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Tag Archives: Homer Hickam

January 11, 2011

Digital library race: Education, ‘October Sky,’ and the Sputnik factor

Digital library race ahead? On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets launched...

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Yes, Authors Guild, writers are screwed—here’s what to do about it September 11, 2015
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National digital library endowment plan featured in Education Week May 12, 2015
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How the DPLA could turn itself into a real ‘public’ library system—and encourage billionaires to pay for it and an academic system April 30, 2015
$1.25-million pledge from novelist James Patterson for school libraries: Here’s what else he can do March 13, 2015
The wealth gap: A tale of two school libraries March 10, 2015
Beyond library walls: Free e-books for Beijing subway passengers March 6, 2015
PTA President Otha Thornton wimps out on Kindle read-aloud issue, in reply to my Baltimore Sun op-ed March 3, 2015
National PTA asking Amazon about E Ink Kindles’ missing ‘read-aloud’; related Baltimore Sun op-ed now online February 26, 2015
Book review: ‘Bexar BiblioTech: The Evolution of the Country’s First All-digital Public Library’ February 13, 2015
Seven ways to grow the e-book business while helping libraries and readers: Ideas based on my two decades of writing about it February 8, 2015
Cheap blind-friendly E Ink Kindles with read-aloud and audio nav capabilities: A how-to for Amazon February 4, 2015
No Paperwhite read-aloud for you! FCC again lets Amazon and friends diss people with disabilities January 28, 2015
The K-12 and economic cases for a national digital library endowment January 11, 2015
Want read-aloud in Kindles and other readers? Use the FCC’s easy online form by Jan. 9 January 3, 2015
Is your city miserly toward library books? Go for a surtax or a special book fund December 23, 2014
Overpaid $266.5K city manager vs. library books December 10, 2014

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