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MAKERSPACES IN LIBRARIES
What is the Maker Movement ? At the Fayetteville Free Library, we encourage our patrons to be Makers. But what does that mean? When I...
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Library Innovation: Championing Change in Communities
Last week, the White House honored 12 museum and library representatives as Champions of Change in a program that "recognizes...
What is Entrepreneurial Librarianship?
“There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it...
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TEXT MINING: MAKING SENSE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA
Text mining, which is sometimes referred to “text analytics” is one way to make qualitative or “unstructured” data useable by a computer....
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Spaces + Places Unconference
Our story begins… "September 2012, [when] four graduate graduate students came together and decided to organize an unconference. They had...
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SPACES + PLACES ON STORIFY
Check out the Twitter stream from today’s Spaces + Places Unconference via this Storify. You can find the participant created schedule...
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DIAGRAMS VS. INFO VISUALIZATION
I was poking around on Brain Pickings today, when I ran across a really interesting post entitled “100 Diagrams that Changed the World.”...
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THROUGH THE TERMINAL…
As you may know, I graduated from a small liberal arts college with a degree in English literature, so the elements of computer science...