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Friday, March 11, 2011

Moving over to WordPress

Effective immediately, my blogging activity will take place at http://alleganylibrarydirector.wordpress.com/ Please drop by and check out the Library's new web site that goes with the new blog site. Thanks.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Another persuasive presentation from Ken Robinson

Changing Education Paradigms

Libraries reinvent themselves as they struggle to remain relevant in the digital age

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Libraries reinvent themselves as they struggle to remain relevant in the digital age
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They're preparing for a future in which materials can be checked out and read from a home computer, smart phone or e-reader.

By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times

November 12 2010

Kathy DeGrego's T-shirt lets you know right away she isn't an old-school librarian. "Shhh," it says, "is a four-letter word."

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-libraries-20101112,0,6514361.story

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

If Romeo and Juliet had Facebook

 
 

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Gadgetwise: Children's Books With Online Extras

 
 

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via NYT > Technology by By SAM GROBART on 11/6/10

Three young-adult novels-all which use the Internet to add to what's on their printed pages-are reviewed in this week's Sunday Book Review.

 
 

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

US News & World Report to drop monthly print mag

 
 

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via Wash Post Nation by washingtonpost.com on 11/5/10

NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. News & World Report magazine is going to stop sending its monthly print edition to subscribers next year and go mostly online.


 
 

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