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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. Library 2.0

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

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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. AI systems are composed of modules that can be independently developed and replaced.

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Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century in 714 Words (or less)

Museum 2.0

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

" With a finite amount of money earmarked for digital inclusion programs, let alone development work in general, it seems consensus can be difficult to build. Much has been made of the possibility that technology will mitigate inequality by allowing the have-nots to leapfrog certain historical aspects of development.

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