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Resources for an Informed Citizenry
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by Brandi Scardilli
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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.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Directory of 120-Plus Free Business Resources Available From BestBizWeb
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The Best of the Business Web published The Best of The Best of the Business Web 2015-2016, a highly selective directory of more than 120 of the "best" substantive free business information resources that it reported on over the past 2 years.
Read more to find out how to get a $20 discount on the directory.
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GPO Unveils Streamlined New Website
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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) launched a new website, which is now in beta. It has a simple, mobile-friendly structure that helps customers, vendors, federal agencies, libraries, and others find government information. ...
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DPLA Pledges to Uphold Its Core Values
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) released its Values Statement of core commitments for the organization and its staff: commitment to its mission; to constructive collaboration; to diversity, inclusion, and social justice; to the public and its community; and to stewardship of resources.
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Springer Facilitates Use of MOOC-Textbook Teaching Plans
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Springer teamed up with Federica Weblearning, a European provider of free multimedia courses, to give authors and lecturers from around the world options for using textbooks alongside accompanying MOOCs (massive open online courses) on particular topics.
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DCL Studies Content Trends
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DCL (Data Conversion Laboratory) and the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) released the results of their fifth annual content trends survey, "Following the Trends 2017--Is Your Content Ready?" It finds that "a surprising 51% of those polled responded 'No,' that their content is not ready--a 21% increase over last year."
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National FOIA Portal in the Works
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The Department of Justice's Office of Information Policy (OIP) joined forces with 18F to create a National FOIA Portal. According to the OIP, "Most recently, the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 required the creation of a National FOIA Portal that is interoperable with agencies' current systems and allows the public to submit a request for records to any agency from a single website."
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Looking to the Future at iConference 2017
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by Emil Levine
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iConference 2017, the 12th annual conference of the iSchools organization, was held March 22-25, 2017, at the Wuhan University School of Information Management in conjunction with Sungkyungkwan University's Library & Information Science and Data Science departments. The first iConference to be held in Asia, its theme was Effect, Expand, Evolve: Global Collaboration Across the Information Community.
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The Upcoming U.K. Election: It's Not Just About Brexit
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by John Charlton
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Make no mistake: The recently announced U.K. general election in June will not be solely about the U.K. leaving the European Union (EU). Other issues matter.
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