Creating Significant Learning Environments
Key findings from the report include:
Leading-edge librarians and patrons say that the advent of e-books has produced a major transformation in book searching and borrowing at libraries.
- Book-borrowing habits are changing
- Library holdings are changing
- Librarians’ roles are changing.
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Tesla may be one of the best examples of brilliant people and ideas are often ignored.
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Matt Day a Graduate of Concordia University created this excellent video and offers the following thoughts:
Just having a little fun with the way we kid-glove kids in school. The song was inspired by a chat with my musical humor duo partner, Gord Graber, after he read the recent story of a teacher who got suspended for giving a 0 to a student who did not hand in an assignment. I know there are other factors involved, but don’t you get a little frustrated with our over-sensitivity? I mean honestly, kids play the most violent video games in history, they experience all kinds of things in movies, TV and music – and we worry about the detriments of competition. Really?
It is obvious that the ebook is not a passing fad. It is also important to note that although paperback sales continue to lead, bringing in $299.8 million in revenue in the first quarter of the year compared to $282.3 million in the same quarter for ebooks, paperback sales are in decline.
In fact, ebook sales surpassed paperback sales more than a year-and-a-half ago on Amazon.
Perhaps one of the most notable tidbits of information from this post is the 32.7% growth of audio books. Having listened to at several books while running and walking I am not surprised by this growth. My 16 year old son is managing to get through Watership Down on audio which is something I wish I would of had access to when I had to slog through the book.
An Ernst and Young Productivity Pulse survey reveled the lack of productivity was costing Australian businesses more than $41 billion each year in wages alone. The report also revealed that despite working more than 8 hours a day Australian workers are less productive. One would assume that a quick remidy would be to cut back on breaks, social media and vacations but this is clearly wrong. The report revealed:
…that unproductive workers took fewer breaks, spent more time travelling to work and less time on leisure and recreation. In contrast, highly productive workers spent two-thirds of their time on meaningful work, they took longer breaks, spent less time travelling to work and allocated more time to leisure and recreation.
Andrew May, a performance coach who has spend the past 15 years working with elite athletes offers the following 7 simple strategies to help minimise distractions, work smarter and squeeze the most out of your day:
