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"Students Scan Textbooks to Skirt Cost"
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, School Libraries
|From a Daily Oklahoman Article (University of Oklahoma): Bizzell Memorial Library owns two scanners — called Knowledge Imaging Centers — that allow students to scan pages and save them directly to an external hard drive, costing the user nothing. Some have been abusing the privilege though, scanning whole chapters and textbooks instead of buying them. […]
From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative: Applications designed for the iPad offer interactive content that takes advantage of touch-screen navigation. The iPad combines robust computational functionality with a screen large enough to serve as a legitimate replacement for printed textbooks and other course materials. Where the iPad applications have led, other tablets and their attendant applications can be […]