Last week, I attended a fascinating meeting in New York about the future of connectivity. Several panels of experts discussed what could be accomplished in a household with ultra-broadband, or, more specifically, with a connection speed of 1 Gbps (or roughly 1 billion bits per second). For a quick comparison,…
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Rick Weingarten, Director of OITP just attended a meeting in New York about e-books. Here is a dispatch from New York: Here I am in New York, fresh from an e-book standards meeting at the AAP headquarters, thinking that the library community really needs to start up a conversation with…
Leave a CommentDid you know that even though the E-rate program makes $2.25 billion available annually to libraries and schools for telecommunications service, Internet access and related costs, libraries have traditionally made up less than 5% of the program? The reasons for this are many, including the impact of CIPA legislation and…
1 CommentALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) commissioned a paper from the Information Institute of Syracuse to study the social networking phenomenon and how it affects libraries. The authors, R. David Lankes and Joanne Silverstein, have created a wiki-style website for comments on a draft of the paper, which is…
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