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Libraries Keep a Resourceful Eye on the President
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by George H. Pike
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Taking on their traditional role of offering a place for patrons "to inquire, to study, to evaluate," libraries are gathering information about the candidates, the election, the administration, Congress, and the issues that have arisen in the last months and are disseminating it in as neutral, nonpartisan, and comprehensive a manner as possible.
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Wolters Kluwer Keeps an Eye on the President and the 115th Congress
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Wolters Kluwer created a Federal Developments Knowledge Center for attorneys, law librarians, and legal and tax professionals looking for guidance on the current administration's policies and the actions of the 115th Congress.
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Elsevier Enhances CiteScore
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Elsevier updated its CiteScore metrics with the 2016 annual values. It also made various improvements to the service, including the addition of complete transparency to the metrics, allowing users to validate any CiteScore value. ...
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Chrome Combats 'Annoying' Ads
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According to Advertising Age, "Google's Chrome browser will soon come with preinstalled technology that will block the most annoying ads currently marring the web experience. …"
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The Getty Helps Bring Disparate Collections Together
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The Getty is offering researchers more than 30,000 images of objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).
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Copyright Office Submits Practices Document for Public Comment
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The U.S. Copyright Office published a revised draft of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition, which is the administrative manual for the Register of Copyrights on the mandate and duties of the Copyright Office.
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The Avengers in the Stacks
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Which comic book adaptations are you planning to see at the movies this summer? There's usually at least one, and this year, you've got DC's Wonder Woman and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming. If any of those options appeal to you, you're the perfect candidate to get hooked on comic books--if you aren't already, that is. After all, comics are a mainstream form of entertainment these days, and libraries have taken notice.
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