Kaiser Health News: “…The push for [patient] portals has been fueled by several factors: the widespread embrace of technology, incentive payments to medical practices and hospitals that were part of 2009 federal legislation to encourage “meaningful use” of electronic records, and a 2014 federal rule giving patients direct access to their results. Policymakers have long… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Google Maps learns 39 new languages
Google Blog: “…Today, we’re making Google Maps even more useful by adding 39 new languages—spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili,… Continue Reading
The Yemen War Online: Propagation of Censored Content on Twitter
As a devastating civil war rages on in Yemen, online political networks that coalesce around the war use Twitter to propagate censored content from the open web, making it available to users behind open-web filtering regimes. by Helmi Noman, Robert Faris, and John Kelly. 28 February 2018 Download PDF. “This study, conducted by the Internet… Continue Reading
NOAA – Garbage Patches: How Gyres Take Our Trash Out to Sea
NOAA Ocean Podcast: Episode 14 How the gyres that circulate our ocean waters also accumulate plastics. Find out what a garbage patch is and isn’t, and what we can do about this ocean-sized problem. “..Gyres are large systems of circulating ocean currents, kind of like slow-moving whirlpools. There are five gyres to be exact—the North… Continue Reading
John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment
New York Times Opinion by retired associate justice of the United States Supreme Court – John Paul Steven: “Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the… Continue Reading
Immigration Court Outcomes by County of Residence
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “We have just added new features that permit the public to examine the immigrant’s residence in all deportation cases before the Immigrant Court. The new features track the state and county of residence during the period FY 2001 through February of 2018. The new tool is particularly powerful because users can… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Our “Small” Project with a Big Impact: Littler’s Knowledge Desk, A Case Study
Via LLRX – Our “Small” Project with a Big Impact: Littler’s Knowledge Desk, A Case Study – Cynthia L. Brown, Director Research Services at Littler Mendelson P.C. discusses the firm’s one-stop-shop for all KM and library research inquiries and needs – the Knowledge Desk. The Knowledge Desk is available to all Littler attorneys and staff… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Statistics Resources and Big Data 2018
Via LLRX – Statistics Resources and Big Data 2018 – Marcus Zillman’s new guide is a comprehensive resource for all researchers who require access to reliable and accurate publicly available statistics and big data sets that address diverse and timely subject matter. The resources included in this guide are developed and maintained by a range… Continue Reading
CRS – Is the Grid More Secure? Not Yet!
NERC Standards for Bulk Power Physical Security: Is the Grid More Secure? Paul W. Parfomak, Specialist in Energy and Infrastructure Policy. March 19, 2018. “Although the electric power sector seems to be moving in the overall direction of greater physical security for critical assets, many measures have yet to be implemented and the process of… Continue Reading
Disappearance of Books Threatens to Erode Fine Arts Libraries
Hyperallergic: Two major public universities have recently moved to radically downsize or entirely relocate their fine arts libraries, which is in keeping with broader trends of libraries doing away with books. “At many libraries, the prime real estate occupied by books is being requisitioned to make way for new digital humanities initiatives like virtual reality… Continue Reading
How Digital Lending Service Hoopla Brings Libraries Into Internet Era
Forbes: “Libraries and their digital offerings are one of the most overlooked segments of the ebook industry. Hoopla, one of the digital lending services allowing libraries to offer ebooks and other digital content, has helped drive the unassuming library ebook to success in over 1,600 public library systems. Hoopla Digital’s goal is to enable instantaneous and simultaneous… Continue Reading
Hive – Inside the Secret Meme Lab Designed to Propel #NeverAgain Beyond the March
The March for Our Lives movement is resonating – and will continue to so, in the hearts, minds and actions of those who are representing all those who have perished in mass shootings and acts of violence against unarmed men, women and children in towns and cities throughout our country, and increasingly in the consciousness… Continue Reading
