Re: [CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

[Francis Kayiwa]

On 08/14/2014 02:13 PM, Jim Gilbert(WTPL) wrote:

Hello,

We use Windows Steady State for our XP OPACs.

All other machines have been upgraded to Windows 7 and use the Faronics suite 
(Deep Freeze, Anti-Executable, Anti-Virus) to achieve a clean reboot. When I 
investigated moving away from Steady State (as it is not supported in Windows 
7) I did find an engineer who essentially rewrote Steady State for the newer OS.



Microsoft I *believe* hired the person. Here's how you do it the 
Microsoft way.


http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg176676(v=ws.10)

Otherwise I got a message back from ye olde job. This does (YMMV) 
http://www.horizondatasys.com/en/products_and_solutions.aspx?ProductId=18


or Drive Vaccine from the same company.

./fxk




I'm not seeing that know (that was shortly after Windows 7 launches, so quite 
awhile in IT terms).

James Gilbert, BS, MLIS
Systems Librarian
Whitehall Township Public Library
3700 Mechanicsville Road
Whitehall, PA 18052
610-432-4339 ext: 203

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Francis 
Kayiwa
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:52 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

On 08/14/2014 11:35 AM, Chris Amorosi wrote:

Hopefully someone can help me here!

I have an express 15 minute kiosk intended for quick printing or email
checks.  When a user comes up to the station, they have to press a
button on screen to say they read/agree to the user policies of the
library before using the station.  Every 5 minutes and on the last
minute they are warned about how much time they have left.  At the end
of 15 minutes, everything is closed, the desktop is wiped, and they're
booted off.  While a user (and abuser) could simply wait a moment as
the station resets and log back on, usually the inconvenience of
losing all their work every 15 minutes is enough to dissuade them from doing so.

We currently have a program that works like this, but it will only run
on XP.  I'd like to update the station to 7, so I need a replacement.
Remote access would be a plus, but it's not necessary.

I'm not worried about keeping the station secure because we have Deep
Freeze.  All I'm looking for is that timer functionality.



I haven't "done Windows" in a while.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725745.aspx

We solved this using a 15 minute scheduled task triggered by the logon that 
would execute shutdown.exe

A sign on the machine saying it is shutting down in 15 will be useful.
Otherwise you can settle for reasonably priced Kiosk mode software that does 
all of this.


Cheers,

./fxk






--
Bank error in your favor.  Collect $200.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Joshua Nathan Gomez]

To Eric, thank you for bringing this to our attention. I passed the info along 
to my coworkers and a discussion about the AddThis widget in our CONTENTdm 
instance is now on the agenda for our next weekly meeting.

To Bill, I think a workshop on setting up a Tor relay/node at a library would 
be an excellent addition to the next code4lib conference in February.

Joshua Gomez
Library Systems Programmer
University of Southern California


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of William Denton 

Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:32 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote:

> I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting
> advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of
> privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?

Indeed no, that's how this thread went.  But it's relevant, because though we
should make our own sites private and secure, we should also help people use the
web privately and securely everywhere, and extensions like this do that.

At the university where I work Google Analytics is the standard, and we use it
on the library's web site.  There's probably no way around that---but we can
tell people how to block the tracking, which will help them locally (ironically)
and everwhere else.  (I use Piwik at home, and like it, but moving to that here
would be a long-term project, only partly for technical reasons.)

I know it doesn't make a lot of sense for some people in institutions to work to
defeat what co-workers are doing, but I think there will be a lot of that around
privacy---some people blocking tracking that marketers want to use, for
example---for some time to come.

Another approach is Tor, both spreading the word about it and how to use it
properly, and also about running relays and exit nodes on the Tor network.  I
run a relay myself, and encourage others to do so.  Institutions like libraries
and universities should be running them---we have the bandwidth and computing
power and instituional heft---and I wonder if anyone here is doing that are
their work.

Bill
--
William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Karlsen, Jeffrey]

BTW, EBSCOhost (used in a few libraries, I think) has AddThis widgets. I 
suppose if you use their API you could avoid that.

--
Jeff Karlsen
Librarian & Library Department Chair
Sacramento City College
916-558-2583
www.scc.losrios.edu/library 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua 
Nathan Gomez
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:55 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

I agree. What was prompted as a discussion of protecting one's patrons has 
turned into a discussion of protecting oneself.

Joshua Gomez
Library Systems Programmer
University of Southern California


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Eric Hellman 

Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:30 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting 
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of 
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?


> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:
>
> Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm 
> concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try 
> anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>
>> On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
>>> On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>
>>> *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around. 
>>> Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've 
>>> obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone knows of 
>>> a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear about it.
>>
>> I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.
>>
>> Related:  on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1], which 
>> I hope will be a success.  At home I use Disconnect [2], which blocks entire 
>> domains.  It's great for cutting out cookies and junk like AddThis, but 
>> cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries from 
>> Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
>> [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger [2] 
>> https://disconnect.me/disconnect
>
> --
> Karen Coyle
> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> m: +1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[William Denton]

On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote:

I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting 
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of 
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?


Indeed no, that's how this thread went.  But it's relevant, because though we 
should make our own sites private and secure, we should also help people use the 
web privately and securely everywhere, and extensions like this do that.


At the university where I work Google Analytics is the standard, and we use it 
on the library's web site.  There's probably no way around that---but we can 
tell people how to block the tracking, which will help them locally (ironically) 
and everwhere else.  (I use Piwik at home, and like it, but moving to that here 
would be a long-term project, only partly for technical reasons.)


I know it doesn't make a lot of sense for some people in institutions to work to 
defeat what co-workers are doing, but I think there will be a lot of that around
privacy---some people blocking tracking that marketers want to use, for 
example---for some time to come.


Another approach is Tor, both spreading the word about it and how to use it 
properly, and also about running relays and exit nodes on the Tor network.  I 
run a relay myself, and encourage others to do so.  Institutions like libraries 
and universities should be running them---we have the bandwidth and computing 
power and instituional heft---and I wonder if anyone here is doing that are 
their work.


Bill
--
William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] doaj and code4lib journal

[Eric Lease Morgan]

Albiet a bit late, I very recently learned that the DOAJ is asking journals 
like ours (Code4Lib Journal) to resubmit our application to be in the 
directory. [1] From a Nature article:

  Now, following criticism of its quality-control checks, the
  website [DOAJ] is asking all of the journals in its directory to
  reapply on the basis of stricter criteria. It hopes the move will
  weed out ‘predatory journals’: those that profess to publish
  research openly, often charging fees, but that are either
  outright scams or do not provide the services a scientist would
  expect, such as a minimal standard of peer review or permanent
  archiving. “We all know there has been a lot of fuss about
  questionable publishers,” says Bjørnshauge. [2]

I’m just bringing this to the attention of our current crop of good Code4Lib 
Journal people, in case they hadn’t seen it previously. Others here in the 
crowd may simply want to know.

[1] resubmit - http://doaj.org/application/new
[2] article - http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-website-gets-tough-1.15674

—
Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Joshua Nathan Gomez]

I agree. What was prompted as a discussion of protecting one's patrons has 
turned into a discussion of protecting oneself.

Joshua Gomez
Library Systems Programmer
University of Southern California


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Eric Hellman 

Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:30 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting 
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of 
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?


> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:
>
> Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm 
> concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try 
> anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>
>> On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
>>> On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>
>>> *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around. 
>>> Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've 
>>> obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone knows of 
>>> a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear about it.
>>
>> I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.
>>
>> Related:  on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1], which 
>> I hope will be a success.  At home I use Disconnect [2], which blocks entire 
>> domains.  It's great for cutting out cookies and junk like AddThis, but 
>> cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries from 
>> Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
>> [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
>> [2] https://disconnect.me/disconnect
>
> --
> Karen Coyle
> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> m: +1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Riley Childs]

Unfortuantly there isn't much we can do besides (a) not use the site, (b)
remove it from the site, or (c) contact the site owner and get them to
remove it (unlikely). So we are stuck with our "virtual condoms" until a
better solution is thought up. :(

Riley Childs
RileyChilds.net
+1 (704) 497-2086

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Hellman
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:31 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?


> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:
> 
> Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm
concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try
anyway.
> 
> Thanks,
> kc
> 
>> On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
>>> On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>> 
>>> *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer
around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago -
they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone
knows of a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear about it.
>> 
>> I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.
>> 
>> Related:  on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1],
which I hope will be a success.  At home I use Disconnect [2], which blocks
entire domains.  It's great for cutting out cookies and junk like AddThis,
but cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries
from Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
>> [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger [2] 
>> https://disconnect.me/disconnect
> 
> --
> Karen Coyle
> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> m: +1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Eric Hellman]

I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to "libraries are letting 
advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs" is discussion of 
privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something?


> On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:
> 
> Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm 
> concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try 
> anyway.
> 
> Thanks,
> kc
> 
>> On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:
>>> On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>> 
>>> *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around. 
>>> Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've 
>>> obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone knows of 
>>> a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear about it.
>> 
>> I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.
>> 
>> Related:  on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1], which 
>> I hope will be a success.  At home I use Disconnect [2], which blocks entire 
>> domains.  It's great for cutting out cookies and junk like AddThis, but 
>> cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries from 
>> Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
>> [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
>> [2] https://disconnect.me/disconnect
> 
> -- 
> Karen Coyle
> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> m: +1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[William Denton]

On 14 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:

Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm 
concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try 
anyway.


I am---Adblock Plus, that is.  Haven't noticed any problems (or ads!) or missing 
content.  They seem to get along fine.


Bill
--
William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] LYRASIS Open Source Webinars

[Peter Murray]

Please join us for the latest round of LYRASIS Open Source Webinars. These 
webinars are funded in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and 
FREE for those who wish to participate.  The sessions will also be recorded and 
viewable afterwards. To register or to see full descriptions on each of the 
sessions, visit our website, LYRASIS.org or the direct 
links below.

August 25 – Process Makes Perfect: A Guide to Open Source Governance and 
Consensus with host
Jennie Rose Halperin from Mozilla, 
http://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=9AD1D430-7821-E411-88A4-002219586F0D

September 9 – FulfILLment, an Open Source Interlibrary Loan Solution with host 
Grace Dunbar from Equinox Software, Inc. 
http://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=71EC9272-FD13-E411-88A4-002219586F0D

September 17 - Teaching the Next Generation to Participate in Open Source 
Communities with host
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie from Oregon State University Libraries, 
http://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=FCF4D9A2-CD1C-E411-88A4-002219586F0D

*Note, for our outside of USA friends, you can register for free as well. 
Simply leave the default state as AL and enter 0 as the zip code in our 
registration system. If you have any trouble, please let me know.

Do you have an Open Source topic to present? If you are interested, please 
contact jennifer.bielew...@lyrasis.org 
for speaking opportunities.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

[Jim Gilbert(WTPL)]

Hello,

We use Windows Steady State for our XP OPACs. 

All other machines have been upgraded to Windows 7 and use the Faronics suite 
(Deep Freeze, Anti-Executable, Anti-Virus) to achieve a clean reboot. When I 
investigated moving away from Steady State (as it is not supported in Windows 
7) I did find an engineer who essentially rewrote Steady State for the newer OS.

I'm not seeing that know (that was shortly after Windows 7 launches, so quite 
awhile in IT terms).

James Gilbert, BS, MLIS
Systems Librarian
Whitehall Township Public Library
3700 Mechanicsville Road
Whitehall, PA 18052
610-432-4339 ext: 203

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Francis 
Kayiwa
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:52 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

On 08/14/2014 11:35 AM, Chris Amorosi wrote:
> Hopefully someone can help me here!
>
> I have an express 15 minute kiosk intended for quick printing or email 
> checks.  When a user comes up to the station, they have to press a 
> button on screen to say they read/agree to the user policies of the 
> library before using the station.  Every 5 minutes and on the last 
> minute they are warned about how much time they have left.  At the end 
> of 15 minutes, everything is closed, the desktop is wiped, and they're 
> booted off.  While a user (and abuser) could simply wait a moment as 
> the station resets and log back on, usually the inconvenience of 
> losing all their work every 15 minutes is enough to dissuade them from doing 
> so.
>
> We currently have a program that works like this, but it will only run 
> on XP.  I'd like to update the station to 7, so I need a replacement.  
> Remote access would be a plus, but it's not necessary.
>
> I'm not worried about keeping the station secure because we have Deep 
> Freeze.  All I'm looking for is that timer functionality.


I haven't "done Windows" in a while.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725745.aspx

We solved this using a 15 minute scheduled task triggered by the logon that 
would execute shutdown.exe

A sign on the machine saying it is shutting down in 15 will be useful. 
Otherwise you can settle for reasonably priced Kiosk mode software that does 
all of this.


Cheers,

./fxk




-- 
Bank error in your favor.  Collect $200.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

[Francis Kayiwa]

On 08/14/2014 11:35 AM, Chris Amorosi wrote:

Hopefully someone can help me here!

I have an express 15 minute kiosk intended for quick printing or email
checks.  When a user comes up to the station, they have to press a button
on screen to say they read/agree to the user policies of the library
before using the station.  Every 5 minutes and on the last minute they are
warned about how much time they have left.  At the end of 15 minutes,
everything is closed, the desktop is wiped, and they're booted off.  While
a user (and abuser) could simply wait a moment as the station resets and
log back on, usually the inconvenience of losing all their work every 15
minutes is enough to dissuade them from doing so.

We currently have a program that works like this, but it will only run on
XP.  I'd like to update the station to 7, so I need a replacement.  Remote
access would be a plus, but it's not necessary.

I'm not worried about keeping the station secure because we have Deep
Freeze.  All I'm looking for is that timer functionality.



I haven't "done Windows" in a while.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725745.aspx

We solved this using a 15 minute scheduled task triggered by the logon 
that would execute shutdown.exe


A sign on the machine saying it is shutting down in 15 will be useful. 
Otherwise you can settle for reasonably priced Kiosk mode software that 
does all of this.



Cheers,

./fxk




--
Bank error in your favor.  Collect $200.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Karen Coyle]

Bill (&others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm 
concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to 
try anyway.


Thanks,
kc

On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote:

On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:

*ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer 
around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - 
they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If 
anyone knows of a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear 
about it.


I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.

Related:  on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1], 
which I hope will be a success.  At home I use Disconnect [2], which 
blocks entire domains.  It's great for cutting out cookies and junk 
like AddThis, but cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in 
Javascript libraries from Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of 
tracking to avoid.


Bill

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
[2] https://disconnect.me/disconnect



--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: +1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

[CODE4LIB] Plan to Attend 2014 LITA Forum, Albuquerque NM, Nov. 5-8, 2014

[Zoe Chao]

2014 LITA Forum
Albuquerque, NM
November 5-8, 2014

Registration Now Open!

Plan now to join us in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Hotel Albuquerque for 
the 2014 LITA Forum, a three-day educational event that includes 
preconferences, general sessions, and more than 30 concurrent sessions.

Registration is limited in order to preserve the important networking 
advantages of a smaller conference.  Take advantage of the informal Thursday 
evening reception and Friday evening networking dinners to get to know LITA 
leaders, Forum speakers, and your colleagues.

2014 LITA Forum is the 17th annual gathering of technology-minded information 
professionals and is a highly regarded annual event for those involved in new 
and leading edge technologies in the library and information technology field.  
Comments from past attendees:
“Best conference I’ve been to in terms of practical, usable ideas that 
I can implement at my library.”
“I get so inspired by the presentations and conversations with 
colleagues who are dealing with the same sorts of issues that I am.”
“After LITA I return to my institution excited to implement solutions I 
find here.”
“This is always the most informative conference! It inspires me to 
develop new programs and plan initiatives.”

This Year’s featured Keynote Sessions:
AnnMarie Thomas, Associate Professor, University of St. Thomas, School of 
Engineering 
Ms. Thomas co-founded, and co-directs, the University of St. Thomas 
Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education, and served as the Founding 
Executive Director of the Maker Education Initiative where she worked to 
establish the national Maker Corps program.

Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Vice President and Chief Strategist
Lorcan Dempsey oversees the research division and participates in 
planning at OCLC.  Previously he worked at JISC in the UK, overseeing national 
information programs and services, and before that was Director of UKOLN, a 
national UK research and policy unit at the University of Bath.

Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Founder Trans*h4ck
Dr. Ziegler is the director of the multiple award winning documentary, 
STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen, runs the GLAAD Media Award and is 
also the founder of Trans*H4CK--the only tech event of its kind that spotlights 
trans* created technology, trans* entrepreneurs and trans* led startups.

The Preconference Workshops include:
Linked Data for Libraries: How libraries can make use of Linked Open Data to 
share information about library resources and to improve discovery, access, and 
understanding for library users
Led by: Dean B. Krafft and Jon Corson-Rikert, Cornell University Library

Learn Python by Playing with Library Data
Led by: Francis Kayiwa, Kayiwa Consulting

2014 LITA Forum sponsors include:
EBSCO
Innovative
OCLC

Visit http://www.ala.org/lita/conferences/forum/2014  
for registration and additional information.

Join us in Albuquerque!

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Cary Gordon]

If you click on the opt-out button, we reserve the right to sell your data,
and where permitted, your body and/or soul, to entities targeting luddites,
losers and resistors of the inevitable.


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Keith Jenkins  wrote:

> http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out
>
> Is this satire?
>



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

[CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

[Chris Amorosi]

Hopefully someone can help me here!

I have an express 15 minute kiosk intended for quick printing or email
checks.  When a user comes up to the station, they have to press a button
on screen to say they read/agree to the user policies of the library
before using the station.  Every 5 minutes and on the last minute they are
warned about how much time they have left.  At the end of 15 minutes,
everything is closed, the desktop is wiped, and they're booted off.  While
a user (and abuser) could simply wait a moment as the station resets and
log back on, usually the inconvenience of losing all their work every 15
minutes is enough to dissuade them from doing so.

We currently have a program that works like this, but it will only run on
XP.  I'd like to update the station to 7, so I need a replacement.  Remote
access would be a plus, but it's not necessary.

I'm not worried about keeping the station secure because we have Deep
Freeze.  All I'm looking for is that timer functionality.

Thank you!

-- 
Chris Amorosi, IT Coordinator
Peabody Institute Library of Danvers
amor...@noblenet.org
North of Boston Library Exchange

[CODE4LIB] Beginning Programming in Python, Part I (online class)

[Rory Litwin]

Beginning Programming in Python, Part I

Instructor: Tony Castelletto
Dates: September 1-27, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/084-programming-1.php

Please share with interested staff members...


Programming is a means for exercising comprehensive control over information 
and the media which carry it. Professionals in many fields now have ample 
motivation to learn how to program. This four week course in the Python 
Programming language will provide students a grounding in the basic concepts 
common to all computer programming languages and instill some good habits in 
coding. By the end of this course, a student will understand the structure and 
syntax of a program, modular programming, and the basic data and control 
structures used in all programming languages. Beginning Programming in Python 
is suitable for the student who feels comfortable with Excel Spreadsheet 
formulas and functions or who has created macros for office applications. This 
course is followed by Beginning Programming in Python, Part II.

Tony Castelletto has been programming on one platform or another since the late 
1980s. He received his MLIS in 2008 from Drexel University. Tony has worked on 
unusual information projects throughout his career starting as a technician on 
small NASA missions, managing the information pipelines that carried data from 
satellite to ground. He also worked on the NSF Net as a Network Engineer. Tony 
received his introduction to Library Science working as a programmer on Digital 
Library projects for the University of Michigan's Digital Library Initiative. 
Following his library science education, Tony curated data collections for the 
Linguistic Data Consortium where he also helped produced electronic 
dictionaries in Yoruba, Mawukakan, and Tamil. 

Read an interview with Tony about his Python series:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=626


Course structure
This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that 
participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The class 
does not meet together at any particular times, although the instructor may set 
up optional sychronous chat sessions. Instruction includes readings and 
assignments in one-week segments. Class participation is in an online forum 
environment.

Payment info
You can register in this course through the first week of instruction. The 
"Register" button on the website goes to our credit card payment gateway, which 
may be used with personal or institutional credit cards. (Be sure to use the 
appropriate billing address). If your institution wants to pay using a purchase 
order, please contact us to make arrangements.


Library Juice Academy
P.O. Box 188784
Sacramento, CA 95818
Tel. 218-260-6115
Fax 916-415-5446

inquir...@libraryjuiceacademy.com
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/

Testimonials:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/testimonials.php

[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: Expressions of Interest in Hosting OR2016 Due by Aug. 24

[Carol Minton Morris]

Aug. 14, 2014

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rE2cKe

CALL for Expressions of Interest in Hosting the Annual Open Repositories 
Conference, 2016

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from 
candidate host organizations for the 2016 Open Repositories Annual Conference. 
Proposals from all geographic areas will be given consideration.

Important dates
The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
to host the OR2016 conference until August 24th 2014. Shortlisted sites will be 
notified before the end of September 2014.

Background
Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of 
approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2014 held recently in Helsinki, Finland drew 
more than 450 people). This includes appropriate access to conference 
facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a 
range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference 
social events; conference web site; management of registration and online 
payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements 
committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference 
through attendee registration and independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is 
provided in the Open Repositories Conference Handbook on the Open Repositories 
wiki.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines
Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2016 conference should 
follow the steps listed below:
 
1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by August 24th, 2014. Please 
direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton 
Morris . 

2.  As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organizing an Open 
Repositories conference. Candidate institutions should pay particular attention 
to the pages listed at "Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI.

3.  The EoI must include:
• the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid)
• an email address as a first point of contact
• the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing • the local amenities that would be available to delegates, 
including its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport

4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.

5.  Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued before the end of 
September 2014; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering 
Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being 
prepared.

About Open Repositories
Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/.
Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.
Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.

Thank you!
The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Keith Jenkins]

http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out

Is this satire?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

[Will Martin]

All those links look very helpful and interesting -- I'll be sure to 
study all of them in detail.  Thanks!


Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

[Francis Kayiwa]

On 08/13/2014 05:08 PM, William Denton wrote:

On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote:


*ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer
around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago -
they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If
anyone knows of a good cookie program or plugin, I'd like to hear
about it.


I use Cookie Monster [0] and like it.

Related:  on my work box I'm trying out the EFF's Privacy Badger [1],
which I hope will be a success.  At home I use Disconnect [2], which
blocks entire domains.  It's great for cutting out cookies and junk like
AddThis, but cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in
Javascript libraries from Google or Yahoo.  That's a harder way of
tracking to avoid.



+1 on EFF Privacy Badger.

I have used Xombrero[0] browser for a while which has most of these 
concerns `built-in` and not as an add-on. I will be the first to say the 
browser requires a Vi state of mind to use that trips all but the most 
seasoned Vi (possibly ed ;-) users.


Cheers,
./fxk

[0] https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero

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