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Learn how to….

By La Loria | Published: June 8, 2009
fulfill your information needs via these podcasts and tutorials and more!
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Sarah Steiner: NextGen Librarian 2009

By Christian Steinmetz | Published: April 27, 2009
This month, Lyrasis honored Georgia State University Learning Commons Librarian Sarah Steiner with the 2009 NextGen Librarian Award for Outreach. Lyrasis is a library network formed in 2009 after the merger of well-established library groups PALINET and SOLINET. It presents the awards to five NextGen librarians each year. They selected Steiner this year because of [...]
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ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service

By Jason Puckett | Published: April 14, 2009
ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service is a free site that monitors over 12,000 scholarly journals to alert researchers to new items.  Readers can subscribe to be notified via e-mail, RSS, or many other formats whenever new issues of journals are published.
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10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

By La Loria | Published: February 19, 2009
Here’s a step by step process for protecting your privacy on Facebook.  In a related story, Facebook has reorganized its Terms of Service. A company spokesperson clarifies the changes…but will users care?
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Mobile phone to be primary internet link in 2020

By La Loria | Published: December 29, 2008
A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. That is one of the key findings in a new report, [...]
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Wikipedia seeks education, not profit

By admin | Published: August 25, 2008
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, August 25. Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit “Analysts have pegged Wikipedia’s value between several hundred million dollars and $7 billion, the latter by Silicon Alley Insider, a technology blog known for its list of the World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups. But its keepers have thus far refused to sell [...]
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Student video of the library

By admin | Published: August 15, 2008
Here’s the student perspective of the GA State Univ Library.
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Disruptive Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities

By admin | Published: July 17, 2008
Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presented a talk titled Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008. She focused on the “informational aspects” of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, particularly how they might (or might not) change pedagogical models. The video can be viewed here at iThinkEd.
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More new Google Tech

By admin | Published: July 14, 2008
From an article in Network World: “The inspiration for the platform was the realization that the current social world is too static, according to Wang. With Lively she wants users to be able to interact using words, 3D graphics and gestures. The furniture users pick for their room should give visitors an idea of who they are, [...]
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