[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: Evergreen 2013: Register Here for 'Improving Your Collection with Evidence' with collectionHQ

[McKinney, Elizabeth]

I agree with Ben's description "nuisance of the inappropriate variety". Rather than approach this through SFC/Evergreen Oversight Board or even conference planning committee, I will personally respond directly to the email letting them know I think their email is parasitic in nature and no one from my group will be planning to attend. 

Elizabeth 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com> 
To: "Ben Hyman" <ben.hyman at bc.libraries.coop> 
Cc: evergreen-2013 at sfconservancy.org, "eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org Board" <eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org> 
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 2:38:16 PM 
Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: Evergreen 2013: Register Here for 'Improving Your Collection with Evidence' with collectionHQ 

Hi, 

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ben Hyman <ben.hyman at bc.libraries.coop> wrote: 
> I indicated to Tony that I didn't think there was a significant threat, and 
> that its more of a nuisance of the inappropriate variety at this point. 
> Please advise if you feel strongly otherwise. 

I lean more towards considering it a nuisance, with two caveats. 

Certainly Collection HQ is free to schedule events to take advantage 
of there being a concentration of librarians who they think might be 
interested in their service. They are also free to make factual 
references to Evergreen 2013 conference insofar as they've scheduled 
it at the same time and place. 

Here's my first caveat: their signup form 
(http://chqeg2013.eventbrite.com/) includes the phrases "Evergreen 
2013: Improving Your Collection with Evidence" and "cHQ Session 
Evergreen 2013", which taken together could be construed as implying 
that their event is part of the conference. I would prefer that they 
not mention the conference in the title of their session, and further 
feel that they should be asked to change this on their signup for and 
any future promotion of the event. 

Hopefully, they'll say yes. If they don't, we do have the option of 
promulgating an announcement to clarify that the Collection HQ session 
is not an official part of the conference. Or, I should so, 
promulgating it more broadly than has already been done; 
eg-oversight-board is publicly archived, after all. 

And here's my second caveat: the email that Collection HQ sent to the 
open-ils-general mailing list on the 15th did not much bother me, 
personally: it was a one-time email and by proximity to the conference 
and content arguably of interest to some Evergreen users. However, 
for obvious reasons, commercial advertising and announcements have to 
be watched very carefully; if it becomes more frequent, revisiting the 
policy for the mailing lists may be necessary. 

What bothers me more are the emails that Collection HQ also sent to 
individuals. If some or all of the email addresses were in fact 
harvested from the mailing list archives, it would not be surprising 
to find that some members of those lists would object to that. If 
folks do in fact object, there are technical measures that could be 
taken to further obscure email addresses in the list archives hosted 
on list.evergreen-ils.org. This wouldn't absolutely prevent 
harvesting -- there is nothing we could do that would have that effect 
-- but would be a clear signal that the community would not tolerate 
that behavior. 

Regards, 

Galen 
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