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According to a newly announced Pew Internet study: The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time period. The […]
Square was in at the 2012 International CES, but a triangle—between content, devices, and connectivity—told the real story.
Libraries played large among the winners of a $1.2 million collective grant to build learning labs across the country.
A digital media lab is a space designed for patrons to have access to software and hardware to create digital media—such as videos, music, podcasts, images, ebooks, websites, animation, and more.
The Barrington Area Library, IL, is relatively small in size but that hasn’t stopped it from developing a one-computer digital media lab of its own.
In 2009, library staff began dreaming of how to help patrons create and communicate using various platforms and tools. In 2010, this dream took form but not in the way it was expected. The idea evolved from providing one basic Apple computer in youth services to converting a study room into an all-ages media lab. It has been used 493 times since November 2010.
The New York Public Library has formed a partnership with a new educational media venture called The Floating University that will give library patrons access to a series of video lectures being offered as a freshman seminar at Yale, Harvard, and Bard colleges.
But we separate them for the efficiency of ‘our’ operation. Users pay by being forced to take an additional step. Probably a decision as bad as Netflix and Qwikster.
