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We recently installed Wikipedia on DVD on our network and also made a copy available on loan in our school library.

It is available on the student desktops with an start menu icon next to the other 'encyclopedias'  Even though this is only a 0.5 version test release, I am impressed by how popular it has become with students.

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I got a cool answer to a question I question that I posted on YahooAnswers about a mystery catalogue or loan card that I had on my desk. The best answer was posted by a cool user with a library background.

Librarians rock! (so does YahooAnswers0

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Still more discussion about the electronic portfolios.

As my teacher-librarian is at pains to point out when I explored backing up the school video collection, we shouldn't confuse issues of archiving with those for digital storage. When the service of remote access by students to their past electronic portfolios was raised, I spotted two new issues ( Read more... )