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Libraries
Source: OCLC
OCLC Research Sponsors Software Development Contest
Are you a library software developer? Know someone who is? OCLC has just launched a contest, “to encourage innovation and development of Web-based services for libraries and library users. Contestants will be challenged to think differently about their environments by working with deconstructed functional components of library services.”
Complete details here. The prize is $2,500.00 US.
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Library Literacy Programs
Source: MDRC
“One Day I Will Make It”: A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs
“The Wallace Foundation launched the Literacy in Libraries Across America (LILAA) initiative in 1996 to help library-based literacy programs nationwide increase the persistence of their adult learners, and it contracted with MDRC and the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) at Harvard University in 1999 to study the initiative. The participating libraries were granted resources to develop and implement persistence strategies that included improved instruction, more varied and more extensive social supports, and technology upgrades. This is the fourth and final report from the persistence study, which examined the implementation and effects of these strategies in nine library literacy programs over four years and whether student participation changed over time.”
Executive Summary
Full Report (PDF; 729 KB)

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