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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie started publishing a digital newsletter through Substack last September. He told readers he would offer thoughts on books, plays, and movies, as well as his own original stories,...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Expectations were that Internet Librarian 2021 would be held in Monterey, Calif., in a post-pandemic environment. The virus had other plans, and the conference pivoted to a virtual event on very short notice. Internet...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Prince Charles has thrown his royal weight behind a fundraising campaign to keep a treasure trove of literary manuscripts in the U.K. He is patron of the Friends of the National Libraries (FNL), which is leading the...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)* The New York Times reports, "The Biden administration on [Nov. 2, 2021] sued to stop Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the United States, from acquiring its rival Simon & Schuster, as part of a new drive...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)As we start a new year, I want to check in with people who help make Information Today happen. What are they looking forward to? What tech will they be trying out? What books do they want to read? And as we slowly emerge...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Much of AI ethics is about reducing the harms to humans, but what about animals? Of course, concern about animal rights is not new, and that movement is well-established. A discussion of animal rights philosophy is...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)* IMLS partnered with Reinvestment Fund for "Understanding the Social Wellbeing Impacts of the Nation's Libraries and Museums," a report that finds "the presence and usage of public libraries and museums to be positively...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)In the previous installment of A Day in the Life, I chatted with Mary Danko, director of the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vt. Now let's turn our attention to the assistant director, Emer Pond Feeney. GIVE ME AN...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Hashtags allow marketers to tag their content to attract the attention of users who may be interested in a certain topic; additionally, users are able to follow hashtags related to their personal areas of interest. They...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)* The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched the first season of the podcast How to Fix the Internet, which features "conversations that can plot a pathway out of today's tech dystopias," including on topics such...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)A website is never done. Like a garden, a website needs constant attention and care in order to flourish. Content updates, bug fixes, and security patches are maintenance jobs that must be done for the website to...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)* eLife and PREreview joined forces with AfricaArXiv, Eider Africa, and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) to create a peer-review training course for researchers in Africa. According to eLife, "The course...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)The psychology of human-centered design meets the shadow side of human-centered design, and when this occurs, dark patterns begin to emerge. Dark patterns, coined in 2010 by Harry Brignull, have been infiltrating our...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)The old saw goes that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. There is no doubt that certain aspects of life are built on imitation. Children learn in part by imitating their parents and others in the world around...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)In 2017, a new phrase--alternative facts--abruptly entered the nation's political vocabulary. It was a clever way to validate lies (which we meekly continue to refer to as "untruths," "fake news," or "disinformation")....
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)The Civil War wasn't actually about slavery; it was about states' rights. Do you remember hearing some version of this (dangerous misinformation) in school? When I heard it for the first time, I thought, "That makes...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)* Lean Library published the free "Librarian Futures" white paper (registration required), which is "based on a large-scale survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons that examines librarian-patron workflows and...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)In May 2011, Joseph Epstein (former editor of The American Scholar) was quoted on Publishing Perspectives, which is an online business news outlet. Epstein had this to say: "81 percent of Americans feel that they have a...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Here's something you may never have thought of: Bulletproof vests were not created to accommodate a woman's upper torso. Why? An article in the November 2021 issue of Computers in Libraries by Suzanne S. LaPierre, a...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 39, Issue 1)The last time I traveled by plane, I had a layover at Chicago's Midway airport. While there, I saw the typical stores that were stocked with a variety of goods and had an employee at the cashier's station. But one...