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NewsLink Spotlight |
| Game On! Celebrating International Games Month |
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by Patti Gibbons
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| November is International Games Month (IGM) and time to test your wits, sharpen your gaming skills, and have some fun! IGM is an annual international initiative that helps libraries promote the educational, social, and recreational value of all forms of games. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Advantage Archives Rolls Out a Community History Archives Directory |
| Advantage Archives emailed customers about its new community history archives directory, which features more than 1,100 free online archives for library patrons. |
| Springshare Purchases CareerShift to Broaden Its Offerings |
| Springshare is buying CareerShift, "the software platform that helps students with job search, career, and company research. Springshare acquired CareerShift from Student Playbook LLC. ..." |
| Paratext Unveils Comparative Library Analytics for Its bird Platform |
| Paratext introduced nest, "a groundbreaking suite of comparative library analytics built upon the platform of bird. nest will premiere at the 2024 Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase on November 12, 2024." |
| EFF Develops a Website for Answering Common Tech Questions |
| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) introduced Digital Rights Bytes, "a new website with short videos offering quick, easily digestible answers to the technology questions that trouble us all." |
| LinkedIn Creates an AI Hiring Assistant to Help With Job Recruitment |
| Ingrid Lunden writes "LinkedIn Launches Its First AI Agent to Take on the Role of Job Recruiters" for TechCrunch. |
NewsBreaks |
| A Guide to Analyzing the Usage of a Library's Online and Physical Resources |
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by Amber Boedigheimer
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| Librarians can be very creative in their efforts to save money while trying to maintain their current service levels. This involves skill, practice in money management, current needs assessments, and the ability to communicate effectively with the people the library serves. Maintaining a robust collection of resources is essential to supporting the educational needs of library users. But what happens, and what can librarians do during tough times, when the library's budget isn't as healthy as in previous years? |
| Young Innovators: Get to Know Team STEAM |
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by Juanita Richardson
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| Richardson met a young entrepreneur, Keerthi Vijay, the founder and president of Team STEAM, at the Computers in Libraries conference in March 2024. She started her company as a sophomore in high school, and it's been growing since then. |
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