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By jdupuis on June 1, 2011.
  • A Library for Human Capital
  • How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses
  • Why libraries still matter
  • The State of Higher Ed Social Media 2011
  • How To Blog a Conference
  • The secret is to bang the rocks together: Arduino is a building block for the world to come
  • Google's Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy
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