Open Culture: “This fall, historian Timothy Snyder is teaching a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. The first lecture appears above. Subsequent lectures will be available on Yale’s YouTube Channel. And you can find the syllabus… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Knowledge Management
How to Blur Parts of an Image for Free Online
Make Use Of: “If you ever share screenshots or photos online, knowing how to blur parts of your image is a handy skill to have. Whether you need to send a screenshot with confidential information to a colleague or just want to draw focus to a certain part of your image, we’ll show you how… Continue Reading
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score
The New York Times:”…Architects, academic administrators, doctors, nursing home workers and lawyers described growing electronic surveillance over every minute of their workday. They echoed complaints that employees in many lower-paid positions have voiced for years: that their jobs are relentless, that they don’t have control — and in some cases, that they don’t even have… Continue Reading
Try these Google Docs Tricks
Via Wonder Tools newsletter by Jeremy Caplan, director of teaching and learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. “Google Docs is a contemporary classic. It’s less powerful than Notion, Coda or Craft and less streamlined than Bear, Ulysses, Drafts, or iA Writer. But it’s so reliable — and has so many capabilities — that I… Continue Reading
Style Guidance
“On this site, you will find style guidance spanning six main categories: borders and populations; class and social standing; disabilities, neurodiversity, and chronic illness; gender and sexuality; mental health, trauma, and substance use; and race and ethnicity.” Continue Reading
Project Drawdown: The World’s Leading Climate Solutions Database Is Growing
Earth.org: “Founded in 2014 by Author and Entrepreneur Paul Hawken in collaboration with over 200 researchers, Project Drawdown is one of the most influential research-backed databases of climate solutions on the planet. The project’s mission is to help the world reach ‘drawdown’ – the point in time where levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere… Continue Reading
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Launches New Legal Information Resource
AALL: “The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is offering a new resource for information professionals—law librarians, legal information professionals , and public librarians—and members of the public to easily locate online primary legal materials. The new Online Legal Information Resources (OLIR) includes information for U.S. states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, the U.S.… Continue Reading
News Habits and Attitudes of the Gen Z and Millennial Generations
AP/NORC: “A new in-depth survey of 16- to 40-year-olds shows that members of the Gen Z and Millennial generations are active consumers of news and information, with nearly a third of them willing to pay for it. But their relationship with the news is complex — their trust in the press is low, many are… Continue Reading
What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education
Young, Kathryne, What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education (2021). Kathryne M. Young, “What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education,” 11 UC Irvine Law Review 811 (2021)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4198255 “Despite enormous social, legal, and technological shifts in the last century, the structure of legal education has remained… Continue Reading
Edelman Trust Barometer 2022
The Cycle of Distrust: “We find a world ensnared in a vicious cycle of distrust, fueled by a growing lack of faith in media and government. Through disinformation and division, these two institutions are feeding the cycle and exploiting it for commercial and political gain. Distrust is now society’s default emotion Nearly 6 in 10… Continue Reading
Using an Infographic to Encourage Deep Reading
RIPS Law Librarian / Cindy Guyer: “…At the USC Gould School of Law, we provide students with reasons for why a case might be useful. We call them case selection factors. For example, some factors to consider include weight of authority, court level, depth of reasoning, factual relevancy, and decision date. These factors inform and… Continue Reading
How the AP, USA Today, and Northeastern built a database of mass killings that tracks more than shootings
Many mass killings receive relatively little news coverage in the U.S. – “Public mass shootings — ones that unfold in elementary schools, supermarkets, and parades — tend to receive the most media attention but a new database compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University reveals mass killings are far more likely to… Continue Reading
