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Intersect Alert | SLA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter http://sanfrancisco.sla1.org/category/intersect/ Home Enter search keyword SLA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter About Us » Established 1924 Chapter Leadership » Events » Bayline » Jobline » Sponsorship & Ads » Chapter Awards » Intersect Alert » Archive | Intersect Alert RSS feed for this section Intersect Alert – March 4, 2019 Posted on March 4, 2019. Values If the map becomes the territory then we will be lost <p>"Many publishers – including Wiley, Taylor and Francis, IEEE, and IOP – already use a third party manuscript service called ScholarOne. ScholarOne integrates the iThenticate service which produces reports of what percentage of a manuscript has already been published. Journal editors have the option to set what extent a paper can make use of a researcher’s prior work, including their thesis. Manuscripts that exceed these set thresholds can be automatic https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2019/03/03/if-the-map-becomes-the-territory-then-we-will-be-lost/</p> Bill To Bring Libraries To NYC Jails Faces Opposition From The Correction Department “On Tuesday, the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony on Councilmember Daniel Dromm’s bill, Int. 1184, that requires the Department of Correction to provide access to the library for all incarcerated people within 48 hours of entering the jail system. The Department would be required to report on the number of books they receive, the source of those books and, if books are censored, the reason for the censorship.” http://gothamist.com/2019/02/27/nyc_jails_books.php Privacy “The first complete human genome sequence was published in 2003, after a 13-year international effort that involved hundreds of researchers and cost $2.7 billion. Since then, sequencing technology has gotten faster and much less costly. At the same time, the advent of supercomputing centers that can analyze and compare millions of genomes has turned the mountain of raw genomic data into a motherlode of invaluable information. National agencies, huge corporations, and tiny startups all are vying to amass the biggest and best collections of genomes and discover their marketable secrets. In 2017, investment in genomics businesses topped $3” billion.https://news.psu.edu/story/560655/2019/02/26/research/whose-genes-are-they-anyway Archives Canadian province digitizing centuries-old trading post records to mark Manitoba 150 “The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives (HBCA), which is part of the Archives of Manitoba, is getting help from The Hudson’s Bay Company History Foundation for a mass digitization project, one of the first Manitoba 150 projects. HBCA is digitizing over 1000 reels of microfilm copies of pre-1870 trading post records, making them available to the world online. The records include post journals, accounts and district reports that provide information about the history of the fur trade, North American exploration and the development of Canada as a country. “They provide a real snapshot into life here in Canada hundreds of years ago. You can get a real sense of Indigenous voice for example and these records continue to be used for land tenor rights and hunting rights even today,” said Quarry.” https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/province-digitizing-centuries-old-trading-post-records-to-mark-manitoba-150-1.4317365 Research Research Tool: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) State Immunization Information System “The AAFP has developed a web-based map that displays immunization rates and exemption laws in all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. In addition, our searchable IIS Registry database provides state-by-state regulations for immunization registries across the U.S. These tools provide immunization data that can help family physicians identify populations that may be at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and pertussis (whooping cough), determine what additional resources and/or programs are needed to increase immunization rates, determine how immunization exemptions affect their state immunization rates, and advocate for stronger immunization legislation in their communities.” https://www.aafp.org/patient-care/public-health/immunizations/registry.html Freedom of Information Deloitte Launches FOIA-Processing Software “One of FOIA’s perennial head-scratchers is why agency FOIA offices seem able to search for and review only hundreds of pages of documents a month for release – even when under court order – when existing eDiscovery tools allow lawyers to review tens of thousands of pages of records in a comparable amount of time. Deloitte has launched a new FOIA-processing software based on eDiscovery tools for its government clients as a possible solution to this imbalance.” https://unredacted.com/2019/02/28/deloitte-launches-foia-processing-software-foia-shows-interior-dept-issued-thousands-of-oil-drilling-safety-waivers-and-more-frinformsum-2-28-2019/ Share this: Share Posted in Intersect Alert0 Comments Intersect Alert February 24, 2019 Posted on February 25, 2019. Archives: Online Oral Histories of the Manhattan Project “’Voices of the Manhattan Project’ is a joint project by the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society to create a public archive of our oral history collections of Manhattan Project veterans and their families. The Manhattan Project was a great human collaboration. Participants included recent immigrants who fled anti-Semitism in Europe, young men and women straight from high school or college, and numerous Hispanics, Native Americans, and African-Americans. Some 125,000 people worked in secret locations in communities developed by the government for the sole purpose of the project. Most surprisingly, very few knew that they were working on an atomic bomb.” “Launched in October 2012, this website captures the stories of Manhattan Project veterans and their families. Thanks to grants from the Crystal Trust, Department of Energy-NNSA, Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Kerr Foundation, and the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society are digitizing and transcribing our oral history collections and adding the interviews to this website. We hope that in time others will add to these oral histories. Our goal is to provide a sense of both the commonality and diversity of the Manhattan Project experience for scholars, students and the public. There are many ways to search this site. In addition to the search bar and the filters used to organize by location and subjects (which are intended to emphasize important themes), you can also click on ‘tags’ to find out more about a specific topic on the oral history and location pages. For example, the location page for Metallurgical Laboratory includes a tag for Enrico Fermi. Click on the tag, and all the key pages on this website discussing Fermi will pop up…” https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/ How Do You Preserve History On The Moon? : NPR “Historic preservationists are hoping that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this summer will persuade the United Nations to do something to protect Neil Armstrong’s footprints in the lunar dust. Some of his boot marks are still up there, after all, along with other precious artifacts from humanity’s first steps on another world. Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left behind tools and science equipment, a plaque that read, “We came in peace for all mankind,” and the U.S. flag, which has likely been bleached white by five decades of harsh ultraviolet light.” https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696129505/how-do-you-preserve-history-on-the-moon Libraries: Drag queen story hour in America’s Bible Belt “Drag queen story hours – events where drag performers read to children – are moving out of the big cities and coming to conservative southern US states.” “A group of drag queens stand in a small room at the back of a public library in South Carolina, their bright outfits in contrast with the beige walls.” “Children file in and quickly scan the larger-than-life characters before turning their attention to running around and playing.” “‘There are five drag queens walking around this room and not one kid has walked up to us and said “you’re so weird”,’ says drag queen Rylee Hunty. “Kids exist in their own fantasy world and we fit into that.'” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47203976 Obama Library to Depart From Status Quo, Signs of Life for Central FOIA Portal, and More: FRINFORMSUM 2/21/2019 For Better or Worse, The Obama Library to Depart From Status Quo “The National Archives and Records Administration has released its agreement with the Obama Foundation that outlines how the Foundation’s plan to depart from the traditional NARA-run presidential library model – in favor of digitizing all of Obama’s 30 million unclassified paper records – will comply with the Presidential Records Act.” “While all of Obama’s unclassified documents will be released through both the New Obama Library website and the NARA catalog, there will be no research library on site. This change has prompted concerns that presidential scholarship may suffer, and begs questions about what this model could mean for future presidents unconcerned with preserving ‘nonpartisan public history,’ according to the New York Times.” Obama Library to Depart From Status Quo, Signs of Life for Central FOIA Portal, and More: FRINFORMSUM 2/21/2019 Books and Reading: ‘I can’t even look at the cover’: the most disturbing books “From hiding from a copy of The Exorcist to being unnerved by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Iain Banks, here are The Guardian Reader’s most alarming reading experiences” https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/feb/21/i-cant-even-look-at-the-cover-the-most-disturbing-books How to Read 80ish Books a Year (And Actually Remember Them) “Reading is a skill that once you’ve learned, you probably don’t spend much time trying to get better at.