This was going to be only a post about how I got the Ghost newsletter software to use Amazon Simple Email Service (AWS SES) instead of the built-in Mailgun s...
One thing that would dramatically clarify the controlled digital lending concept in general and the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit in particular is hav...
In my prior two posts, I outlined a strategy to minimize personally identifiable information in library automation systems (idea overview, impact on FOLIO). ...
In the previous blog post, I outlined the concept of a library system with no personally identifiable information as a way to safeguard a patron’s right to p...
Library systems hold significant information about patrons, including their search and reading histories. For librarians, ensuring the privacy and confident...
The British Library suffered a major cyber attack in October 2023 that encrypted and destroyed servers, exfiltrated 6...
Inspired by Tom Whitwell’s 52 things I learned in 2022, I started my own list of things I learned in 2023. I got well into 2024 before I realized I hadn’t p...
While on vacation, I was catching up on some personal knowledge management maintenance I had been putting off. At one task—adding a page for a new employee ...
WOLFcon—the World Open Library Foundation Conference—was held last month, and all of the meetings were recorded using Zoom. Almost all of the sessions were ...
In May 2023 I was asked to join the opening session at Georgia’s GIL User Group Meeting. Along with Chris Sharp and Emily Gore, we reflected on the conferen...
The Congressional Research Service has posted four reports about verifying users’ ages for various services online in the past few months. This is a tricky ...
One of the hidden gems of the Library of Congress is the Congressional Research Service (CRS). With a staff of about 600 researchers, analysts, and writers,...