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As many students across the country are returning to school online this fall, they face a potential wave of cyberattacks from hackers seeking to take advantage of academic institutions conducting
Although our stacks will be closed for the Fall 2020 semester for safety purposes, you can still get books and other materials by using our Library Takeout Service. Check out the video (and get down with your masked self) to find out more. Now available on Spotify and Apple Music, so you never have to get it out of your head! https://open.spotify.com/track/6p2cADphdOfg08fCceKfmh?si=mT-O7oSzSVmVl-SKKuW3NA
Music and animation by: MicrOpaqu3
Music and animation by: MicrOpaqu3
From protest signs to Purell, archivists try to preserve 2020 artifacts before they're lost.
'PW' columnist and White Plains (NY) Public Library Director Brian Kenney offers an update nearly a month after his library's partial reopening.
Initiatives to raise awareness of open educational resources are working -- with more faculty choosing OER over traditional textbooks, survey finds. Advocates say pandemic and recession are also
Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.
There are ways to protect privacy in contact-tracing apps... and then there's Albion's.
Key: none of this is new! it's stuff publibs have been doing a long time!
How the pandemic manifested labor solidarity at a rapid pace in one library system.
A number of language revitalization professionals report that their projects are not just continuing under quarantine—they’re expanding.
Fearful parents are falling for — and spreading — bad information to each other about kids and Covid-19.
This is not a group of people forwarding videos without thought – these are women who (correctly or incorrectly) believe they have done their research
The coronavirus pandemic created a surge in demand for exam proctoring tools. Here’s why universities should stop using them.
The coronavirus epidemic has upended every aspect of our lives. For weeks, people have been stuck at home, unable to go to their jobs, see their friends, run errands, or even go outside. Most business...
Businesses around the world have experienced numerous changes in their technology, operations and cybersecurity priorities.
On July 23rd, the Librarians' Assembly of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, the governing body of ZSR Library faculty, voted to endorse the following statement on online proctoring services: ZSR Librarians' Assembly, Statement on Online Proctoring Services, July 23, 2020 Online exam proctoring services deploy software-based interventions into students' personal computers and homes in order to [...]
At Facebook’s scale, it’s not hard for a dangerous piece of misinformation to get 20 million views in a day
As students and professors move across campuses, they leave plenty of digital traces—such as when their smartphones connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, or when ...