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One of the goals of this course is to equip you with an intellectual toolkit for the lifelong multi-disciplinary study of digital libraries enabling you to undertake meaningful discussion and debate as digital libraries play an ever more crucial role in our society and our lives. Here are some recommended resources for your toolkit:

Here are some excellent news Web sites:

D-Lib Magazine - the magazine of digital library research, updated bimonthly
Digital Public Library of America - news feed
Harvard Library Innovation Lab

Here are some Twitter feeds you can follow:

@dpla - Digital Public Library of America

Here are some excellent magazines:

D-Lib Magazine - the magazine of digital library research

Here are some excellent books:

Digital Libraries by William Y. Arms - an excellent introduction to digital libraries and its update
Nielsen Norman Group Usability Articles - an excellent introduction to usability design
Web Style Guide 3rd Edition by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton - an excellent introduction to Web design

Here are a number of excellent videos and the topics they relate to. The videos are primarily TED Talks (~15 minutes each) and from The Computer History Museum (~2-5 minutes each):

Topic 2 - Learning

Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas (from TED)
Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child (from TED)
Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code (from TED)
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (from TED)
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education (from TED)

Topic 3 - History of Digital Libraries

Navigating Knowledge: Hypertext Pioneers (from the Computer History Museum)
Digital Dark Age (from the Computer History Museum)
Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee (from TED)
Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel: What we learned from 5 million books (from TED)
Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library (from TED)
Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia (from TED)
Frederic Kaplan on How to build and information time machine (from TED)
William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes (from TED)