Author: Corina Bardoff

Corina Bardoff received her MSLIS from Pratt Institute SILS in May 2015. At Pratt, she focused on developing skills in research, literacy, and outreach, with the goal of working at an urban public library. Her writing appeared most recently in Cream City Review and Phoebe, and is forthcoming in the book Libraries and Danger.

Password Security Lesson

Corina presented a lesson on creating safe passwords that would be suitable for public or academic libraries. This engaging lesson also raised several important questions related to information and digital literacy for adults, and the assumptions we make about safekeeping our digital lives.

Homelessness and the Ethics of Information Access

This presentation addresses the question of access to the library by people experiencing homelessness from an intellectual freedom/equitable access perspective. Rather than providing legal advice or policy prescriptions, I look at this from an ethical perspective and explore whether it is ever justified to block someone’s access to information.

NYPL Map Warper Tutorial

The New York Public Library’s Map Warper is an open-source program for integrating scanned copies of historical maps from the NYPL’s collections with digital maps. Our tutorial, selected…