New York may join Maryland in giving "public libraries the right to license and lend e-books that are available to consumers in the state" after the Assembly and Senate passed such a bill; it now heads to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The bill specifically requires "publishers who offer to license e-books to the public" to similarly provide libraries with "reasonable" terms for those e-books, "prohibiting harmful practices that discriminate against libraries and harm library patrons."
The University of California at Berkeley Library asked scholars to recommend media to "help us reflect on the importance of" Juneteenth, the date "commemorating the abolishment of slavery in the United States." Among the recommendations, john a. powell, professor and director of Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute, suggests Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
The Seattle Gay News, which has been covering Seattle's LGBTQ community since the 1970s, will have its nearly 50-year archives held at libraries including the Seattle Public Library, Yale's Beinecke Library, Washington State Library and the Stonewall National Museum & Archives, with several notable issues also going to the Library of Congress.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is requesting more information from Google and Amazon on how their smart-home devices support user privacy and competition. To combat anti-competitive tactics, Klobuchar -- chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee -- is asking how the companies will handle the recently revamped Matter alliance, which foregrounds product interoperability.
By Carolyn Heinze
AV industry designers and technologists share how they approach the relationship between technology and building design.
Daktronics has updated its Venus Control Suite LED control software with centralized control for scheduled content on both LED and LCD displays in indoor and outdoor spaces. The cloud-based display control software now allows organizations to schedule content for multiple displays in one place.
AVIXA's Leadership Search Committee has appointed Frank Padikkala, CTS-D, to serve as chairperson of the AVIXA Diversity Council. Padikkala, Kairos solution architect at Panasonic, takes over the role from Charmaine Torruella.
The pandemic brought live music to a halt on March 12, 2020 -- the night before Brooklyn Bowl Nashville's grand opening. Here's how Music City's newest venue survived to finally open this month.
VisibilityOne has unveiled a SaaS video conference monitoring app that includes remote users of Microsoft Teams.
CEDIA Expo 2021 will mark the debut of the "Innovation Hub" where case studies revealing new and innovative solutions are showcased. Learn more here.