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| November 15, 2018 |  MIT Press, Media Lab Launch Knowledge Futures Group By Lisa Peet MIT Press and MIT Media Lab recently launched the Knowledge Futures Group, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a major academic publisher and academic lab to create and share research information. |
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 Controlled Digital Lending Concept Gains Ground By Matt Enis Copyright experts have begun building a framework for Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) with the recent publication of a white paper and an official position statement initially supported by forty individual and 24 institutional signatories. |
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 You Too!—Assistive Technology | Field Reports By Martha Baden Librarians are committed to equity of access and fostering community engagement for all. But do we provide access and engagement for a burgeoning population of older adults who experience vision and/or hearing loss, or does this population go underserved right under our noses? |
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| "I want to feel a fullness, to love the vast proliferation of voices and blurred countenances that have made it possible for me and for you with me to have libraries." | | |
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 Branching Out, November 2018 By Bette-Lee Fox Temple University, Philadelphia, builds a four-story library, and more new construction and renovation news from the November 1, 2018 issue of Library Journal. |
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 Strength in Numbers: Four Ways To Help Save the World | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller The dire warning embodied in the new “Global Warming of 1.5° C” report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should have everyone focusing on the pressing crisis that is upon us. Even in the best outlook, we are facing a frightening future. |
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 Ancient Egypt | History Reviews By LJ Reviews Two highly recommended titles for anyone interested in ancient Egyptian civilization or the history of Egyptology. |
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  Nonfiction, November 9, 2018 | Xpress Reviews By LJ Reviews Reviews of Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight-Singing, and Music Theory; Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great; The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent; and more. |
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 LJ Talks to Editor John Joseph Adams | Spotlight on SF/Fantasy 2018 By Meredith Schwartz Editor John Joseph Adams is perhaps best known in the sf and fantasy field as a noted editor of short fiction, including for Lightspeed Magazine and a variety of anthologies. But since October 2015 he’s also headed an eponymous long-form imprint at Houghton Harcourt. |
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1. The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How To Save It
Mounk, Yascha
Harvard University Press
2018. ISBN 9780674976825. $29.95
2. Fascism: A Warning
Albright, Madeleine
HarperCollins
2018. ISBN 9780062802187. $27.99
3. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights Winkler, Adam
Liveright Publishing: W.W. Norton
2018. ISBN 9780871407122. $28.95 |
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