Pew has a new report out today on Americans usage of location based services. Libraries have branches because location is important and this technology is underused in our sector for analysis and service.
The full story: PEW: Americans usage of location based services | Stephen’s Lighthouse.
The literary wealth of more than 5,000 years is preserved at this museum-row library that is anything but ordinary.
via Philly’s Free Library worth the trip for rare-book collection | readingeagle.com.
This Graphic Shows How to Keep Your Browsing, Email, and Chats Private | LifeHacker
Books are one of Chloe Leitmann-Morales’s favorite things. She sorts through the full shelf in her family’s Arlington County living room, pulling out her choices one after another, then settles comfortably on almost any nearby lap. She’s ready to listen and follow along as her father, mother or grandmother reads about Dora the Explorer, different kinds of bellies or the dog Blue, in both English and Spanish.
Chloe has “read” more than 1,000 books. She is 2 years old.
She is a poster child for the Arlington County Public Library system’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” program, a months-old effort encouraging preschoolers to strengthen language skills, build their vocabularies and begin love affairs with stories and the printed word.
Read the full story: Arlington library system starts ‘1,000 Books Before Kindergarten’ to urge a love of reading | The Washington Post.
Hey Macmillan, Why Does My eBook Say That it Belongs to a Public Library? | The Digital Reader
Quotable: “This title is old enough that by the time Macmillan decided to sell the ebook there very likely no digital copy available. The only way to get an ebook was to either type the book into a computer or scan an old paper copy.”
As newly graduated students and the recently unemployed look for open positions in a difficult job market, companies are on the lookout for new employees. Many employers are using social recruiting, in which companies find potential job candidates on social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
What might be surprising is social recruiting is more likely to get you hired, plus it can help you stay employed longer.
Jobvite recently released a survey showing more people get hired from online referrals and company career pages than from job boards. As shown in the infographic below, almost half of the social recruiting hires remained in their positions for over three years.
via Job Seekers Recruited via Social More Likely to Be Hired [INFOGRAPHIC] | Mashable.
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