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Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library

Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library
The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.

Now, the New York Public Library has acquired Sacks’s personal archive, a trove documenting his intellectual explorations of topics as diverse as “aging, amnesia, color, deafness, dreams, ferns, Freud, hallucinations, neural Darwinism, phantom limbs, photography, pre-Columbian history, swimming and twins,” to cite a partial list that once appeared on his website.

October 4, 2024 by Archives EBooks Librarians Libraries Public Libraries

Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App – The Atlantic

Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App

It’s enough to drive you crazy, which is a process you can also track with apps for mental health, such as Headspace and Calm. Lots of apps are aiming to help you feel your best. My iPhone comes with Apple Health, but you might also find yourself with Garmin or Strava or maybe Peloton if you’re into that, or whichever app you need to scan into your local gym, or Under Armour, a polyester-shirt app that is also a jogging app. The MyChart app may help you reach a subset of your doctors and check a portion of your medical-test results. As for the rest? Different apps!

October 4, 2024 by Technology

Banned Books Week? Try “First Amendment Week” instead

Banned Books Week? Try %u201CFirst Amendment Week%u201D instead

Unlike the ostensible celebration of freedom and (frankly) the booksellers’ marketing opportunity associated with promoting “banned” books, First Amendment Week would invite students to think actively, critically, and deeply. Banned Books Week already gets people talking about censorship, but the problem is that the conversations can often be overly simplistic or observably misleading. Civics teachers have an opportunity to raise the bar and develop a more nuanced understanding of what “book banning” really means—and what it doesn’t.

October 3, 2024 by Books Censorship

Librarians could help relieve health care access gap in Arkansas

Arkansas librarians get training to relieve health care access gap

The module is designed to enable librarians to answer telehealth-related questions patrons might ask them. It covers what kind of telehealth services are available, how to make appointments and technical aspects of telehealth like navigating patient portals, Mary Larkin Furlow, senior manager of the Connecting the Heartland initiative, said during the event Wednesday.

October 3, 2024 by Librarians Libraries Public Libraries

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds

Opt out of PimEyes now, students warn
For Nguyen and Ardayfio, the point of the project was to persuade people to opt out of invasive search engines to protect their privacy online. An attempt to use I-XRAY to identify 404 Media reporter Joseph Cox, for example, didn’t work because he’d opted out of PimEyes.

But while privacy is clearly important to the students and their demo video strove to remove identifying information, at least one test subject was “easily” identified anyway, 404 Media reported. That test subject couldn’t be reached for comment, 404 Media reported.

October 2, 2024 by Internet Privacy Technology

Through “Libracycle” and story line, Biddeford library hopes to reach readers outside its walls

Through %u2018Libracycle%u2019 and story line, Biddeford library hopes to reach readers outside its walls
McArthur Public Library children’s librarian John Shannon rides his ‘Libracycle’ to restock Little Free Libraries in Biddeford

“(It’s) like a book-mobile for the 21st century,” Shannon said, demonstrating the bike before a delivery run Monday. “It’s a lot of fun to ride around, mainly because anytime you’re stopped at a red light, people are like ‘What is that?’ They roll down their window, or they’re shouting from the street.”

October 1, 2024 by Bookmobiles Librarians Libraries

Libraries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Have Been Detoured From the Information Highway

That should be “Super Highway” shouldn’t it?

Libraries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Have Been Detoured From the Information Highway

Libraries across Maryland are operating without internet access. An underground fire in Baltimore interrupted service and has sent libraries on the Eastern Shore back to doing things the old-fashioned way.

“It’s almost every Maryland public library that is affected today,” said Talbot Library Director Dana Newman. “I heard Talbot County Government and Talbot County Public Schools are also impacted because they’re on that same network.”

October 1, 2024 by Internet Libraries School Libraries Technology

Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

Salman Rushdie’s memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, “James,” are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards. Others nominated include author-filmmaker Miranda July for her explicit novel on middle age, “All Fours,” and the celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson for “Wrong Norma.”

October 1, 2024 by Books Libraries

Seattle Public Library to spend $1M on response to ransomware attack

The Seattle Public Library expects to spend about $1 million responding to a May ransomware attack by the end of 2024 and is still investigating what, if any, personal data hackers stole.

Seattle Public Library to spend $1M on response to ransomware attack

“We know that data has left the library,” Gannon said. “We do not have any even early indication about the extent of personal information that may have been compromised.”

September 30, 2024 by IT Security in Libraries Librarians Libraries Public Libraries

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