<< August 2018 | October 2018 >>
- The Judge in the Latest 3D-Printed Gun Case Got 3D Printing Totally Wrong [Slate]
- Technology hasn’t killed public libraries – it’s inspired them to transform and stay relevant [The Conversation]
- Do College Librarians Have Academic Freedom? Amid Push, California’s ‘Will Not Be Silent’ [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- What the last Blockbuster has that Netflix doesn’t [The Verge]
- Some Books Can Kill [JSTOR Daily]
- How Misinfodemics Spread Disease [The Atlantic]
- Data Collection and Privacy [American Libraries]
- European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals [Science]
- Hard Copy or Electronic Textbooks? Professors Are More Concerned About Keeping Them Affordable [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Can Beethoven send takedown requests? A first-hand account of one German professor’s experience with overly broad upload filters [Wikimedia Foundation]
- The Privacy Conundrum [Medium]
- Why this Gucci knockoff is totally legal [Vox]
- Keepers Of The Underground: The Hiphop Archive At Harvard [Morning Edition]
- The Pack Horse Librarians Of Eastern Kentucky [Morning Edition]
- Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free [The Guardian]
- EU passes controversial copyright law that could hit the likes of Google and Facebook [CNBC]
- Should We Still Cite the Scholarship of Serial Harassers and Sexists? [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Pa. prison books and mail policies draw protests, petitions, and possible legal challenges [Philly.com]
- No, Apple didn't delete that guy's movies. Here's what really happened [CNET]
- Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia and the search for trusted information [Information Professional]
- WV Library Director Attempts to Keep "Fear" Off Her Shelves [Time]
- The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese algorithm [BBC]
- New bill would finally tear down federal judiciary’s ridiculous paywall [Ars Technica]
- NARA Responds to Controversial ICE Records Destruction Request [Library Journal]
- Hopkins library specialist hit by immigration crackdown after being blindsided by visa denial [Baltimore Sun]
- Class-action lawsuit against Facebook alleges moderator's job gave her PTSD [CBS News]
- Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere. [The New York Times]
- The Opioid Crisis and Administering Narcan in Libraries [Public Libraries Online]
- Platform Censorship: Lessons From the Copyright Wars [Electronic Frontier Foundation]
- I lead Texas’s education board. Here’s why we want to cut Hillary Clinton — and Barry Goldwater. [The Washington Post]
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