<< November 2018 | January 2019 >>
- The godfather of fake news [BBC News]
- Should Book Choices Be Private? Harold Washington Library Patron Calls For Change [CBS News]
- For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban, this border library offers brief moments of reunion [PRI]
- A Book-Length Argument for a Pop Culture 'Digital Renaissance’ [Inside Higher Ed]
- Potential Changes to UC’s Relationship with Elsevier in January 2019 [University of California, Davis]
- 'The Pirate Bay of Science' Continues to Get Attacked Around the World [Motherboard]
- Need a fishing pole? Cake pan? Costume? Borrow it from the library [The Wichita Eagle]
- Data privacy issues may be capturing more attention in China [CNBC]
- The long, tortured quest to make Google unbiased [The Verge]
- James Frey wins bad sex in fiction award for ‘dubious’ Katerina [The Guardian]
- Northwest Iowa Man Charged For Burning LGBTQ Library Books [Iowa Public Radio]
- Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret [The New York Times]
- Congress Using Lame Duck Session To Push Through Awful Plan To Politicize The Copyright Office [Techdirt]
- Vending machine provides books for students [WBFO]
- Why You Don't Own Your Tech [Adam Ruins Everything]
- Google hearing sees 'idiot' trending [BBC News]
- How the State, Prisons, and Guards Keep Books from Incarcerated People [Teen Vogue]
- Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it. [Quartz]
- Why Wikipedia’s “Nuclear Option” Is the Right Call [Slate]
- The Debate Over Europe’s Stolen African Art [The Daily Show]
- Church Leaders Sue Princeton Over ‘Stolen’ Manuscripts [The New York Times]
- It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights [MIT Technology Review]
- Dr. Google Is a Liar [The New York Times]
- In Talks With Elsevier, UCLA Reaches for a Novel Bargaining Chip: Its Faculty [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging [Information Technology and Libraries]
- As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants [The New York Times]
- A Digital Age Book Burning [Intellectual Freedom Blog]
- Interview: NYPL’s chief digital officer says public is better off when libraries are ‘risk averse’ about tech [GeekWire]
- The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini [The New York Times]
- How was it made? 3D Scanning & Printing [Victoria and Albert Museum]
- For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain [Smithsonian Magazine]
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