OCLC protest teeshirts are here!
UPDATE: OCLC just announced creation of a "Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship" to review the policy with members. And that was one nipple. What could two nipples do?
We made a teeshirt out of the best of our parody OCLC logos, protesting the new OCLC Policy. I think it works pretty well.*
We'll be handing out at this Friday's OCLC Policy discussion at the New York Public Library (sponsored by Nylink) and at the American Libraries Association Mid-Winter conference in Denver. So far we've made exactly one. We'll probably make 100. They cost $5 to make, so a $5 donation is appreciated (but not required). If there's demand, we'll sell and ship them for cost.
Sonya strikes her "defiant" pose:
*Except for being nipply on me. I didn't want to post it, but Mike had the best argument, "With all the things that LibraryThing members have done for you, don't you owe them a nipple?"
We made a teeshirt out of the best of our parody OCLC logos, protesting the new OCLC Policy. I think it works pretty well.*
We'll be handing out at this Friday's OCLC Policy discussion at the New York Public Library (sponsored by Nylink) and at the American Libraries Association Mid-Winter conference in Denver. So far we've made exactly one. We'll probably make 100. They cost $5 to make, so a $5 donation is appreciated (but not required). If there's demand, we'll sell and ship them for cost.
Sonya strikes her "defiant" pose:
*Except for being nipply on me. I didn't want to post it, but Mike had the best argument, "With all the things that LibraryThing members have done for you, don't you owe them a nipple?"
posted by Tim at 4:30 PM
12 Comments:
Ask not what nipples your country can give to you...etc.
I would like one.
Want! But on a coffee mug. Then I can see and display it every day.
I'd love to have one...but it'd be...politically incorrect in my state...
Radical Reference NYC is hosting a salon discussion the following Friday night. The accommodations won't be as nice, and neither will the people. Want to come? There's even a screenprinting shop at our venue, if you need to make more shirts.
Oh, I'll mention that next time I blog. I wish you well. I'm going to be in Denver at ALA MW.
Tim, love the t-shirt. But I'd really like to move quickly from the negative to the positive -- from anti-OCLC to "free the data" with ways that people can do something with their data. So: 1) sign a pledge to put your catalog data 'out in the wild' 2) wear a button saying "free the data" and one saying "I pledge to free my data" 3) get people to sign up in the exhibits by the OCLC booth.
Just don't get sued! We don't want to lose you guys!
Here's a great idea!
Tell the incoming Obama administration through http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov !
I did a search for OCLC and NOTHING came up. I'd post but someone who knows more about this would be more convincing and make a better argument.
Someone do that AND provide the link HERE so that we all can vote it up!
Hey Tim, heard you talk about the shirts on Uncontroleld Vocabulary and thought you could always just draw in a question mark after "restricted" with a permanent marker...
I want one.
Ah, so that's why you guys weren't at the NYPL/NYLINK thing. I was wondering why you didn't say anything. I took notes and will try to blog it later. I'd also like a shirt, as big as you've got.
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