Biography Reference Center - More than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
You may be aware that the Alaska Talking Book Center contracts with the Utah State Library for the Blind and Disabled for most services. One of the most exciting things about this collaboration is that the Utah program has a reading program which makes more Alaskan content available than we were able to provide in the past. This includes a growing collection of audiobooks for children and adults on Alaskan topics like the impact of oil on the state, World War II in Alaska, the Iditarod, Alaska Native experiences, and much more.
Now, thanks to the efforts of the Alaska Chapter of the National Federation for the Blind and the publishers of Senior Voice, select content from that monthly publication is going to be available as well. It will come out every other month, to allow reading and processing time, and is available to all interested users of the system. If you or someone you know is an Alaska Talking Book Center user and would like to subscribe to the audio of Senior Voice, call the folks in Utah at 1-800-453-4293 and ask for the Senior Voice magazine from Alaska. If you or someone you know has a visual, physical, or reading disability that makes reading traditional books difficult, go to our website to find out more about the program or give us a call in Juneau at 1-888-820-4525 for more information and an application.
We recently heard that the Ketchikan Museums have a Vimeo channel where they post their Museum Midday lectures. This series of hour long lectures recently concluded their most recent season. Episodes from this season included:
Presentations will resume in September. Museum Midday information and scheduling can be found on the Ketchikan Museums website.
Anchorage based radio station KNBA recently took a look at repatriation efforts in Alaska and around the country. Recent stories have included:
Did you know that many reviews on Amazon and other purchasing sites, as well as social media, are fake? Some bad actors use robots or humans to post great reviews of products they are trying to promote or bad reviews of competitors they're trying to trash. Two examples of how fake reviews and endorsements are a thing can be found on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 10/21/2019 blog post, Great American Fake-Off? FTC cases challenge bogus influencer metrics and fake reviews.
Writing for PC Magazine, Jason Cohen offered some tips and resources in a 5/12/2021 article titled How to spot a fake review on Amazon. One of several tips from the article was: "Reviews that are overly positive or negative without offering enough detail can be suspicious. Very brief five-star and one-star reviews, particularly if they're all posted on the same day, may also denote suspicious activity."
For more tips and some automated tools that can spot fakes, read the full article.
PC Magazine recently published an article on hacking WiFi passwords that we encourage you to read for two reasons - First, you may find it of value in recovering your own passwords if you have lost them; and second, we want you to understand that non-public wifi credentials could be at risk at your institution. We invite you to read the article, see how you might be vulnerable, and close the holes. And, please change the default admin password on your wifi router if you haven't already.
Read: How to hack Wi-Fi passwords by Eric Griffith. PC Magazine, updated 5/18/2021.
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