The current issue of Health Affairs includes an article discussing the unique opportunity Public Libraries (and Public Library staff) have in helping to promote health and address the needs of vulnerable people. Beyond Books: Public Libraries as Partners for Population Health presents the findings of an assessment of programs by The Healthy Library Initiative (from the Free Public Library of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania). Hat tip to Donna Gibson for this item.

On The Open Notebook, there is a useful article by Jane C. Hu called, What are the Odds? Reporting on Risk. Which, as science writer Bethany Brookshire pointed out on twitter, “…is also a really good primer on how to READ about risk.”

• For Open Access week, Ithaka’s Roger Schonfeld touts the work of the CRMS and HathiTrust in his post, Opening Access the Copyright Review Management System and HathiTrust. Schonfeld introduces an issue brief by Melissa Levine, Finding the Public Domain the Copyright Review Management System, and discusses the work done by HathiTrust and the University of Michigan and other research Libraries to systematically review copyright status for the works in their collections so the Public Domain materials could be made publicly available online. It is encouraging to read about their success and to hear about the toolkit they have created based on this project.

• According to changes made yesterday by the FCC, broadband providers will no longer be able to collect private user information without their permission. Coverage in the NY Times is here.

• Finally, if you’re looking for some last minute tips on carving a pumpkin for Halloween or taking great pictures of Jack-o-lanterns, check out this round-up of posts by Make zine; 5 Halloween Quick Tips!

Yesterday the publication eLife announced that, starting January 2017, they will begin charging a publication fee of $2,500. For more information, see this statement about  creating a financially stable future for eLife. Visit the archive on PMC here.

New York Magazine has a long piece about information addiction by Andrew Sullivan called I Used to Be a Human Being.

According to an odd item in the Atlantic, which seems less crazy than it sounds once you read it, a former urologic surgeon used a 3D printed kidney to explore anecdotal stories of patients passing small kidney stones after riding roller coasters. The PubMed abstract of the paper describing the experiment he and a colleague conducted is available here.