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'An Open Book': Bibliotheca Enters the World of Digital Streaming for Libraries
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by Justin Hoenke
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In the world of libraries, where budgets tend to stay flat or shrink while everything else keeps going up in cost, the thought of dropping a massive amount of money into a digital streaming service that charges the library per use does not seem like a great idea. But here we are in 2022, living in an age when a lot of digital streaming services offered to libraries have that exact model. Services such as Netflix, Disney+, and Hulu do not have a pay-per-use model, so wouldn't you think that a digital streaming service offered to libraries would go the same route? Until recently, that answer was no. But things are changing.
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An Analysis of Inaugural Copyright Claims Board Filings
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Eric Goldman writes the following in "A First Look at Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Filings" on Technology & Marketing Law Blog: "[July 16] marks the 1-month anniversary of the Copyright Claims Board, so I thought it's a good opportunity to take a very quick snapshot of the filings we've seen so far."
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UNESCO Looks at Holocaust-Related Content on Social Media
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UNESCO announced the results of a study of Holocaust-related content on social media platforms. The press release states the following: "As part of their plan to counter the denial and distortion of the Holocaust, UNESCO and the United Nations sought to objectively measure the extent of these phenomena on social networks, in partnership with the World Jewish Congress. They commissioned researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute to identify and analyze 4,000 posts related to the Holocaust, on five major platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and Twitter."
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Springshare Integrates LibChat Into PowerNotes to Streamline Research
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Springshare joined forces with PowerNotes to bring its LibChat library chat tool into the PowerNotes research process manager. This enables PowerNotes users to launch live LibChat experiences with research librarians at their institution from inside their PowerNotes browser plugin or the PowerNotes project outline screen.
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Findings From Ithaka S+R's Latest U.S. Faculty Survey
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Taylor & Francis shared the results of Ithaka S+R's U.S. Faculty Survey 2021, which Taylor & Francis sponsored. There were nearly 8,000 respondents, 45% of whom are professors. Associate professors, assistant professors, adjunct professors, lecturers, and other instructors also answered the survey.
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The Looming Problem of Deepfakes
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Danny Palmer writes the following in "The Next Big Security Threat Is Staring Us in the Face. Tackling It Is Going to Be Tough" for ZDNet: "[D]eepfakes could easily become a new vector for cyber crime, and it's going to be a real struggle to contain the trend. It's entirely possible that organisations will need to come up with a new set of rules around authenticating decisions made in online meetings."
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What's New From Pew Research Center in 2022
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by Brandi Scardilli
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NewsBreaks often covers recent surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world." Its website has 12 main topic sections, each showcasing the latest research, which is collected in reports, fact sheets, or other formats that extrapolate respondents' answers to cover the entire U.S. (or other) population. The following are some of the latest reports from 2022.
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Cape Mayhem (A Meg Daniels Mystery)
by Jane Kelly
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Meg Daniels arrives manless in Cape May, New Jersey, for what should have been a romantic off-season weekend for two. Though unattached at the moment, Meg's courtship with trouble has been in high gear lately—her Cape May holiday soon promises more of the same.
It seems that, overnight, a guest at the Parsonage Bed & Breakfast has undergone an impossible transformation. Suspecting foul play, Meg enlists hunky Hank Bergman, an investigator in the local DA's office, and the B&B's spunky co-owner, George Hilburn, to help her answer the question: "Who was that lady who checked in with Wallace Gimbel?".
2023, Reissue (Originally published in 1999) | 248 pp/trade paperback | $14.65
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