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Educator Innovator - The Current Library Technology Guides: Documents, Databases, News, and Commentary The Verge American Libraries Magazine 10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library | American Libraries Magazine Today’s hottest web and mobile technologies are offering libraries a new world of opportunities to engage patrons. Ultra-popular social media websites and apps combined with the availability of affordable cloud-based services and the evolution and adoption of mobile devices are enabling librarians to share and build communities, store and analyze large collections of data, create digital collections, and access information and services in ways never thought about before. Libraries have become technology leaders by integrating cutting-edge tools to enhance users’ experience. It’s not enough to redesign the library website. Best practices mean developing user personas and following usability strategies to produce user-informed designs. New digital collections are stored in the cloud and mobile applications are developed around them. Forward-thinking librarians are actively experimenting with and incorporating these new technologies into their digital strategies. Make a quick screencast

Here Comes China’s Drone Patrols — War is Boring On most days, the Japan Self-Defense Forces scramble fighters to intercept Chinese military aircraft patrolling through what Tokyo terms its Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ. But it’s not everyday Japanese aircraft intercept a Chinese drone. That’s exactly what happened this week. On Monday, Japan detected an unidentified drone flying southeast off the coast of Zhejiang, before circling the skies approximately 100 miles north of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and then heading back in the direction of China. An unknown number of JASDF interceptors were scrambled against the interloper. It’s the first known occasion when a land-based Chinese drone has approached the Japanese ADIZ. This was the flight profile: Scrambling fighters against Chinese aircraft more generally is not out of the ordinary. What is different in the latest interceptions is the type of aircraft and their flight profile. The flight profile by the Chinese bombers is also unusual and had hitherto been unknown.

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