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Library Policies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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Library Policies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Thanks to everyone who attended today’s Education Institute presentation. Here are the slides for your reference. Library Policies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly…

Tech

Odd WiFi Policy

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Michael Sauers

This is a recent policy I had to “accept” in order to use a location’s public WiFi. My question is this: If I use CHI’s…

Internet

Toronto students question whether Wikipedia really is open to everyone

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Michael Sauers

A recent dust-up between Wikipedia and Canada’s largest university raises questions about how collaborative the popular website that bills itself as “the free encyclopedia that…

Libraries

Helping your patrons with their technology. What’s your policy?

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Michael Sauers

One of our librarians here in Nebraska sent me the following e-mail asking for my assistance. With her permission I’m posting it here looking for…

In-flight WiFi TOS

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Michael Sauers

On one of the flights I took last weekend GoGo in-flight WiFi was available. I didn’t pay for it as I’d already promised myself that…

FCC votes to punish Comcast for violating Net Neutrality

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Michael Sauers

A reposted e-mail: Dear Michael, The FCC just voted to punish Comcast for violating Net Neutrality Join the Open Internet Movement Your hard work is…

Further proof that filters don’t work

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Michael Sauers

Last week I was at the offices of Lincoln Public Schools to present on LibraryThing. During some free time in the lab I wanted to…

Of Media Equity & Library Reciprocity

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Michael Sauers

I do believe that this is the first blog post I’ve ever written on request. However David Rothman and I participated in last night’s episode…

Who are we to decide

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Michael Sauers

Continuing the theme of my last post, here’s a college library in the UK in which "[u]sing the social networking site in the library is…

Teaching road safety by banning roads

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Michael Sauers

Another topic I’ve been on the record with is my feeling that banning a technology (Wikipedia, Google, Social Networking services, Cell phones) as a result…

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