Our newest furniture has arrived, AND the older new furniture is now all connected to power! Visit our Facebook page for more pictures, or simply come see for yourself.
Everyone knows that big-time service websites like Netflix, Google and Amazon track your internet use on their sites so they can tailor your internet experience specifically to you. However, did you know it goes way beyond just those sites? Most sites, even those that you think don’t bother, like Dictionary.com, track users’ internet use with cookies.
Watch this (kind of scary) interview of Lori Andrews, an internet privacy expert and author of the book I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy about how your internet usage information can be used against you.
In an editorial for Wired.com, Jason Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future: You Are Not a Gadget, goes a step further, calling out companies who collect internet data while seeking to punish those who participate in illegal copying and downloading. And while it could be argued that the two acts aren’t necessarily related, it’s an interesting read nonetheless.
“It would be unfair to demand that people cease sharing / pirating files when those same people are not paid for their participation in very lucrative network schemes. Ordinary people are relentlessly spied on, and not compensated for information taken from them. While I would like to see everyone eventually pay for music and the like, I would not ask for it until there’s reciprocity.”
For more information, try some of these resources:
Hacking the Future: Privacy, identity, and anonymity on the Web, book in the library
Everyone’s Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here’s How to Stop Them, at lifehacker.com
Three Big Privacy Issues of 2013 – And What You Can Do About Them, at readwrite.com
Protect Your Privacy Online, at USA.gov
Celebrate the last day of classes with free music! Notice that I didn’t say vinyl, because this time, we have EVERYTHING: CDs, sheet music, LPs, open reels, cassettes and even some 8-tracks.
People keep asking “Can the decor in the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives even get any better?” Well, the answer is YES!
Head on over to our Facebook page to see the full slideshow.
With the installation going on, music library users will have limited access to seating and public computers. And you can probably expect some disruptive noise as well.
Love our famous silver lamps with the funky shades and convenient power outlets?
Well, they’ll be finding new homes come Tuesday (April 23rd), as we’ll be getting new furniture the next day.
To ensure these beloved light fixtures find good homes, we are holding a drawing for YOU to win one.
What You Have To Do:
1- Head on over to the library’s Facebook page and “Like” us.
2- Leave a comment or “like” the contest post.
3- Stay tuned. We will post a video of the drawing on Tuesday.
… to avoid the Music Library.
In two little weeks (Wednesday, April 24th), we’ll be getting new furniture! And even though we’re incredibly excited for fabulous booths, fancy new tables, and better chairs, the installation could be quite disruptive for the studious reader. So if you need to camp out in the library all day to work on a final paper or project, it might be best to choose another floor that Wednesday.
But come by on Thursday the 25th and be ready to have your socks knocked off!
The free bins have been refilled again this afternoon. Highlights include vinyl by Jillian and the Mountweazels, and a boxed set of the complete works of Guglielmo Baldini. Happy April Fool’s Day!
Our very own Sound Recordings Archivist Bill Schurk was recently honored for his 45 years of service, which you can read about in the current issue of the Zoom News. After spending three years as a student worker, Bill joined the BGSU faculty as an audio librarian in 1967. That year, he created the Sound Recordings Archives and the rest is history.
Hungry for more? Read about Bill in the BG News:
Jerome music collection rivals all Universities in nation
Archivist makes world-class tower of music
Saving the world, one artifact at a time
New scores available in the Music Library New books and recordings in the Sound Recordings Archives New classical, jazz, and world music CDs available in the Music Library
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