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 Academic Video Online | Database Reviews, Nov. 2019 By Rob Tench
Academic Video Online has been a popular choice in libraries for many years, and with good reason. Its catalog is large and diverse, with strengths in many different subject areas. Overall, this is an excellent resource for libraries serving educational organizations at any level. |
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| "We have a robot going through [Wikipedia] and augmenting book citations with links to books in the Internet Archive…. The next puzzle beyond that is ‘how do you go and scale that up?’ We now have over 120,000 Wikipedia citations pointing to over 40,000 books, but we want to get to millions of links going to millions of books." | | |
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 Barbara’s Picks (From Ball’s Klansman in the Family to Weiner’s American Folly), with More American History, World War II Studies, & More: History Previews, Jun. 2020, Pt. 3 | Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert Our white supremacist roots from National Book Award winner Edward Ball, Jewish women resistance fighters from Judy Batalion, Dan Hampton on killing Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Jonathan Kaufman on the Jewish families who ruled early 20th-century Shanghai, Bob Schron on activist African American athletes, Tim Weiner on U.S. and Soviet/Russian political warfare, and more. |
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PREMIUM Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in AmericaBy Gilda R. Daniels Replete with documentary evidence and examples, this work sounds an alarm for any and all readers interested in reversing the damage and danger of the nondemocratic dynamic threatening truth, justice, and the fight to vote. | | | | |
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 The User Experience | Securing Your Site By Sabrina Unrein Good website design is nearly invisible, and many features can have a significant impact on the user experience without being immediately apparent. Web security is one such feature. |
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 Barbara’s Picks (Playwright Adjmi, Journalist/Surfer Cardwell, Former SEAL Day, Biographer Herrera, PETA’s Mathews, & Linguist Tannen), Plus Tales of Bartending, Insomnia, & Crazy Parenting: Memoir Previews, Jun. 2020, Pt. 2 | Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert David Adjmi considers growing up a gay Syrian Jew in Brooklyn, journalist Diane Cardwell finds a new life and a new community by surfing at New York's Rockaway Beach, and linguist Deborah Tannen reconstructs the life of her inspiring father. |
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 UK Libraries Looking Up | Editorial By Rebecca T. Miller I am very excited to see the recent positive activity around libraries in the United Kingdom. The community there seems to be rallying in a new way to increase understanding of the urgency for library investment—an effort lifted by a renewed effort to articulate how much libraries contribute to the social fabric. |
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