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Resources for an Informed Citizenry
by Brandi Scardilli
The following are some resources for staying informed about the current administration and the 115th Congress, as well as ways to combat ignorance in a post-truth political climate.

Weekly News Digests

DuraSpace Reveals Details of Endangered Data Week
DuraSpace announced that Endangered Data Week will take place April 17-21, 2017. The goals for this initiative include raising awareness of threats to publicly available data and building a community that knows how to make endangered data more accessible and secure.
NASA Rolls Out Image, Audio, and Video Hub
NASA created a resource, the NASA Image and Video Library, which allows the public to search for and download more than 140,000 images, videos, and audio files from 60-plus collections on its website.
IFLA Embarks on Mapping the World's Libraries
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is working on the IFLA Library Map of the World, which is planned for release in August 2017. It is "a representative source of basic library statistics and a robust tool for providing a worldwide comparison of different library performance metrics, mapped by country level data," according to the map's About page.
Cambridge University Press Helps Foreign-Language Authors Polish Their Work
Cambridge University Press and American Journal Experts (AJE) partnered on a new language-editing service for prospective authors who write in English as their second language.
JSTOR Sustainability Provides Works on Environmental Sustainability
JSTOR collaborated with think tanks, publishers, universities, and researchers to develop its new Sustainability resource, which features journals, policy research, and books on environmental sustainability and resilience.

NewsBreaks

The Push for a New U.S. Copyright Office
by Corilee Christou
The House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary has been wrestling with a new direction for the U.S. Copyright Office since its chairman, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and ranking member John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) introduced a policy proposal on copyright reform on Dec. 8, 2016. Now, the office is possibly on its way to undergoing some major changes.

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