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Stand-alone unified discovery services and federated search systems, both of which have gotten much attention recently, tend to carry costs commensurate with their all-encompassing nature. With its LS2 PAC catalog module, however, The Library Corporation More...

The web site is your library's most important feature. Think about it: Where do people go to find out if a book is available, or if you carry a particular DVD or magazine? Patrons use More...

LibraryThing developer Tim Spalding may have warned in LJ four months ago that public libraries were more scared of user-contributed data than academic ones, but he’s found a taker in the Danbury Public Library (DPL), More...

Melissa Corey helped turn a catastrophe into a teachable moment. After the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, a drilling rig leased by BP PLC on April 20 off the coast of Louisiana, Corey, a library media More...

Also in this article:MacBook LeatherboundGraphic Tees for Book LoversVodafone's $15 HandsetAs Free as a BirdMake a PDF from any Web PageThe Best Free Tools for Libraries MacBook LeatherboundThe book is a pretty swell design, having More...

Having trouble remembering things? Join the club.Last year, I began a quest to find ways to improve my memory and I discovered Memorize.com, a fun online program that's perfect for classroom teachers. (Plus, the price More...

If a pandemic or other significant event made it difficult or impossible for your students, staff, or teachers to physically attend school, how would you make sure that communication and education still take place? This More...

www.teachersfirst.com/firstday.cfmAh, the first day of school. For students, educators, and parents alike, it's a remarkable occasion, loaded with excitement, anticipation, and, yes, sometimes even a tear or two. To help get things off to a More...

I picked up my digital camera the other day to find that my teenage daughter had taken several hundred photos in just a few hours, as she does with some regularity. Whether it's trying to More...

TED, the annual gathering of the world's leading 'thinkers and doers,'; has inspired many. Now, thanks to educator Jackie Gerstein, there's 'Teaching with TED,'; a recently launched wiki that aims to bring some of that More...

everydayexplorers.nationalgeographic.comThere's a new user-generated video site, but it's perhaps not what you'd expect. Among the posted clips: a pair of mourning doves, in time-lapse, busily tend a nest atop an air-conditioning unit. A school of More...

Funny accents, strange wigs, and spoiler-free plot summaries are the common elements in the winning videos made by contestants in StoryTubes, a new contest for kids that promotes reading-and new media skills-by capitalizing on the More...

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There's nothing like snooping through a person's library to sneak a peak at what they're reading. Now bibliophiles can compare their fave books to those of Ernest Hemingway-just the latest name to join the 'I More...

Also in this article:SkypeUStreamElluminateOther Tools to Consider Skype Now owned by eBay, this free program for computer-to-computer calls keeps getting better. While technically not a Web-based tool (you download the program and run it from More...

Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site, just got another subscriber. A big one. In an effort to enhance sharing of its image collection, the Library of Congress (LOC) has uploaded more than 3,000 photos to its More...

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