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BioScience: World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021 – Published 28 July 2021 “In 2019, Ripple and colleagues (2020) warned of untold suffering and declared a climate emergency together with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from 153 countries. They presented graphs of planetary vital signs indicating very troubling trends, along with little progress by …
College and Research Libraries News: Ashley Farley, Allison Langham-Putrow, Elisabeth Shook, Leila Belle Sterman, and Megan Wacha. Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted – Lessons Learned “Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily subscription-based, journal publishing model to a fully open access …
The New Yorker: “As we teach computers to use natural language, we are bumping into the inescapable biases of human communication…Artificial intelligence is an ethical quagmire. Its power can be more than a little nauseating. But there’s a kind of unique horror to the capabilities of natural language processing. In 2016, a Microsoft chatbot called …
Fast Company: “Time-savers are some of tech’s sweetest treasures. Few things are as geekily satisfying as finding faster ways to get stuff done—and few places are as rich with step-slashing shortcuts as Google’s Android platform. Google loves sneaking shortcuts into its software, and Android might be the greatest example of all. The operating system and …
I preface this BookRiot article with my recommendation for the very best way to find Library Jobs in all sectors – INALJ The nexus of information professionals and information potential / Library and LIS jobs [Many thanks to the indefatigable Naomi House] BookRiot: Ashlie Swicker Jul 27, 2021 – “The search for library jobs is …
Fortune: “Offices are opening back up and employers are nudging their workers to return into offices. This is the case for Hannah, a designer who has spent the last year working from a small island in Spain and is now being asked to return to London to spend time in her Mayfair office. “If they …
Fed Tech: “The federal government is vast, and the challenge of understanding its oceans of data grows daily. Rather than hiring thousands of new experts, agencies are moving to train existing employees on how to handle the new frontier. Data literacy is now a common buzzword, spurred by the publication of the Federal Data Strategy 2020 …
Doodle – State of Meetings 2021 – April 2021 – An analysis of meetings and how they changed – “Meetings have long been a major aspect of the business world. From board meetings to sales pitches, that in-person interaction has kept our economic cogs turning. As the global economy has continued that journey forward, the …
Deo, Meera E., Investigating Pandemic Effects on Legal Academia (May 10, 2021). Fordham Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 6, 2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3862007 “Even before the COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of the American workplace, challenges based on race, gender, and “raceXgender” (the combination of race and gender) were the norm in legal academia. …
Above the Law: “An excerpt from a memo sent by Katten CEO Noah Heller and firm chairman Roger Furey, regarding the firm’s plans for a return to the office in the wake of the pandemic. Heller and Furey noted that the firm’s policy will provide associates with “the flexibility to continue to balance the demands …
CNN: “Most in the media have been urging Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. That hasn’t always been the case at Fox News, however. Many of the hosts have peddled anti-vaccine rhetoric. This past week, though, a number of hosts at Fox have taken a more pro-vaccine tone. One reason could be that the …
1 News New Zealand: “I think it’s a really exciting opportunity because it means that we’re maintaining access to these books and it hasn’t cost the New Zealand taxpayer money, that it’s actually improved access not just for us but globally,” Te Pouhuaki national librarian Rachel Esson told 1 NEWS. The books are overseas publications …
