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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. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members. We can do better!

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. I struggle with both these options.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM.