JET writes “The Dallas News (reg. req.) has picke dup on the old Google Whacking game. The goal: Come up with just one hit using two-word combos. To play, go to the search engine google.com and type ...

Anonymous Patron writes “When Elmore County High School junior Jessica “Flowers needed to do research for her English paper, she headed to the place where most students would go to find information: ...

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/11/1749218/phil-shapiro-says-20000-teachers-should-unite-to-spread-chromebooks-video Phil Shapiro often loans his Chromebook to ...

sanamens writes “Seth Finkelstein thinks it’ll be lawsuits, but CWA lobbying for CIPA-clone statutes at the state/local level is where the smart money resides. If you were a censorware supporter, ...

Can you connect This Story By Seth Godin to libraries? Marketers of all stripes face the same challenge. Your current customers want nothing but the old stuff, but the new customers don’t know you ...

But that doesn’t mean digital preservation is pointless: if we’re going to save even a fraction of the trillions of bits of data churned out every year, we can’t think of digital preservation in the ...

I’m a librarian in a public library that’s part of a larger system. The most annoying thing about my job is the lack of support in the most public aspect of my work from managers and administration.

Later this year, a local PCC natural food store will start testing eco-friendly shelf tags, Tech Flash reports. The “epaper” technology, called epops, involves using small LCD displays in the place of ...

Authorities in central Nebraska used a helicopter with an infrared camera to track a fugitive, and found another wanted man in a public library in Minden after a high-speed chase in which shots were ...