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Blockchain in the Library? Researchers Explore Potential Applications

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Experts are speculating about its potential uses in business, law and education, and San José State University’s School of Information has received a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to find out whether blockchain could be useful for libraries. “I Just last week, they sent us a book contract.

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Introducing The Idealis, An Open-Access Journal for Library and Information Science Research

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There’s a new resource for librarians looking for high-quality, open-access library and information science research, The Idealis. Image At the library by Susanne Nilsson licensed CC-BY 2.0. ” You can consult their collaboratively written Editorial Guidelines and submit your work (or work that you know of) to the website.

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Tech Solving the Intolerable Motionlessness of Reading

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They lie on paper in black and white, unmoving. It’s terribly boring for children, honestly, and that’s why we have picture books. One is book libraries on demand, sometimes enveloped in pre-testing for reading level and a lot of analytics about reading rate and more like Overdrive and Vitalsource.

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It’s Time to Make Your Classroom Paper-free

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Assigning a book to your class that everyone must then purchase is not only expensive, it’s inequitable. If you have a book you want students to read, check to see if it’s available on one of the many online free libraries and let students know they can use it there. Great Books Online — by Bartleby.

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What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

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John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. In the day’s keynote address, Kate Zwaard, Chief of National Digital Initiatives at the Library of Congress, talked about scale and wonder in the digital era. That sounds like a lot of money.

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

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Perlego gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. The physical copy of each of those books would have cost him about $50 on Amazon, far more expensive than the cost of his Perlego student subscription, about $15 a month. There are publications like major reports, white papers and case studies too.

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How n2y’s Solutions Are Shaping the Classrooms of Tomorrow

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service teachers who take my college course to research n2y and their solutions because there is so much of value, both in the programs and in the expertise shared in the company’s white papers , blog , and webinars. A classroom library developed using the n2y library in Unique Learning System.