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At a packed session for academic librarians attending the annual meeting of the American Library Association, in Washington, the topic was how to help students who have learned many of their information gathering and analysis skills from video games apply that knowledge in the library. Speakers said that gaming skills are in many ways representative of a broader cultural divide between today’s col -
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Article on merging library and IT staff, services, and physical space in higher ed. -
2voteGoogle Co-Op allows you to create not just a customized front-end, but a customized search set for Google to query. Garrett Hungerford used Google Co-Op to create LISZEN, a customized search engine that searches library blogs.
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2voteThe technology that almost took the library's power away is now giving it back. Anthony Hodge and Bastiaan Zwaan explore and reveal the opportunities for the library itself, as well as the library realm, to verify and promote the library as the epicenter and sole institution qualified to provide and safeguard our knowledge. The library with a public, regional responsibility is here to stay.
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4voteThis webpage is a news digest of all the latest blog entries and news stories regarding the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), which would force schools and libraries that receive federal Internet subsidies to block all interactive websites in the name of online safety.
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1voteThe proposed Deleting Online Predators Act (H. R. 5319)—you have to love its acronym, DOPA—is bad news for schools and libraries. The latest federal attempt to control technology, the bill would try to protect minors from “commercial social networking websites and chat rooms.â€
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2voteWhat can social software do for your library? Library staffers like the ones at Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, can tell you. "Just a brief look at our Director's Blog will illuminate the fact that the blogs promote a constant two-way dialogue between our director, Josie Parker, and the public," notes John Blyberg, who works at AADL and authors Blyberg.net. "[You can also] take a look at some of AADL's other blogs that are staffed by some very clued-in, bright minds," he adds.
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