Day archives: August 5th, 2021

The Returns to Public Library Investment

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – The Returns to Public Library Investment. Gregory Gilpi, Ezra Karger, Peter Nencka, April, 2021. – “Local governments spend over 12 billion dollars annually funding the operation of 15,000 public libraries in the United States. This funding supports widespread library use: more than50% of Americans visit public libraries each year. But …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching critical threshold

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research – “The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the Gulf stream belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century. This is shown in a new study published in Nature Climate Change. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, transports warm water masses from …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

Mapping CDC’s new guidelines: High transmission areas where you need to wear a mask indoors

USA Today:  “In a renewed effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that fully vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors if they’re in an area of substantial or high coronavirus transmission. The CDC is also recommending universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students and visitors inside schools from …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

New STOA study on deepfakes and European policy

European Parliamentary Research Service: “…Cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have enabled the production of highly realistic videos that manipulate how people look, and the things that they appear to say or do. These fabrications are commonly referred to as ‘deepfakes’. The Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) commissioned a study to examine …

Subjects: AI, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Global Research Council Conference Report 2021

“A conference on Responsible Research Assessment was held with the support of the Global Research Council from 23 to 27 November 2020. This report presents the context for the conference, some key analytics and the main discussion outcomes…The conference brought together the perspectives of 45 international speakers from across all 5 GRC regions and captured …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Not a single federal agency received an ‘A’ in a new Senate cybersecurity report card

Popular Science: “On Tuesday, members from the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a bipartisan report [PDF] that states that seven out of the eight federal agencies they reviewed still have not met the basic cybersecurity standards needed to protect the sensitive data they stored and maintained.  The report was led by …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession

ABA Journal: “The COVID-19 pandemic prompted one-third of older lawyers to change their retirement plans, according to the 2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession released Thursday. Of those attorneys, 53% said the public health crisis caused them to delay their retirement and the other 47% said the pandemic spurred them to hasten their retirement. …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Marketing