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- Wright State library combines study and workout with new bikes [WDTN]
- Museums Need to Step Into the Future [The New York Times]
- For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership? [Science]
- A librarian's case against overdue book fines [TED]
- A Library of Things: public libraries provide access to sewing machines, cooking pans and more [Georgia Public Library Service]
- The Book Bus, an independent bookstore on wheels, brings the joy of reading to those who need it most [Roadtrippers]
- Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census [Educopia Institute]
- Macmillan Announces Two-Month Embargo on Library Ebooks [Library Journal]
- Debate Over Policing Free Speech Intensifies As 8chan Struggles To Stay Online [All Things Considered]
- Closing libraries means abandoning society’s most isolated and vulnerable [The Guardian]
- Libraries can have 3-D printers but they are still about books [The Conversation]
- Turkish government destroys 302K copies of books at schools over Gulenists publishers: minister [Turkey Purge]
- Librarians facing new tasks say crisis isn't in the catalog [ABC News]
- OMICS, Publisher of Fake Journals, Makes Cosmetic Changes to Evade Detection [The Wire]
- Danah Boyd on the Spread of Conspiracies and Hate Online [Amanpour & Company]
- To Everything There Is a Season [The American Archivist]
- Effects of the Flipped Classroom: Evidence from a Randomized Trial [School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative]
- Getting Beyond the CRAAP Test: A Conversation with Mike Caulfield [Inside Higher Ed]
- Google’s ‘Assignments’ tool flags plagiarism and missing sources [Engadget]
- The Rise and Fall of the Most Dangerous Publisher in America [MEL Magazine]
- How China Uses Twitter And Facebook To Share Disinformation About Hong Kong [NPR]
- Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite [The New York Times]
- The Internet’s Invisible Cleanup Crew [Jacobin]
- The Little Book That Lost Its Author [Longreads]
- The Radical Transformation of the Textbook [Wired]
- Gwyneth Paltrow Hired a Personal Book Curator—Here's What He Chose For Her Shelves [Town & Country]
- When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases [Smithsonian]
- The Internet Is Rotting?—Let’s Embrace It [JSTOR Daily]
- Traditional Bookbinding | How It's Made [Science Channel]
- New chapter for the homeless as City Library hires social worker [The Age]
- The Rise And Fall Of The Headphone Jack [CNBC]
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