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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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How KM Is Redefining Federal Records Management GSA KM specialist and senior records officer Dave Simmons discusses the role of KM in the future of federal records management in this clip from his presentation at KMWorld 2022. |
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