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This month’s highlights:
* TECH TALK –
This month’s column is by Soo-yeon Hwang, who discusses library chatbots.
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* OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST –
<https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/24833/32670>
Collection Development in the Era of Big Deals
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/03/01/how-user-friendly-is-your-website/>
How User-Friendly Is Your Website?
<https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/29843/22339>
Information Seeking Anxiety and Preferred Information Sources of First-Generation College Students
<http://informationethics.ca/index.php/irie/article/view/379/385>
Privacy and Ethics Are Fundamental to Tech Development: A Privacy Regulator’s Perspective
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/03/01/bookmobiles-road-to-normal-covid-19/>
The Road to Normal
<https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/24834/32671>
Sexual Harassment at University of California Libraries: Understanding the Experiences of Library Staff Members
<https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/24847/32699>
Surging virtual reference services
<https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12453/10295>
Web Content Strategy in Practice within Academic Libraries
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An Analysis of Recently Retracted Articles by Authors Affiliated with Hospitals in Mainland China
ANT Perspective of Healthcare Big Data for Service Delivery in South Africa
Hardware is the Easy Part: The Gray Areas of Integrating VR in Libraries
Neutrality in Public Libraries: How Are We Defining One of Our Core Values?
Price Transparency Project: Informing the Development of Plan S
A Study on Behavior Intention to Adopt Mobile Banking Apps
Survey Design, Sampling, and Significance Testing: Key Issues
Thirty Minutes is a Small Price to Pay: Care, Creativity, and Community-building
The Use of ICT in an English Classroom: A Study Into the Attitudes of Young Slovenian Foreign Language Learners
When Online Fact-Checking is a Trap; The Weaponization of Media Literacy
Where’s the Value? The Worth of Public Libraries: A Systematic Review of Findings, Methods and Research Gaps
Who Owns and Cares About the Data? A Method for Identifying and Gathering Information for Business Research Investigations
