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USC Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts: A second polymathic multimodal digital project Danielle Mihram, Melissa L. Miller
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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.
From Motherboard: There has been a swift escalation of LGBTQ-related attacks on libraries in recent months, turning typically quiet public spaces into political battlegrounds at a time of growing hostility ...
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Canada’s Bestselling Books by Province and Territory (Booknet Canada) Changing the Academic Gender Narrative through Open Access (via Publications) NLM Responds to Librarians’ Open Letter re: MeSH Term Changes (Medical ...
From the U.S. Census: On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. As ...
The article linked below was recently published by Library & Information Science Research. Title Exploring User Experience in Digital Libraries Through Questionnaire and Eye-Tracking Data Authors Maja Kuhar University of ...
The article linked below was recently published by PLoS One. Title Click Me…! The Influence of Clickbait on User Engagement in Social Media and the Role of Digital Nudging Authors ...
From SPARC Europe: SPARC Europe has been selected to deliver the first project sponsored under the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) programme. KR21 seeks to strengthen access to knowledge in particular through ...
From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were ...
The article linked below was recently published by Certified Public Manager® Applied Research Title Public Libraries as Community Health Partners Authors Melinda HodgesLibrary Director, Buda Public Library, City of Buda ...
From the University of Cincinnati: Lori E. Harris has been named interim dean and university librarian of the University of Cincinnati Libraries effective July 1, 2022. Harris initially joined the ...
The article linked below appears in the July 2022 issue of College & Research Libraries. Title How Policies Portray Students: A Discourse Analysis of Codes of Conduct in Academic Libraries ...
From FIU Announcement: Florida International University (FIU) has launched a first-of-its-kind resource for forensic science practitioners, students, researchers, and the general public. The Research Forensic Library provides access to thousands ...