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Tag was last used: Jul 10, 2008
 
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Posted By:  chuxley
Posted On:  Apr 9, 2008

  POPLINE database blocks "abortion" search
I heard this one on NPR this morning . An inquiry into why the world's largest database on reproductive health blocked searches using the term "abortion" has found the restriction was put in place because of articles from an abortion advocacy magazine available on the site. The block was an...... [view]
Posted By:  chuxley
Posted On:  Jul 1, 2008

  Research focus
In June of 2005 I went to the ALA conference in Chicago . I had been attending grad school for about a year and to be able to go to a national conference was an extremely exciting adventure for someone so new to the library world. That was the year that blogging was really taking off with...... [view]
Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Feb 24, 2008

  decreasing literacy
I’ve finally wrapped up a 2 week run of “student interest sessions” up north to gather a snapshot of the media usage of students in the school and to get some student feedback on what types of materials they would like to have in the library, possible changes to the decor etc. I...... [view]
Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Feb 16, 2008

  literacy levels
Information literacy is something I take great interest in and it wasn’t until I came up north that I began to think of this type of literacy as having many tiers. For one thing, it never even occured to me that before one can become “information literate” one must be...... [view]
Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Nov 13, 2007

  the machine has ADD (part 1)
This post is meant to be a follow up to Michael Wesch’s video The Machine is Us/ing Us . I titled it “part 1″ because there’s probably more I’ll have to say about this in the future. There is no such thing as pure content . The information highway is for...... [view]
Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Sep 26, 2007

  OLPC changes strategy
$100 laptop to sell public (BBC) One Laptop Per Child’s G1G1 XO Plan is Punting to the Pilots (OLPC News - independent site) official XO Laptop site No commentary this time. I just really want one. ... [view]
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  Help close the digital divide
Submitted By:   esum
Committers:  38
Date Created:  2008-02-05 		Description:   There are many barriers youth face in accessing digital information from technical problems, to information literacy levels to something as basic as reading comprehension levels. There are lots of things we can do to help overcome these barriers such as improving IT infrastructure, or teaching others information related skills.
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