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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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A Digital Archive Is Making History in African-American Studies
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by Terry Ballard
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African-American people of accomplishment are often underrepresented in history sources. Recent movies such as Red Tails and Hidden Figures put an exclamation point on that gap. Julieanna L. Richardson was keenly aware of this, and she set out decades ago to do something about it.
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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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Rich Metadata for Enterprise Content (2:44)
Align Consulting founder Katrina B. Pugh and Valora Technologies CEO Sandy Serkes explain how organizations can identify the most useful tags for their content in this clip from their presentation at Enterprise Search & Discovery 2019.

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