Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Professor/Coord for InfoLit+Instruction, University Library & Affiliate Faculty, School of Information Sciences @ University of Illinois-Urbana
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White House To Give Coronavirus Test To People 'In Close Proximity' To Trump, Pence
The president told reporters on Thursday that he had taken a second coronavirus test, which was negative.
NYC forbids schools from using Zoom for remote learning due to privacy and security concerns
The change is likely to cause headaches for schools and families, as the use of Zoom became widespread after the city shuttered school buildings on March 16.
5 Ways to Transform the Academic Workplace in a Post-Covid-19 World
For HR administrators and staff, the new coronavirus has meant long, crazed hours — but the real work is just beginning.
College & Research Libraries – April 2020
The April 2020 special issue of College & Research Libraries, highlighting the projects of ACRL Academic Library Impact research grant recipients, is now freely available online. Visit the C&RL website for complete contents from 1939 to the present...
Modeling the Effectiveness of Respiratory Protective Devices in Reducing Influenza Outbreak
Outbreaks of influenza represent an important health concern worldwide. In many cases, vaccines are only partially successful in reducing the infection rate, and respiratory protective devices (RPDs)...
Is Anyone Still Flying? What Air Travel During a Pandemic Looks Like
A small percentage of U.S. travelers are still flying, whether to get home or to help transport cargo. Here's what flying during COVID-19 looks like today.
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
@TAC_NISO @drs1969 "Monday, March 30, some 154,000 travelers passed through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints throughout the United States. On the same day one year prior, 2.36 million people had passed through TSA checkpoints across the country."
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Living and leading in a time of crisis
Last Friday was the worst day of my working life. Like many small businesses, we have had to take the difficult decision to scale back our activities temporarily as we weather the worst of the coronavirus crisis.
Google to publish user location data to help govts tackle virus
Google will publish location data from its users around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech giant said. The reports on users'...
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
In the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun to be the only hysterical person in the...
Society for Scholarly Publishing Cancels 42nd Annual Meeting
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SSP's 42nd Annual Meeting, originally scheduled for May 27-29, 2020, in Boston, MA, will be canceled.
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
I'm sure this does not come as a surprise - @ScholarlyPub cancels the May 2020 annual conference. As a member of the SSP Board of Directors, I've saw how hard everyone worked on this event and am so grateful for their efforts. Fingers crossed for 2021!
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IDEALS @ Illinois: Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for a Virtual Age
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Slides from my keynote for today's SSP Virtual Event: "Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for a Virtual Age" are now available in the UIUC IDEALS repository (CC-BY-NC):
hdl.handle.net/2142/106688
#scholcomm #publishing #openaccess
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The Latest US Library Survey | Ithaka S+R
Since 2010, Ithaka S+R has fielded its triennial survey of academic library directors to track evolving strategies and priorities across the sector. Today
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Uh oh, this is not good news: "Library directors continue to perceive the value of their roles—and the roles of their libraries—as declining in the eyes of their supervisors and other higher education leaders."
The Latest US Library Survey
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The ‘Devastating Impacts’ of COVID-19 on Illinois Finances
The coronavirus is taking a toll on individuals’ pocketbooks, but it’s also hurting government budgets across the nation. What it could mean for Illinois.
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
This "3-Year Budget Forecast FY 2021 – FY 2023" for Illinois is so sobering. news.wttw.com/sites/default/…
This article explains some of the dynamics well: news.wttw.com/2020/03/26/dev…
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‘Emergency’ Online Library Draws Ire of Some Authors
Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful “copyright ideology.”
Governor JB Pritzker
To landlords who lease to medical professionals:
In other states, we've seen news stories about nurses being thrown out of apartments or denied leases out of fear of exposure.
We haven't yet...
Global Coverage: COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response Information
From UNESCO (Last Updated March 10, 2020): A record number of children and youth are not attending school or university because of temporary or indefinite closures mandated by governments in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19(link is...
COVID-19: Writing a New Chapter in University of Illinois History
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John Wiley & Sons: It's Time To Pound The Table
JW.A provides stability in terms of cash flows and dividends during times of uncertainty. While challenges exist, the market is more than pricing in the risks i