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Business Students The Most Library Users In Colleges

Primary Research Group has published: The Survey of American College Students: Who Goes to the College Library and Why.

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Two Librarians Took On The Patriot Act and Won

Two men in black appeared in the doorway of the Library Connection in Windsor, Connecticut as though they just stepped off the film set of the old 1960’s action series "The F.B.I." starring Efram Zimbalist Jr.

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Retronym Contest: What Do You Call a Non-Internet Librarian?

Last year, Information Today, the organizers of the Internet Librarian conference, held a contest to find a "retronym" for a non-Internet librarian.

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NIST releases preview of much-anticipated online mathematics reference

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a five-chapter preview of the much-anticipated online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF).

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Sony Group to Support the "South Africa Mobile Library Project"

SAPESI (South Africa Primary Education Support Initiative), an NPO based in the Republic of South
Africa (hereafter South Africa) and Sony Corporation (hereafter Sony) today announced Sony’s support for the “South Africa Mobile Library Project”.

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£5m donation will open the Bodleian Library’s collections

The largest single cash donation ever made to a university library in the UK has been given to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

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Advanced Micro Devices to open up its Performance Library

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (abbreviated AMD; NYSE: AMD), an American company that manufactures semiconductors, is going to open up its AMD Performance Library. T he world's second-largest supplier of computer processors is hoping to attract innovation and participation from the developer community.

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Innovations will bring historical collections to life onsite and online

The Library of Congress and Microsoft Corp. have signed a cooperative agreement that will change the way visitors experience U.S. history.

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The Library of Congress in Your Wrist Watch?

Every advance in memory storage devices presents a new marvel of just how much memory can be squeezed into very small spaces. Considering the potential of nanolasers being developed in Sakhrat Khizroev’s lab at the University of California, Riverside, things are about to get a lot smaller.

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Universal Library's One Million Book Project Reaches 1.5 million

International project, called Universal Library (ULIB) makes complete texts available through single Web portal and gives readers access to 1.5 million books.

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Australian library awarded $1.25m Gates grant

The Northern Territory Library in Australia has been awarded $1.24 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Library's work in remote communities.

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New ink sampling technique taking bite of out time

Researchers at the Midwest Forensics Resource Center at Iowa State University are building a library of ink profiles to help forensic scientists identify inks on fraudulent documents and other evidence. MFRC scientists will pair mass spectrometry with a new sampling technique called Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) to reveal the chemical makeup of ink faster and in greater detail than ever before.

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