Michelle Alexopoulos is interested in tracking technology trends

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Economics Professor Data Mines Technology Trends europe cell phone number list Using Vintage Public Documents at the Internet Archive
Posted on April 14, 2021 by Caralee Adams

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For a recent project that involved out-of-print government publications, the economics professor and her coauthor Jon Cohen tapped into resources from Internet Archive—available free and online—conveniently from her campus at the University of Toronto.

Alexopoulos specializes in studying the effects of technical change on the economy and labor markets. She uses library classification systems, including metadata from the Library of Congress, to understand how quickly technology is coming to market by tracing the emergence of new books on tech subjects. When it came to looking up old library cataloging practices, some documents were difficult to find.