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The First Anniversary of the GDPR: Reflections on the Past Year
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by Kelly LeBlanc
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Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reached its 1-year anniversary on May 25, 2019. At the start of its second year, we can now reflect on the GDPR with a new set of questions: Did the mission, motive, and compliance parameters of the GDPR serve a greater purpose? Has data culture changed? What lessons have we learned?
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A New Take on the U.S. Constitution
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by Brandi Scardilli
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What the Constitution Means to Me, a 100-minute play written by and starring Heidi Schreck, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 31, 2019. ... Schreck [says] that the play explores how her female relatives' lives "had been shaped by this document, circumscribed by this document, and, in some ways, harmed by this document."
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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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