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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. to end the book famine for Americans with qualifying disabilities: more about that later.

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Encarta – The Dodo and the Dinosaur

Tech Soup

To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. If I were a teacher, I would be skeptical of any information sourced from there.

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

Tech Soup

So why the heck are we so willing to give over personal information about ourselves online? Here’s my (working) theory: We sort of know that our personal information is being collected, but we don't think about it the same way as somebody standing next to us. check out Me and My Shadow’s Flipcards.

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Private Foundations Are Now Eligible for Citrix Online Donations

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Conducting training sessions on the road, or bringing constituents to you, are just some of the many ways Citrix is helping nonprofits and libraries. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Power Up Microsoft Office with Apps

Tech Soup

to see if your nonprofit, charity, foundation, or public library is eligible for the new Office. Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. Apps for Office. Read more about them in Microsoft's Bing Blog.

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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. Dear Museum 2.0-ers, Why are our current models failing?

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