MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2019
From Fast Company: n August 2018, Instagram followers of the New York Public Library were tapping through their Insta Stories when something unexpected showed up: the full text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, designed for a small screen, with small animations that brought the story to life as you flipped. The project, known as Insta Novels, is […]
Announcing the Harvard Library Accessibility Initiative Amazon Alexa Announcements Milestone: Amazon Announces 100,000 Alexa Skills Now Available 16 New Products Amazon Introduced at Todays Launch Event – Earbuds, Glasses, a Ring, and More (via Voicebot.ai) Alexa-Integrated Glasses and Ring Debut (Video; via BBC) Free Financial Literacy Resources Now Available to Cengage Unlimited Subscribers New From […]
From Pew Research: Roughly seven-in-ten U.S. adults (72%) say they have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since 2012, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Jan. 8-Feb. 7, 2019. Print books remain the most popular format for reading, with 65% of […]
From The iSchool at Illinois: Collecting and understanding data is important, but equally important is the ability to tell meaningful stories based on data. Students in the iSchool’s Data Science Storytelling course (IS 590DST) learn data visualization as well as storytelling techniques, a combination that will prove valuable to their employers as they enter the […]
The following article was published today by PLoS One. Title Stylistic Variation on the Donald Trump Twitter Account: A Linguistic Analysis of Tweets Posted Between 2009 and 2018 Authors Isobelle Clarke University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England Jack Grieve University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England Source PLoS One 14(9): e0222062 10.1371/journal.pone.0222062 Abstract Twitter was an integral part […]
From Duke University Libraries: Effective September 20, 2019, the Duke University Libraries have transitioned to a title-by-title access model for Kanopy, a popular library of streaming video titles. This change comes as a result of the unsustainable increase in cost of providing unlimited access through an automatic licensing model. Kanopy’s pricing for libraries under our previous model […]
From the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC): On September 25, the CULC/CBUC Digital Collections Working Group hosted a teleconference about the current #eContentforAll initiatives happening in Canada and the new partnership with ULC [Urban Libraries Council] in the US. Here is are the slides from the presentation: Digital Collections Working Group Teleconference [12 pages; PDF]. The […]
Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers From Seeing Job Ads. The Federal Government Thinks That’s Illegal (via ProPublica) Google to Stop Showing News Snippets For French Users (via Reuters) Interview with Dean Philip E. Bourne of the new School of Data Science at the University of Virginia New Federal Rules Limit Police […]
From a DataCite Blog Post by John Chodacki: After an extensive search, led by DataCite’s Executive Board, we are proud to announce that Matt Buys will join DataCite as Executive Director beginning October 14, 2019. Matt comes to us from ORCID and brings experience in leading global teams and scaling persistent identifier infrastructure to share […]
Accessibility/Milestones: Benetech Reaches 15 Million Books Delivered to Those with Reading Barriers via Bookshare Online Library Network
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|From a Benetech Blog Post: Today we are celebrating an exciting milestone for impact at Benetech: we have delivered 15 million books to people with reading barriers through the Bookshare online library service and network. That’s 15 million books that users found and accessed through Bookshare that they would not otherwise have been able to […]