On Evaluating Technology-Mediated Access in Library and Information Services
“The Electronic Communications Privacy Act & Us,” written for LS 501: Information in Communities, gave me a foundation to build off of when thinking about the ways in which information, technology, and institutions interact. The ECPA is an example of legacy legislature that still has profound effects on the contemporary information landscape. This essay was part of a larger exploration of, and conversation about, the surveillance state, the PATRIOT Act, and the history of resistance in libraries. This context is important to understand when considering new aspects of patron privacy within the contemporary context of facial recognition, machine learning, and an ever-shifting political landscape where freedom of information and association is becoming less and less certain.
In “This is Just to Say…,” written in LS 556: Intellectual Foundations of Archival Theory & Practice, I identified a gap within the current academic, nonprofit, and publishing information ecosystems. While many archives of modern poetry exist, contemporary poets who often started their publishing careers online are not going to be archived with the same completeness unless an archives for born-digital poetry is created to capture the ephemeral small online journals and presses that pop up, have their moment, and fade away.
As our lives continue to become more and more mediated by technology, it is important for library professionals to be able to both embrace new technologies and implement them within our systems, but also provide information for those who can’t or won’t embrace new technologies.
Example 1
This is Just to Say, the Online Lit Mags are Being Eaten by Digital Decay:
Imagining a Community Archives for Born-Digital Poetry
Imagining a Community Archives for Born-Digital Poetry
Written in LS 556 : Intellectual Foundations of Archival Theory & Practice
Example 2
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act & Us
Written in LS 501 : Information in Communities