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So what is open source software (OSS)? It’s software that is free in every sense of the word: free to download, free to use, and free to view or modify. Most OSS is distributed on the Web and you d...

Teens don’t know enough about history and literature to tie their own shoelaces. That’s more or less the conclusion of a study I read about in the New York Times (see “Survey Finds Teenagers Ignora...

Here’s some more evidence that school librarians are essential to student learning: researchers at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool) have found that students who attend ...

Spread the word: Yahoo! has developed a free social networking site that lets librarians create, modify, and share standards-based curricula. Yahoo! Teachers lets educators search a specific subjec...

Strongly held beliefs die hard, even when they are unfounded or lack evidence. Some still believe that fish is brain food and rumors of Elvis sightings continue to fly through cyberspace. Other tim...

Without a doubt, he's the Johnny Appleseed of school library research. But Keith Curry Lance is far too modest to accept this, or any other, accolade (Dr. Data? The Prince of Predictors?). “I just ...

As school districts nationwide face budget cuts, the role of the librarian—not to mention media centers themselves—are being called into question like never before. While some argue that the digita...

The Thomson Corporation has agreed to sell Thomson Learning, which includes the library reference company Thomson Gale, to to Apax Partners (Apax) and OMERS Capital Partners (OMERS) for $7.75 billi...

With everyone so obsessed with No Child Left Behind and student achievement, you'd think that today's kids are getting a better education.

Parents of newborns don't need to waste their dollars on Mozart CDs or the latest Baby Einstein toys.