I'm hoping to make it to C4L this year and yes, this would be a good topic for a BOF discussion.

> On Nov 29, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Salazar, Christina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> @Eric Hellman, Will Denton, Michelle, Karen Coyle, etc.
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> I REALLY want to have this conversation AND the post election statement conversation in person en masse at C4L2017. C4L does plenty of socializing stuff, but I believe that it's time for us to come together during "official" conference time to kind of think, talk and write about how we want to (or don't) identify as a community.
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> I'm willing moderate if no one else wants to but I just feel like WE NEED TO TALK WITH each other, rather than e-mail AT each other. There's been some very thought provoking topics here recently.
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> Thoughts anyone?
> Christina (Who Are You? I really wanna know.) Salazar
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 9:28 AM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Post-election reflections for Code4Lib
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> I'm sure we've all read articles about the fake news that circulates in an information environment anchored by social media, and the relation of that information environment to the election.
> 
> Libraries are participants in this new information enviroment, so I have some questions.
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> 1. Do libraries understand the algorithms and metadata that guide search results and suggestions in the services they provide? Do these algorithms reproduce biases in our society?
> 2. Are libraries provide compelling enough services to be meaningful and reliable participants in public discourse?
> 3. When libraries connect their services to social networks (for example with a Facebook "Like" button) are they making user's the information environment better or worse?
> 4. With many users fearing a more authoritarian state, are libraries providing services that are safe from surveillance by commercial or government entities?
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> 
> Eric Hellman
> President, Free Ebook Foundation
> Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
> https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
> twitter: @gluejar