Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries. Generation X (Born 1965–1979, Currently Ages 35–49).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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Gift Accessibility Giving Volunteer 100

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. and "why?" to "how?".

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

Let’s say there's someone—a reader of this blog—an educator or designer or director or whoever—who wants to and is ready to change their museum. Which is really much closer to the library, which is why I know something about study storage, because individual quest is potentially there. Do you have to be a director to do it?

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy."

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