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How One Library Marketer Played an April Fools’ Prank On Her Community… and Got Incredible Reach on Social Media!

Super Library Marketing

After I got my drivers license, I used to drive around to all the local libraries and hit up their Friends book sales, explains Siobhan. I would buy tons of books and store them in the trunk of my car because I didnt want my parents to know I was spending all my money on books.” She also runs programs.

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15 startups selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

By leveraging AWS to develop the next generation of EdTech solutions, these startups aim to address education challenges such as student engagement, financial literacy, student health and well-being, upskilling, and operational inefficiencies. The 10-week Accelerator program kicks off this week at Amazon’s Headquarters in Seattle.

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Legal Issues for Volunteers Responding to Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

She is the co-author of three public health emergency law bench books for health departments in the District of Columbia, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Through a CDC-funded grant, Van Nostrand created the Emergency Law Inventory (ELI) , a tool for volunteers engaged in disaster response to navigate responder laws across the United States.

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Implementing a unified search platform for educational content on Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Amazon Transcribe API, StartTranscriptionJob , can be automatically engaged through Lambda functions to initiate transcription jobs for each uploaded file. When dealing with books, PDFs, or syllabi, you can use a Lambda function that uses Amazon Textract to extract text.

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How the Wharton School built a virtual TA chat assistant with generative AI on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

As an expert in behavioral data analysis of customer shopping and purchase activities, professor Fader has extensive data analysis experience and develops course material based on his many published books. This helps avoid copyright concerns when training the large language models (LLMs) at the core of the virtual TA.

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Save Time and Reach Your Whole Audience With an Incredible Trick! (Includes Guide and an Example You Can Steal)

Super Library Marketing

For example, I strongly believe books are your library’s brand. Easy 4-step guide to repurposing content Let’s say your library is publishing a promotional blog post about Book Club Kits. Or maybe you’ve been thinking about starting a book club but don’t know where to begin. And I say so… often!

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You Don’t Have to Choose Between Print and Digital Books: How to Promote Your Collection to Patrons Who Use BOTH Formats

Super Library Marketing

How many times have you been asked the question: which do you prefer most, print or digital books? The Pew Research Center questions Americans about their reading habits and preferred book format every year. Here are the topline numbers: 75 percent of adults in the United States read a book in some format over the last year.

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