Literacy

Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills

The government's Skills for Life initiative has not significantly improved literacy or the economic performance of participating companies, despite what policymakers believe. These are the findings of the UK's first study of...

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Music Legend Paul McCartney Wins Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

WASHINGTON, DC - Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named music legend Paul McCartney as the recipient of the third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. An all-star tribute concert is planned for...

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Walking-Concepts.com Releases 'Learn and Practice Tai Chi Chuan' App for the iPhone

NewswireToday (newswire) - 11/24/2009 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany - Walking Concepts and Master Rupert Shonaike bring you a new way of learning and practicing Tai Chi Chuan in the classical Yang Style

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Nearly one in three schools failing children, Ofsted finds

Almost a third of schools are not giving pupils a good education, Ofsted inspectors said, as they warned there was still too much teaching which needed to improve. Nearly one in three schools are unsatisfactory, Ofsted reported...

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CNI Fall Task Force Meeting 2009 Project Briefing Topics Now Online (Nov. 24, '09)

ACLS Humanities E-Book: 10 Years Later Eileen Gardiner, American Council of Learned Societies Ronald G. Musto, American Council of Learned Societies ARTstor Shared Shelf Initiative James Shulman, ARTstor Tracy Robinson, Harvard...

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Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009

Introduction The 12th annual Institutional Web Managers Workshop (IWMW) attracted nearly 200 delegates, making it the largest workshop in the event’s history. That’s where I came in. As live blogger, my job was to amplify IWMW...

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Internet Librarian International 2009

Internet Librarian International [1] brought together librarians and information professionals from 33 countries including China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria and Australia as well as Europe and North...

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M-Libraries: Libraries on the move to provide virtual access

Edited by Gill Needham and Mohamed Ally, Facet Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85604-648-0 Introduction It may not yet be a truth universally accepted, but the battle against the mobile phone, the MP3 player and other portable...

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Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries

Edited by Rachel Singer Gordon, Information Today, 2007, ISBN 978-1-57387-303-1, 258 pages, paperback The 16 chapters of this book focus on different aspects of the technological and societal changes that interact to shape our...

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Can ICTs aid small-scale farmers?

The world's small-scale farmers grow a large amount of food and provide many important jobs in rural areas. However, they do their work at great economic and environmental risk. How can ICTs make the jobs and lives easier for...

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