]]> http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2013/05/21/last-of-the-new-furniture/feed/ 0 http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2013/04/29/choose-privacy-week/ http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2013/04/29/choose-privacy-week/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:58:37 +0000 Liz http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/?p=1656

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

Head on over to our Facebook page to see the full slideshow.

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.

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!

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