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Calling All Widget Builders!

February 27, 2009 by Andrew Wilson
Filed in Instruction, Open source, Programming, Public libraries, Social networks, widgets

The New York Public Library is currently looking for proposals from developers to build a new set of homework help widgets for students aged 10-18. Widgets will include platform integration for iGoogle, Facebook, MySpace, blogs and web pages, and/or desktops. Functionality will include: finding and searching, list building, task management, events listings and real-time answers. [...]

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Those Who Can: Teach!

May 20, 2008 by Kristopher Kelly
Filed in Collaboration, Instruction, Programming, Ruby on Rails

Way back when I was still working toward my fancy degree in library studies, a professor afflicted with a love of the more philosophical side of things forced my class to read a book by Jerome Bruner called Acts of Meaning. One point I remember clearly involved the role of a community in shaping knowledge. [...]

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