Emily Lloyd + Follow iPad Apps & Early Literacy: 25 Fantastic Free Apps for Pre-Readers by Emily Lloyd on Apr 30, 2013

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Libraries of the Future [VISUALIZATION] | LibraryScienceList.com

 

Libraries of the Future Visualization

10 Reasons No One Wants You in Their Meetings – On Careers usnews.com

May 1, 2013 RSS Feed Print

Alison Green

Alison Green

If you’re like most people, you’re not too fond of all the meetings you get stuck attending at work. But have you ever considered whether your co-workers are sick of having you in their meetings, because you engage in behavior that derails or disrupts the conversation? After all, most meeting derailers don’t realize that their behavior is annoying others.

Here are the top 10 ways you might be frustrating colleagues in meetings. Read more…

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25 Vintage Photos of Librarians Being Awesome – Flavorwire

Librarians, in case you hadn’t heard, are essential members of society — likely to expand minds wherever they go — and, as such, are fully worthy of hero worship (whether they’re among the coolest librarians alive or just pretty cool). That’s at least part of the impetus behind My Daguerreotype Librarian, ”[a] tumblr dedicated to literally or figuratively hunky and babely librarians from the past.” Inspired by the website, here’s a little extra literary goodness: 25 awesome vintage photos of librarians from ages past.

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Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes, two Wisconsin State Historical Society librarians, 1896. [Photo via]

 

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Archivists Bringing Past Into Future Are Now Less Cloistered – NYTimes.com

Archiving in the Digital Era: Want to see Einstein’s family tea set? How about scripts from “The Carol Burnett Show”? Archivists are the specialists who protect and display these objects for posterity, now more online than ever. Click link for video.

 

 

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