News Roundup (January 9, 2018)
1. New Edition of the ISBN Standard is Published (via International ISBN Agency) ||| ISBN Users Manual
2. Name Changes: University of Maryland’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Library Has Become the STEM Library
3. Recorded at the Library of Congress: Inauguration of Jacqueline Woodson as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
4. Hulu Reports It Now Has 17 Million Subscribers and 75,000 Episodes of Television Across 1700 Titles Available On-Demand
5. Penn Libraries Debuts Major Homepage Changes
6. Electronic Toy Maker VTech Settles FTC Allegations That it Violated Children’s Privacy Law and the FTC Act ||| VTech Settlement Cautions Companies To Keep COPPA-Covered Data Secure
7. European Book Publishing Statistics 2016 (via Federation of European Publishers)
8. STATEMENT: Removing Illegal Content Online: European Commission Calls For More Efforts and Faster Progress From All Sides
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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