“Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it’s not just for spreadsheets anymore. Believe it or not, you can turn the data-analyzing, number-cruncher into one unbelievably cool game. The Microsoft software has a few secrets up its sleeve; many people have managed to design new games or recreate classics like Monopoly […]
“The inaugural class of 550 students, offered scholarships covering tuition to attend a public university so new it’s not yet accredited, can access more than 135,000 ebooks on their choice of reader, tablet or laptop. A bookless library is a rarity among U.S. colleges but reflects the high-tech ambitions of the university in Lakeland, Florida. […]
“Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today.” via 40 Maps That Explain The Middle East.
“Books are for use. Every reader his [or her] book. Every book its reader. Save the time of the reader. The library is a growing organism.” via Five laws of library science – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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“Onym is a library. A truly public one. It is a free online database comprising the collections of private libraries in the city of Cologne. By making accessible what used to be exclusive, and by assembling what used to be diffuse, Onym aims to reassert the notion of what a library as an institutional embodiment […]