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Tuesday, January 08, 2019
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Virtually Unraveling the Damaged Past at Cardiff University
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by John Charlton
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Virtual unraveling may sound like what you do when you're trying to understand Donald Trump's financial arrangements. In fact, it is a sophisticated mix of technologies that may provide a key to accessing information held on ancient and damaged scrolls, if the work of Cardiff University researchers and others bears fruit.
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The State of Ebooks in Academic Libraries
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by Brandi Scardilli
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In a Campus Technology article from Dec. 12, 2018, Dian Schaffhauser reports that according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, "library collections in higher education now contain more digital items than physical." Let's take a look at what academic library staffers have to say about the state of ebooks in their libraries today.
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Suspicion of Data Gathering Continues to Grow (3:27)
Lee Rainie, director, Internet and Technology Research, Pew Research Center, discusses Americans’ growing protectiveness toward their personal information and the difficulties that imposes on data-gathering efforts in this clip from his keynote at Data Summit Connect 2020.
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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.
Streaming Media Blog – www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Blog – the go-to destination for opinion, analysis, and insights into the entire online video ecosystem, from glass to glass.
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