After reading this review of The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence, I was inspired to order the book from Amazon. The review itself discusses the importance of focusing more on real world events and plain language vs. theoretical scenarios and complex jargon. I’m hoping that the book can fulfill my professional and [...]
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Innovation in the Public Library
Add to the list of jobs that are apparently too boring for Americans: sorting books. The New York Public Library has installed an enormous machine in a warehouse in Queens to handle the task of redistributing borrowed books among the city’s branches. The New York Times reports that the automation “has eliminated much of the [...]
Plain Language
Media coverage is all over the health care reform bill(s). But, there are other pieces of legislation being passed, and some of them, like the Braley Plain Language Act (HR 946) might actually benefit all literate citizens without controversy. “The Plain Language Act requires the federal government to write all new publications, forms, and publicly [...]
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16 Jan 2012 at 19:17
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It may seem to start out slow, but this is a great montage of library scenes in popular film and television. Turns out, it’s a pitch for the video collection available for borrowing at the Greene County Library in Ohio!