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The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...
The American Library Association is distancing itself from Melvil Dewey as the profession reflects upon his past.
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Guest post by Rebecca Green The 2012 publication of the last print edition of 200 Religion Class was accompanied by a Dewey blog posting that included the following explanation: Another exciting feature of 200 Religion Class is an optional arrangement...
McNealy is researching surveillance literacy and anti-surveillance tactics and advocacy in marginalized groups
By Nabil Hassein Researchers have documented the frequent inability of facial recognition software to detect Black people’s faces due to programmers’ use of unrepresentative data to train mac…
"Developing a program or exhibition that reflects upon or invites dialogue on some contemporary social movement, such as Black Lives Matter, for example, is not the same as investing in the cultivation of black life." In the fourth edition of Soundboard, our multi-author feature, artist and Tufts professor Anthony Romero offers his 2019 New Year's resolutions for art museums.
Digitized collections promise to make our cultural heritage radically open. But what if that cultural heritage is full of hate? As Tara Robertson writes of digitization, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. In 2017, digital publisher Reveal Digital began developing a collection of
Emerging as a comprehensive and aggressive governance scheme in China, the “Social Credit System” (SCS) seeks to promote the norms of “trust” in the Chinese soc
Last August, Todd Westby’s employees were implanted with microchips. How did they get there? And what the heck does it have to do with vending machines?
A “bibliomaniac” forged an alternative to Eurocentric library classifications.