During an appearance on the LITA Top Technology Trends panel in 2014, I was discussing privacy of patron data, and mentioned that I thought it was a good idea for libraries to run Tor nodes on libr…

Board of trustees to discuss whether to turn Tor relay back on.

A public library in Lebanon finds itself at the center of a complicated debate over internet privacy and safety, after

A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag.

Adapted from the Digital POWRR project, slides from my NDSR Immersion Program Workshop. Digital preservation tools and advocacy.

From “The Library Assistant’s Manual,” Theodore Koch’s advice to aspiring librarians.

I have wanted to publish a column on privacy as it relates to library technology for a while. While privacy has always been an issue at the forefront of librarians' minds, revelations surrounding the NSA's far-reaching data-collection programs and a seemingly unending string of high-profile breaches at major companies make paying attention to privacy all the more pressing. Having discovered Alison Macrina's work via an appropriately-titled article "Radical Librarianship: How Ninja Librarians are Ensuring Patrons' Electronic Privacy" she was an obvious choice for author. Her work with the Library Freedom Project is vitally important to the future of libraries and recently earned a Knight Foundation grant.

Oscar Grady Public Library’s Digital Media Conversion Lab is now open to the public! The new Digital Lab provides all of the equipment and training necessary to view and digitally preserve ph…

In West Virginia, Solar Holler helps nonprofits install solar panels for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Our Canadian librarian colleagues are telling the world: Big publishers are ripping us off, big time. If you’re one of the Big Five publishers, this is the conversation you do not want to have. You have a product—the ebook file representing a book—and you insist that it be treated like a book in some ways. … Continue reading Canada, oh Canada: Fighting back on ebook pricing →

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 Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems.  The slides from the presentation are below and on SlideShare, followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my remarks.

Your local library is on the front lines against government surveillance.

Libraries have long maintained strong protections for patron privacy and intellectual freedom. However, the increasing prevalence of sophisticated surveillance

When you’re publishing your own books easy to get so busy and wrapped up in details that you often miss book marketing opportunities along the way. For instance, I see lots of indie authors publishing books that would be great additions to public libraries. Have these authors tried to alert librarians—a huge group of professional […]