Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

2014-08-14 Thread 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

2014-08-14 Thread Keith Jenkins
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out Is this satire?

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

2014-08-14 Thread 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

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

2014-08-14 Thread 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

[CODE4LIB] Particular (Peculiar?) Kiosk Solution Sought

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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 k...@cornell.edu wrote:

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

2014-08-14 Thread Zoe Chao
apologies for duplicate postings 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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,

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

2014-08-14 Thread 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

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

2014-08-14 Thread 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

[CODE4LIB] LYRASIS Open Source Webinars

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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 li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Bill (others), are you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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 CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU on

[CODE4LIB] doaj and code4lib journal

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread 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

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

2014-08-14 Thread 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