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Day Against DRM: Why Librarians Should Just Say No | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. Day Against DRM: Why Librarians Should Just Say No. May 6, 2014. Today is International Day Against DRM! On this day, people and organizations around the world come together to proclaim “hell no! 8221; to Digital Rights Management (AKA Digital Restrictions Management). Learn more about the day and how to take action, small ones and big ones, on the Defective by Design website. 8211; 50-60% off ebooks. Right now...

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Presentations | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. Upcoming Presentations and Classes. September 28, 2016 – Ethics in Librarianship (webinar for SirsiDynix). January 26, 2017 – You Can Do It: Coaching and Disciplining Library Employees (webinar for Wild Winter Web Conference [Wisconsin libraries]). Past Presentations and Classes. June 24, 2016 – What. Learning to Thrive in a Multi-Generational Workplace (pre-conference at the ALA Annual Conference, Orlando).

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Tracking Your Library Users, New from Rosetta Stone! | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. Tracking Your Library Users, New from Rosetta Stone! July 8, 2014. These are the days of NSA spying headlines. Complaints about companies using and misusing private data to conduct psychological experiments. And change the way we engage with politics. I received a tip from a whistle blower that Rosetta Stone’s Library Edition. The source stated that the tracking cookies are linked to Google’s DoubleClick. But, ...

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Laundry and Skeletons: The Reality of Sexual Assault and Harassment | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. Laundry and Skeletons: The Reality of Sexual Assault and Harassment. October 3, 2014. Trigger Warning: This post includes discussions and descriptions of sexual harassment and assault, as well as descriptions of the mental state of someone suffering abuse. On Halloween day of 2011, I wrote a blog post. Team Harpy and the continuing aftermath. Some months ago, the story of Team Harpy began ( #teamharpy. Several ...

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Team Harpy FAQ | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. October 1, 2014. UPDATE 3/27/15: I have chosen to close comments on this post due to repeated hateful comments that violate the commenting rules for my website. Many people have had questions about the lawsuit filed by Joseph Murphy against nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey, and about #teamharpy. Here is an attempt to answer the most common questions so that we can all start from an informed position. In the early d...

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Adobe Spies on eBook Readers, including Library Users | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. Adobe Spies on eBook Readers, including Library Users. October 7, 2014. A story broke yesterday involving eBooks, libraries, and the privacy of user data. Reporter Nate Hoffelder exposed some serious privacy violations on the part of Adobe. Specifically within their Digital Editions 4 product. The collection of such data is quite possibly a violation of the California Reader Privacy Act. Click to email this to ...

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Publications | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. April 2015 – contributing author for. ALA Intellectual Freedom Manual, 9th edition. September 2014 – “Filtering and Libraries: Ethical Issues”. June 2013 – contributing author for. Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library. July 2012 – “Mobile Services for Broke Libraries: 10 Steps to Mobile Success”. Volume 53, issue 3. Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries.

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California Library Leadership Failed | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

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Librarian in Black Blog Sarah Houghton. Amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated. California Library Leadership Failed. August 29, 2014. Last Friday, August 22nd,. The California State Senate voted unanimously to confirm Governor Brown’s nomination of Greg Lucas as California State Librarian. When Lucas was nominated I had some things to say. I wrote letters to senators, reached out to CLA leadership, and talked extensively with other California librarians about the nomination. A few weeks o...