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Mental Health Awareness Month: Overcoming Social Media Addiction
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by Patti Gibbons
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Scroll, post, react, and be part of a community: Ostensibly, those are the reasons people join social media and remain active digital citizens. But for some, cat memes, dance fad videos, and rosy-filtered photos lose their glimmer and are fueling a growing problem known as social media addiction, which is torpedoing mental health, physical well-being, and academic or work performance for millions. To mark Mental Health Awareness Month in May, this Spotlight article explores this problem and offers resources for treating it.
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Statements on the Firing of Library of Congress Leaders
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Following the Trump administration's abrupt and unwarranted firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on May 8, EveryLibrary executive director John Chrastka and ALA president Cindy Hohl issued the following statements.
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OpenAthens Gives Its Library Product a New Identity With OpenAthens Compass
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"For 30 years, OpenAthens has been the trusted compass for libraries, ensuring students and researchers access the knowledge they need, securely and without barriers. As it celebrates this milestone, its continuous growth means it is time to give its library product, used by millions of users all around the world, a clear new identity[:] OpenAthens Compass. ..."
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Kudos Partners With Oxford PharmaGenesis to Improve Omnichannel Medcomms
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Kudos has entered into "a new collaboration with Oxford PharmaGenesis, a global leader in HealthScience communications. The partnership will help pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare research organizations take a more strategic approach to omnichannel communications. ..."
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National Urban League Shares Data About the Homework Gap
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The National Urban League reports, "[A] new analysis shows that 1 in 3 Black, Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native students do not have high-speed home internet access and are more likely than their White peers to be disconnected from online learning. ..."
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The Latest AI Products for Research
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Springer Nature is donating its AI tool to STM. Wiley is integrating its content into Perplexity. 67 Bricks is launching a new agentic AI research assistant for proprietary content. And Silverchair's AI Lab released Dynamic Discovery.
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Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data
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by Robert Berkman
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What is the status of the official data published by U.S. federal statistical agencies? As the current administration continues its disassembling of huge swaths of the federal government, not only are the workers and services gone, so of course is much of the data generated by those employees. And federal statistical data and datasets, whether census data or statistics on the economy, health, education, or other critical public matters, are what librarians and information professionals rely upon to answer patron questions and perform research and analysis for internal, data-driven projects.
This article is a roundup of where these cuts and significant changes are happening and offers alternatives to locate datasets and statistical data that are no longer available.
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