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“Amid the swirl of rapidly changing circumstances that unfolded dramatically during 2020, OCLC Research undertook new projects and transformed existing projects to help library staff and decision makers respond to the broad changes unfolding around them, while also identifying implications for the library mission, and ultimately, library resources and services. From REALM, to adapting resource …
Conklin, Michael, Learning from Law Professors: An Analysis of What the Best Law Teachers Do (June 1, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3616543 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3616543 “This is a review of the book What the Best Law Teachers Do. While it focuses on law school teachers, nearly all of the book is applicable to teaching undergraduate business …
Modernizing the “High Speed Handoff” between the Legislative and Executive: An Interview with Treasury’s Adam Goldberg and Justin Marsico: “HData CEO Hudson Hollister recently interviewed Adam Goldberg and Justin Marsico on their work furthering data standardization across the federal government, progress toward innovation and transformation at the U.S. Treasury Department, and modernization in the warrant …
Fast Company – “To fight propaganda and inaccurate information, lean into critical-thinking skills, says the CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company…Where we are now is an increasingly digital world that makes it harder than ever to distinguish verified facts and objective journalism from opinion, propaganda, and even total fiction. Or, as recently termed by the …
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history: Timeline of Events Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: “In December of 2019 an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization …
CNET: “If you’re done with Google or have an old account you no longer need, here’s what you need to do to close your account. Whether you want to close your Google account over privacy concerns or you’re trying to reduce the number of internet accounts you have, the process takes some effort and time, …
Axios: “COVID-19 vaccine makers are under intense pressure to rev up production, but the scale of the challenge is unprecedented — and the speed of production is limited. Why it matters: Even with help from the federal government and outside companies, vaccine-making is a complex, time-consuming biological process. That limits how quickly companies like Pfizer …
CNET: We’ll show you tools and techniques to power up your Mac. Here’s how to get started. “Apple’s Mac computers are so stuffed with features, it’s easy to forget about some of the more useful or handy shortcuts and tools. That’s true whether you’ve been using a Mac for years, like I have, or you’re …
Tech Republic: “Manual page breaks in Microsoft Word are frowned upon by most of us because they don’t allow the content to flow naturally. When you add or delete content, a manual page break can have unintended consequences. If you spot the problem, great. If you don’t, you might be embarrassed. Sometimes inherited documents have …
The Old Time Radio Collection – “Before the advent of cell phones, computers, or even TV screens, broadcast media was dominated by the radio. For decades, radio shows were among the most popular forms of entertainment, with several programs that still resonate through pop culture today—including Gunsmoke, Dragnet, and The Adventures of Superman. Our Old …
ZDNet – “Many of us believe that we can multitask, that we’re great at it even. However, that’s largely a myth. Splitting your focus between multiple tasks makes you less efficient at each, and you’re better off focusing. If you try to remain engaged and take notes at the same time, chances are a lot …
The New York Times Magazine – “There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside…I don’t remember when I first learned about semicolons, nor do I have a mental list of remarkable semicolons in literature. I don’t want …
