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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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| MyScienceWork Is Transforming Global Scholarship |
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by Dave Shumaker
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| MyScienceWork, a 15-person company, was voted winner of the Startup Shootout at the February 2017 National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) annual conference. Recently, I checked in with co-founder Virginie Simon to learn more about the company's background, mission, and products and to find out what it's been doing since the NFAIS conference. |
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| 'Why University Students Still Need Public Libraries' by Kate Stericker |
| Kate Stericker, micro-course developer at Minute School, writes about the importance of going to both the on-campus university library and the local public library while in college. |
| RedLink Releases Report on Scholarly Journal Usage |
| RedLink published "The 2018 RedLink Index," which provides benchmarks and comparisons of usage patterns for more than 1,700 journals during the 2017 subscription year. |
| Censored Planet Works Toward 'Internet Freedom' |
| In Fordham University's News portal, Janet Sassi shares a new project from the University of Michigan called Censored Planet, which is "enlisting 400,000 servers around the world to monitor censorship and network interference." |
| Ex Libris and HighPoint Solutions Develop App for Campus Services |
| Ex Libris Group entered a strategic partnership with HighPoint Solutions to create an app for higher education students that covers campus administration as well as teaching and learning. |
| IMLS Rolls Out 5-Year Strategic Plan |
| The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) unveiled "Transforming Communities," its new strategic plan for 2018 to 2022. It outlines four goals for the agency's programs and services to follow. |
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| A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 1 |
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by Justin Hoenke
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| Here's a look at Hoenke's columns from September 2017 to January/February 2018 (originally published Jan. 9, 2018). |
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How to Make Libraries Part of the Digital Equity Solution (3:11) Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Dr. Nicol Turner Lee discusses how libraries can play leading roles in bridging the digital divide in this clip from her keynote at Computers in Libraries Connect 2022. |
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