Thursday Threads: Advertising and Privacy, Giving Away Linux, A View of the Future
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Can Google’s New “My Account” Page be a Model for Libraries?
One of the things discussed in the NISO patron privacy conference calls has been the need for transparency with patrons about what information is being gathe...
My View of the NISO Patron Privacy Working Group
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/368912557_2fc44d3709_m.jpg" alt=""Privacy Please" by Josh Hallett" width="240" height="161" class="alignright size-f...
Seeking new opportunity in library technology
Dear Colleagues, Know of someone looking for a skilled library technologist? The funding for my position at LYRASIS will run out at the end of June, and I a...
Setting the Right Environment: Remote Staff, Service Provider Participants, and Big-Tent Open Source Communities
I was asked recently to prepare a 15 minute presentation on lessons learned working with a remote team hosting open source applications. The text of that pr...
Thursday Threads: Man Photocopies Ebook, Google AutoAwesomes Photos, Librarians Called to HTTPS
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Advancing Patron Privacy on Vendor Systems with a Shared Understanding
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pr...
Institution-wide ORCID Adoption Test in U.K. Shows Promise
Via Gary Price's announcement on InfoDocket comes word of a cost-benefit analysis for the wholesale adoption of ORCID identifiers by eight institutions in th...
Thursday Threads: Library RFP Registry, Transformed Libraries talk at IMLSfocus, DIY VPN
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From NISO: Invitation to NISO Patron Privacy Virtual Meetings
This article has been translated into Polish. Over the next couple months, NISO is managing a project to "develop a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pri...
Thursday Threads: Fake Social Media, Netflix is Huge, Secret TPP is Bad
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The Hourglass of a National E-Book Program
This weekend I was at the second "DPLAfest" for the Digital Public Library of America. For a while I was in the national e-book program track. Participants...