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Research Paper: “#Cyberbullying in the Digital Age: People’s Perspective and Information Sharing Behavior on Twitter” (Preprint)
The paper (preprint) linked below has been submitted to the ASIS&T Conference 2019. Title #Cyberbullying in the Digital Age: People’s Perspective and Information Sharing Behavior on Twitter Authors Iman TahamtanUniversity of Tennessee Li-Min HuangUniversity of Tennessee Source via … [Read More...]
87-Year-old Detroit Library Reopens After Brush with Disaster
From the Detroit Free Press Boasting everything from unique photos of the likes of Henry Ford, Louis Chevrolet and Amelia Earhart to color swatches for classic car restoration and documents from Detroit’s role in winning World War II, the National Automotive History Collection is back in … [Read More...]
Report: Alberta Librarians Saving Online Scientific Reports, Policy Documents Before Government Change
From The Canadian Press (via The Globe and Mail): An Alberta librarian has been archiving much of the provincial government’s online content – including studies on health, climate-change policy and poverty reduction – to prepare for a change in government. The United Conservative Party won a … [Read More...]
Research Article: “The Impact of the Open-Access Status on Journal Indices: A Review of Medical Journals”
The following article was recently published by F1000 Research. Title The Impact of the Open-Access Status on Journal Indices: A Review of Medical Journals Authors Saif Aldeen AlRyalat University of Jordan Mohammad Saleh University of Jordan Mohammad Alaqraa University of Jordan Alaa … [Read More...]
The Folger Shakespeare Library’s British Book Illustrations (BBI) Database Adds Iconclass Metadata For Images
From The Folger's "The Collation" Blog: British Book Illustrations (BBI) is a project of the Folger Shakespeare Library, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to digitize and index woodcut and engraved illustrations in our seventeenth-century British and … [Read More...]
Public Libraries: Winnipeg Academics’ Open Letter Urges Change to Millennium Library Security
Note: The Millennium Library is the main library of the Winnipeg Public Library System. From the CBC: A group of Winnipeg academics is urging change to new security screening measures at the Millennium Library, which they say contradicts the goal of public libraries and fall hardest on … [Read More...]
Art Exhibitions: The Whitney Museum of American Art Launches Online Resource Exploring History of The Whitney Biennial
From The Whitney: The Whitney Museum of American Art has launched a new online resource that greatly increases the public’s access to historical information about the Whitney Biennial, the longest-running exhibition in the country to chart the latest developments in American art. Visitors to … [Read More...]
3D Modeling: CyArk’s Open Heritage Project Celebrates First Anniversary, Releases New Data, and Launches Open Heritage 3D Portal
From the Google Blog: Last year on World Heritage Day, CyArk launched Open Heritage on Google Arts & Culture to showcase the technology used for heritage preservation around the world. This year, we’re expanding the project further. Our goal isn’t just to digitally preserve heritage sites … [Read More...]
Report: Digitization of World War Era Posters at the National Museum of American History
From the Smithonian's Digi Blog: In December of 2018, the Digitization Program Office (DPO) and the National Museum of American History (NMAH) started a 5-month project (well, with a government shutdown, it will be more like 6 months), to digitize 18,000 posters in the collections of the Archives … [Read More...]
Spain: Barcelona School Removes 200 Sexist Children’s Books
From The Guardian: Several schools across Barcelona are considering purging their libraries of stereotypical and sexist children’s books, after one removed around 200 titles, including Little Red Riding Hood and the story of the legend of Saint George, from its library. The Tàber school’s … [Read More...]
Research Tools: State of New Hampshire Releases New Database of Historic Property Records Online (Fee-Based Resource)
From the State of New Hampshire: The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has launched a new online tool for historic resource records research. The Enhanced Mapping and Management Information Tool, EMMIT, provides more than 16,000 documents on file at the NHDHR related to the state’s … [Read More...]
Research Article: A Dataset of Publication Records For Nobel Laureates
The following article and dataset were published today by Scientific Data. Title A Dataset of Publication Records For Nobel Laureates Authors Jichao LiNational University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaNorthwestern University Yian YinNorthwestern University Santo FortunatoIndiana … [Read More...]
Video: Conference Keynote: “Checking in on AI Tools”
The video of the conference keynote embedded below was recorded at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York on April 18, 2019. The presentation includes a review of a recent survey and a review of a few trends. Speaker Bios See Also: More Video Recordings: Presentations at the … [Read More...]
Digital Privacy: Facebook Says it “Unintentionally Uploaded” Email Contacts of Up to 1.5 Million Users
From Reuters: Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have “unintentionally uploaded” email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media company. In March, Facebook had stopped offering email password verification … [Read More...]
Reporters Without Borders Releases 2019 World Press Freedom Index
From the Introduction: The RSF Index, which evaluates the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories every year shows that an intense climate of fear has been triggered — one that is prejudicial to a safe reporting environment. The hostility towards journalists expressed by political … [Read More...]
Open Knowledge: Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases White Paper on the Use of Wikidata in Scholarly Communication, Special Collections
From an ARL News Post by Judy Ruttenberg: In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and … [Read More...]
New U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Released Today, Texas Counties Take Four of the Top Ten Spots in Numeric Growth
From the U.S. Census: Counties with the largest numeric growth are all located in the south and the west, with counties in Texas taking four out of the top 10 spots according to new U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released today. By metropolitan area, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, … [Read More...]
New U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Released Today, Texas Counties Take Four of the Top Ten Spots in Numeric Growth
From the U.S. Census: Counties with the largest numeric growth are all located in the south and the west, with counties in Texas taking four out of the top 10 spots according to new U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released today. By metropolitan area, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, … [Read More...]
MIT Program in Digital Humanities Launches with $1.3 Million Mellon Foundation Grant
From MIT News: Before computers, no sane person would have set out to count gender pronouns in 4,000 novels, but the results can be revealing, as MIT’s new digital humanities program recently discovered. Launched with a $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Program in … [Read More...]
New Arizona St. University (ASU) Library Peer Mentorship Program Aims to Help Students Discover All Their Available Research Resources
From ASU Now: “Technology has changed everything,” said Israel Zaldivar, a student in Barrett, The Honors College at ASU. "Everyone focuses on doing a Google search. Many students aren’t aware of all the resources we have access to.” Zaldivar is part of a new library peer mentorship … [Read More...]
