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Galadriel to Library Society of the World
We're working on a new JSTOR license and as a state institution, we cannot indemnify a publisher or provider. In our negotiations, we've seen four variations on JSTOR asking us - or our Authorized Users - to indemnify JSTOR. I am guessing that their concern about this stems from the Aaron Schwartz/MIT/JSTOR case.

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Have any others at state institutions (or otherwise) successfully negotiated out, remained silent, or come up with acceptable language about the institution's or authorized user's indemnification of JSTOR? - Galadriel - -

Joe to Joe, Library Society of the World, Jenica
I wonder if anyone would want to work with Jenica? Opening for an Information Literacy Librarian at SUNY Potsdam. https://joblist.ala.org/m...

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BTW, I am assuming YES would be the correct answer. - Joe - -

Julian to Library Society of the World
🐟... Anyone in town this week for the conference?

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*bump* hey, is anyone at CiL? - mehlib - -

#signalboost - mehlib - -

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waltcrawford to waltcrawford's feed, Library Society of the World
If you find my open access work worthwhile, please read this and provide feedback by the end of April 2015: http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
Thanks to Julian, I now have a Firefox extension for emoji. Watch out, people!

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🐙🐃🍚👓🐩 - mehlib - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World
I'm happy to see more people finding us here in this portion of the LSW diaspora. Hello, peoples!

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I like the Italian ark. - mehlib - -

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*waves* - heleninstitches - -

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Katy_S to Library Society of the World, Katy_S's feed
A nearby public library recently did a big expansion. Apparently, at the grand opening celebration that happened this month, they opened the ceremony with a prayer. Am I the only one thinking OH, HELL NO!

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nope! OH HELL NO. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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No. No no no no no no no no. And I say that as a deeply religious person. No. - laura x from iPhone - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
Y'all, I just chaired my last meeting of The Committee From Hell. #BeerMe

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🍺🍻 - Julian - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World
Student workers from Iris' library are presenting about their awesome student worker projects and positions. They are really treated like collaborators & colleagues, given agency and respect.

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as illustrated by the fact that student workers are part of this panel presentation at a professional library conference - mehlib - -

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Yay!! - lris from Android - -

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lris to Library Society of the World
Milner Library opens databases to ISU alumni: http://stories.illinoisst...

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I wonder what database they're giving access to....4K isn't a lot. - hedgehoglib - -

mehlib to Library Society of the World
I find it so odd that my coworkers always travel as a pack at every conference. Isn't one of the points of conferences to meet people?

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Not for me. But then I hate people. - Pete Smith - -

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I used to have some who did and they couldn't understand why I'd go eat lunch with people I don't know. I kinda thought that was the point. - Katy_S - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
So, let me get this straight: IT wouldn't let us buy a license for Camtasia, because they said they were about to get Kaltura anyway, which would do the same thing as Camtasia and since they were paying big bucks for Kaltura we should use that, but it turns out that since Kaltura doesn't actually do the same thing (and tends to blow up the computers it's installed on) they're telling us we now have to look at "free" software to do what Camtasia does?

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cf: http://screencast.com/t/h... - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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Oh, Hell No! - Katy_S - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
Just posted: The Open Access Landscape: 9. Ecology. http://walt.lishost.org/2...

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
Well golly gee willickers, that's some awesome access you offer there, PMC! http://content.screencast...

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freaking embargoes - mehlib - -

mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
HELLO

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O HAI - Ondatra iSkoolicus from iPad - -

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Hi! - Galadriel from Android - -

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Katy_S to Library Society of the World, Katy_S's feed
It was bound to happen sometime. My predecessor, who never weeded and who still works with young children, sometimes comes in to get materials and complains that the books she always used in the past aren't around anymore (trust me, they weren't that great). Today, she came in right as I was loading up a couple of carts with picture books to take to tech services to be weeded. OH HAI!

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I had trouble controlling my giggling once she left. - Katy_S - -

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Oh dear. - Katy_S - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
TIL that I did half again as much instruction this year as I did last year. Well. THAT explains quite a few things.

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This is one of those posts that makes me want to be able to hit smiley face and frowny face at the same time. GO YOU. And also omigosh, you poor thing. - Marianne - -

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yikes - Stephan1eCogSc1L1brar1an - -

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Galadriel to Library Society of the World
The expression I added to my MS Access query worked!!! #littlethings

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Kirsten to Library Society of the World, Alma ILS support group
It's kind of weird trying to trouble-shoot between two servers when you have access to neither. (Alma logins go through our campus authentication server.)

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i'm just trying to figure out logins. we will have guest users who may borrow books, so will want to log in to see their accounts but don't have our single sign on credentials. looks like we can have an intermediary page to deal with the two types of login but still, seems like a lot of trouble. - weelibrarian - -

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We have a dual login system: one for staff/students authenticating against LDAP, one for visitors etc using Alma authentication. I can talk about the broad architecture of this but not if the talk turns technically detailed. - deborahfitchett - -

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lris to lris's feed, Library Society of the World
Here is information about the handouts for the ACRL workshop my coworker and I gave on emergency planning: http://pegasuslibrarian.c...

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(Note: You have to be logged in to Google to view them. If you're not logged in, you get a webpage all about Google Drive.) - bentley - -

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I fixed the link, I hope. - lris - -

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JASON to Library Society of the World
Trying to see if there is enough interest to hold a Virtual Unconference for the LSW in the 1st Three weeks of August. No details on structure etc... If you could please follow the link to this basic Doodle Poll and indicate all the dates that might be a possibility. Don't select any dates that would be impossible for you. http://doodle.com/vg6pg4q...

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sign up, people! - mehlib - -

laura x to Library Society of the World
Pegasus Librarian | Emergency Planning For Safe Learning Environments Ã¢ÂÂ ACRL 2015 Ã¢ÂÂ Links and Handouts (http://pegasuslibrarian.c... )

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I am now going to read through Iris's emergency planning stuff so I can find out just how much our emergency plans suck. :D - laura x from Bookmarklet - -

lris to lris's feed, Library Society of the World, Marianne
Happy birthday Marianne!!!

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Happy birthday! - Meg VMeg - -

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Happy belated birthday! - Kristin - -

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Meg VMeg to Library Society of the World
If you realize within the first 1-2 months of a Professional Library Position that it's a really poor fit, what do you do? #askingforafriend

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How bad does it look to bail ASAP? Must one necessarily hang around for...8 months? A year? If you bail, do you include it on your resume? Let's pretend you have stayed at least 5 years in all other jobs. - Meg VMeg - -

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I'm in a new position now, coming up to my 2nd month. Things look good (I am worried about my own competency but that's a separate issue) , so I am in the opposite position of wondering.... I suppose you can almost immediately tell if things are bad and it usually is but you may not immediately notice issues... doesn't imply there won't be down the road. - Aaron Tay - -

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bentley to Library Society of the World, bentley's feed
Cod Signal: As a sort-of last-minute favor, I'm in charge of the book club discussion in a couple of weeks of the book, City of Scoundrels, by Gary Krist. I'm having trouble finding a reader's guide. I think there's one in the paperback edition, but it doesn't appear on the publisher's website and I only have the hardbound. It's nonfiction, so NoveList doesn't have one. Does anyone know where I can find a reader's guide or discussion questions? Thanks!

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I found something in what seems to be a wiki for a Chicago high school history class. Huh. https://hancockchicagohis... - bentley - -

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YW :) - holly - -

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