Category «Education»

270ToWin

Compare new and old congressional districts: “270toWin is an American political website that projects who will win United States presidential elections and allows users to create their own electoral maps. It also tracks the results of United States presidential elections by state throughout the country’s history. The website has information about elections and the political …

Subjects: Congress, Education, Legal Research, Legislation

Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia

TechCrunch: “Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”, but it’s also tried to find a place for itself in the follow-up: the never-ending battle to combat it. In the latest development on that front, Facebook parent Meta today announced a new tool called Sphere, AI built around the …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

Edelman Trust Barometer – The Power of Gen Z

“This isn’t the influencer generation. This isn’t the cancel generation. This isn’t even the TikTok generation. This is the generation of sensibility. Preceding generations have idolized the unrealistic, prioritizing aspirational objectives, and often overlooking basic elements like humanity, our planet, and at times the truth for the sake of self, innovation, wealth, and immediacy. In …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law

New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America

LC – Chronicling America “users can now browse the collection’s thousands of digitized historical newspapers using an interactive map and timeline recently launched by the Library of Congress. The new “Exploring Chronicling America Newspapers” application dynamically maps publication locations of over 3,000 digitized newspapers currently available in the Chronicling America online collection. Users can also …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

What’s Happening With The Vinton Public Library

Iowa Starting Line – “Residents of a small Iowa town criticized their library’s LGBTQ staff and their displaying of LGBTQ-related books until most of the staff quit. Now, the town’s library is closed for the foreseeable future. After having the same library director for 32 years, the Vinton Public Library can’t seem to keep the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

History under attack: Holocaust denial and distortion on social media

History under attack: Holocaust denial and distortion on social media [link to full text] – “Digitally mediated Holocaust denial and distortion remains a critical contemporary problem. The cheap connectivity offered by the internet has allowed those with extreme views to find each other easily, and to express hateful opinions which they might keep silent in …

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

LC – Upcoming US Law Webinars – August 2022

In Custodia Legis: July 12, 2022 by Anna Price – “Each August, the House and Senate take a summer recess from Washington, D.C., during which they spend time in their respective legislative districts. While the legislators are working away from Capitol Hill, the Law Library of Congress will continue responding to reference inquiries and presenting …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

Instructables

“Yours for the making. Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us. We make it easy to learn how to make anything, one step at a time. From the stovetop to the workshop, you are sure to be inspired by the awesome …

Subjects: Education

Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse

The New York Times – “More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people….Two years ago, the future of independent book selling looked bleak. As the coronavirus forced retailers to shut down, hundreds of small booksellers around the …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

A copyright lawsuit threatens to kill free access to Internet Archive’s library of books

Popular Science: “Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library and a massive repository of online artifacts, has been collecting mementos of the ever-expanding World Wide Web for over two decades, allowing users to revisit sites that have since been changed or deleted. But like the web, it too has evolved since its genesis, and in the …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries