Technologies in the library

Library Technology

Libraries now offering more than books

Now learning how to make smart financial and investment choices may be as close as your local public library. Two nonprofits - the American Library Association and the Investor Protection Trust - are launching the Investor Education @ your library® program. There are more than sixteen thousand libraries nationwide, and many are ready to offer free investment seminars for consumers who want to invest more wisely. The Investor Education @ your library® seminar has been developed and will be conducted by the Evelyn Brust Foundation.

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Copyright and Media Ownership

The Media Ownership Speaker Series from the Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara introduces and discusses three perspectives on the interrelation of copyright and media ownership. Follow copyright from its historical development to the effect of digital technology then finally the impact on libraries and other sources of knowledge. Series: "Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara" [Humanities] [Public Affairs]

LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine-latest in librarianship

LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorm’s built-in aggregator.