Libraries have long counted up the books on their shelves to show their value. That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million books) was ...

All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use.1 When users recognize or fear that their privacy or confidentiality

There are probably numerous technology solutions, both high tech and low, that can help to stop these situations from arising. However, when thinking about these issues, it is also a good time to consider how much information the library needs from individuals in the first place.

FFS. MAC addresses uniquely identify devices and are trivial to sniff and connect to device owners.

What to do if you are harassed in the library.

In light of #metoo and escalating cultural conversation around sexual assault and harassment, we take a deep dive into the problems of sexual harassment in the library.

In this paper we report on two surveys and offer an introductory plan that librarians may use to begin implementing mobile access to selected library databases and services. Results from the first survey helped us to gain insight into where students at Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah, stand regarding their use of mobile devices for academic activities in general and their desire for access to library services and resources in particular. A second survey, conducted with librarians, gave us an idea of the extent to which responding libraries offer mobile access, their future plans for mobile implementation, and their opinions about whether and how mobile technologies may be useful to library patrons. In the last segment of the paper, we outline steps librarians can take as they "go mobile."

This third post in our series on an evolving approach to social media focuses on telling preservation stories.

Feminization of work devalues it.

Maybe I was only in the eighth grade, but I was ready to stand up to anyone who tried to threaten the ideal of intellectual freedom.