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At a time when the nation's economic future seems shaky, many school and public libraries are moving to open-source library management systems, which tend to be cheaper, more flexible, and fulfill the same mission a library serves: making a valuable contribution to the greater good.

"Help a Librarian (HAL) is a community powered service that unites librarians from all over the world to help each other answer questions, share knowledge and enhance cultural understanding. HAL is comprised of librarians from over 50 different countries."

Using the Android's camera, the app "reads" a bookshelf, and with an AR overlay, quickly flags those books that are misplaced. It will also point to the correct place on the bookshelf so the book can easily be re-shelved correctly.

In partnership with LitWorld, a non-profit organization based in New York advocating for and working towards global literacy, we are going to "Take Action for Global Literacy, Celebrate the Power of Words, Change the World." March 7 is World Read Aloud Day. World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child's right to a safe education and access to books and technology. We are looking for teachers, schools, school children who want to participate in this World Read Aloud Day on March 7. Thru Skype, we can read aloud to each other across the globe.

Feel like writing a book online....Mmmm I thought so... Well now you can and it will be compatible with all ebook readers.

Every year schools around the world spend thousands of dollars on textbooks that are often outdated by the end of their first year in the classroom. Ebooks, many of them free, can represent huge savings for schools over purchasing textbooks. Here are seven places that you can find free ebooks.

Have a great article by joy Valenza on libraries

The Center for Social Media is proud to announce the upcoming release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

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Kontax is a story on your cellphone. It's also a social network of readers. Every day you'll get a new chapter. Read the story, meet the characters, vote, leave comments and write your idea for a sequel. Win prizes for the best comments and ideas.

"Media group Avusa confirmed on Monday that it had received an "unsolicited expression of interest" from a consortium represented by Capitau Holdings to acquire the entire issued share capital of Avusa."

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Published by the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), this resource book is a collection of case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. It documents the experiences of women's participation in these processes leading to laws or policies that enable citizen to enjoy freedom of information, particularly information in the custody of the government. It highlights best practices that have facilitated positive results and the challenges faced by champions of freedom of information campaigns in the five countries.

Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where's the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? To answer all these questions and more, we've assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter. Happy Tweeting!"

"Saferpedia.eu is an online encyclopedia that includes definitions and resources about Internet safety, developed within Sigur.info project. Sigur.info is a project aiming to raise awareness and information on safer Internet navigation for children."

Do you know that you can directly save any Wikipedia page as a PDF file without requiring any extensions or print drivers. In fact, you can even collect multiple Wikipedia pages in a basket and convert them all to a single PDF document (just like an ebook) with just a few mouse clicks.