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NewsLink Spotlight |
| A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 2 |
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by Justin Hoenke
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| Justin Hoenke, the executive director of a small public library, has been talking to all types of library staffers for A Day in the Life, his column in Information Today. Here's a look at his interviews from March to July/August 2018. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Congressional Research Service Reports Are Now Free Online |
| The Library of Congress has begun providing Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports to the public at crsreports.congress.gov. |
| EveryLibrary Encourages Libraries to Get Out the Vote |
| EveryLibrary joined forces with Vote.org to offer free-to-use white label voting forms that libraries in all 50 states can embed into their websites. |
| 'New Bill Would Finally Tear Down Federal Judiciary's Ridiculous Paywall' by Timothy B. Lee |
| Timothy B. Lee writes in Ars Technica, "[F]or two decades, online access has been hobbled by a paywall on the judiciary's website, called PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which charges as much as 10 cents per page." |
| Lucidea Buys Australian Information Management Company |
| Lucidea acquired Maxus Australia, a distributor of Inmagic library automation and knowledge management (KM) solutions. |
| SAGE Supports News Analysis Tool |
| SAGE is offering a $50,000 sponsorship to PublicEditor, a content analysis tool for news articles that is run by volunteers. |
NewsBreaks |
| What It's Like to Be a Journalist in 2018 |
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by Nancy K. Herther
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| The number and degree of bitterness of social media's vitriolic threats against journalists have increased tremendously in the past few years. ... The June 2018 attack at the offices of the Capital Gazette, which left five people dead, is just one example of this escalating crisis. |
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This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc. Editor: Brandi Scardilli Website: https://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com |