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America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. 

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Are you a UXer? Are you a New Yorker? Are you a reader? (Trick question.)

If you answered yes to all of the above, you might be interested in attending the next UX Book Club gathering Jan. 23 in NYC.The details, via Meetup.com:

Join us for our first Meetup of 2013 as we go where…

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Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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7 Ways To Use The iPad To Help Students Excel At School | MakeUseOf
We are approaching the era where students don’t have to carry stacks of  thick heavy books to school anymore. Everything will be digitized and  available at the tip of students’ fingers, inside the iPad (or whatever other tablet can stand alongside the iPad in the future).  Not wanting to waste any more time, some schools have already adopted  the iPad as their learning tool, while students and educators are slowly  figuring out the best way to utilize the iPad for education.
Even  though everybody has their own preferences of using the iPad in their  studies, allow me to share 7 iPad usages to help students excel at  school.
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.
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When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. But as people moved more towards urban centers, people started to get into cars. I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.
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