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It used to be that a book was published first as a hardcover, then as a lower-cost paperback. With increasingly tech-savvy consumers demanding instantaneous access to content in various formats, that publishing protocol has in the last decade changed to one in which the book in codex form often remains the focus, but digital "extras" like audio excerpts and e-chapters act as enticements toward the purchase of the hard copy. More recently, a new phenomenon has emerged, one in which a title comes first in digital form and then-if at all-in physical form.

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Check for plagiarism before you turn it in to your tutor, and before you receive a bad grade for your paper. Also, check your web content for duplication

A Supplement to the book: The New Learning

This wiki is the Supplement to the book: The New Learning Very interesting.

Blog post in answer to the question: @karlfisch: What's the point of having a media specialist if they aren't specialists in the media forms of the day?

'Inanimate Alice' tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the first half of the 21st century, and her imaginary digital friend, Brad. Over ten episodes, each a self contained story, we see Alice grow from an eight year old living with her parents in a remote region of Northern China to a talented mid-twenties animator and designer with the biggest games company in the world.

The References Notes blog is devoted to providing profiles of significant or substantive developments and news of potential interest to Reference and Research Librarians worldwide.

Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

Getting kids to read- some inspiring post here

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere-even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with su

Good starting point for network building for librarians. How I wish I could get a local list going!!!!

OttoBib is a dead simple bibliography generator for book sources. Just enter ISBN codes of books separated by commas, select citation type (e.g. MLA, APA) and click "Get Citations". Thats it!