Roundup (June 15, 2020)
ALISE 2020 Award Winners Announced
Deepfakes Aren’t Very Good—Nor are the Tools to Detect Them (via ars technica)
District Maps Added to Member Profile Pages in Congress.gov (via In Custodia Legis)
Metadata Management In Times of Uncertainty (Hanging Together, OCLC)
OverDrive Launches: “Black Lives Matter: Community Reads” Program
Titles will be made available to United States and Canada libraries at no cost and patrons will be able to check these books out without waistlist or holds.
ScienceOpen Partners with the University of Westminster Press
Using Data to Fight Covid-19 Does Not Mean Lowering the Bar For Privacy (via Web Foundation)
Using Digital Reading Data To Improve International Education (via WorldReader)
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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.