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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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Federal FY2018 Budget Looms Large
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Various organizations continue to sound off about the president's proposed FY2018 budget as the Government Publishing Office (GPO) makes the full text available on govinfo and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) releases information on how it will begin closing down if the budget passes.
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EIFL Rolls Out Annual Report
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EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) released its 2016 annual report, which shows that the organization helped more than 8.5 million people through its network of libraries in 50-plus developing and transitional countries.
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D&B Releases Findings on International Supply Chains
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D&B studied how supply chains are affected by ideological, military, and localized conflicts happening around the world.
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CCC Adds Semantic Search Workflow to RightFind
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Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) updated RightFind XML for Mining, its cloud-based solution for obtaining full-text XML articles.
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Crusoe App Saves the Connections You Make in Your Notes
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A new app called Crusoe launched as "the only mobile app designed to do the hard part [of research]: meaningful recollection of your notes."
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Wikitribune Sets Out to Practice Evidence-Based Journalism
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by Woody Evans
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (along with collaborators Lawrence Lessig, Guy Kawasaki, Jeff Jarvis, and Lily Cole) is attempting to attack the problem of fake news by starting his own journalism outfit. With high-level advisors for the presidential administration famously confused about the nature of truth, with social media acting as a platform for the viral spread of hearsay and conspiracy theories, and with more and more Americans accessing fewer and fewer news sources, it would seem to be a good time to work on fixes for fake news.
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