At the Ref Desk (9/6/19): How do I know it's close to the start of the school year? Student asks me: 'Where can I borrow the Norton Anthology of American Literature'? [more...]

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Current Readings around Town...

Title Date Author Source
College Students' Latest Headache? Digital Access Fees on Top of Rising Textbook Prices 9/13/19 Stephanie Zimmermann Sun-Times
The Misconception about Baby Boomers and the Sixties 8/18/19 Louis Menand New Yorker
Foldable phones: Why they won't change the shape of the smartphone industry 3/5/19 Danny Palmer ZDNet
The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018 12/30/18 Timothy B. Lee Ars Technica
Open Access at a Crossroads 10/11/18 David Kramer Physics Today
Blockchain Startups Are Selling Visions of the Future, Not Technology 7/27/18 Matthew Beedham The Next Web
Blockchain Is Crappy Technology And A Bad Vision For The Future 5/12/18 Kai Stinchcombe The Next Web
The Reckoning Over Social Media Has Transformed SXSW 3/14/18 Casey Newton The Verge
Social Media Use in 2018 3/1/18 Aaron Smith, Monica Anderson Pew Research Center
How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list 1/11/18 Simon van Zuylen-Wood Washington Post
Don’t Gut Net Neutrality. It’s Good for People and Business 1/5/17 Nicholas Economides Wired
More People Now Access the Internet Via Mobile Than Desktop, Study says 11/2/16 n/a Fast Company
Why Bad Ballot Design Is a Really Significant Problem 10/20/16 Lena Groeger ProPublica
How Humanities Can Help Fix the World 10/2/16 John McCumber Chronicle of Higher Education
Open Access : All Human Knowledge Is There - So Why Can't Everybody Access It? 6/17/16 Glyn Moody Ars Technica

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