The ILS without patron data: open questions
In my prior two posts, I outlined a strategy to minimize personally identifiable information in library automation systems (idea overview, impact on FOLIO). ...
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...
Back again. Thanks for the comments on the return of the newsletter. I’ve heard that Microsoft Outlook isn’t playing nice with my email theme. (It also is...
I’ve deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter. These are serious times. I think the world has radically changed overnight, and roughly...
The middle of February already. Time is flying; I hope you are having fun. The threads this week: Privacy-busting Fingerprints in Journal Articles Fr...
Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle “The Higher Education We Deserve”. To reach the top 10, EDUCAUSE members were ...
Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) editor here. Becky Yoose’s Twitter thread has stirred up a great deal of attention to an article published yesterday. This post has m...
These are the presentation notes for the Privacy in the Context of Content Platforms and Discovery Tools presentation during the NISO Information Freedom, Et...
[caption id="attachment_KkOCeAtKHIc" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Me and my Jester's Cap"] Closing out #nisoforum w Peter Murray as disruptive te...
Two articles in each of two threads this week: If Strong Encryption is Outlawed… Allocations of IPv4 Internet Addresses Now Restricted; It’s a Good Thi...
Selected Tweets from “Indexing Repositories” talk by Anurag Archarya, project lead on Google Scholar, 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Jun...
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> In just a few weeks there will be a g...
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...
<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...
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> In this week's threads: a protest --...
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...
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Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> In the DLTJ Thursday Threads this wee...
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner It is a security/privacy edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. F...
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Three groups of stories in this long-...
One of the great things about the Shibboleth inter-institution single sign-on software package is the ability for the Identity Provider to limit how much a S...
"How much effort do you want to spend securing your computer systems? Well, how much do you not want to be in front of a reporter's microphone if a security...
Almost a decade ago while at the University of Connecticut I conducted a survey of ARL libraries on their patron privacy practices. The full text of that su...
Within the span of a recent week we've had two views of the OCLC cooperative. In one we have a proposition that OCLC has gone astray from its core roots and...
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Searc...
Last month, Clay Shirky gave a presentation with the title "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure" at the Web 2.0 Expo. ((Web 2.0 Expo, co-pro...
The title of this post is the same as the report it describes, Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide [PDF]. It was annou...
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank As the saying, now a part of Internet lore, goes: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're...