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Vox/Recode: “Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, “Like,” click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand. And while some social scientists, journalists, and activists have been raising concerns about how this is …
Artificial Lawyer: “How do you calculate the ROI of legal tech tools that your firm or inhouse team have bought? Moreover, are there any universal metrics that can be used? Artificial Lawyer asked several founders across a range of companies what they thought. Here is what they said. First, let’s do a NLP-driven bulk review …
American Bar Association: “It doesn’t take a professional research study—though they’re out there—to know how pervasive technology is in our daily lives. Another fundamental truth is that technology is never a one-time purchase. It wears out, gets lost, or becomes too antiquated for use, and time and again, it needs to be replaced. While marketing …
Via LLRX – Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million Americans who don’t have access to a credit union or community bank – About a quarter of census tracts with a post office don’t have a community bank or credit union branch, suggesting postal banking could provide a financial lifeline to the millions …
Galbreath, B. L., Merrill, A., & Johnson, C. (2021). A Framework for Measuring Relevancy in Discovery Environments. Information Technology and Libraries, 40 (2). https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v40i2.12835 – “Discovery environments are ubiquitous in academic libraries but studying their effectiveness and use in an academic environment has mostly centered around user satisfaction, experience, and task analysis. This study aims …
Via LLRX – Non-Library Jobs & Advice on How to Get One: an introduction to INALJ’s series of interviews – Naomi House was inspired to do this series because of the drastic changes to the availability of traditional library jobs during this pandemic. She highlights library and information professionals who work outside libraries but use …
Chronicle of Higher Education: “As colleges look toward the fall semester, they’re grappling with whether to require — or just strongly encourage — students to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Below is a map showing the locations of colleges that are requiring vaccines of at least some students or employees. The states are color-coded based on …
Hans, Valerie P., Virtual Juries (June 4, 2021). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-16, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3860165 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860165 “The introduction of virtual or remote jury trials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a remarkable natural experiment with one of our nation’s central democratic institutions. Although it is not a tightly controlled …
The Verge: “Google announced a new website designed to be a “one-stop shop” for people with food insecurity. The “Find Food Support” site includes a food locator tool powered by Google Maps which people can use to search for their nearest food bank, food pantry, or school lunch program pickup site in their community. Google …
Life Hacker: “Getting your hands on a good book to read is as easy as clicking “borrow” on your tablet. If you’re a slow adopter to the world of e-books, you should know that you can download thousands of e-books and their audio counterparts from your phone, computer, or tablet—for free. Here’s how to quickly …
Tech Republic – “Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel’s Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think. Most will agree that a picture is worth a thousand words, and where geographical data is concerned, it’s never …
