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A University Senate subcommittee recommended Miami University not renew its contract with Proctorio for next year due to concerns voiced by students and faculty.
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, known among its Silicon Valley peers for a secretive corporate...
As part of an action campaign against face surveillance in schools, Massachusetts students this week plan to urge state lawmakers to pass bills regulating when...
Community college libraries play an important role in advancing student success. Library leaders see increasing student learning, developing community and providing technological resources as their most influential contributions to the college. But those contributions aren’t...
As a wise and wonderful former colleague has said, the beautiful building at the corner of Oakton and Waukegan in suburban Niles, and all that it represents, are the work of the people who for 60 y…
Niles in an uproar as library board tries to slash hours, services.
Over the past few years, I have cultivated a professional learning network on Twitter of exemplary school librarians from across the world. One of the biggest lessons I have learned from my PLN is the importance of school library advocacy... Read More ›
In 2020, our top blog post of the year was “What Our Experts Want You To Know About Digitization.” Archives staff basically explained why not everything in our collections is online and just how much work goes into the process of digitization. With so much great feedback from our colleagues in the field, we thought it would be great to ask our preservation team to answer some of our burning, often ignorant questions about their work just in time for Preservation Week. Which collections do they prioritize? Where do they even start when considering how to treat an object?
Well-done advocacy from UL Geffert.
"People have often reported on whistleblowing matter-of-factly as though we did it and moved on with our lives." But that couldn't be further from the truth.
Can Google be trusted to evaluate its own AI?
To determine whether librarian and information specialist authorship was associated with better reported systematic review (SR) search quality.SRs fro…
Proctorio has cashed in on remote learning since the start of the pandemic. Now, some schools are abandoning the company's controversial software.
Organizers of the Alphabet Workers Union say they aren’t stopping at pay disparity.
The Oakland City Council is set to prohibit local police from using the oft-criticized law enforcement technologies, the city’s chief privacy officer said.
A group of Google artificial intelligence researchers sent a sweeping list of demands to management calling for new policies and leadership changes, escalating a conflict at one of the company’s prized units.
Logic School will offer workers 12 weeks of education on how to build on the growing movement of activism inside tech companies.