[CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian - https://exitpursuedbyabear.net | https://lisarabey.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
I was actually a bit coy in my previous post. Our old site was reasonably battle-hardened for usability. It's not like we transitioned from three-column layouts and guides with three rows of tabs or anything. I'm still trying to come up with tasks for testing. I suspect a lot of the big stuff will be OK while a lot of the small stuff will be off. It's been really hard to test the latter. (And there is a glitches in our analytics so I'm also flying a bit blind.) Is there something in particular you're wondering about? Alex On 09/19/2014 07:50 PM, Joshua Welker wrote: Nice job. I like the simplicity. Let me know how the usability testing goes. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:28 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav Long time lurker, second time poster (if memory serves). We launched our new library website yesterday, which is entirely built on LibGuides 2. You can see it here: http://library.acg.edu/ For simplicity’s sake we used only two templates: a full width template for single page guides (e.g., our home page). a content template that uses ~2/3 of the page for the content and ~1/3 for guide navigation. There are no dropdown menus anywhere, for the reasons people mentioned, nor do we use two columns for content. (Some of the landing pages use a small grid, but that’s about it.) We use LG’s built-in second column wrapped around an `aside` and placed at the bottom of the main content for related info. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see what I mean: http://library.acg.edu/citations/apa I decided to keep the navigation menu on the right to emphasize the main content. My guess is that this won’t work very well for sections with more narrative. My inspiration (GOV.uk) uses wizard navigation, which LG2 supports. That may be a way of handling this issue. I put the site together with almost no usability testing. I’ll have to grab some students in the coming weeks and find out how bad things really are :) You can see a slightly abstracted version of the content template, as well as other useful LG2 thingies in this gist: https://gist.github.com/alehandrof/9f083aa03c287931d9f0 The design was written in Sass on top of an imported and customized Bootstrap 3.2. There's an option in the LG admin to disable the default Bootstrap and I only had to write a few hundred lines to override aspects of the default LG stylesheets. Because I built the design on top of Bootstrap there was very little tweaking necessary for the admin side to work properly. Hope this helps, Alex -- Alex Armstrong E-Resource/Reference Assistant The American College of Greece Libraries, John S. Bailey Library 6 Gravias Street | GR 153 42 Agia Paraskevi | Athens, Greece Phone: +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1274, 1267 | Fax: +30 210 601 7795 Email: aarmstr...@acg.edu On 2014-09-19 12:31 AM, Joshua Welker wrote: That's a good idea. I changed the template using Bootstrap classes so that the sidebar will appear below the main column on small screens ( 1024px roughly). But I might consider hiding the side completely. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Schofield Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav I love your minimal template. We're experimenting with similar minimalism. If you all can't agree on the existence of the right column, you might compromise and use media queries to display: none; until the screen is sufficiently wide. E.g., 1140px so it will only pop on widescreen monitors and avoid almost all tablet orientations. Good work. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav I am in the middle of building a very minimalist LibGuides 2.0 template to go with our new website. Here's the current status: http://ucmo.beta.libguides.com/test-guide. We are still torn on whether to have any side columns. We currently have a right column just for important site-wide information. We used the right rather than left with the rationale that it is not an essential navigation menu and that we didn't want it to be the first thing users notice. Content should come first. The fact that users will not focus heavily on the right-hand content is actually a good thing in this instance. I go back and forth on whether to scrap the side column. I am pretty adamant that there should only be one column for page content, although I am prepared to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable in the scientific sense. [1] Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, and for myself: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication. I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. kc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
Just a minor point. Despite my relative index score it doesn't necessarily mean that I am not a shameless self-promoter, it may just mean I've been at it longer. Just sayin'. Roy On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable in the scientific sense. [1] Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, and for myself: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication. I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. kc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
Roy, this is pretty much in line with what I said, below: shameless self-promotion can be seen as a plus or at least not a minus for men, but few women would have replied the way you did. It does make you wonder how much more visible women would be if self-promotion were more culturally acceptable for them. Again, I refer to my blog post, which you may not have had time to read before posting. kc On 9/20/14, 12:41 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: Just a minor point. Despite my relative index score it doesn't necessarily mean that I am not a shameless self-promoter, it may just mean I've been at it longer. Just sayin'. Roy On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable in the scientific sense. [1] Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, and for myself: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication. I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. kc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600 -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: snip I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. Anything quoted in our official public statement (and thus in my previous email message) is taken directly from Murphy's lawyer's statement of alleged complaint. Lisa -- Lisa M. Rabey | @byshieldmaiden (formerly @pnkrcklibrarian) - https://exitpursuedbyabear.net | https://lisarabey.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
I don't know anything about the lawsuit or what has transpired to cause it, but since when does an H-index score make one a notable librarian? Many notable librarians don't publish anything at all. Edward On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable in the scientific sense. [1] Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, and for myself: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication. I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. kc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
+1 Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services Administrator IT Services (704) 497-2086 rileychilds.net @rowdychildren From: Edward M. Corradomailto:ecorr...@ecorrado.us Sent: 9/20/2014 7:21 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey I don't know anything about the lawsuit or what has transpired to cause it, but since when does an H-index score make one a notable librarian? Many notable librarians don't publish anything at all. Edward On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable in the scientific sense. [1] Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, and for myself: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication. I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. kc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey
Perhaps this topic could be taken up in another thread? -Mike On Sep 20, 2014 4:22 PM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I don't know anything about the lawsuit or what has transpired to cause it, but since when does an H-index score make one a notable librarian? Many notable librarians don't publish anything at all. Edward On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable in the scientific sense. [1] Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, and for myself: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication. I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of notability for women. [2]) I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you offline with other thoughts. kc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: Friends: I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank you profusely for the help. For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in $1.25M defamation case because From our official statement (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/) Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false, libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging, outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4. Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr. Murphy’s reputation. Right now we need the following most importantly: 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who might -- please have them get in touch. 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it. 3. onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks. We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed. Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has made this all very much worth while. Best, Lisa -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
