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MakeUseOf: “Creating a beautiful presentation from scratch is a daunting task, especially if you don’t possess solid design skills. So, it’s better to choose and customize a template than to spend hours picking the right set of colors and fonts. Fortunately, several websites offer free Google Slides templates and themes. Here, we list the seven …
Publishers Weekly: “Connecticut has become the latest state to introduce a library e-book bill, introducing bill 131 in its February session. The Connecticut bill is similar to efforts in other states now underway, in that it would require publishers who offer an e-book to consumers in the state to also offer to license the works …
LLRX Articles and Columns for February 2022 Offense v. Defense – The goal of this paper by Andrew Pittman, MSU Law-3L, is a call for a new strategy on cybersecurity. Pittman’s paper begins with real life incidents of cybercrime attacks on critical infrastructures abroad and in the U.S. Second, it defines what is offensive cybersecurity …
American Bar Association Journal: “Following a reported 13% increase in law school applications, five of 196 ABA-accredited law schools expanded their first-year classes by more than 50% for the 2021 admissions cycle, and 36 saw growth between 20% and 41%. Overall, there was an increase of almost 12% for students admitted during the 2021 law …
The New York Times: “At ski resorts around the country, the familiar paper map is disappearing, as mountains push skiers to use apps and other digital resources. But some skiers are pushing back…Mr. Niehues, who retired last year, said that his maps aren’t just about “guiding you down the mountain but showing you its potential …
“An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring protesters. Law enforcement agencies in Minnesota have been carrying out a secretive, long-running surveillance program targeting civil rights activists and journalists in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. Run under a consortium …
The Atlantic: “Even in the midst of death and divisiveness, people are working to fix different pieces of American life the pandemic broke. Pandemic coverage has continually described America’s rancor and division, political ineptitude and buck passing, fury at leaders and fellow citizens for restricting too much or not enough, for insisting on masks or …
“This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real. Visual forensics allows reporters to pinpoint the location of images emerging from the conflict and verify their authenticity…While some newsrooms have their own teams (The Post has seven people doing this work, and the Times has a team of 17), there’s also …
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 …
“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 …
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. …
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 …
