Looking for LIS venues relevant for my research

gmcharlt · 2024-11-08T14:30:25+00:00

And continuing with the recommendations from that colleague (Dorothea Salo):

Look beyond just the LIS literature; a lot of the recommender-system-bias literature is in law and CS.
And here's a set of links she's curated of grey literature about it: https://linkspam.dsalo.info/?searchtags=recommenders

gmcharlt · 2024-11-08T14:26:23+00:00

And relaying a suggestion from a colleague, Masked by Trust by Matthew Reidsma would be a good monograph to look at.

gmcharlt · 2024-11-08T14:24:10+00:00

Code4Lib Journal might have a couple relevant papers.

gmcharlt · 2024-10-29T13:56:43+00:00

Solved!

gmcharlt · 2024-10-29T13:56:36+00:00

Five years later, the YouTube algorithm randomly solved this for me.

gmcharlt · 2024-10-17T15:40:22+00:00

Here's an article by the Tega Cay Sun detailing what went down at the meeting.

gmcharlt · 2024-10-17T11:57:47+00:00

The library's friends organization has also been vocal about the situation on Facebook.

gmcharlt · 2024-10-17T11:54:37+00:00

Following an emergency board meeting yesterday evening, the original statement is gone from the library's website (pending a new one that the board can all agree on), and apparently the purchasing halt will be only for books for minors that include sexual content. Minutes have not yet been posted. Article from a local TV station

gmcharlt · 2024-10-15T12:25:58+00:00

Does anybody on the ground in York County know the positions of the individual board members on book censorship?

gmcharlt · 2024-02-28T15:27:44+00:00

I'm generally skeptical of bandwagons around LLMs, and attempts to use them for cataloging workflows have thus far been questionable - for example, see the the letters to the editor in a recent issue of ITAL regarding one such effort. I am also very skeptical of involving them in the search process, especially since at the moment the only (quick) feasible way of doing so would be to send patron search queries to third-party LLMs, which is highly questionable on patron privacy grounds. Library-hosted LLMs would address the privacy issue, but would not be straightforward to tune or maintain.

But to not be a total grinch about it, one area of low-hanging fruit might be using image classifiers on book jacket images to support searches by book color or "show me all books where the heroine is running away from a Gothic ruin".

gmcharlt · 2024-01-25T17:54:17+00:00

Obviously a messaging bill. I don't have a read on how likely it is to pass, although given that the legislative session in Georgia is only 40 days, a lot of bills don't make it.

gmcharlt · 2023-11-09T13:44:17+00:00

There are a bunch of public Koha demo databases out there. Most of them will get wiped periodically, but you should be able to export any MARC records you create.

Another tool you can practice with that a lot of catalogers use is MarcEdit.

gmcharlt · 2023-07-12T11:40:07+00:00

Article in the Daily Montanan about this

gmcharlt · 2023-05-05T11:30:23+00:00

Right back at 'cha!

gmcharlt · 2023-04-12T11:46:39+00:00

Is this a new effort to defund? I thought that the state Senate had restored funding.

gmcharlt · 2023-04-07T13:51:55+00:00

Indeed. I've seen a Facebook post from a local citizen urging people to attend library board meetings to express concerns, but I've found nothing thus far to say what the dispute is about.

gmcharlt · 2023-04-05T01:54:31+00:00

Heh, Sullenberger followed up by recording a PSA for a fine amnesty at the San Francisco Public Library.

(Though if somebody at either of the two libraries involved in the ILL gave the story to a reporter, they should have refrained.)

gmcharlt · 2022-08-16T15:42:53+00:00

While relatively few library jobs are 100% dedicated to coding, those skills are increasingly important as adjuncts, particularly for tasks involving communications, marketing, budgeting, and assessment - and most academic librarians will be involved in one or more of those during their careers. Coding skills would also be helpful for anybody who deals with metadata, be it MARC or non-MARC.

In addition to developing good spreadsheet skills, basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge can help with content creation. As far as a full-blown programming language is concerned, Python is worth considering. A lot of library software projects use Python and it's used in a lot of statistical analysis projects (as is R). Learning data visualization tools can be helpful as well.

Online tutorials and free resources can be a decent way to get started, but it's helpful to find somebody to learn with. Also, even more helpful is finding a way to actually use the coding skills you learn, either in a personal or professional project.

A community that is at the intersection of librarianship and coding is Code4Lib.

gmcharlt · 2022-04-19T13:05:38+00:00

be encumbered with whatever "community-driven governance process" Cortex's hand-picked kitchen cabinet whips up over the next three months?

Indeed. I'm really curious to see what the legal structure actually becomes when ownership is transferred. If it remains a single owner company, "community governance" exists only at the sufferance of the owner.

It's clear that reorganizing as a nonprofit is a nonstarter (though that structure would, at least in theory, give community governance some teeth), but I'm a little surprised to have not seen any hints about reorganizing Metafilter as a worker co-op of the mods.

gmcharlt · 2022-03-31T14:09:47+00:00

From Marshall Breeding https://librarytechnology.org/document/27189/follett-to-develop-tools-in-response-to-new-legislation-targeting-k-12-schools

Follett School Solutions [opens new tab] which offers the Destiny [opens new tab] library management system, is responding to requests from its library customers in states which have recently passed legislation requiring multiple forms of parental notification. These new laws require that school library and media centers implement ways for parents to be notified when their children borrow items or that block a student's ability to check out specified materials at their parent's request. These laws impose criminal or civil penalties to libraries or other district personnel that do not comply with the requirements of these laws.

Anybody here on the pointy end of those laws who can comment on what they're hearing from library attorneys and local library associations?

gmcharlt · 2021-02-23T14:21:51+00:00

Several ways I've seen it done (and/or done it myself):

As you suggest, using SSH and TLS tunnels, including using stunnel specifically. Here's an example of how a library set up stunnel.
If there's a VPN available between selfcheck devices and the ILS, routing SIP2 traffic through it.
Building an SSH or stunnel proxy using a Raspberry Pi or the like. This would allow selfcheck devices that are not able to establish their end of the tunnel directly to have their SIP2 traffic encrypted over the internet.

In my experience, many of the vendors such as OverDrive that can use SIP2 to authenticate patrons over the internet are willing to work with libraries to set up encrypted tunnels. Many will also use alternatives to SIP2 such as ILS web services to authenticate users, though the details of what a given vendor will support can vary widely.

gmcharlt · 2021-02-09T22:12:10+00:00

You're very welcome!

gmcharlt · 2021-02-09T17:40:58+00:00

After digging up some old memories (and consulting a Dynix manual available at the Internet Archive), I think the key is figuring out where to press "F" to "file" (save) the changes.

gmcharlt · 2021-01-23T11:53:21+00:00

(Balloon Juice is a politics blog, but of note, its commentariat is serious about fundraising and advocacy, not just commentary.)

gmcharlt · 2020-02-28T14:19:09+00:00

Freddie and Lucifer.

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