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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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Librarians and the Failing Knowledge Infrastructure (4:25)
New Librarianship Field Guide author R. David Lankes discusses the racism, classism, and economic disparities in American society that librarians both share responsibility for and can help address as key parts of the country's knowledge infrastructure in this clip from his keynote at Computers in Libraries Connect 2021.
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