(Moving to the libraries list, which is more appropriate than Wikipedia-l or third party proprietary lists. Please subscribe at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries>.) Nice encouragement, but there are about 14k known "libraries" in Italy, of which over 2500 university libraries (although most of those don't have even one librarian)... https://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/ Is there some international standard to draw a line somewhere? If not, I suppose Italian contributors will keep working on Wikidata instead, where such information is easier to manage. Federico Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22: world.

El 6/04/2019, a las 12:54 p.m., Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki(a)gmail.com&gt; escribió: (Moving to the libraries list, which is more appropriate than Wikipedia-l or third party proprietary lists. Please subscribe at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries>.) Nice encouragement, but there are about 14k known "libraries" in Italy, of which over 2500 university libraries (although most of those don't have even one librarian)... https://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/ Is there some international standard to draw a line somewhere? If not, I suppose Italian contributors will keep working on Wikidata instead, where such information is easier to manage. Federico Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22: _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries

As part of 1Lib1Ref 2018, the State Library of Queensland set themselves the task of adding mention of every public library in Queensland (6th largest state in the world) into the relevant town/suburb/district article. All 200 and something of them are now all listed. It was not a problem to find reliable citations as there is an annual report compiled for the Government (available online), plus information on websites from their relevant local government authority (who operate the public libraries). As an example, our smallest public library in Queensland is in McKinlay (population 178). Enjoy the exterior and interior photos of the library! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinlay,_Queensland Kerry *From:* Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *David Ramírez-Ordóñez *Sent:* Saturday, 6 April 2019 8:23 PM *To:* Wikimedia & Libraries &lt;libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; *Cc:* Frederick Noronha &lt;fredericknoronha(a)gmail.com&gt; *Subject:* Re: [libraries] [Wikipedia-l] List of Libraries... Hi! Maybe this could help: https://librarymap.ifla.org/ Best, -- David http://www.nomono.co/david El 6/04/2019, a las 12:54 p.m., Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki(a)gmail.com&gt; escribió: (Moving to the libraries list, which is more appropriate than Wikipedia-l or third party proprietary lists. Please subscribe at < https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries>gt;.) Nice encouragement, but there are about 14k known "libraries" in Italy, of which over 2500 university libraries (although most of those don't have even one librarian)... https://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/ Is there some international standard to draw a line somewhere? If not, I suppose Italian contributors will keep working on Wikidata instead, where such information is easier to manage. Federico Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22: Dear all: Please help to build list of libraries in your part of the world. Some links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries Indian Wikipedians, this could do with some love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_India This seems impressive to me (but I don't know how many are missing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Australia And here's a listing from Nigeria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Nigeria Fredericknoronha _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries

Kerry Raymond, 07/04/19 10:01: article. Indeed, this is easier to achieve and also what the Italian librarians are mostly doing now (although not so systematically). It's IMHO also better for publicity purposes, because the articles about municipalities and parent entities have much more traffic, and you're more likely to catch the attention of someone who wasn't actively looking for information about the library. With an article named after the library, you're mostly preaching to the converted (in the best case). Federico

Thanks for that, Nemo. Useful pointers... Just one query: if there is a tiny library in some village somewhere, would we assume that someone, someday might not be interested in finding out information about it too? FN On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 15:24, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries

Jane Darnell, 16/04/19 18:26: Do you mean data retention policies for lending records? What detailed information is recorded about each lending, what aggregation or purging happens and when? Federico _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries

Although "lending records" are "protected" it isn't clear how well they are. Libraries, especially those with minimal or no technical staff, are probably not the most diligent in systems security. When I was doing privacy audits on US public libraries I found that many kept the most recent circulation record (even after the item had been checked in) until the next circulation - which could be indefinitely. The reasoning was that if they found a problem with the item (damage, for example) they would be able to find and charge the last patron to have the book out. This means that nearly every book in the library has an actual patron record associated with it at all times, which is an obvious security risk since library systems may not themselves be secure. (I wasn't able to determine if the records are kept "in the clear" but I would not be surprised if they were.) Remember that "protected" is a relative status, not absolute, and that legal protection \= hacker proof. kc On 4/16/19 5:45 PM, Alex Stinson wrote: the detailed purging -- Karen Coyle kcoyle(a)kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries