News Roundup
1. Library Ideas Acquires Vox Books, a Hybrid Book and Digital Audio Imprint
2. NPD Forecast: U.S. Smartwatch Ownership Expected to Increase Nearly 60 Percent Into 2019 (via NPD)
3. The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose (via Tor Blog)
4. Nicole Mitchell Assumes Presidency of Association of American University Presses (AAUP)
5. University of British Columbia: Woodward Library Renovations Complete
6. Four Questions for Peter Collopy, Caltech’s New Archivist (via Pasadena Now)
7. Security/Privacy: Stanford Libraries Will Phase Out Automatic Proxy Configuration (APC), Will Use EzProxy Exclusively For Off-Campus Access
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.