“GODORT has a new website! Check it out at http://www.ala.org/rt/godort! There are still a few odds and ends left to do, including uploading meeting minutes (close to 400 PDF files!) and some cleanup work on a few pages; that work will be ongoing in the coming weeks. While the GODORT wiki is still online, as of September 30 2018 it is no longer being updated and will eventually be archived. The new website has been almost a year in the making. I would like to thank the members of the Website Migration Working Group (which I chaired) for all of their hard work on this project. Please enjoy the new GODORT website! [Hallie Pritchett, Associate Dean of Libraries for Research and Learning, North Dakota State University]
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Daily Archives: October 8, 2018
How to Register to Vote: Deadlines for Each State
The New York Times: “Election Day is Nov. 6, but voter registration deadlines in many states are well before that. Deadlines have already passed in Alaska and Rhode Island. Many more are close. Here’s a list of each state’s voter registration deadline. The mail deadlines are when the applications should be postmarked, unless stated otherwise.… Continue Reading
How People Learn II Learners, Contexts, and Cultures (2018)
“There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has been wide… Continue Reading
AP Working past 65? It’s easier to do if you graduated college
AP – “Close to one in five Americans who’s 65 or older is still working, the highest percentage in more than half a century. And the one who’s still working may be better off. As more and more Americans delay retirement, it’s those with a college degree that find it easiest to keep working past… Continue Reading
Law firms can learn from other industries’ missteps on cybersecurity awareness and prevention
ABA Journal – “Equifax. Yahoo. Anthem. Sony. In the past few years, these companies experienced some of the most significant data breaches to date. And all of these companies found themselves subject to intense worldwide media coverage over their failure to secure their information. The industries affected—from health care to entertainment—know all too well that… Continue Reading
Unlocking the Treasury Market through TRACE
Liberty Street Econimics – New York Fed – Unlocking the Treasury Market through TRACE Doug Brain, Michiel De Pooter, Dobrislav Dobrev, Michael Fleming, Peter Johansson, Collin Jones, Frank Keane, Michael Puglia, Liza Reiderman, Tony Rodrigues, and Or Shachar. “The U.S. Treasury market is widely regarded as the deepest and most liquid securities market in the world,… Continue Reading
Google+ shutting down after belated news of consumer data breach
Google Blog: “Many third-party apps, services and websites build on top of our various services to improve everyone’s phones, working life, and online experience. We strongly support this active ecosystem. But increasingly, its success depends on users knowing that their data is secure, and on developers having clear rules of the road. Over the years… Continue Reading
Chief Justice John Roberts Now Gets To Decide What To Do With His Supreme Court
BuzzFeedNews: “Chief Justice John Roberts has traversed a difficult path leading the Supreme Court since Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016. He has led the court through an extended vacancy, the beginning of the Trump administration, and, just this past week, opened the court’s term for a second time with just eight justices. Now,… Continue Reading
Harvard Political Review – The 21st Century Library
Harvard Political Review – October 8, 2018: “The musty scent of old paperback. The groan of a creaky, carpeted floor. The sight of endless shelves filled with unread volumes. But when one steps through the marble columns into the Reading Room of Harvard’s flagship Widener Library today, they find a very different scene. Rows of… Continue Reading
Disinformation, Fake News and Influence Campaigns on Twitter
Knight Foundation: “How did misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election and has anything changed since? A new study of more than 10 million tweets from 700,000 Twitter accounts that linked to more than 600 misinformation and conspiracy news outlets answers this question. The report reveals a concentrated “fake news” ecosystem, linking more than 6.6… Continue Reading
How to Disable Gmail’s Annoying New “Smart Compose” Predictive Typing Feature
Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: “It appears that at least some Gmail users are now getting an (apparently one-time) pop-up box giving the option to turn off “Smart Compose” when it first becomes active for them. This is definitely an improvement. However, if someone accepts that default (“Got it”) to try it out, there’s no clue provided… Continue Reading
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
Krebs on Security: “Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. Think you’re too smart to fall for one? Think again:… Continue Reading
