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On Wednesday, I wrote about how corporate journalists, realizing that the public’s increasing contempt for what they do is causing people to turn away in droves, are desperately inventing new tactics to maintain their stranglehold over the dissemination of information and generate captive audiences. That is why journalists have bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the the most vocal  censorship advocates, using their platforms to dem...

  The new employees include: Alicia Hyman, Outreach Librarian; Sara Russell-Scholl, Childrens and Youth Services Supervisor; Kisha Sawyers, Technology Engagement Librarian; and Autumn Mawhinney, Technical Services Supervisor.   "We are pleased to welcome these talented professionals to lead our service initiatives in the coming months and beyond," said Athenaeum Director Alex Reczkowski.   Hyman comes to the library from New York City, where she was a Social Sector Librarian at the non...

PHOTO: lzf Linda C. Smith, then a doctoral student at Syracuse Universitys School of Information Studies, published a landmark paper in 1976 on the role of AI in information retrieval. Forty years later, her thesis came to fruition. Over the last few years, software vendors have positioned AI as the solution to every known enterprise search problems. Yet surveys carried out from 2016 to 2020 (and indeed way back to 2007) all indicate that search is not in any way a solved problem and indeed, ...

Berkshire Athenaeum Introduces New Librarians The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield’s Public Library, expands its reach in the City of Pittsfield with the addition of four librarians to its professional staff. The new employees include: Alicia Hyman, Outreach Librarian; Sara Russell-Scholl, Children’s and Youth Services Supervisor; Kisha Sawyers, Technology Engagement Librarian; and Autumn Mawhinney, Technical Services Supervisor. “We are pleased to welcome these talented professionals to l...

Medical Review – Auschwitz. March 8, 2021. Originally published in Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim. 1969: 195–199. Author Małgorzata Dominik, MD, 1941–1979, psychiatrist, Chair of Psychiatry, Kraków Medical Academy. Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim has already published a note describing the death in the Warsaw ghetto of Professor Franciszek Raszeja, a distinguished surgeon from Poznań (Pospieszalski 129). However, no source information has been made public so far concerning his ...

The OU Board of Regents will consider action on items including a freshman “housing master plan,” new appointments to university leadership and changes to the University Advancement office in its

Alabama professor on Dr. Seuss: Discontinuing racist books isn’t ‘cancel culture’ Updated Mar 03, 2021; Posted Mar 03, 2021 A copy of the book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," by Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business that preserves and protects the author and illustrators legacy, announced on his birthday, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, that it would cease publication of several childrens titles including "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and "If I Ran t...

Carrier Dome now open as indoor Quad for students Alex Malanoski | Staff Photographer Students looking to utilize the indoor quad should enter and exit the Dome at Gate A or Gate N. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. An indoor Quad set up in the Carrier Dome will now be regularly available for student use.  The space will provide students with socially-distanced areas to study or socialize on certain days each week in addition to serving as a classroom and a COVID-19 testing center, ac...

Whenever and however schools open for in-person instruction — during and after the pandemic — we cannot go back to business as usual. Many of our students will need something different, something transformative, something deeply rooted in our commitment to provide students a significantly different type of school environment. This moment calls for radical care. Radical care is a fundamental belief that students need something different from what schools have typically offered. Many educator...

Syracuse University to offer online, part-time computer programming degree Alex Malanoski | Staff Photographer University College tailors to “non-traditional” students, which typically include adult learners who are either returning to college or are pursuing a degree later in life. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. Syracuse University will offer an online, part-time computer programming degree in fall 2021. SU’s University College is currently accepting applications for the bach...