Hamilton Heads To The Movies, July 25, 2018 | Book Pulse

Typewriters may be a thing of the past, but a new documentary shows how they meay actually hold the kewys to the future.

 

John King, Boston's playwright in residence

From FDLP.gov: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is collaborating with the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, and the Office of the Federal Register on parallel projects to convert a subset of enrolled bills, public laws, …

John King, Boston's playwright in residence

From JTA: The National Library of Israel will suspend its public services and put its 300 employees on unpaid leave. The closure, which is set to begin on Aug. 17, is due to a cut by the government in the library’s budget along with a “drastic drop” in income and donations, the library announced Wednesday. […]

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Cancels Exhibition Over Racial Sensitivity Concerns (via NY Times) Blackstone Reaches $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Ancestry.com (via Bloomberg) Crowdsourcing Twitch: Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial Intelligence (Carnegie Mellon University) Digital Revenue Exceeds Print Revenue For the First Time Ever at the NY Times (via […]

From a Creative Commons Blog Post: The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) just released the second edition of their openly licensed digital image collection, “American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.” This edition features nearly 500 high-quality images of teachers and students licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). Captured by Allison […]

From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services today released the latest data from its 2018 Public Libraries Survey. The Public Libraries Survey collects information on key indicators of public library use, financial health, staffing, and resources. Explore the FY 2018 data and documentation or query the Library Search and Compare Tool. Each year […]

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