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A Wikipedia editor typed up 25,000 historical US city populations from the census, 4x what historians have had to work with. Here’s a narrative visualization of the dataset. https://t.co/pmUJc68gPL pic.twitter.com/AHTQCiFqsy
— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) March 12, 2018
2. Faculty Response to Deselection in Academic Libraries: A Psycholinguistic Analysis (via SJSU Scholar Works)
4. Privacy & Security: New Research: Off-the-Shelf Smart Devices Found Easy to Hack (via Ben-Gurion University)
4. Open Textbooks: 101 Partners with OpenStax to Deliver More Affordable and Engaging Course Materials for College STEM Students
5. Former Cal State University Fullterton Library Dean Clem Guthro was Fired After a Struggle for Control Over Pollak Library Space, Emails Allege (via The Daily Titan)
6. A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act (via EFF) & EFF and 23 Groups Tell Congress to Oppose the CLOUD Act (via EFF) ||| Full Text of Letter to Congress
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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.
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