Library Link of the Day
July 2017
- Why Grown-Up Muggles Should Read ‘Harry Potter’ [The New York Times]
- Is Amazon getting too big? [USA Today]
- US court grants Elsevier millions in damages from Sci-Hub [Nature]
- The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets [Atlas Obscura]
- In Chicago, Chardonnay line still getting laughs for Hillary Clinton [Chicago Tribune]
- Hand copyright control back to authors [Newsroom]
- Search Algorithms Kept Me From My Sister for 14 Years [Wired]
- Bookstores holding their own against digital onslaught [CBS News]
- Textbook-Counterfeiting Cage Match [Inside Higher Ed]
- Pressure to publish in journals drives too much cookie-cutter research [The Guardian]
- NLB manager jailed and fined for compromising members’ data in attempts to help loanshark [The Independent]
- Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets [The Guardian]
- Cheap textbooks from Rice's OpenStax bring .2 million in savings [The Houston Chronicle]
- The opioid epidemic is so bad that librarians are learning how to treat overdoses [CNN]
- This Is the Future of Libraries in the Digital Age [Architectural Digest]
- Biology's Roiling Debate Over Publishing Research Early [Wired]
- Monkey selfie photographer says he's broke: 'I'm thinking of dog walking' [The Guardian]
- Known Alias: How Stephen King Was Outed as Richard Bachman [Mental Floss]
- The news industry is worried Facebook and Google have far too much power [The Verge]
- How I stopped hoarding all the books, videos and CDs I could find [The Houston Chronicle]
- Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Poses 'Existential Risk' [Morning Edition]
- Michael Bierut: How to design a library that makes kids want to read [TED]
- Explorations of a Very-large-screen Digital Library Interface [D-Lib Magazine]
- Major German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts [The Scientist]
- Who’s Who? Who Cares [Tedium]
- Toronto Public Library Allows Neo-Nazi Memorial For Barbara Kulaszka To Go Ahead [The Huffington Post]
- Scientific Journals Publish Bogus Paper About Midi-chlorians from Star Wars [Gizmodo]
- The Library of Congress opened its catalogs to the world. Here’s why it matters [PBS]
- Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests [Science]
- The War on the Freedom of Information Act [The Atlantic]
- Zines defy death by digital [The Sydney Morning Herald]
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