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Turning Students Into Readers With the LightSail Literacy Platform
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Even if we liked reading as a kid, we all have memories of slogging through at least one assignment that just wasn't speaking to us. (CliffsNotes is popular for a reason.) The LightSail literacy platform for grades K-12 aims to make all books entertaining and educational by capitalizing on the gamification of learning and making it easy for students to find their next curriculum-approved read.
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GPO Recruits New Council of Publishing Experts
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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) introduced the Federal Publishing Council (FPC), a group of federal employees that will advise GPO on the latest publishing and printing trends, including digital publishing concepts, web content management, and graphic design.
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Demco Software Studies Reading Recommendation Services
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Demco Software released a white paper, "Going the Extra Service Mile: The State of Reading Recommendation Services in Libraries," which shares findings from a 2017 survey of 330-plus public, academic, school, and special librarians from around the world.
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Clarivate Analytics Rolls Out New Version of Thomson IP Manager
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Clarivate Analytics launched Thomson IP Manager 4.5, the newest version of its intellectual property (IP) asset management platform. It has Microsoft Outlook integration, among other updates.
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OCLC Research Bridges the Archivist-IT Professional Gap
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OCLC Research published "Demystifying IT: A Framework for Shared Understanding Between Archivists and IT Professionals," a report in the Demystifying Born Digital series.
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Springer Nature Joins Forces With ORCID
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Springer Nature is working on two new initiatives to support ORCID identifiers (iDs): "a trial that will mandate ORCID iDs for corresponding authors publishing in 46 journals from across the whole of Springer Nature" and the inclusion of ORCID iDs in proceedings papers.
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With Yewno, Seeing Is Retrieving
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by Terry Ballard
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Yewno's visual approach to scholarly searching is gaining acceptance in major libraries. ... Rather than offering text-only access, Yewno produces images showing nodes of information on a given topic and displays the interconnections between the main search term and other concepts in its universe.
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