News Roundup
1. Google Drops “Instant Search” Feature (via Search Engine Land)
2. Nature Editorial: “The Digital Native is a Myth”
3. Herbert Van de Sompel to Receive Peters Award at December CNI Meeting
4. Debut: University of Colorado Boulder’s Library Bike Hits the Road
5. Wiley and Instructure Partner to Build Next Generation of Higher Education Courseware
6. ReadCube Teams Up with Leading Scholarly Publishing Platform, Sheridan PubFactory
7. USGS Releases New JavaScript Library to Create Location Search Widgets for Web Applications
8. Forecast: 168 Million Will Watch Connected TV in the US This Year, Up 10% v. 2016 (via eMarketer)
“Smart TV users will make up nearly half of all connected TV viewers, with 81.2 million users in 2017. That’s a sharp 30.8% increase over 2017 levels.”
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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.