Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria was especially excited about Read2Go’s navigation features that allow her to search and download accessible e-books from our Bookshare library directly to her iPad and iPhone. Maria is a historical musicologist who is pursuing her PhD at Boston University.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Compel us to reimagine how we make art, compose music, and write and publish books. For large rights holding organizations—such as publishers, movie studios, record labels, pharmaceutical companies, and others with big IP (intellectual property) libraries—this advantage could potentially come from this back catalog of intellectual property.

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Business Model Knowledge Worker Knowledge 60

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. As a library, we’re also dedicated to providing the abovementioned safety net – today and in the future.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Elliot's favorite cause-driven video: (Please visit the site to view this video).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

What’s the most endearing part of your local book/music/video store? The Boston Library main branch used to have an “ask a librarian” booth in the front featuring a person sitting at a card table with some books. Staff picks humanize and informal-ize the library/store/content experience. The cats lounging in the corner?

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Library Boston New York Music 20

Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Lisa Libraries. The Guitar Center “makes the gift of music available to people across the country by providing resources for music education programs. Our grants are awarded to schools, local music programs, and national music programs.”. The Lisa Libraries. The Barney Family Foundation. Guitar Center.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2007

At the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, there is an inverted fountain in the Hall of Ideas on which projections of letters form inspirational quotations which swirl around the pool towards the center. Consider LibraryThing , on which people catalog and tag the books in their personal libraries. Two quick examples: 1.

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People Museum Music Library 20