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Librarians are quarantining print materials for several days between loans to stop the spread of COVID-19. For students who rely on the library to access textbooks, that’s a problem.
The failure to earn the public’s trust in the exercise of emergency powers — in particular, emergency surveillance and law enforcement powers — isn’t an abstract political failure, it’s a public health problem.
Invasive test-taking software has become mandatory in many places, and some companies are retaliating against those who speak out.
Work From Home Assignments for Frontline Academic Library Workers (COVID-19) This is a crowdsourced list of suggested assignments for frontline academic library workers. It was developed to address the needs of frontline, often classified, workers in academic libraries at institutions that are qu...
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With a shift to online resources well underway, “the most trusted civic institutions” are in a good position to deal with the changing future.
Would-be trial volunteers are hesitant as researchers scramble to include more people of color in their studies.
Publishing is becoming a winner-take-all game. Nobody dominates it like Madeline McIntosh and Penguin Random House.
While libraries have always worked to help breach the digital divide by providing free Internet access, public access computers and teaching media literacy, the current pandemic has made it abundantly clear that much more needs to be done. This article proposes ways that libraries might work with community, state, national and even global partners to help promote universal broadband.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an infodemic — a rapid rise in viral misinformation. With a few simple skills, you can help stop its spread
Rules that protect children's data are being neglected or ignored in the rush to remote schooling.
From Northern Virginia to New York to North Carolina, the decision to convert libraries into child-care facilities for essential workers has outraged some library staff and local parents.
Trying to do so is all but useless.
Does Zoom actually have the right tools to let people communicate in these new ways? Does any video conferencing tool have that?
The new way of work requires a new way of managing, whether you like it or not.
This article shares research, insights, and design ideas from the Mask Access and Adoption project created by members of the Emergency…
Dashboard design can greatly influence our perception of the coronavirus. Discover the strategies to make your visuals communicate the right information.
Labs and other companies make millions selling bundles of medical data—and it’s not as anonymized as you might think
A reader writes: I work at a public-facing youth services employee in a public library managed by county government in the United States. Due to impacts