Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 12, 2014
The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. In September 2011, the Authors Guild sued the HathiTrust, alleging massive copyright violations. only copies.
Tech Soup
JULY 25, 2012
Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.
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Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.
Tech Soup
MARCH 7, 2017
By 2011, American women surpassed men in gaining college degrees , including advanced degrees. As in so many fields, nonprofits, religious organizations, libraries, and foundations are important change agents toward a world of gender equality. Cecily Walker , systems librarian at the Vancouver BC Public Library. In the U.S.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2011
The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library.
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