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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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Learning Resources for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. Finally, YouTube is arguably the go-to place nowadays for really specific and short how-to videos. Get more out of Google by using its advanced search techniques. Check out this handy search primer for Bing. Search tricks can save you time by narrowing your search much faster.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. " Dr. Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. The Rise of Virtual Libraries. Virtual libraries aren't a new phenomenon.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. Some are huge.

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Museums that Get Better the More People Use Them

Museum 2.0

The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike. The Haarlem Oost library book drops are one example, but I'm sure you have seen or created others. And so I have a birthday request for you.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 Are the debates about what applications to use and which are a waste of time?

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. Tripline :: tripline.net.

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