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#Massachusetts: "#Publishers Look To Make Edits To Mass. Lawmaker’s E-Book Access Bill ow.ly/NuSO50Q2QSW #ebooks #libraries #legislation

Just rediscovered this tweet while looking into some old open source topics. I still love this quote!

There's been a lot of discussion about content warnings, stemming from a publisher adding a "product of its time" warning to Virginia Woolf. A common argument was that it didn't hurt anyone and besides TV and movies have ratings. Well, this is where all that nonsense ends up.

As @shammer46 says, there is shared ownership. #ALAAC23

For one thing, oss community members are an equal partner with the vendor. The vendor doesn't always have the last word. It's a meritocracy where a person can build trust in the community to help lead its direction. #ALAAC23

Question about community: "who are these crazy people?" Me, me! I'm one of those crazy people. An oss community is a totally different animal than a user group. #ALAAC23

I also love the way @shammer46 talks about oss being a conversation. It's such an apt description of the experience. #ALAAC23

Open source can be more challenging than a system where one entity makes all the decisions, @shammer46 says, but "there’s a richness that comes" from getting involved in the collaboration. I concur. #ALAAC23

From @lisacarlucci: We don't have time to reinvent the wheel...We innovate and make the product better by releasing that code, releasing the documentation. #ALAAC23

This year's Executive Perspectives theme is Multiple Paths to Openness. #ALAAC23

Sitting in on the Executive Perspectives panel at #ALAAC23

@gmcharlt Waving from many rows behind you.

✨📢 Senator Jake Oliveira focused on the value and protection of #massachusettslibraries in his Inaugural Speech this week! Read the entire tremendous speech here: tinyurl.com/oli-speech 📷 Photo credit:@jakeforsenate #mustread #bookbans #intellectualfreedom #publiclibraries

I am very excited to join a great group of speakers to talk about my favorite topic - #LibraryOSS. I hope to see some familiar faces there!

@roganhamby I've decided I'm going to use that one sentence as a prompt for my entire presentation at ALA. I should be able to get 45 minutes of material out of it.

@kmlussier Agreed, it is a major flaw in my opinion.

Skimming the 2023 Library Systems Report #libraries and a lot of #opensource commentary ... a few thoughts:

@roganhamby The innovation he cited earlier on often is a direct result of a model that allows libraries/consortia to take control of their software. I have seen how empowering it can be when a small quality of life improvement that would get lost in a user group process becomes a reality.

@roganhamby I finally got around to reading it, and my quibble is the underlying assumption that the development model is an abstract preference and not something that provides tangible benefits.

From my blog: Sharing appreciation for my Evergreen ILS colleagues who accepted the Tuit Challenge and some news about next steps in my career. kmlussier.com/thank-you-for-… #evgils #EvergreenILS

Somebody misentered their email address when placing an order through @Makeship and their order information was sent to me. I'm now marveling at the large amount of PII that just magically dropped into my Inbox through what was probably a small typo. #PrivacyMatters

@gmcharlt The cat always comes before coffee, which speaks to how highly I think of the cat. I'm pretty sure I would push my own kids aside to get to my coffee mug.

@kmlussier Your cat likes to live dangerously, I see ;)

I was going to start my work day early this morning, but this guy had other plans. #AlwaysListenToTheCat