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Sorting By Lc Call Number In Excel, Daniel W. Jolley
Sorting By Lc Call Number In Excel, Daniel W. Jolley
Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities
Sorting by Library of Congress (LC) call number in Excel is problematic because Excel does not treat LC call numbers as numbers. In practice, this means that Excel sorts LC call numbers based on each successive digit in the call number rather than the overall value of each call number. (for example, a call number beginning with PS507 would be sorted after one beginning with PS4998 in a default Excel sort). In this presentation, I demonstrate one method for accurately sorting by LC call number in Excel.
An Evaluation Of The Privacy Policies Of Library Vendors, Daniel W. Jolley
An Evaluation Of The Privacy Policies Of Library Vendors, Daniel W. Jolley
Dover Library Faculty Professional Development Activities
This project aims to evaluate the degree to which various library vendors are taking the privacy of library users into account. In 2018, the Library Freedom Project put together a Vendor Privacy Scorecard analyzing the privacy policies of twelve major vendors, but no follow-up study seems to have been conducted by the Project since then. I intend to conduct my own updated privacy policy audit of these and other significant library vendors (particularly those used by NC LIVE) to gain a better understanding of how well these vendors are accounting for and protecting the privacy of individual library users today. …