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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

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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.

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How to Backup Your iPhone or iPad

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You get unlimited storage, however, for purchased music, movies, apps, and books from iTunes. also known as "Leopard"), you can use a program called Time Machine to handle incremental backups of your iTunes library. It also backs up photos and videos from your camera roll. If you're using a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe.

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