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Libraries and the fight against truth decay

CILIP

Libraries and the fight against truth decay Truth decay is the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life, it is a phenomenon that erodes civil discourse, causes political paralysis, and leads to general uncertainty around what is and is not. A longer-form interview with Stijn appears in the May/June edition of IP magazine.

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Success of AI in academic libraries depends on underlying data

CILIP

Success of AI in academic libraries depends on good underlying data. nder, scientific information specialist: Success of AI in academic libraries depends on good underlying data. Why do we hear so little in this respect from libraries on this side of the Atlantic? In what way have the working methods in libraries changed?

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Challenging the sterotypes and why we need new perspectives

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library SCHOOL Librarian Phyllis Ramage is just about to start her second year as a judge on the Yoto Carnegies awards. Before moving into school librarianship, Phyllis worked in public libraries, starting out “in 1994 in a junior position with the London Borough of Barnet as a library assistant”.

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12.9 else: “The most mericful thing in the world”

John Battelle's Searchblog

Amazon Drones Are Part of Jeff Bezos’s Pre-Lobbying Strategy – New York Magazine. Researchers are sending bots out to run comparative analysis on discrimination through personalization around the web, potentially offering some transparency to an otherwise opaque and individualized process. Personal data gets really personal.

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One of the County’s Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

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Library of Congress). NYWTS Collection Library of Congress). NAACP Director of Branches Robert Bagnall (Library of Congress). Library of Congress). Carl Van Vecten/Library of Congress). Library of Congress). November 20, 1929 – NAACP Field Secretary, William Pickens. Labor and civil rights leader A.

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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

This article is part of a collaboration between ARMA and AIEF and is included in Information Management Magazine, ARMA-AIEF Special Edition , which will be available for download in November. Library Trends 52, no.3, Chicago: American Library Association-Neal Shuman, 2019. Libraries and the Academy 13, no. Robinson, Lyn.

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Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia and the search for trusted information

CILIP

s Rob Green about the search for trusted information and the role of libraries and librarians in the face of the rise of fake news, clickbait and the erosion of trust in news and information sources. and points to libraries and librarians as the facilitators to improve skills. Libraries and librarians in the digital age.