• For Open Access Week, Barbara Fister wrote a great post called Checking our Library Privilege on Inside Higher Education, which I missed in my last post. “My wish this Open Access Week is that we all examine our privilege and think about what it is we want to do in the world as scholars and librarians – and commit to changing the systems we’re implicated in that makes knowledge available at high cost for the few for only as long as subscriptions are paid. We don’t have to do it that way anymore.”

• Look at these rare book gifs from Girl in the Moon! She explains how she made them with simple tools (tripod, camera, Photoshop) using materials for an upcoming exhibition. Check them out!

With Halloween approaching, here are some silly and some legitimately scary items I’ve come across lately;

• Freedom on the Net report of 2015 is out and looking grim. Unfortunately, content take downs and surveillance laws are increasing and “Democracies and authoritarian regimes alike stigmatized encryption as a tool of terrorism, and many tried to ban or limit tools that protect privacy.” (HT @mnyc via Whitney Bates)

• The Renaissance Society of America’s (RSA) sad announcement Wednesday that they could no longer continue subscribing to Early English Books Online (EEBO) according to Proquest is here. The argument that heavy use of a resource by a scholarly society might cut into the publisher’s library subscriptions – for materials predating copyright laws – generated some discussion on social media. See these searches of the hashtags #ProQuestGate and #EEBOGate on Twitter for a few examples. Fortunately, Proquest responded that there had been a misunderstanding and the subscription would continue. RSA’s update is here.

• Could a research library be your best refuge for surviving in a Zombie Apocalypse? Over at Bustle, Alex Weiss argues just that in an post complete with citations(!) and some gifs from The Walking Dead.