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Digitally recording GATT for posterity

In the spring of 1999, a Stanford professor and two university librarians walked into the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, to propose an unusual collaboration. The trio proposed sending a team from Stanford to record millions of pages of GATT documents, archival material and publications moldering away in a hodgepodge […]

Books24x7 Partners with GoLearn to Offer Federal Workers On-Line, Searchable Access to Key Business and IT Titles

NORWOOD, Mass., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Books24x7, a subsidiary of SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), announced today that it has partnered with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Gov Online Learning Center (GoLearn), to offer registered GoLearn users on-line, searchable access to 55 IT and business titles from a variety of publishers, including Microsoft […]

Why computers have not saved the classroom

What impact has computer technology had on public education in the US? That’s the question journalist Todd Oppenheimer sets out to answer in “The Flickering Mind.” Read the Full Story

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Online Learning System Key to Student Success

This self-paced online system helps students gain proficiency in mathematics, reading, writing, science, and social studies by selecting from hundreds of computer-based lessons available for various reading levels.Read the Full Story

The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications Webcasts: Best Practices in Student Services Online

The Power of Community: Creating an Online Involvement and Activities Interface Saint Leo University Center for Online Learning is providing a centralized forum through which student involvement opportunities, support services, community building devices, and leadership avenues can be accessed. Known as iRoar, this interface compliments classroom offerings by going beyond essential services, such as financial […]

ORGANIZATIONS LAUD INNOVATIVE OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING VENTURE Inaugural Issue of PLoS Biology Provides Free Access to Top-tier Biology Research

PLoS is employing a new model for scientific publishing in which research articles are freely available to read and use through the Internet. The costs of publication are recovered not from subscription fees?which limit information access and use?but from publication fees paid by authors out of their grant funds and from other sources.Organizations voicing their […]

Treasure i-land

It is the biggest library of its kind in the world and it was built with your hard-earned money. Read the Full Story

WKCR Return to the Airwaves throughout the Tri-State Area

Since the destruction of WKCR’s antenna on the World Trade Center two years ago, the radio station had been broadcasting to a limited area of upper Manhattan surrounding the Columbia campus.Read the Full Story

2 men, a dog, and the 1st car road trip

Jackson, who was fascinated with the new machines and had already purchased several, took the challenger’s $50 bet that he couldn’t drive one of these contraptions from San Francisco to New York in three months.Read the Full Story

Workrave

The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit. Please refer to the feature comparison for a complete list of features, and how the program performs with respect to other programs on the market. The program runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.Workrave