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Askville, new from Amazon.com, offers a space for people to ask and answer questions. It is different from the defunct Google Answers? which one pays for answers and the still flourishing Yahoo! Answers by a scheme call “Experience Points, Levels, and Quest Coins.”
Quest Coins is a virtual currency that one can use in Questville, […]

Ever wonder if an on-staff web designer/editor is necessary for your library? What do you need to know if you and staff decide to out-source the job to a professional? Dorothea Salo’s CMSes, WYSIWYG — why learn HTML? provides a simple and easy to understand insight for these questions. This is one […]

The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents
SCHOOL FOR SCANNING
The A-Z of Creating Digital Collections
Celebrating its 11th year
Geat all the details on the NEDCC Website

The ALA Washington Office has updated its Disaster Preparedness webpage. All links have been checked for accuracy and some new material has been added.
New additions include:
dPlan: The Online Disaster-Planning Tool
dPlan is a free Web-based fill-in-the-blank program for writing institutional disaster plans. It was created, tested, and refined by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the […]

L-TV 106 Talking Books Plus
Sunday, Feb. 18 - 12:30 pm
Monday, Feb. 19 -Â 2:00 pm
Wednesday, Feb. 21 - 9:00 pm
L-TV 100Â Books We Love part 1
Sunday, Feb. 25 - 12:30 pm
Monday, Feb. 26 - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, Feb. 28 - 9:00 pm
L-TVÂ 101Â Books We Love part 2

Sunday, Mar. 4 - 12:30 pm
Monday, Mar. […]

Do you have photographs in your collections and wish you knew how to better care for them? Then check out, WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) and the New England Museum Association (NEMA) are presenting a 3-day workshop focusing on the preservation and digitization of photographs in cultural heritage institutions. This […]

Please visit this web site and click “Send a Birthday Card to the Cat in the Hat”. For every birthday card received, Random House will donate a book to First Book, a non-profit organization, with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read their own first new books. […]

Library Journal has announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has produced a video about libraries, computers, internet access and patrons. Library Journal has made it available for viewing online.
Libraries and library advocates can request from the foundation a free DVD and ten brochures, which include statistics on connectivity, library patron stories, and […]