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"Yet if the format of the future is digital, the content remains data. And at its simplest, scholarship in any discipline is about gaining access to information and knowledge"

"Yet if the format of the future is digital, the content remains data. And at its simplest, scholarship in any discipline is about gaining access to information and knowledge" - great article

This article is very thought provoking. It strikes at the heart of librarianship. How do you get the right information to the right people at the right time? Does it matter if it is digital or print? How do we preserve the data and access it in the future? What is the future of the book? Apparently it is the only item that has ever had a future. How is it that everything to do with books determines how we approach technology (for example, the article part which points out that terminology is taken from medieval ones for manuscript management)

"A story about the Semantic Web "

Tips and Resources when using Google Docs.

A few weeks ago, we published our list of the 50 best book people to follow on Twitter. Of course, readers had plenty of their own suggestions to add to the list -- so many, in fact, that we decided to put together a second list

Who's the best to follow on twitter so that you'll have the latest on the world of books? Here are our choices of authors, agents, publishers, book pundits and newspapers around the world. Let us know who you like following too.

This Canadian History resources includes information about various eras and covers social, political, economic and military history. It includes maps, videos, timelines, news, excerpts from books and primary documents.

A great resource for teaching and learning about Canada

This current events database provides access to videos, guides, lesson plans and news stories from reputable sources like BBC or CNN. It is a useful resources for Civics, Geography, History, English and Social Science teachers.

This is an excellent resource for American History teachers with access to primary source material.

This is an amazing resource for access to primary source material for Ancient Civilizations, European, Latin American, Asian and Modern History. Your History teachers will love this.

Excellent resource created by a teacher for teachers on teaching debating skills. It is a great resource for debating club, English, Humanities and Social Science courses.

"When a printed book is transferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it turns into something very like a Web site."

"A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content;[1][2] this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.[citation needed] Folksonomy is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy."

great to think about

This is a great site for great books. It is updated monthly (from September - June) by the Greater Boston Cooperative Library Association, which is a group of over 60 independent school libraries. It organizes the books by grade (Gr. 7 - 12) as well as by genre and themes. The books they recommend are all recently published outstanding books.

This is a great resource if you are looking for notable books for your students to read. The link also includes a number of other links such as the top children's books for the year.