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Much has been written about the structures, the founders and the personalities that have moulded the image of the amazingly successful business – Apple.  Not only have we, the consumer, been able to establish new day-to-day routines by using the numerous Apple products on the market, but, aware of it or not, our lives have been deeply impacted and altered.

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An effective school library impacts more than student achievement—it also lifts a school's entire educational climate, says a recent two-phase study by Rutgers University's Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) on behalf of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL).

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Anyone who has visited a library in the past few years will not be surprised to learn that demand for library services has increased significantly. With the growing need for access to digital and online information, including e-government services, continuing education resources and employment opportunities, libraries are essential in communities, large and small, throughout the country.

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Pinterest is taking the social media world by storm, and it isn’t just popular with individual users. Businesses, nonprofits, and even libraries are sharing ideas and information through the site as well, connecting with people from around the country and around the globe.

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Digital media labs, hackerspaces, and coworking spaces put tools in customers’ hands




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We librarians are experts at collecting. Our jobs, our departments, our very buildings have been designed to acquire content. There is, however, another side to content that many libraries haven’t yet fully explored, and that is content creation.

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The case against and for iPads in the classroom.  Do iPads belong in the classroom? A pair of articles on TechCrunch raise and address the question.

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Alison Mackenzie explains how a new project is looking at the role university libraries play in developing digital literacy

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As school libraries lose funding and staff, they're looking for ways to help people understand what they do and how it impacts student learning.

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The Library as Incubator Project team was so pleased when the National Endowment for the Arts sent information about The Big Read program our way. The Big Read is a program that unites communities with arts and literature – often with public, school, or academic libraries as the program focal point. The 30+ titles (which...

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Social Networking for Information Professionals
“Social networking and participatory library services”

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It isn’t just publishers that are scrambling to adjust their business models to the growing demand for e-books; so too are libraries having to reconsider how they will provide content for their patrons.

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As I was reading through the projects coming to our upcoming Contact Summit in NYC next month, I was inspired by a few people who are reimagining what a library could be.

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What a terrific read. Something that all Teacher-Librarians should take a look at and bookmark.

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The L!brary Initiative, a partnership of the Robin Hood Foundation and the New York City Department of Education, with support from the Mayor, corporate donors, and a team of architects, seeks to reverse these patterns of low literacy skills and underachievement by working with community school districts and public elementary schools to design,

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Findings in the 2011 Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study continue to reflect how libraries have become community hubs for publicly available computers and Internet connectivity. More Americans are relying on technology in libraries to hunt for jobs, to fill out government forms, and to simply browse the Web. In fact, 64 percent of library locations said they are the only provider of free public computer and Internet access in their communities.

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We are pleased to announce the Library 2.011 World-wide Virtual Conference, November 2 - 3, 2011.  The conference will be held online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and will be free to attend. The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University is the founding conference sponsor.

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When it comes to library design, sustainability, programming, and response to community needs, our sister publication, Library Journal, has for the first time identified 10 spaces that are truly hidden gems. Selected by a panel of 16 judges, these New Landmark Libraries and 10 honorable mentions represent the future of libraries-and will no doubt inspire the next generation of library planners.

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Beg, Borrow, But Please Don’t Steal: How to Share E-Books at School

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Project ELITE is organized by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Department of Libraries to provide professional knowledge and support for CPS librarians to effectively integrate technology in their teaching and educational activities.

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Search and explore 140,593 guides by 28,179 librarians at 1890 libraries worldwide!

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