<< October 2016 | December 2016 >>
- 2016: The Year Open Access Broke? [ACRL]
- Why Did We Have to Wait a Year to Fix Our Cars? [EFF]
- Who owns your ink? Tattoos artists turn to lawsuits to protect intellectual property [ABC]
- Making Cuba connections [College & Research Libraries News]
- The Human Library where you can borrow someone's story [BBC News]
- How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth [The New York Times]
- Memory in the Internet Age: Part 1: Forgetting & Remembering [Against the Grain]
- There Will Soon Be Zero Bookstores In The Bronx [Gothamist]
- Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers [MIT Technology Review]
- If China Meant to Chill Hong Kong Speech, Booksellers’ Case Did the Job [The New York Times]
- Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News [The New York Times]
- Murder (or not) at the Library of Congress? [The Washington Post]
- Europe rules that libraries can lend e-books like normal ones [Engadget]
- Smartphones Can't Replace Libraries [Inside Higher Ed]
- After Election, Librarians, Book Creators Vow To Support Children [School Library Journal]
- E-books can be lent by libraries just like normal books, rules EU’s top court [Ars Technica UK]
- One Way To Bridge The Political Divide: Read The Book That's Not For You [Morning Edition]
- Is Audio Really the Future of the Book? [JSTOR Daily]
- In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play [The Verge]
- Still time to clear library fines with food donations [Alaska Highway News]
- Inside the Design Library, a vast archive of patterns and textiles [Creative Review]
- How We Got To Post-Truth [Fast Company]
- Still in vogue: luxury magazines defy print market gloom [The Guardian]
- The Nonprofit Using Scavenger Hunts To Research Girls' Education [Fast Company]
- Open Access and Transforming the Future of Research [EFF]
- Book Cleaning [Library Journal]
- Oral History of Bourbon Whiskey [University of Kentucky Libraries]
- Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds [NPR]
- Whoa, Google’s AI Is Really Good at Pictionary [Wired]
- Campus Libraries See Increase in Discriminatory Incidents [Library Journal]
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