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March 4, 2021 by Gary Price

ALA Praises House Introduction Of Build America’s Libraries Act (via ALA)

Climate Silence and the Trump Administration’s Censorship of Federal Environmental Agency Website (via Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI))

Bibliography Audit and Data Extraction for the Open GLAM Declaration (via Open Glam)

Facebook AI Learned Object Recognition From 1 Billion Instagram Pics

IIIF Posts Call For Proposals – 2021 IIIF Annual Conference

International Patent Filings via WIPO Continued to Grow in 2020 Despite COVID-19 Pandemic (via WIPO)

Oable, the Open Access Management Workflow Solution from Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Goes Live

Researchers Virtually Open and Read Sealed Historic Letters (via MIT)

Virginia Governor Signs Nation’s Second State Consumer Privacy Bill (via Washington Post)

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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