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I learned this week that Reveal Digital has digitized On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984-2004. This is a part of the Independent Voices collection that “chronicles…

de-week · libraries · privacy

Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 21:55

https://tararobertson.ca/2016/oob/

All I Know Is What’s on the Internet — Real Life

de-week · fake-news · information-literacy · libraries · philosophy

Sun, 22 Jan 2017 at 12:34

http://reallifemag.com/all-i-know-is-whats-on-the-internet/

Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles

libraries

Mon, 2 Jan 2017 at 22:14

http://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/automated-book-culling-softwar.html

How libraries can save the Internet of Things from the Web's centralized fate / Boing Boing

libraries · tor

Sun, 3 Apr 2016 at 00:29

http://boingboing.net/2016/03/28/how-libraries-can-save-the-int.html

Obama's new Librarian of Congress nominee is a rip-snortin', copyfightin', surveillance-hatin' no-foolin' LIBRARIAN / Boing Boing

libraries

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 at 08:45

http://boingboing.net/2016/02/24/obamas-new-librarian-of-cong.html#more-449814

You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect privacy

data-minimalization · libraries

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 at 23:17

http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663871/s/4cd7fb74/sc/28/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Cus0Enews0C20A160Cjan0C130Cus0Elibrary0Erecords0Epurged0Edata0Eprivacy/story01.htm

Brewster Kahle for Librarian of Congress!

libraries

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 at 17:47

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/13/brewster-kahle-for-librarian-o.html

Library offers Tor nodes; DHS tells them to stop

libraries · tor

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 at 14:36

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/10/library-offers-tor-nodes-dhs.html

Internet filters considered harmful

censorship · libraries · website-blocking

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 at 07:55

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/13/internet-filters-considered-ha.html