Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in innovation and corporations.
North American and European executives say business strategy depends largely on innovation, yet corporate responsibility for innovation is highly fragmented, Accenture survey shows.Frequency of innovation, “speed to market” are key competitive challenges Business strategy is driven largely by innovation, but corporate responsibility for the innovation process is highly fragmented, according to findings of a survey published by Accenture. The survey of 601 senior executives in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada found that innovation is a top corporate priority, but it also indicates that more senior-level accountability, greater CEO involvement and improved speed-to-market execution can help companies deliver on their promise of innovation and boost their competitiveness.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in education and copyright.
University of Florida professor Michael Moulton thinks copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students, and he’s headed to court to prove it. Moulton and his e-textbook publisher are suing Thomas Bean, who runs a company that repackages and sells student notes, arguing that the business is illegal since notes taken during college lectures violate the professor’s copyright.
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Information is only one of many things found in a library. While many people view and use the public library as an information agency, its original mandate, many more now come to it to learn, to interact, to explore, and, of course, to be entertained. Yes, they come to the library to have fun. Reading Bill Crowley’s “Lifecycle Librarianship” (Library Journal, 4/1/08, p. 46-48) made me realize how broad the mission of the modern public library has become. At the insistence of its users, the public library, indeed libraries of every type, provide an array of services and items that go far beyond “information” as it is usually defined. Reading Crowley, I too was shocked by the narrowness of the definition of library and information studies he quoted from the Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies adopted by the American Library Association (ALA) in 1992. Such a narrow statement of the field’s mandate would lead to the current conventional wisdom that something called “information” is the quintessential substance of librarianship, the embodiment of the profession. This is not only inadequate, it is inaccurate. Our professional outlook, our vision, is trapped in the 1992 Standards. (A recent minor revision did not address this issue.)
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in libraries, library services and books.
Ten years ago, stories like “B&N: The New College Library” (Library Journal 2/1/98) and “What If You Ran Your Library Like a Bookstore?” (American Libraries, 3/98) kicked up a controversy about the viability of libraries. Ironically, these days it’s the book business that has an aura of crisis and gloom, while visits to libraries are surging. Over two billion items are checked out annually, and nearly all libraries offer free Internet access along with many of the amenities of a bookstore. Truth be told, the book business has always had an aura of crisis and gloom. It’s the Eeyore of industries. But lately, it’s become clear that the book industry really does need to be saved: from itself.
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After recently completing my MLIS through the online program at San Jose State University, CA, I realized that my ideal career would be in an academic library. I was an intern at the Sonoma State University Library, and, not wanting to uproot my family, I was determined to get a full-time job there in whatever capacity was available to me. My solution: I accepted a paraprofessional job. It has proven to be a wise decision. I have gained both knowledge and confidence in only three months of paraprofessional work. It’s experience I would not have acquired if I were still searching for a librarian position, or only reading the professional literature while working in a job outside the field.
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in libraries, information and digital.
The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has apparently decided to end its policy of taking a “digital snapshot” of all public congressional and federal web sites after each congressional and presidential term. According to NARA, which is understandably drawing heat for the policy change, they shouldn’t need to archive those web sites because federal agencies and congress should be doing their own archiving. I read about NARA after reading a very timely piece from Leland Rucker about the nature of information archiving in a totally digital world, and it got me wondering: what happens to all this content on the web 250 years in the future? Last year Google’s archives touched 100 exabytes of data from the web. To put that in perspective, that’s about 107 billion gigabytes (or, over a half a million 200 GB hard drives). The entire catalog of the Library of Congress is about 136 terabytes — which makes Google’s archive the data equivalent of 771,000 Libraries of Congress.
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in Google, mapping and United Nations.
Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature for its popular mapping programs recently that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the world. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which is working with Google on the project, said the maps would aid humanitarian operations as well as help the public understand more about the millions who have fled their homes because of violence or hardship.
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If you think that your business is having a tough time coping with the data explosion, then spare a thought for the Library of Congress, which has to find some way of tackling a mind-blowing amount of information. ”The digital revolution is comparable to the one started by Gutenberg more 500 years ago,” said Laura Campbell, the archive’s associate librarian, referring to the first book printed with movable type. In its 208-year history, the library has collected more than 138 million items in 450 languages, ranging from manuscripts to maps and sound recordings, but the Internet era poses a whole new set of challenges. ”We estimate that in the current digital age, the amount of information produced every 15 minutes is equivalent to all the data and information now in the Library of Congress,” explained Campbell, during a keynote. “The library can no longer collect everything.”
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in collections and Library of Congress.
Tatiana Fessenko (1915-1995) was a cataloger at the Library of Congress for several decades, retiring in the early 1980s. A native of Kiev with an educational background in Russian language and literature, Ms. Fessenko was particularly interested in the Library’s Yudin Collection, acquired in 1906. It was she who cataloged most of the 18th and early 19th century materials from the 80,000 volume Yudin Collection, in many cases doing extensive bibliographical and biographical detective work to discover the authors of pseudonymous and anonymous works, and the original titles of works originally published in French, German, or English.
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Libraries used to be places where people borrowed books. Today they are physical and virtual spaces filled with different kinds of information - much of it electronic and accessible from outside the library. “It’s a new world, an information world,” said Jeff Middleton, director of library services for Central Arizona College. “But people at their core are the same. The best thing the librarian can do is help them explore, find things, understand them and use them.” When children grew up with books, librarians helped them learn how to use books, he said. Today’s students grew up with computers, and librarians help them find information in the online environment. “Today’s students need information literacy competencies the way students a generation ago needed to understand index cards and card catalogs,” Middleton said.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in libraries.
Fort Collins, CO has a new library - but this library doesn’t lend out books, it lends out bicycles. Everyone is welcome to borrow a bike, including residents, students, and visitors. Members may borrow a bike for as short as one hour or for as long as a week. There are a variety of bicycles and bike trailers for children and cargo as well as tandems and tag-a-longs for older children. Right now, the library has 50 bikes available, it hopes to expand to 200 bikes.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in search, Google and green.
A new Australian green search engine seeking to capitalise on web surfers’ eco-guilt has been barred by Google from using its search technology and advertising platform. Ecocho.com.au promises to buy carbon offset credits that will result in two trees being planted for every 1000 searches made through the site. It gives users the option of searching through either Yahoo or Google and serves up their ads alongside search results. But like other green search engines, it is questionable whether Ecocho really is any more environmentally friendly than regular Google search.
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The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the launch of a new, dynamic curriculum that inspires students to be creative and teaches them about the value of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as the importance of respecting other’s intellectual property. The i-©®eaTM curriculum, developed by the USPTO in collaboration with i-SAFE—a leader in Internet safety education—is an interactive and age appropriate unit of instruction designed for upper-elementary, middle, and high school students. “If you own something that is valuable, you want to protect it. Since U.S. intellectual property today is worth more than $5 trillion, it is important that future inventors understand the process of protecting intellectual property, and that we instill an innovative spirit among students to keep the flow of innovation alive,” said Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.
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in data and computer science.
Forget “Format c:” or that silly disk erasing software; get physical. With stories surfacing on news channels regularly about lost or stolen data or the ability to recover data from discarded or resold computers and their hard drives, Computerworld decided to look at some cheap methods of removing that sensitive data from your hard drive permanently. And, what better place to look than YouTube? While some of the behavior in these videos clearly displays a somewhat alarming level of violence and pent-up rage (and are probably illegal), we nevertheless were fascinated with the myriad ways to destroy a hard drive — from a plasma cutter to a train to machines we don’t even know the name of — not to mention aluminothermic reactions. Who knew there was such a subculture devoted to abusing hard drives? We even tried it ourselves, and you know, it is kind of fun. Make sure to go to the end of the story to see our version of disk destruction.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in education and collections.
E-book technology firm ebrary has announced that it will provide librarians as well as students and faculty in library science and related programmes with complimentary access to its Library Center for one year in support of National Library Week. Subsidised by ebrary, the Library Center includes more than 85 full-text e-books.
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In this technologically savvy society, students seem to be relying more on electronic resources and less on books when it comes to research. According to circulation statistics, from July 2006 to June 2007, University of Rhode Island students and faculty members checked out 53,227 books. Twenty years ago, students alone checked out more than twice that amount. In fact, students were checking out more and more books each decade until the mid-1990s when the use of the Internet became more widespread. The decrease, according to David Maslyn, dean of University Libraries, can be attributed to the convenience and wide scope of electronic resources available. URI subscribes to more than 100 electronic databases that allow students access to almost unlimited topics.
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in libraries, sources, research and digital.
The British Library recently conducted a survey on researchers’ attitudes and needs in the digital age. Of the respondents, 93 percent stated that access to online research material should be the same as for books. A majority of the survey participants agreed that, in the age of the Internet, anyone involved in non-commercial research should be allowed to copy parts of electronically published works. These include online articles, news broadcasts, film or sound recordings.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in museums and green.
Museums tend to be famous for what’s on their walls. But at the new Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) in Michigan, the art has taken a back seat to the walls themselves. Last month, the $75 million, 125,000-square-foot building became the first art museum in the country to receive a LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council in Washington. (LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is considered the benchmark for green construction.) The fact that a second museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, will soon gain Gold status is just one sign of the greening of US museums.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in libraries.
Nicholas Pappalardo, a 45-year-old electrician with a serious 5 o’clock shadow, knows every word of the song “Little Red Wagon,” a talent that was on display last Saturday morning at the Elmhurst public library in Queens. As his wife and 3-year-old son, Nicky, sat and sang in the audience for the library’s story hour, Mr. Pappalardo, seated at a table across the room, gazed at his child and crooned along, like a groupie who couldn’t help himself. Mr. Pappalardo isn’t a regular at story hour, but he’s learned the words from his son, who is. For more than a year, almost every Saturday, Nicky and his mother have made the half-hour walk from their home in Woodside to the Saturday story hour in Elmhurst.
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OverDrive has hit the mother load of e-texts: the company in late March answered the prayers of librarians and patrons by announcing it will begin offering MP3-compatible audio downloads (yes, that means iPods), as well as cutting a massive distribution deal for more than 6500 Random House ebooks. The company will release at least 3000 downloadable audiobook titles—about 15 percent of its catalog—in MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM), to provide compatibility with nearly every MP3 player and mobile phone. OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks go on sale in May at Borders.com and should be available to libraries by June’s end, to be followed by the release of OverDrive Media Console for the Mac.
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in digital, publishing and reference.
The future of reference and e-book publishing remains strong, according to Rolf Janke, Vice President and Publisher of Sage Reference. According to the publisher, the prospect of reference and e-book publishing remains strong despite continued concerns from the publishing industry over the growing popularity of social networking and online peer-reference sources such as Wikipedia.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in virtual worlds.
An avatar, the image a person uses in a virtual world, is currently bound to the particular world in which it was created. But at the Virtual Worlds Conference 2008 in New York City recently, several companies showcased their efforts to allow people to carry their avatars from one virtual world to another, and even out onto ordinary Web pages. These developments point to a convergence between virtual worlds and social networks.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in Google, privacy and geospatial.
The Google Street View project has the goal to photograph the streets of America and beyond, and the views from those streets, which sometimes results in people getting their photos taken in public places without their permission; resulting in some fun controversy.This time, it looks like Google has gone too far. According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, a Pittsburgh suburb couple is suing Google for trespassing on their property and publishing Street View photographs which were taken from their private lane and private driveway.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in China and search.
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is getting involved in the coming US Presidential elections it seems. They have added a caricature of Barack Obama and the democrat donkey in the Baidu logo.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in education.
A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a hybrid class that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in demographics and web sites.
The market share of U.S. visits to a custom category of Question and Answer websites has increased 118 percent for the week ending Mar. 15, 2008, compared to the same week in 2007, Hitwise reported. Over the past two years, U.S. visits to this category have increased 889 percent comparing Feb. 2008 versus Feb. 2006. The most visited website within the Questions and Answers category last week was Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com), which received 74.05 percent of the market share of U.S. visits. Wiki.Answers.com was the second most visited website receiving 18.35 percent of visits, followed by Answerbag.com, which received 4.42 percent of visits. WikiAnswers, launched in June 2007 has seen U.S. visits increase 125 percent comparing the week ending Jun. 9, 2007versus Mar. 15, 2008.
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Published by rwatstein April 27th, 2008
in mobile/cell phones and demographics.
The number of people without traditional landline phones is increasing, as a growing number of U.S. adults use only mobile phones, a market research firm said Friday. In a survey conducted in the fourth quarter of last year, Harris Interactive found that about one in seven adults only uses a cell phone, up from roughly one in 10 in 2006. The percentage of adults with landline phones has dropped slightly to 79% from 81%.
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Published by rwatstein April 6th, 2008
in libraries and library services.
A design approach to the delivery of outstanding services can help library professionals become strategizers and problem-solvers who put the user experience first.
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Published by rwatstein April 6th, 2008
in information, censorship and databases.
A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world’s largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word “abortion,” concealing nearly 25,000 search results. Called Popline, the search site is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. It’s funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the federal office in charge of providing foreign aid, including health care funding, to developing nations.
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in techniques, Microsoft and Windows.
PC Magazine’s 2008 collection of utility software is all about tweaking, manipulating, and dominating the looks and functionality of Windows XP and Vista. These 91 tools provide all the help you need to control Windows. After the top five utilities, the products are arranged by file organization, appearance, compression and encryption, file transfer, disk utilities, backup, system monitors, tweakers, displays, remote access, start-up/shutdown, installers, recovery and shredders, virtual PCS, search, browser boosters, and widgets.
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in libraries.
National Library Week began in 1958 and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year on April 13–19. In 1968, the Ryukyu Islands issued a stamp (right) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of International Library Week. At that time the Ryukyus were under the semi-autonomous administration of the United States. The “international” aspect refers to the fact that there were both American military libraries and Japanese village libraries on the islands. The theme for International Library Week in 1968 was the same as National Library Week in the states: “Be all you can be—Read.”
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in libraries and video.
The spirits of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Pitfall live in this dot-gobbling, laser-firing celebration of National Library Week (April 13–19). This week’s fun fact: Americans spend nearly 10 times as much money on home video games ($9.9 billion) as they do on school library materials for their children ($1 billion). Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle and shot at Morton College Library in Cicero, Illinois.
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in libraries and video.
Nothing is more popular than McDonald’s, right? Don’t be so sure. To help celebrate National Library Week (April 13–19), take a trip through the information drive-through and see what ends up in your take-out bag. Fact: There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.—a total of 16,549, including branches. Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle and shot at . . . well, the location should be obvious….
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in libraries and video.
Do you ever put all of your change into a vending machine, and then wish there were options other than Doritos, Fritos, Snickers, and Skittles? To help celebrate National Library Week (April 13–19), we spin a tale with a very happy (v)ending. Fact: Americans spend more than twice as much on salty snacks as they do on public libraries. Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle
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Published by rwatstein April 6th, 2008
in virtual worlds.
U.S. lawmakers held the first-ever hearing simulcast in a 3D virtual world Tuesday, probing experts about the opportunities and dangers posed by new online communities. Noting that millions of Americans will soon inhabit virtual worlds for part of their day for purposes of communications, business, education, health care, or cultural interest, Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) said he called the hearing — which took place in a real-world hearing room in Washington, DC — to help lawmakers learn about these online spaces, which simulate real-world venues.
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LIS professor Bill Crowley contends that to become an integral part of patrons’ lives, the library community must “escape the information illusion” and concentrate on “helping patrons in their reading and lifelong learning effort.”
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After nearly three years of intensive work, the independent Section 108 Study Group has issued its report and recommendations on exceptions to copyright law to address how libraries, archives and museums deal with copyrighted materials in fulfilling their missions in the digital environment
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in education, digital and censorship.
Last year, the Court ducked an opportunity to determine in Morse v. Frederick whether public schools have authority to restrict student speech that occurs off of school grounds. The Court’s refusal to address this issue was unfortunate. For several decades lower courts have struggled to determine when, if ever, public schools should have the power to restrict student expression that does not occur on school grounds during school hours. In the last several years, however, courts have struggled with this same question in a new context — the digital media. Around the country, increasing numbers of courts have been forced to confront the authority of public schools to punish students for speech on the Internet. In most cases, students are challenging punishments they received for creating fake websites mocking their teachers or school administrators or for making offensive comments on websites or instant messages. More often than not, the lower courts are ruling in favor of the schools.
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Published by rwatstein April 6th, 2008
in education and museums.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2001 legislation requiring public schools to demonstrate annual progress in reading and math instruction through standardized tests, has taken a toll on art, science and history education, according to a new report from the Center on Education Policy. Other recent reports paint a similarly gloomy picture of America’s educational priorities and persistent ignorance. The silver lining, however, is that museums are playing a vital role in supplementing formal education and providing informal learning opportunities.
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The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with John Adams. This resource guide compiles links to digital materials related to Adams such as manuscripts, letters, broadsides, government documents, and images that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web.
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Published by rwatstein April 6th, 2008
in VoIP.
VoIP calling is on the rise. It used to be that Skype was the only service that people were using to place low-cost or no-cost international calls through their computers. But these days there are dozens of providers that can connect you to others using phones that are routed through the Internet. As mobile broadband gets increasingly popular, VoIP is starting to find a new platform on the mobile phone. And as this industry grows, providers need to compete with each other to offer the best calling features at the lowest cost. n a competitive market like this one, the consumer is able to demand the services that he or she wants from the phone company. Here are the top 25 VoIP calling features that you should make sure are included in your VoIP calling plan: 1. Adjustable bandwidth saver. You can increase and decrease the quality of your calls to save on bandwidth. This is good for the environment and it’s good for your mobile phone battery if you’re using VoIP calling when you’re on the go.
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Second Life is more than an on-line game for ETH Zurich. It is a handy three-dimensional tool used for resolving real issues. ETH Zurich Computer Science students recently used it to analyze and solve the everyday frustrations involved in borrowing a book from a library. The project to tackle the problems that lending libraries face was carried out within the framework of the Information Systems Laboratory course taught by Professor Nesime Tatbul at the Computer Science Department (D-INFK), The study of information systems is a core area of computer science. It has evolved from the more established study of database management. Research into information systems now includes pervasive computing: the convergence of largely wireless technologies and the Internet. This may well signal a shift away from personal computing and into pools of shared information, available to anyone from anywhere at any time.
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Our cultural treasury, preserved by the Library of Congress, is vast and unpredictable. It includes “Casablanca” with Bogie and the only live concert recording of jazzmen Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. But there’s also Bea Arthur as an alien cantina chanteuse in a legendarily awful “Star Wars” TV special from 1978. And in recent years, Islamic recordings via the al-Jazeera channel. regory Lukow, chief of the library’s Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, has overseen the centralization of 5.7 million such audio and visual artifacts at a repurposed Cold War-era government bunker in Culpeper. This new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, in addition to its temperature-controlled vaults, features a specially developed robotic preservation system that will make items available faster to scholars and the public.
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in OLPC.
Intel Corp. unveiled new features for its line of low-cost laptops for schools Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more data storage capacity as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the One Laptop per Child organization, which sells a competing machine. Intel’s new Classmate PCs — slated to go on sale in April for between $300 and $500 — reflect the company’s growing efforts to sell computers equipped with its own chips to schools in developing countries, a battleground for technology companies because of the millions of people there just coming online.
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About 21 million people in the United States speak limited or no English, 50 percent more than a decade ago. As our country’s demographics continue to change, U.S. public libraries continue their efforts to meet the demand for service to non-English users. Today the American Library Association (ALA) released “Serving Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries,” an unprecedented study on the range of specialized library services for non-English speakers. “Serving Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries,” is the first national study to consider the range of library services and programs developed for non-English speakers, including effectiveness of services, barriers to library use, most frequently used services and most successful library programs by language served. The study also analyzed library service area populations and patron proximity to local libraries that offer specialized services.
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in libraries and web sites.
While President Bush’s advisers were taking offers on an ideal spot for his library and museum, they probably should have paid more attention to the virtual real-estate market. Officials finally settled on Southern Methodist University in Dallas to house the $250 million complex. But online, some of the best online addresses are gone – snapped up for mere dollars by squatters with no connection to the library, hoping to make fun of the president, protect him or simply cash in on his name.
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Tagcow is a newly launched photo tagging service that is generating a lot of buzz for the way it categorizes photos, allowing people to quickly find their favorite images of family members, pets, natural landmarks and more. Basically, it makes massive numbers of photos housed on Flickr or in a personal photo folder easily searchable by what appears in the photo.
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in libraries and books.
When times are tough and money is tight, we often cut back on renting movies and buying books. That’s where the libraries come in. But ever wonder how libraries cut costs? They give old worn books a longer shelf life. Handling a brush like a master painter, three Lakeland ladies use each stroke to glue back together the lose pages of a book… one page at a time.
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More than 100 local war veterans are sharing their tales of hardship and survival with Paradise High School students this month. The videotaped interviews will go into the database at the Library of Congress as part of the nationwide Veteran’s History Project, preserving history for years to come. Tom Sealy, 88, of Magalia, is one of the veterans sharing his story for the sake of preserving history. The World War II veteran said he fought fires on destroyers at Pearl Harbor, and was the sole survivor when his shipped capsized in the Pacific Ocean. He watched as his fellow crew members were eaten by sharks or passed away mid-conversation. Sealy was a 22-year-old civilian on his way to Wake Island on Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said he volunteered to help in the mist of chaos.
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