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Library Groups Say LinkedIn Policy Changes Could Violate Users’ Privacy

Associations Now

Library patrons have long had access to resources from Lynda.com, now known as LinkedIn Learning. But library organizations warn that a platform policy change could violate both patrons’ privacy and librarians’ ethics code. Until now, library patrons could access the courses with only a library card number, according to ZDNet.

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Library Group Aims to Reeducate Public on Its Profession

Associations Now

As innovative maker spaces seem to be pushing out book stacks in school libraries, the American Association of School Librarians posits that there’s room for both—and that certified school librarians are the most qualified professionals to give students the best of both worlds. But there’s so much more to today’s libraries.

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WBT Systems’ TopClass maintains position as #1 LMS for Associations

WBT Systems

TopClass LMS had previously been named the Best Association LMS in 2015. TopClass LMS provides turnkey integration with association management systems (AMS), ecommerce, digital libraries, globalization, audience segmentation, mobile responsiveness, social learning, virtual classrooms, webcasting tools, and event management features.

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Does Email Equal Engagement?

Higher Logic

With new technologies, community platforms and collaborative tools, some people say email is going by the wayside. In our 2015 Community Benchmarking Report , we set out to discover if there’s a connection between email and collaboration and, if so, what exactly it is. Can old fashioned email spur your community’s engagement?

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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After Merger Shifts Membership, Publishers Group Doubles Down on Education

Associations Now

is getting strong support from the library and publishing world. Hayden, who once served as the president of the American Library Association (ALA), was welcomed by the group she formerly led , which had been pushing for the role to be filled by a professional librarian.

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Monday Buzz: The Results of a Gigantic Email Survey

Associations Now

The full report is available via the Cornell University Library. — SCSAE (@SCSAE) April 10, 2015. As an example of how to follow through with green initiatives , the Nonprofit Technology Network has revealed the results of its carbon emission offsets program. Tweet and App of the Day.

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