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A new study, Libraries, Patrons, and e-books done by the Pew Research Center found that many Americans do not know that libraries have eBooks.  They found that 62% of the people asked didn’t know that eBooks may be borrowed from libraries and only 12% of readers borrowed an eBook from the library in the last […]

Facebook has changed users e-mail addresses to @facebook.com.  If you would like to change it back to your email address, Cnet has instructions. 0000

The Supreme Court doesn’t allow proceedings to be televised or devices in the courtroom, but according to the Washington Post, it has an active web site. WP reported the site, “will now detect the mobile device being used and will automatically adjust the display based on the screen size and orientation.” “This web­site enhancement will […]