Monthly archives: February, 2021

OCLC Research Update: Convening, understanding, and sharing

“Amid the swirl of rapidly changing circumstances that unfolded dramatically during 2020, OCLC Research undertook new projects and transformed existing projects to help library staff and decision makers respond to the broad changes unfolding around them, while also identifying implications for the library mission, and ultimately, library resources and services. From REALM, to adapting resource …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Learning from Law Professors: An Analysis of What the Best Law Teachers Do

Conklin, Michael, Learning from Law Professors: An Analysis of What the Best Law Teachers Do (June 1, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3616543 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3616543 “This is a review of the book What the Best Law Teachers Do. While it focuses on law school teachers, nearly all of the book is applicable to teaching undergraduate business …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Recommended Books

Modernizing the “High Speed Handoff” between the Legislative and Executive

Modernizing the “High Speed Handoff” between the Legislative and Executive: An Interview with Treasury’s Adam Goldberg and Justin Marsico: “HData CEO Hudson Hollister recently interviewed Adam Goldberg and Justin Marsico on their work furthering data standardization across the federal government, progress toward innovation and transformation at the U.S. Treasury Department, and modernization in the warrant …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Why media literacy is just the first step to extinguishing toxic misinformation

Fast Company – “To fight propaganda and inaccurate information, lean into critical-thinking skills, says the CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company…Where we are now is an increasingly digital world that makes it harder than ever to distinguish verified facts and objective journalism from opinion, propaganda, and even total fiction. Or, as recently termed by the …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Lawsuit Saves Trump White House Records

“The National Security Archive et. al. v. Donald J. Trump et. al. lawsuit, filed December 1, 2020 to prevent a possible bonfire of records in the Rose Garden, achieved a formal litigation hold on White House records that lasted all the way through the transition and Inauguration Day, the preservation of controversial WhatsApp messages, and a formal …

Subjects: Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

Timeline of Events Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history: Timeline of Events Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: “In December of 2019 an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Airports have taken steps to reduce coronavirus transmission but risks still remain

“Researchers with the Aviation Public Health Initiative (APHI), a project of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, today released its Phase Two Report “Assessment of Risks of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission during Air Travel and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to Reduce Risk.” The Phase One “Gate-to-Gate” Report focused on public health considerations aboard the aircraft, with scientific …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Health Care, Transportation

Why vaccine production is taking so long

Axios: “COVID-19 vaccine makers are under intense pressure to rev up production, but the scale of the challenge is unprecedented — and the speed of production is limited. Why it matters: Even with help from the federal government and outside companies, vaccine-making is a complex, time-consuming biological process. That limits how quickly companies like Pfizer …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Bitcoin consumes ‘more electricity than Argentina’

BBC News: “”Mining” for the cryptocurrency is power-hungry, involving heavy computer calculations to verify transactions. Cambridge researchers say it consumes around 121.36 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year – and is unlikely to fall unless the value of the currency slumps. Critics say electric-car firm Tesla’s decision to invest heavily in Bitcoin undermines its environmental image. The …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Transportation