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Friday, July 30, 2010

Reading on E-Book Devices: the user experience

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Reading on E-Book Devices: the user experience

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

U.S. IMPACT Studies | U.S. IMPACT Public Library Study

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SOME REAL RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE GATES

Public libraries are an important place for lower income citizens report has found.
Without access to the public libraries computers citizens would not be able to access information online .

U.S. IMPACT Studies | U.S. IMPACT Public Library Study

Reading Rants!

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UTS Library Reading Group

We have started a UTS Library Reading Program in the library and looking out for information around this subject. The library hopes to work with http://www.elssa.uts.edu.au/ on this as well.
We want this to be a fun experience as university students already have huge amounts of course work reading to manage.
Many of our students speak English as a second language and struggle with writing and reading. Funding for helping lower income students to access Australian higher education is also an Australian federal government priority.
http://www.whichbook.net/default.aspx?searchtype=1&s1=2&s2=2

http://read.lib.uts.edu.au/2010/08/election-time-reading-uts.html

Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum gone

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/arts/design/09antiques.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

ROY, TRIGGER AND BULLET

How sad that this collection and museum have failed.
I suppose it was kitsch but it was part of my youth and a big part of American Movie and TV history that a lot of people grew up with. I loved the horse and dog more then Roy and Dale I think lol.

Wild West kitsch will take overChristie’s plush quarters at Rockefeller Center at noon on Friday. A preview opens for the last of this year’s five major auctions dispersing the contents of the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Mo.
That money-losing attraction closed in December, and descendants of the singing cowboy and cowgirl actors have scattered the displays for sales in Arizona, Colorado and New York.