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. The Court of Appeals explicitly included image accessibility in its ruling. only copies. in addition to the text?only
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.
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Tech Soup
AUGUST 25, 2015
The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.
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
JANUARY 9, 2012
By now 2012 is in full swing: the holidays already seem a distant memory and Super Bowl Sunday is just around the corner. Along with thousands of your nonprofit and library peers who've faced the same questions, our Tech Planning forum is frequented by some of our favorite tech experts. Image: Soundman1024.
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.
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