FOIA Advisory Committee Recommends Updates in Federal Agencies

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NewsBreaks

by Barbie E. Keiser

During the quarterly meeting of the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee on Jan. 16, the participants weighed in on recommendations from subcommittees in preparation for drafting a final report. The recommendations are the result of research conducted throughout the committee's 2-year term of office (2016-2018) as its members sought practical ways to improve federal agency FOIA operations.

Weekly News Digests

Library Marketing and Communications Conference Goes Nonprofit; Shares 2018 Info

The Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC) has been incorporated as the new not-for-profit organization Library Marketing Conference Group (LMCG). Its mission "is to advance, promote and support the knowledge and understanding of marketing and communications among library professionals ..."

Cochrane Asks for Medical Research Platform Volunteers

Cochrane is seeking participants for the citizen science platform Cochrane Crowd and partner platforms Mark2Cure and Stall Catchers to help improve medical research and treatment.

EDP Sciences Pledges Support for I4OC

EDP Sciences joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration among scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties that aims to promote the availability of open, structured, and separable data on citations.

Odilo Makes Its Content Available to SimplyE Libraries

Odilo's digital library of 1.4 million titles (ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, etc.), including content in Spanish and other languages, is now available to SimplyE's partner libraries.

Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Data Privacy Advisor

Thomson Reuters launched Data Privacy Advisor, a specialized data privacy research solution that mines the company's global legal and regulatory information and expansive data privacy guidance.

NewsLink Spotlight

A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 1

by Justin Hoenke

Here's a look at Hoenke's columns from September 2017 to January/February 2018 (originally published Jan. 9, 2018).

How to Fix Facebook's Fake News Problem (4:16)

The Accidental Data Scientist author Amy Affelt discusses leading technology experts' recommended remedies for fixing Facebook's fake news problem in this clip from Computers in Libraries 2018.

ITI Blogs

If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader:

ITI Conference Blog – libconf.com – covering ITI's library conferences worldwide.

ILI365/InfoToday Europe Blog – infotoday.eu – news and ideas for, and by, innovative info pros from around the world, throughout the year.

destinationCRM Blog – destinationcrmblog.com – a blog from the editors of CRM magazine, dedicated to providing Customer Relationship Management information in a timely manner to connect decision makers and providers.

SpeechTech Blog – speechtechblog.com – updates on speech technology and its applications in daily life, covering everything from ASR to VUI, with lots of links, threads, and even a few pictures thrown in for good measure.

ITI News

Edited by Robert Berkman, The Information Advisor’s Guide to Internet Research explores, evaluates, and provides critical analysis of free and fee-based information resources, web-based services, and search strategies to help you maximize your time and keep you up-to-date on the internet's role in research.

IAG

In addition to at least one feature by business specialist Berkman, each issue of The Information Advisor’s Guide to Internet Research includes an in-depth article by Ran Hock, author of The Extreme Searcher book series and well-known seminar speaker, who checks out a major web resource.

Four regular columns are rotated; two appear each issue and give readers suggestions for cool internet tools to check out (Brian Smith McCallum, M.L.S., public and academic librarian); sites to turn to for more scholarly research needs (Briana McGuckin, reference and instructional librarian); sites to go to that provide information for the common good (Susan Fingerman, retired librarian instructor, STEM); and sites that give you “big data” facts and figures on a range of topics (Jackie Shane, former reference librarian).

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