News Roundup (December 3, 2020)

December 3, 2020 by Gary Price

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.

Recent Articles on LJ

Living Our Values Out Loud | Sustainability

Curating Creativity: Jessy Randall Finds Inspiration in the Archives | Peer to Peer Review

New Research: Book Bans Are Political, but Most Voters Don’t Support Them

All Hands on Deck at Nashville Public Library | LJ Marketer of the Year Award 2022

ALA’s Tracie D. Hall Receives 2022 NBF Literarian Award

White House Releases Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights; National Archives (NARA) Seeks Feedback on Draft Customer Research...

Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: A Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age (via OSTP: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) Lisa ...

The Washington Post Reports on the Recently Released Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection

From The Washington Post: [Marcus] Gould’s banner — and 1,601 other artifacts from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence — was saved. More than two years after he attached it to ...

The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Marvel are Partnering to Issue a Special, Limited Edition Spider-Man Library...

From The New York Public Library: Spider-Senses will be tingling across New York City as The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Marvel Entertainment join forces to release a special, ...

Journal Article: "Ethical Issues and Learning Analytics: Are Academic Library Practitioners Prepared?"

The abstract linked below was posted today by The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title Ethical Issues and Learning Analytics: Are Academic Library Practitioners Prepared? Authors Kyle M.L. Jones Indiana University-Indianapolis ...

Statement: Executive Order Re-establishes the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Under Institute of Museum and Library...

From the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS): The Institute of Museum and Library services announced today that under a new Executive Order issued by President Biden on Sept. 30, 2022, ...

Report: "White House’s Open-Access Research Directive Scrambles Long-Entrenched Models, Raising Key Questions"

From STAT: In August, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo directing all federal agencies to form plans to make all federally funded research publications ...

US House and Senate Have Passed Legislation Making a 10-Year Term Appointment For GPO Director

From the Federal Depository Library Program: The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed legislation making a 10-year term appointment for the GPO Director, thus aligning the position with the ...

Research Article (Preprint): "Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and...

The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and Researchers Authors Guangyuan Sun ...

GovInfo Collection Development Plan: Version 7 Released; Wisconsin: Milwaukee Libraries Would Cut Their Hours and Programming Under City...

EDUCAUSE Publishes 2022 Students and Technology Report: Rebalancing the Student Experience & Student Data Privacy and Security: A Call for Transparent Practices GovInfo Collection Development Plan: Version 7 Released (via FDLP) ...

News Roundup (December 3, 2020)

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Recent Articles on LJ

Living Our Values Out Loud | Sustainability

Curating Creativity: Jessy Randall Finds Inspiration in the Archives | Peer to Peer Review

New Research: Book Bans Are Political, but Most Voters Don’t Support Them

All Hands on Deck at Nashville Public Library | LJ Marketer of the Year Award 2022

ALA’s Tracie D. Hall Receives 2022 NBF Literarian Award

White House Releases Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights; National Archives (NARA) Seeks Feedback on Draft Customer Research...

The Washington Post Reports on the Recently Released Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection

The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Marvel are Partnering to Issue a Special, Limited Edition Spider-Man Library...

Journal Article: "Ethical Issues and Learning Analytics: Are Academic Library Practitioners Prepared?"

Statement: Executive Order Re-establishes the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Under Institute of Museum and Library...

Report: "White House’s Open-Access Research Directive Scrambles Long-Entrenched Models, Raising Key Questions"

US House and Senate Have Passed Legislation Making a 10-Year Term Appointment For GPO Director

Research Article (Preprint): "Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and...

GovInfo Collection Development Plan: Version 7 Released; Wisconsin: Milwaukee Libraries Would Cut Their Hours and Programming Under City...

Report: South Carolina Resident Files Criminal Complaint Against Public Library for Having LGBTQ-Themed Books

Watch/Listen Online: Chicago Public Library Commissioner Chris Brown Speaks to the City Club of Chicago

Washington Post: "Libraries Feel Attacked — But Not Like the 'Freedom Libraries' of 1964"

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