MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2020
From the AP: Google kept tabs on the whereabouts of its users even if they had turned off location tracking, an Arizona official alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The suit filed by Attorney General Mark Brnovich stemmed from an investigation that began after The Associated Press reported on Google’s location tracking in 2018. [[Clip] […]
“Libraries Must Change” is the title of a new op/ed (845 words) by Anthony Marx, President of the New York Public Library, published in the New York Times today. From the Op/Ed: To remain true to their mission, all libraries must undergo radical change. To serve the public in the face of unprecedented challenges, libraries […]
From ALA: The American Library Association (ALA) will now observe the month of June as Rainbow Book Month™, formerly known as GLBT Book Month™, a nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, genderqueer, queer, intersex, agender and asexual community. Originally established in […]
From the Research Data Alliance: Today, 28 May 2020, we publish the pre-final version of the RDA COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines covering four research areas – clinical data, omics practices, epidemiology and social sciences. This document is also complimented by overarching areas focusing on legal and ethical considerations, research software, community participation and indigenous data. […]
Roundup (May 28, 2020)
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|“The Google Page Experience Update: User Experience to Become a Google Ranking Factor” (via SEL)Plan to begin using the “user experience” sometime next year. Additional Reports: “Google Search Results Will Take ‘Page Experience’ Into Account Next Year” (via The Verge) Direct From Google: Evaluating Page Experience For A Better Web “The page experience signal measures […]
From the U.S. Census: Responses to the 2020 Census are on track as more than 60% of U.S. households have responded to the 2020 Census, with approximately four out of every five households that responded on their own choosing to do so online at 2020census.gov. Current internet self-response rates are 9.2 percentage points above Census […]
IFLA Signs on to ICOLC Statement on Resource Access During COVID-19, Shares Principles for Associations in Negotiations
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From the International Association of Research Associations and Institutions (IFLA): IFLA has signed onto the Statement by the International Coalition of Library Consortia on the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on library services and resources. To further support members, IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters has produced principles for use in […]
From the Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing (via Computational Propaganda Project/Oxford Internet Institute): Given the evolving nature of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic—and public understanding of the crises—we provide a weekly briefing about the spread of coronavirus information across multiple social media platforms. For the week leading up to 26-05-2020 we find: Of all the junk news […]
LC for Robots: Library of Congress Launching a Series of Jupyter Notebooks
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access
|From “World’s Revealed” (A Library of Congress Blog) Post by Rachel Trent, Digital Collections and Automation Coordinator in the Geography and Map Division: The Library is beginning a series of Jupyter Notebooks exploring how to computationally access, retrieve, and analyze cartographic materials in the Library of Congress’s online collections. These notebooks include instructions and demonstration Python code that […]
New Resource: Freedom on the Move Digital Archive Adds K-12 Lessons
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|From Cornell University: The Freedom on the Move project, an online collection devoted to fugitives from slavery in 19th century North America, has developed a series of lesson plans to make its crowdsourced database accessible to K-12 teachers and their students. The project is a database of tens of thousands of advertisements placed by enslavers […]