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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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Last Seen in Sea Isle
by Jane Kelly (A Meg Daniels Mystery, #7)
Meg Daniels should know by now that wherever she goes, mystery follows. Her fiancé is taking classes at Stockton University and has befriended Grace Grant, a fellow later-in-life student. Under false pretenses, Grace asks Meg to visit her lavish beachfront house in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, on the same weekend she’s hosting a reunion of pals from the summer of 1969. Meg discovers that Grace is hoping she’ll track down Guy—last name unknown—who disappeared from Grace’s life on the day of the moon landing.
2026 | ISBN: 978-1-940091-16-7 | 226 pp/trade paperback | $16.95
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