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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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Last Seen in Sea Isle
by Jane Kelly (A Meg Daniels Mystery, #7)
Meg Daniels should know by now that wherever she goes, mystery follows. Her fiancé is taking classes at Stockton University and has befriended Grace Grant, a fellow later-in-life student. Under false pretenses, Grace asks Meg to visit her lavish beachfront house in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, on the same weekend she’s hosting a reunion of pals from the summer of 1969. Meg discovers that Grace is hoping she’ll track down Guy—last name unknown—who disappeared from Grace’s life on the day of the moon landing.
2026 | ISBN: 978-1-940091-16-7 | 226 pp/trade paperback | $16.95
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