in the offshore oil boom when this vessel was ordered, and so the chances of them collecting hefty upfront contributions strike me as remote.
The one thing I defintiely know is that no serious saturation diving contractor has chartered this vessel and no one in the industry knows anything about where she is going. It strikes me as very binary, either a) in the immediate future we are going to hear of a long-term charter of the vessel by a Russian company to operate the vessel in Sakhalin, at way above market rates; or b) Keppel have a massive credit issue.
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Sunday, 3 June 2012
There's not much to be said in favour of releasing balloons is there?
I've been following the exchanges Andy Mabbett (aka @pigsonthewing) has been having lately with people who are determined to release balloons for a variety of celebratory reasons. There's something very pretty about watching a lot of helium balloons floating off up into the sky and I can see why people might want to do it as a form of advanced ribbon-cutting.
It's not awfully good for the environment or livestock though.
There are many things that aren't very environmentally friendly but there's some other benefit against which the risk might be balanced. For example it's reasonably impractical for most people to undertake a sea voyage to go to America (takes a week, fairly costly) although I'm led to believe that doing so has less of a carbon cost than flying there in a few hours.
From what I can gather there's pretty much no benefit in letting off balloons beyond the pleasant visual spectacle and feelgood factor - it seems to be nothing more than aesthetic vertical littering.
I've been reading up on in-air balloon behaviour - they can get pretty high before popping but many of them don't pop 'properly' and instead just deflate. A spent balloon can end up several miles away from its original launch site and with no tracking system built in (as happens when you send up a weather balloon for example) there's not much responsibility that can be taken for clearing up afterwards. They land all over the place on land and sea and seem to have managed to kill a variety of livestock and birds, especially the ones that have a string and card attached to them to say who sent them.
Apparently biodegradable ones are an improvement, but not that much of an improvement and I can't help thinking that releasing balloons is... well a bit pointless.
It turns out that quite a few councils have banned balloon releases on council property and plenty of environmental and animal welfare charities have called for wider spread bans / legislation etc. I'm not sure how successful that will be.
The problem is persuading people to stop doing it. No-one really likes hearing that the x hundred balloons they're releasing to mark the death of a small child is actually a bad idea for the environment. Some of them dislike it so much they're pretty rude to anyone who tries to point this out. Simply ignoring / not engaging with the people who are making a mess seems to be a bit of a cop-out... what to do?
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- AnonymousTue Jun 12, 03:14:00 pm 2012
Of course telling people who want to celebrate hat it's inappropriate won't work especially well, so the communication would need to target a different stage in the process.ReplyDelete
There's the added problem of global helium supplies running out...
Yes indeed...ReplyDelete
I'm led to believe that balloon helium is of a quality not suitable for lab work, however I've not followed this up (and presumably it could be purified!). I used to use helium and have fond memories of the element in its various forms ;)
Comment policy: I enthusiastically welcome corrections and I entertain polite disagreement ;) Because of the nature of this blog it attracts a LOT - 5 a day at the moment - of spam comments (I write about spam practices,misleading marketing and unevidenced quackery) and so I'm more likely to post a pasted version of your comment, removing any hyperlinks.
Comments written in ALL CAPS LOCK will be deleted and I won't publish any pro-homeopathy comments, that ship has sailed I'm afraid (it's nonsense).


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In October of 2014, I flew out to Minnesota where I delivered the Saturday night Keynote address at the Annual Winter Camping Symposium. I just discovered that Four Dog Stove has released a video of my 90 minute presentation. I have had several folks tell me that they would very much like to have heard my presentation.
Well, here it is.
I thank my good friend and supporter, Don Kivelus, of Four Dog Stove, for spurring me into action when the scheduled speaker, Mors Kochanski, took sick at his home in British Columbia and was unable to fly to the US to speak to the group. I used Four Dog's Bushcooker LT multi-fuel titanium backpacking stove on my 2010 PCT and and 2013 CDT thru hikes.
Many folks don't know that, in addition to his sales of stoves, Don is one of the top mail order suppliers to the bushcraft community world-wide.
Four Dog has also invested in professional Youtube support to bring an array of instructional videos to the pubic. Don's YouTube page is a storehouse of almost one hundred interesting and informative information to keep you safe and warm in the outdoors.
Contact me at email@example.com if you would like to have this type of presentation or workshops at your organization's event.


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(fy-teh-YOO-muh: SHOYK-zer-ee) Campanulaceae:
A relative of the Bellflowers and an excellent rock garden or edging plant which forms a tufts of narrow blue-green leaves. The low growing plants are evergreen mounds with taller flowering stems that hold clusters of spiky ball-shaped, deep-blue flowers. Blooming occurs in early summer. Prefers a rich, moist soil with good drainage but tolerant of other soil also.
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Random Magic Tour: Pirates!
Bonus: Online pirate game
Ahoy! Here be a bonus pirate game to play during Random Magic Tour: Pirates!, if ye like to play with pretty, shiny things.
The name of the game: Pirate Chains
The objective: String together chains of pretty jewels to unlock a treasure chest, on the way to adventure and a quest to secure a fabled lost treasure.
Here's what the playing screen looks like:
How to play:
- Take a look at the game screen above. There's a key at the top of the game area, and a treasure chest lock at the bottom of the game area.
- Use the mouse button to click and drag together a matching string of three jewels or more. The string of jewels will then vanish, and the array of jewels will shift.
- Your goal is to gather the jewels together in such a way that you'll move enough of them out of the way to get the key closer to the treasure chest lock.
- Time pressure: You have a minute to complete the level.
Ready? Arrrrrr! Click here to play the game:
Start Game
This little pirate game is part of Random Magic Tour: Pirates!.
There are some dastardly villains in Random Magic, of course, and plenty of fun, suspense and adventure. And, hey — did we mention pirates, 'cause, yes, there are some of those wicked fellows, as well.
Plus gold. And bravery. And love. And magic. You can find out more about the book here, if you like:
Shown above: Book trailer, Random Magic by Sasha Soren
Find Random Magic: Amazon | Kindle
Come along with us for more features and videos about pirate grub, superstitions and gear, legends, tunes, games, art, videos, amazing treasures and general pirateyness. Browse the tour schedule here.
WIN this! (INTL)
Adorable pirate puppet
Play to win at Rum + Plunder hunt: Prizes and info
WIN this! (INTL)
Fun pirate video game! Play to win at our fellow tour mates' blog: This Miss Loves to Read
Here's another interesting tour feature you might also enjoy:
The main Rum + Plunder treasure hunt is open internationally. Here's a fun and easy way to win something piratey and cool: Browse prizes or join the hunt…
Bonus: Find even more pirate plunder, with Little Pirate Prizes, these aren't marked on the schedule and they're not part of the hunt, but they're out there for visitors to find and they could be ANYWHERE. Find some Little Pirate Prizes
Have fun and good luck!
*Disclaimer: All post information provided and sourced, put together, and written by Sasha Soren
Up next, and continuing on with this pirate extravaganza, is another feature – Vintage Maps! Keep an eye out for it within the next hour!


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59km located in the south of Holland situated on Dommel Stream, home of Philips Electricals, a modern city with skyscraper architecture like the Evoluon Conference Centre. It still has a small amount of history within the town market area and the boarding canals, mainly museums, a special being the Philips and Daf truck, plus Dutch historic buildings.
66km southeast and close to the boarder of Germany, the oldest city in Holland, located on the river Maas. The river and the Mass Waal Canal is a busy freight transport route having several bridges striding them. The city is steeped in history from the Roman and Batavian era remains of the Roman city wall can be viewed. Explore the numerous museums and points of interest, St Stephens Church, Benedstad Houses and the Burchtstraat area.
19km west situated in the eastern part of Holland on the banks of the rivers Nederrijn and Sint Jansbeek with beautiful views across the river Arnhem. The city is a mix of skyscrapers and old dwellings. The home of the Battle of Arnhem Museum, vew the John Frost Bridge seen from the Memorial. Points of interest, Gelre Dome and the former 1859 Bronbeek Royal Palace now museum.
66km west this ancient city on the banks of the river Rhine, features many buildings and structures from the early Middle Ages. View the narrow streets, market place and the banks of the canals with many bars and restaurants, just a pleasant stopping point to take in the magnificent scenery and relax. Utrecht has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century with the old Gothic Cathedral ruins and Dom church and tower still very impressive. Other points of interest Railway Museum, Inktpot Building and the canal walks allowing you to view the so many historic Dutch houses and canal swing bridges.
Continue journey 40km northwest to the capital city of Holland with the river Amstel flowing straight through the centre. Amsterdam city has 9 notable canals in the canal belt, covering over 100km with 90 islands and 1500 bridges. The best way to view the old cities houses and architecture is by boat around the canal belt. Discover the Golden Bend set in fine architecture and scenic splendour, some lined with boat houses and small cruise boats..Visit the oldest part of the town called the Quays containing the famous Red Light District. Stroll around the city area and find a hotel stay the night.