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- Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People [The New York Times]
- The Navy Installed Touch-Screen Steering Systems to Save Money. 10 Sailors Paid With Their Lives. [ProPublica]
- Publishing Companies Are Mad That The President Might Want to Make Federally-Funded Research Open Access [Gizmodo]
- Racism Dispute Roils Romance Writers Group [The New York Times]
- The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came. [Vox]
- How China Tracks Everyone [VICE News]
- Audiobooks: The rise and rise of the books you don’t read [BBC]
- DHS monitoring apparent hack of government library program website [CNN]
- Free Textbooks for Law Students [Inside Higher Ed]
- How Libraries Help People In Cold Weather [Book Riot]
- Why TVs Have Become So Inexpensive [Cheddar]
- A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel [The Guardian]
- The Next Big Streaming Trend? Recommendations From Actual People [Vulture]
- Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice [Boston Review]
- How One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon [Slate]
- Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories. [The New York Times]
- Missouri bill proposes 'parental library review boards' that could land librarians in jail [The Hill]
- A library found it was missing $8 million of its rarest items. Nearly three years later, a man on the inside admitted to selling the items to a local bookstore [CNN]
- The Algorithm Study [Project Information Literacy]
- Scholarly Publishers Are Happy to Give Stuff Away If Someone Pays Them [Bloomberg]
- National Archives sorry for censoring 2017 Women's March signs [BBC News]
- Settlement Agreed Upon in Audio Book Captions Lawsuit [U.S. News & World Report]
- Beyond books: Minnesota's rural libraries find playful ways to remain relevant [StarTribune]
- It is absolutely fine to rip your books in half [Vox]
- There's A Lot Of Controversy Around The New Novel "American Dirt." Here's Everything You Need To Know About It. [Vox]
- Science Conferences Are Stuck in the Dark Ages [Wired]
- Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation [Science]
- It’s Not What Libraries Hold; It’s Who Libraries Serve [Ithaka S+R]
- Do Transformative Agreements Violate Procurement Requirements? [The Scholarly Kitchen]
- Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II [Time]
- 'American Dirt' Publisher Cancels Author Tour After Threats [NPR]
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