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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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Scholarly Kitchen Open Letter Calls for Participation in the OA Movement
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Rick Anderson writes on The Scholarly Kitchen that there are two reasons for researchers, authors, and other scholarly publishing stakeholders to get involved with the OA movement: to help encourage publishing to adopt "a primarily (or entirely) open-access model" and to "have an influence on whether (and if so, how and to what degree) it happens."
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APA Spreads Awareness of Applied Psychology
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The American Psychological Association (APA) is forming a new Office of Applied Psychology, which is for "a branch of the field that uses psychological research, theory and methods to address real-world issues."
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Credo Introduces Research Quick Tips Videos
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Credo added Research Quick Tips videos to its Credo Online Reference Service platform as a standard feature. They provide research guidance for students while they are using the platform and are designed to support library instruction around information literacy and developing critical thinking skills.
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IMLS Releases Report on Cultural Heritage Institutions
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) published "Protecting America's Collections: Results From the Heritage Health Information Survey." This report "shed[s] light on the challenges faced by libraries, museums, and archives as they care for their collections, as well as the many strides they have made over a decade."
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Amazon Brings Computer Science Courses to 1,000-Plus High Schools
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Amazon is planning to "fund computer science courses in more than 1,000 high schools across all 50 states and the District of Columbia" through its Amazon Future Engineer program.
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Connection, Interaction, and Innovation at the BOBCATSSS Symposium
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by Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic
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The annual symposium BOBCATSSS, named for the cities of the university network that initiated it ... takes place under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library & Information Education and Research). ... Under the supervision of their professors, international LIS student teams plan and realize the content and the management of the symposium. They are responsible for every aspect of organizing the event. ...
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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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