Read more about Google’s ‘buy anywhere, read anywhere’ offer from this article by Catherine Neilan.

By Sean Coughlan,BBC News education reporter

Social networking websites such as Facebook are helping to reduce college drop-out rates, it is claimed.

Gloucestershire College says social networking is used to keep students informed and in touch with staff. [More...]

July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

The Collections include newspapers, photographs, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official historical documents, and historic and contemporary maps.

When rain or flood waters get into your building, take steps to prevent mold growth.

A study by North Carolina Central University found that students were not as software-savvy as they perceived themselves.  Undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory computer applications course constituted the sample of this study.

Bobbie Johnson’s article discusses  the Open Library project which aims to archive information about every book.  It also looks at the project in light of other Internet projects such as Google’s book search…more

Article by Kristen Liszewski in Kansan.com reports on the new open access policy of the University Kansas. Under this arrangement scholarly journal articles by their professors are freely available online.

Here’s a posting by Matthew Cockerill on Biomed Central’s blog highlighting the complementarity between Wikipedia and open access journals.  Click here to read more.