From The New York Times: “Warp speed” may be a term of the moment, thanks to the federal coronavirus vaccine program. But it’s also one with a history — which goes back farther than “Star Trek,” to a forgotten 1952 science fiction story in the pulp magazine Imagination. [Clip] A historical dictionary devoted to the […]
From eMarketer: Amid the pandemic, US adults spent 1 hour more per day on digital activities (across all devices) than they did in 2019, according to eMarketer’s latest time spent forecast from Insider Intelligence. Total digital time is now on track to surpass 8 hours by the end of 2022. In 2020, US adults spent […]
From a Europeana Pro Blog Post: Judaica Europeana, which ran from 2010 to 2012, was one of Europeana’s first aggregation projects. It aimed to add content from Jewish heritage institutions in Europe, the United States and Israel to Europeana, and in total digitised and uploaded 3.7 million items to the platform. Recognising the need to […]
Law Library of Congress Acquires 15th-Century Manuscript of the Canons and Constitutions of the Archdiocese of Zaragoza (via In Custodia Legis) The Royal Danish Library and Elsevier Agree to Four-Year Contract For Reading and Open Access Publishing
From the U.S. Copyright Office: Join the U.S. Copyright Office for a virtual event celebrating the enduring copyright legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on February 17 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. eastern time via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public, though registration is required. Part of the Copyright Office Presents […]
From a Media Cloud Blog Post: What did the year 2020 look like in US news coverage? We analyzed over 27 million stories from over 10,000 US-based news sources published during 2020 to answer this question. Per our typical Media Cloud research methodology, we pay special attention to the events driving coverage, the top words used […]
From WNET: Today, THIRTEEN’s award-winning PBS documentary series American Masters released 500 videos from its robust archive, making a collection of interviews from the last four decades of American Masters films available and fully searchable for the first time at pbs.org/americanmasters. The American Masters digital archive includes over 1,000 hours of footage from more than […]
From The Wilson Center: Online gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation against women in public life is widespread, and social media platforms are doing too little to stop it, finds a landmark study by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Moonshot CVE. “Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women […]
From AAP: Trade (Consumer Book) Sales Up 34.5% in November; 9.7% Year to Date The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for November 2020 reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, including Trade (Consumer Books), K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing, and University Presses. Total revenues across all […]
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ABOUT INFODOCKET
Before launching infoDOCKET, Gary Price was a founder and senior editor at ResourceShelf.
This site is updated as often as possible during the week and at least once a day on the weekends. Gary is a native of Chicago and has an MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.