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Tuesday, September 06, 2016
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Webrecorder Makes Web Preservation Personal
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by Nancy K. Herther
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Today's social media landscape is broad and deep. Across the globe, people are involved in discussing, uploading, downloading, networking, linking, blogging, streaming, gaming, podcasting, bookmarking, learning, and sharing. Rhizome, an international art organization, has released Webrecorder, an innovative tool that is intended to help save parts of the internet and give anyone future access to and use of it.
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New Pew Report on Americans' Reading Habits
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Pew Research Center's Internet, Science & Tech division released "Book Reading 2016," which shows that print books remain more popular than ebooks or audiobooks. It says 65% of Americans have read a print book in the last year, 28% have read an ebook, and 14% have read an audiobook.
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DPLA Reminds Educators of Its Resources
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) posted a back-to-school themed summary of its recent initiatives. For example, it offers 100 Primary Source Sets with teaching guides that are designed "to adapt into a lesson to complement your curriculum, to inspire student researchers, and to deepen student engagement through inquiry-based analysis," according to the blog post.
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OverDrive Now Offers Language-Learning Programs
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OverDrive signed an agreement with Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur Language Programs to make it that resource's exclusive non-U.S. digital wholesaler to public and school libraries (and the nonexclusive wholesaler to U.S. public libraries and worldwide corporate libraries).
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LexisNexis Adds U.K. Data to Securities Tool
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LexisNexis Legal & Professional updated the Lexis Securities Mosaic research tool with U.K. filings, a comprehensive collection of more than 116,000 records from the National Storage Mechanism of the UK Listing Authority of companies traded on U.K. exchanges.
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Knowledge Unlatched Unveils 2016 OA Collection
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU) introduced KU Select 2016, its next frontlist and backlist collection of OA content. These 343 titles covering 16 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences will be available as downloadable PDF files under Creative Commons licenses.
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