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| March 1, 2018 |  AI, Personalization, and Privacy: Top Tech Trends | ALA Midwinter 2018 By Matt Enis The Library Information Technology Association’s (LITA) Top Tech Trends Panel, held during the American Library Association’s 2018 Midwinter conference in Denver, CO, included discussions of AI, drones, personalization and privacy, the embedding of libraries in academic learning processes, and more. |
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| SPONSORED CONTENT  The Unique Value of MathSciNet® While most databases provide abstracting and indexing, MathSciNet® also provides users with 3rd party reviews of the published literature created by over 21,000 PhD reviewers. This approach dates back 75 years to the database's origin as the publication Mathematical Reviews launched in 1940 by Otto Neugebauer. Read More››› |
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 Creating Change in the Cataloging Lab | Peer to Peer Review By Violet Fox I set out to bridge a cataloging knowledge gap with a website that would allow library staff to more fully understand (and potentially make changes to) one of the most essential parts of a catalog record—subject headings. |
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 Intersectional Feminism | Collection Development By Barrie Olmstead Today’s intersectional feminism focuses on solidarity among social justice movements as well as shared responsibility for equality. These 27 resources will energize any collection. |
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| "Use context can encapsulate the user’s interests, his or her authorization context, or the device context—how or where the user is interacting with the content. The more that we know about the user, the more effective we can be at customizing the interaction with the library and its knowledge assets." | | |
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 IFLA LGBTQ Group Protests Kuala Lumpur Conference Location By Lisa Peet As the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) prepares for its 84th annual World Library and Information Congress, the chosen location—Kuala Lumpur—is sending up red flags because of Malaysia’s track record on civil rights. |
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 From New Matter to the Flu | Science & Medical Previews, Aug. 2018 By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt To Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry, The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter, and more. |
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 Best Databases of 2017 By LJ Reviews The year’s best databases include resources on Congressional research and the ACLU. |
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From the Annoyed Librarian ... |
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 Of Current Interest | Nonfiction Previews, Aug. 2018 By Barbara Hoffert Reviews of Bitwise: A Life in Code; The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement; Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary; and more. |
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BESTSELLERS: Engineering & TechnologyBy LJ Reviews
1. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big TechFoer, Franklin Penguin Books 2017. ISBN 9781101981115. $27 2. Energy and Civilization: A HistorySmil, Vaclav MIT Press 2017. ISBN 9780262035774. $39.95 3. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech Wachter-Boettcher, Sara
W.W. Norton
2017. ISBN 9780393634631. $24.95 |
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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. |
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