9/17/2007

23 Comments

1. Technically, we always could.

   That is, if your public library has an online database like Newsbank.

   A great, free, resource for other national and local titles as well.

   Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 9:26 pm

2. Itsme,

   Yes, but we can’t go to the public library in our pajamas.

   Comment by DRJ — 9/17/2007 @ 9:31 pm

3. Online database. At the library’s website. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

   That you can do in your jammies.

   Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 9:40 pm

4. Your library has a website? You big city folks!

   Comment by DRJ — 9/17/2007 @ 9:43 pm

5. Heck, I thought most did. There are all kindsa databases…some have ProQuest or InfoTrac instead of Newsbank, some link directly to big papers like the NYT. Not to mention academic databases, literary journals, etc.

   Libraries are getting plugged in, man!

   Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 9:46 pm

6. You’re in California, right?

   Ya gotta find something here:

   http://www.publiclibraries.com/california.htm

   Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 9:50 pm

7. Better, we can fisk Maureen and people can follow along.

   Comment by Kevin Murphy — 9/17/2007 @ 10:34 pm

8. Itsme,

   Nope, I’m in Texas. I searched to be sure but my local library does not have a website, so it’s a good thing the NY Times decided to restore free online access.

   Comment by DRJ — 9/17/2007 @ 10:42 pm

9. Hmm, not even a county library website?

   Something to nag them for, eh?

   Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 10:55 pm

10. Yikes,

    Texas is near the bottom on library fundin’

    http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_pub_lib_cap_exp_percap-libraries-capital-expenditures-per-capita

    That may explain the lack of…a website.

    Comment by alphie — 9/17/2007 @ 10:58 pm

11. I’d think websites would be pretty cost-effective. But what do I know.

    Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 11:00 pm

12. Life is about priorities. For instance, our area high school football teams have websites.

    Comment by DRJ — 9/17/2007 @ 11:02 pm

13. Friday night lights, huh.

    Comment by Itsme — 9/17/2007 @ 11:09 pm

14. We always had it for free, because my lovely wife likes the dead-tree version and we subscribe. (She avoids the news sections, of course.)

    Now that they’ve taken away our freebie, what do we get from them? I mean, besides the usual garbage.

    Comment by Attila (Pillage Idiot) — 9/18/2007 @ 5:56 am

15. Texas State Library Commission has a web site that links all state libraries via the internet. You need to be a registered library patron to recieve a password. TSL provides Infotrac plus a large number of other services for home users.

    Comment by tmac — 9/18/2007 @ 6:19 am

16. You mean they won’t pay me to read Dowd? Bummer.

    Comment by Thomas Jackson — 9/18/2007 @ 8:15 am

17. Tmac,

    I think they call it Tex-Net. I registered through my local community college. You also get access to the libraries of all state colleges. It’s pretty cool. Like I said, it’s about priorities.

    Comment by DRJ — 9/18/2007 @ 8:50 am

18. What were the names of the columnists that have been released from Siberia again? I forgot … Krug something? Maury Dude something?

    Comment by Robin Roberts — 9/18/2007 @ 9:04 am

19. Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh !

    Now we will be forced to endure the Left quoting Krugman as though he is some sort of authority again. A more mendacious fellow, I do not know.

    Comment by JD — 9/18/2007 @ 9:11 am

20. Dowd has never been worth any amount of money to read and most certainly isn’t worth any amount of time, either. This is the same woman who blames her singleness on the fact that men cannot deal with her position of power at the NYT while asking ‘Are Men Necessary’…

    Free or not, until I have a birdcage that needs lining….

    Comment by Dana — 9/18/2007 @ 9:48 am

21. Just what the entire country has been clamoring for–unlimited access to Frank Rich, Krugperson, MoDo, and Bob Herbert. Pinch Sulzberger, what a genius!

    Comment by Stu707 — 9/18/2007 @ 10:02 am

22. Has there ever been a story that Herbert could not find an angle where some white Christian male was being a racist?

    Comment by JD — 9/18/2007 @ 12:44 pm

23. Looks like the NEW YORK SLIMES is deserately trying to get more subcribers since they have lost quite a few WELL I WONT SUBCRIBE TO THE NEW YORK SLIMES

    Comment by krazy kagu — 9/19/2007 @ 12:24 pm

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