News and Resource Roundup
1. Censorship: NCAC, AAUP, AAP, and Others Denounce Boycott of Oregon Bookstore Over ‘Offensive’ Display (via National Coalition Against Censorship)
2. Legal: Data-Mining Privacy Suit Against Yelp and 13 Other Companies Advances (via Courthouse News Service) ||| Full Text of Court Order (September 8, 2016)
3. VR: Google Cardboard Camera Now Available on iOS
4. Open Access: Year in Review: Open Library of Humanities Celebrates First Anniversary
5. Scholarly Publishing: De Gruyter Starts Partnership with Kudos
6. Funding: Iowa Gets Federal Grant To Digitize Historic Records (Radio Iowa)
7. Open Data: New Orleans Launches 2 Open Data Websites, Including 311 Tracker (via NOLA.com)
Filed under: Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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