The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's highest court, has a slightly unusual procedure for delivering its...

The use of a secure communication protocol (HTTPS) provides the best approach for protecting patron privacy, but not enough libraries use it.

Keynote on library-software security and its total suckage.

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Library Freedom Project

...But first, some good news. Among the 123 members  of the Association of Research Libraries , there are four libraries with almost  secur...

Introduction Libraries face a number of challenges in protecting the privacy of users, especially students in elementary, middle, and high schools. School libraries offer print, media, and online

The genesis of this site and catalyst behind my own interest in coding and software carpentry was James Baker’s Library Carpentry sessions. I was very pleased to notice that he has recently u…

This is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called Insuetude (still ongoing), which is bringing media archaeologists together with stones-and-bones archaeologists. I started my talk with a bit of film, as a way of time-traveling to the middle...

Collecting web usage data through services like Google Analytics is a top priority for any library. But what about user privacy? Most libraries (and websites for that matter) lean on Google Analyti…

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During PLA2016 in Denver, an expert panel gave an update on the library ebook lending market and offered ideas to help patrons access more digital content.

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Edward Snowden's disclosure of mass surveillance of the internet has necessitated a re-examining of our relationship with the internet. Rather than a tool that broadens democratic engagement, the internet is increasingly used as a tool to manage and direct citizens, particularly via the mass collection of personal data by both the state and large multi-national corporations. Although online tools are available to protect intellectual privacy and ensure individuals can fully engage in the democratic process, they are subject to the same limitations as other aspects of the digital divide in terms of social, economic and cultural capital. Regarding online intellectual privacy, the evidence suggests there are more efforts by the library profession to protect the rights of the individual in the United States, the home of the NSA, than in the United Kingdom. This paper seeks to investigate the state of this aspect of the digital divide and what is being done to address it.

What is library anxiety? Librarians and experts discuss how technology is changing students' attitudes toward libraries and librarians.