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BBC to open online radio archives

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From www.prokerala.com - November 4, 2011 3:43 AM

BBC to open online radio archives...The service will be launched "within the next...As well as searching and listening to the archival...The BBC is currently in the process of digitising ...Davie said the website will be "porous" ...

 

The BBC will soon introduce a new radio website, preliminarily named "Audiopedia", that would contain the broadcaster's almost entire archives of radio programmes since the 1940s.

The service will be launched "within the next 12 months", Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph.

 

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D.C. Library Staff Tests iPad Services App — The Digital Shift

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From www.thedigitalshift.com (via @PaulaGrunseit) - March 7, 2012 2:15 AM
RT @raamatuid: Nifty!RT @dcpl: Roving iPad librarians coming to DC Public Libraries http://t.co/Lx08IWF5...

 

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"The app would enable library workers to shorten long lines by going around as a mobile checkout “desk,” Williams said. The iPad and a connecting electronic scanner could also be used at community events outside of the libraries to register new patrons and provide more information about their services.
The idea of creating a special iPad app for library workers came up in late 2010 as the technology staff noticed how useful their iPhone app was to library patrons, and they thought it would be a great in-house tool for customer service, said Chis Tonjes, the Washington D.C. public library director of information technology."

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iPad-enabled students get performance boost, says ACU study

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From www.tuaw.com - October 11, 2011 8:41 AM
From special-needs classrooms to textbook publishers to free lesson movements, anxious IT administrators to Irish principals to K-12 thought leaders:...

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iPads Improve Kindergarteners' Literacy Scores - WebProNews

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From www.webpronews.com - February 20, 2012 2:36 AM

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"iPads Improve Kindergarteners' Literacy Scores WebProNews From Hack Education: But as Damian Bebell, one of the project's researchers argues, we can't just act as though the devices “arrive on parachutes” into a classroom and suddenly and magically..."


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