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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A virtual good, a non-rivalrous good, enables a far greater range of business models, options for sustainability, than a traditional industry based on exchanging physical goods. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members. It was highly controversial.

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

There are many definitions of intelligence. Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Artificial intelligence is similar to human intelligence.

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Designing Nonprofit Experiences

Connection Cafe

Based on what I’ve read and heard throughout the industry, we follow the same general design process that most for-profit designers follow: Stakeholder discovery. First, they may want to learn some basic facts, history, and read some stories about how the organization makes an impact. User research. Content strategy.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations.

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