Day archives: March 6th, 2022

You’ll probably need a second Covid booster shot – here’s when experts say it could happen

CNBC: “Pandemic restrictions may be easing across the country, amid declining Covid cases — but experts say the virus is going to stick around for a long time. That likely means you’ll need another Covid booster shot sometime in the future. The big question is: When? There have been mixed reports on the matter. The …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

Ten new books to read this Women’s History Month

Oxford University Press: “Since 1987, Women’s History Month has been observed in the US annually each March as an opportunity to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This month, we’re sharing some of the latest history titles covering a range of eras and regions but all charting the lives …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Libraries

Visualizing the Active Conflict Zone in Ukraine

Center for Data Innovation – “The Economist has created a visualization depicting changes to commercial flights through Ukrainian airspace after the EU Aviation Safety Agency labeled it an active conflict zone. The visualization shows the flight paths of planes over Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia on February 23rd and 24th. According to the visualization, pilots have …

Subjects: Defense, Internet, Knowledge Management, Transportation

The American Oversight nonprofit organization has published more than 10,000 sets of documents

“The American Oversight nonprofit organization has published more than 10,000 sets of documents amounting to more than a million pages of records, as well as the FOIA requests and responses that produced those records. They can be viewed and searched here: https://www.americanoversight.org/documents.  American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by …

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

NSA report: This is how you should be securing your network

ZDNET: “The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new report that gives all organizations the most current advice on how to protect their IT network infrastructures from cyberattacks.  NSA’s report ‘Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Network Infrastructure Security Guidance‘ is available freely for all network admins and CIOs to bolster their networks from state-sponsored and …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet

Data Services Librarians’ Responsibilities and Perspectives on Research Data Management

Bishop BW, Orehek AM, Eaker C, Smith PL. Data Services Librarians’ Responsibilities and Perspectives on Research Data Management. Journal of eScience Librarianship2022;11(1): e1226. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.1226. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol11/iss1/4.  This study of data services librarians is part of a series of studies examining the current roles and perspectives on Research Data Management (RDM) services in higher education. …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

A new iron curtain is descending across Russia’s Internet

Washington Post: “Advocates of an open, globally connected Internet long have worried that a major country or region would break away from the Web amid geopolitical strife, dashing hopes of a seamless network capable of uniting a fractious world. Little more than a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world is coming closer to …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Free Speech, Internet, Knowledge Management, Microsoft