News Roundup (May 14, 2018)
1. A New figshare Feature Lets Users Create Customized Alerts About Content They “Care About”
2. Google’s .App Domains With Baked-In HTTPS Are Now Open for General Registration (via BleepingComputer)
3. Privacy Badger Rolls Out New Ways to Fight Facebook Tracking
4. Archive-It Now Allows Partners to Link Archived Websites to a Related ArchivesSpace Record
5. Calvin Reid, Comics Advocate and Journalist, Joins Freedom to Read Foundation (via CBLDF)
6. Contributions Welcome! A DLF Subgroup is Developing an Open Source Digital Library Pedagogy Cookbook
7. Seeing British Library Collections Through a Digital Lens (via BL Digital Scholarship Blog)
8. NCAA Launches Transformative Statistics Initiative
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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.