Day archives: October 22nd, 2017

New on LLRX – Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2018

Via LLRX – Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2018 – Costs continue to rise for students who are pursing college and post graduate degree programs. By leveraging best practice sites, services and non-traditional options to expand knowledge, skills and abilities in many disciplines, students can choose from a wide range of options to complete their …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

LC New Online: A Digital Treasure Trove of Rare Books

“The collections housed in The Rare Book and Special Collections Division amount to nearly 800,000 books, encompassing nearly all eras and subjects maintained in well over 100 separate collections. All of these collections offer scholarly documentation about the western and American traditions of life and learning. The Division’s collection of nearly 5,700 incunabula (fifteenth-century imprints) …

Subjects: Libraries

Legal Commentary – our regulatory and judicial systems are complicit in protecting harassers

Via the Washington Post, October 20, 2017 – How the legal world built a wall of silence around workplace sexual harassment – Confidentiality agreements serve to protect abusers, by Minna J. Kotkin – a professor of law at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in employment.discrimination. “A secret about sexual harassment on the job is finally …

Subjects: Legal Research

AALL Legal Website of the Month

AALL Legal Website of the Month – Includes titles, links and abstracts for sites in the US and around the world, with sources that include: Congress, NGOs, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, professional library associations, reports published by non-profit organizations focused on legal issues including immigration, sentencing and civil rights, reports and research …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Enabling Blockchain Innovation in the U.S. Federal Government

GCN.com – “As more government agencies investigate the potential for blockchain technology, ACT-IAC has put together a primer, Enabling Blockchain Innovation in the U.S. Federal Government. Including thought leaders from government and industry, ACT-IAC’s Blockchain Working Group was created in May at the request of the General Services Administration. Jose Arrieta, director of the Office …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, E-Government, Economy, Financial System

How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media

The New York Times: “…In the coming weeks, executives from Facebook and Twitter will appear before congressional committees to answer questions about the use of their platforms by Russian hackers and others to spread misinformation and skew elections. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Facebook sold more than $100,000 worth of ads to a Kremlin-linked company, …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Social Media

Federal complaint filed against DeVos for removal of campus assault guidelines

Courthouse News – Roll-Back of Campus Assault Rules Spurs Challenge: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was hit with a federal complaint Thursday by three women who say her unraveling of campus-assault guidelines will gut investigations or lawsuits they have pending. Filed by attorney Wendy Murphy with the New England School of Law, the lawsuit in Boston …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Study – America’s Next Commercial Revolution: Influence vs. Affluence

Via Quartz at Work, Marc Bain:”…For its new report, titled “America’s Next Commercial Revolution: Influence vs. Affluence,” A.T. Kearney examined demographic, economic, and technological trends to predict how US buying behavior will change over the next 10 years. (The firm also released a global version based on surveys with more than 7,000 consumers across seven …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Marketing, Social Media