Category «Education»

What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education

Young, Kathryne, What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education (2021). Kathryne M. Young, “What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education,” 11 UC Irvine Law Review​ 811 (2021)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4198255 “Despite enormous social, legal, and technological shifts in the last century, the structure of legal education has remained …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Archive Of A Vanishing World

Noema – Archives de la Planète: “PARIS — Line 10 of the Paris Métro terminates almost five miles west of the center of the city at Boulogne-Pont de Saint-Cloud. The station is a polished hub in one of the wealthiest regions of Paris, not to mention all of France. Boulogne-Billancourt is the birthplace of France’s …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management, Transportation

Before the Presidential Records Act of 1978, presidents owned their papers

Washington Post: Now all presidents, including Donald Trump, must turn them over to the National Archives. “Until the 1970s, former presidents could do pretty much whatever they wanted with their presidential papers. That often was a problem. Some papers “were purposely destroyed, while others fell victim to chance destruction,” concluded a 1978 congressional study. “Others …

Subjects: Congress, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Data Mining Resources 2022

Via LLRX – Data Mining Resources 2022 – Data mining and knowledge discovery is a quickly evolving field that is part of the portfolio of CI, BI and KM professionals, law librarians, research analysts, infopros, data scientists, data journalists and students in college and graduate programs. This expansive bibliography by Marcus P. Zillman comprises a …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

US government to make all research it funds open access on publication

Ars Technica: “Many federal policy changes are well known before they are announced. Hints in speeches, leaks, and early access to reporters at major publications all serve to pave the ground for the eventual confirmation. But on Thursday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) dropped a big one that seemed to …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

“The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a static database that we’ve built.  Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button. Because …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

Science Advances, Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media – Inoculating against misinformation techniques. Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden, Beth Goldberg, Steve Rathje and Stephan Lewandowsky. Published August 2022 Volume 8I Issue 34: “Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation theory has been put for-ward as a way to …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Free Webinars from GPO this Fall

Navigating the Bureau of Labor Statistics: A Website Walkthrough; Jelena Goldstein & Nick Schaffer (Bureau of Labor Statistics); Tuesday, August 30, 2022; 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (EDT): Connecting with your Communities: Promoting Voter & Civic Engagement; Kian Flynn (University of Washington, Seattle); Wednesday, September 7, 2022; 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (EDT): Surviving Tough Economic Times: …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries