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Scott Peterson

CrossRef - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 04 May 12
     
    CrossRef is the official DOI registration agency of the international DOI Foundation. It was launched in 2000 and includes over 900 voting members and publishers who represent over 3000 societies and publishers. The organization includes metadata services and on the front page a resolver so DOI strings that are not hyperlinked will connect directly to the resource to determine what it is.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 04 May 12
     
    Interestingly enough, III seems to use it for WebBridge (which I know little about): http://csdirect.iii.com/webbridge/index.php?n=LinkSyntax.DOI-CrossRef
Megan Durham

Daily Chronicle | NIU to help libraries avoid 'bit rot' - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    DeKALB - With the help of a $575,000 grant, a group of university librarians and curators hope to have an answer to a growing problem. Lynne Thomas, curator of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University's Founders Memorial Library, learned in October that NIU, along with four other universities, secured a grant to study the best practices for storing digital data.
Megan Durham

" Security! ACRL TechConnect Blog - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    "I didn't do anything! All I did was plugged in the USB stick to see if there was a name in any documents so I can return it to its owner." "I kept getting pop-ups on my workstation, and I keep clicking the cancel button on all of them.
Scott Peterson

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  • Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12
     
    A blog, appears largely inactive, about the Digital Public Library of America and other topics. Notable as it was co-found by Tom Peters, the new Dean of University Libraries at MSU.
Scott Peterson

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  • Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12
     
    The Church of "Copy-Me-ism," which holds file sharing as a sacred rite. Rather than having a dogma they have values. I'm unclear how much this is a sort of in-joke like the "Church of the Subgenius" or if it intends more cynically to circumvent copyright laws and rulings by declaring them against their religious sacraments.
Scott Peterson

New York Times article on Kopimism - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 16 Aug 12
     
    A New York times article that covers Kopimism in death.
anonymous

New Attack Breaks Confidentiality Model of SSL, Allows Theft of Encrypted Cookies | thr... - 0 views

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security ssl hacking

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      anonymous on 29 Apr 12
       
      It's worth noting that to execute this attack you have to be on the network of your target and have the ability to execute a man in the middle attack.
  • anonymous on 29 Apr 12
     
    Two researchers have developed a new attack on TLS 1.0/SSL 3.0 that enables them to decrypt client requests on the fly and hijack supposedly confidential sessions with sensitive sites such as online banking, e-commerce and payment sites. The attack breaks the confidentiality model of the protocol and is the first known exploitation of a long-known flaw in TLS, potentially affecting the security of transactions on millions of sites.
Megan Durham

Libraries Could Double As Post Offices | Library Journal - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    The United States Postal Service (USPS) may invite some public libraries to double as post offices, Susan Hildreth, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, said on August 1.
anonymous

Survey Finds Secure Sites Not So Secure | threatpost - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 29 Apr 12
     
    There is quite a bit of alarming data in what the project has gathered, and one of those pieces of information is that more than 148,000 of the sites surveyed are vulnerable to the BEAST attack, which was developed by researchers Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong and disclosed last year. Their attack uses what's known as a chosen-plaintext attack against the AES implementation in the TLS 1.0 protocol and enables them to use a custom tool they wrote to steal and decrypt supposedly secure HTTPS cookies. The attacker can then hijack the victim's secure SSL session with a site such as an e-commerce site or online banking site.
Megan Durham

Best content in MOBIUS Libraries | Diigo - Groups - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    A collection of interesting things on the web via MOBIUS staff. So this is my first posting so we'll see if this works. I thought this article was a nice little summary of the virtual conference. Also we need a Mario lamp!
  • Justin Hopkins on 16 Aug 12
     
    You bookmarked the diigo page and not the article ;)
  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    Of course I meant to do that. I think this is a really great resource and we should use it some time . . .oh wait we already do. I tried reposting we'll see if that works.
Jennifer Parsons

Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available § THE HARVARD ... - 0 views

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library harvard metadata CC0

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  • The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly available.
  • Harvard Library announced its open distribution of metadata from its Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) scholarly article repository under a similar CC0 license.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 30 Apr 12
     
    I'm very heartened by this development, and by the implication that libraries are taking control of their own metadata in order to make the items within their collections more findable, and more easy to integrate with other mediums.
Scott Peterson

Oxford Union Debate at Harvard University - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12
     
    Harvard also had an Oxford style debate about the future or purpose of libraries. While interesting it didn't really cover anything new:
Justin Hopkins

Google Exec, Others Advise Tight Web Security After Writer Hack - 0 views

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  • Justin Hopkins on 14 Aug 12
     
    If you don't already know what 2 factor authentication is - it's the use of a second out of band communication channel that is used in addition to your password. In the case of Google it means that when you go to log in they will send you a text message with a 6 digit numerical code that you'll type in as well. This means that would be hackers would need to not only know your password but also have physical access to your phone.  I've already enabled this feature for Google apps @mobiusconsortium.org - if you'd like to enable it for your account (it takes like 10 minutes to get set up and fix your applications) just let me know. 
Megan Durham

The End of the Book? - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 05 Oct 12
     
    "Either the books must go, or they must swallow us up. I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error. Our social condition forces us to hear many stupid things every day. A few more or less do not amount to very great suffering in the end; but what happiness not to be obliged to read them, and to be able at last to close our eyes upon the annihilation of printed things!"
Sharla Lair

http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/18649/Think%20like%20a%20STARTUP.pd... - 0 views

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startup library education

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  • Sharla Lair on 06 Apr 12
     
    Nice white paper on entrepreneurialism in libraries. 
Scott Peterson

Decline and Fall of the Library Empire - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12
     
    It looked at several of the recent themes in the library world such as "Library 2.0" and how they've failed or the ideas have been accomplished better outside of libraries. What I found interesting is it was written by the Vice President of Library Support Services for LSSI, the private company that has started to run many public library systems, so I'm curious what his intent was with this article.
Megan Durham

" Tablets in Library Workflows: Revolution & Healthy Skepticism ACRL TechConnect Blog - 0 views

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  • Megan Durham on 27 Sep 12
     
    Tablet Revolution: Healthy Skepticism Tablets and mobile computing have been the subject of a lot of Internet hype. A quick search for "tablet revolution" will confirm this, but if we're appropriately skeptical about the hype cycle, we'll want to test the impact of tablets on our library ourselves.
Megan Durham

Codeacademy's Free Kits Help Kids (and Educators) Learn to Code - 0 views

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Professional Development library software technology

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  • Megan Durham on 17 Sep 12
     
    Free kits for teachers to help students learn to code and hopefully generate interest in coding. This is a really neat program I'm interested in how teachers like it and how they fit it in to their busy schedules. I imagine there is a lot of collaboration between teachers and librarians, since often times librarians are in charge of the school's computer lab.
Sharla Lair

Next ALCTS e-Forum: BISAC and Beyond, April 17-18 - 0 views

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      Sharla Lair on 09 Apr 12
       
      BISAC and Beyond: Making Word-Based Classification Your Own April 17-18, 2012 Hosted by Logan MacDonald and Loretta Mainock Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message. Each day, sessions begin and end at: Pacific: 7am - 3pm Mountain: 8am - 4pm Central: 9am - 5 pm Eastern: 10am - 6pm Description: Many libraries are considering moving away from traditional classification systems like Dewey or LC in favor of word-based systems based on BISAC, a classification scheme used by book retailers and publishers. Reclassifying a library collection takes thought, planning, courage, and sweat. How can a word-based classification system benefit your customers? Join the conversation and talk to other libraries who have already ditched Dewey or are considering making the switch. Topics for discussion may include: Why switch to a BISAC-based system? Adapting BISAC for the needs of your customers Planning the conversion process Tips, tricks, and FAQs for reclassifying collections Using BISAC for collection development Rethinking the 'flow' of your nonfiction collection Merchandising with BISAC BISAC and the MARC record Leveraging BISAC in the OPAC to add discovery points Logan Macdonald is the Collection Development Manager for Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado. In 2008, Logan helped develop WordThink, Anythink's BISAC-based classification system that was implemented district-wide in 2009. Prior to joining Anythink, Logan worked for the Montrose Regional Library District in Montrose, Colorado and University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. He is frequently introduced by colleagues as "The Man Who Killed Dewey." Loretta Mainock is the Anythink Buyer for children's materials and also purchases econtent, music and dvd's for Anythink Libraries. She has been with the library district for more than 15 years. She has been in
anonymous

3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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  • The publishers’ complaint takes issue with the way the upstart produces its open-education textbooks, which Boundless bills as free substitutes for expensive printed material. To gain access to the digital alternatives, students select the traditional books assigned in their classes, and Boundless pulls content from an array of open-education sources to knit together a text that the company claims is as good as the designated book. The company calls this mapping of printed book to open material “alignment”—a tactic the complaint said creates a finished product that violates the publishers’ copyrights.
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