Maximizing limited resources, particularly in the area of information technologies, requires effective technology planning. Many libraries were introduced to public access computing as a service through the Foundation’s Statewide Partnership Grant Program; now that libraries are seeing the demand for this service grow and their resources shrink, many have used technology planning to focus limited resources on specific strategic objectives for their library and considered how technology can help them more effectively achieve these objectives. Technology planning can be defined as assessing the technology currently available in the library, determining what technology is still needed, and considering how to manage it.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced grants to three countries totaling $17.5 million to help ensure that people in Botswana, Latvia, and Lithuania have the opportunity to benefit from the latest information and training available on computers and the Internet. The grants will help each country plan for or provide no-cost information technology services and training in public libraries and reading rooms.

Abram said that libraries and librarians need to begin learning and utilizing the tools that today's generation is enthralled with, such as YouTube, Podzinger, iTunes, the countless amount of blogs and many others.

Still the best political blog (community!) on the net, as far as I'm concerned.

Vastly amusing, truer than the real news.

good compilation of links to news about wars / military action around the world

compiles news stories with the blog threads about them

Wired article about the book "Getting Things Done"

The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known.

The blog for the Memory Hole.