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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
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| Law Librarians Capitalize on Their Strengths in Washington, D.C. |
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by Dave Shumaker
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| This year, the AALL (American Association of Law Librarians) Annual Meeting & Conference returned to Washington, D.C., for the first time in a decade, as more than 2,000 attendees (up from 1,400 last year) gathered July 13-16 under the theme Capitalizing on Our Strengths. |
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| Audible's Captions Program Gets Pushback |
| "'Outrageous' and 'copyright infringement' were the first two (unsolicited) emails PW received from independent publishers when word of Audible's new program to run text along side its audiobooks began to spread." |
| Pearson Goes All In on Digital Updates |
| "The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks." |
| U.S. Representatives Discuss Big Tech Companies |
| "Companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon have long enjoyed nearly unbridled growth and a mythic stature. … But as they've grown more powerful, critics have also grown louder. ..." |
| 'AI Has an Answer to the Opioid Crisis' by Joel White |
| "What if we could bring [AI] to bear in the fight against the devastating opioid epidemic, which continues to claim 130 lives each day in the United States alone?" |
| LYRASIS Releases Accessibility Survey Report |
| LYRASIS published "LYRASIS 2019 Accessibility Survey Report: Understanding the Landscape of Library Accessibility for Online Materials." |
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| Women Take Center Stage at BookExpo 2019 |
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by Terry Ballard
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| BookExpo 2019 was held May 29-31 at the Javits Center in New York. At past BookExpos, the first day, which begins at noon, featured few noteworthy programs. This year, there was a significant lineup, including author events with big names such as Debbie Harry, George Takei, and Jennifer Weiner. |
| 30 Book Recommendations From BookExpo 2019 |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| Want to know what the book buzz will be for the rest of 2019? Here are some of the books promoted during BookExpo 2019 that look promising. |
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