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29 Awesome Things You Can Do Now and Every Day

Ari Herzog

million digital books from the National Emergency Library for free. Order books for delivery from bookstore websites. Powell’s Books is one of many bookstores that hired staff to help with demand. Nominate people to receive free books in the mail , or help sponsor. Listen to books if you prefer.

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29 Awesome Things You Can Do Now and Every Day

Ari Herzog

million digital books from the National Emergency Library for free. Order books for delivery from bookstore websites. Powell’s Books is one of many bookstores that hired staff to help with demand. Nominate people to receive free books in the mail , or help sponsor. Listen to books if you prefer.

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The Victorian School Libraries Learning with Web 2.0 Program. Re-imagine.

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The Victorian School Libraries Learning with Web 2.0 Week 4: RSS feeds and Feedreaders. Subscribe to some library related blogs. Play with Google Book Search. Week 8: Social bookmarking and Library 2.0. Read about the Library 2.0 Watch YouTube videos people have made about libraries. Contact Us.

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Walking Around In Their Shoes

Ari Herzog

That’s what a wonderful book imparts to the reader: that you’re not merely reading words on a page but that you’re entering someone’s life and sharing their shoes. Roaming the library at the beginning of this summer, I made a choice and checked it out. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email or RSS.

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Is the eBook, the end of the library?

The Way of the Web

→ Is the eBook, the end of the library? September 27th, 2010 · View Comments My son loves books at the moment, and long may it continue. The big challenge is that any freely available book has been licensed to allow sharing, thus spreading without the need for a central collection of physical copies.

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Learning 2.0 - The Things

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Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books. and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0,

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Why to Join Me and Improve Your Life

Ari Herzog

How many books sit on your shelf? Which books do you never read? How many blogs sit in your RSS reader? If you read the newspaper every day and then recycle it, why do you not do the same with books? My office bookshelf contains about 50 books. I am also eliminating unread blogs from my RSS reader.

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