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 Digital Humanities Find New Home at VA Tech Library By Cate Schneiderman There’s a new place to learn inside Virginia Tech’s Newman Library in Blacksburg, VA: a three-room suite and office known as the Athenaeum, which first started hosting digital humanities programs in November 2017. |
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| SPONSORED BY SAGE PUBLISHING |
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 Flash Briefing | Office Hours By Michael Stephens I was slow to jump on the Internet of Things bandwagon, but now I’m sold. The numbers say that I am not alone, with TechCrunch reporting Amazon sold millions of Alexa devices over the holidays. |
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| SPONSORED CONTENT  The Value of Subject Indexes Developed by Experts While single-window search engines may make research seem easy, typing broad terms into a general database can mean the researcher is missing vital papers, simply because the search results may be too large and unwieldy, and the researcher can’t know what should be there. Read More››› |
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| "It takes, like any advocacy campaign, moving people from unawareness to action. So we’re focusing all of our attention right now on reaching the public, the people who use libraries, the people who know that communities are stronger because libraries are there, and campuses are stronger because libraries are there." | | |
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 In Pursuit of Lost History: How a Forgotten Doctor Inspired a Novel By Jody Shields Jody Shields, author of The Winter Station, found the subject of her new novel after she stumbled across a reference to a Russian doctor’s memoir of the 1910–11 Manchurian plague in a medical journal. Both the doctor and the epidemic, which killed 60,000 people, had been lost to history. |
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From the Annoyed Librarian ... |
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| Davis, Heath Fogg
New York University Press
2017. ISBN 9781479855407. $25
2. About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America
Sanger, Carol
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2017. ISBN 9780674737723. $29.95
3. #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
Sunstein, Cass R.
Princeton University Press
2017. ISBN 9780691175515. $29.95 |
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From the Pages of infoDOCKET ... |
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 Facts Matter: Information Literacy for the Real World Libraries and news organizations are joining forces in a variety of ways to promote news literacy, create innovative community programming, and help patrons/students identify misinformation. This online course will teach you how to partner with local news organizations to promote news literacy through a range of programs—including a citizen journalism hub at your library. |
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 Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK San Jose Public Library is seeking an Assistant Library Director |
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