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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

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National Library Week and Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. This year’s theme was “Worlds connect @ your library.” Bookshare is a unique library. at its core.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With only 36 charities selected per year, most nonprofits will not be able to participate but its a clever and powerful idea that could be easily duplicated by employee giving programs and socially responsible businesses. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. Easelly :: easel.ly. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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