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Information Professional Conference 2050

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The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates 80th anniversary this year. This milestone will be marked in part by the Information Professional Conference 2050 (IP 2050).

IP 2050 will bring together professionals, educators employers, and policy makers in information and library science to at the future of these fields.

The event takes place on June 5, 2012  from 9:00am  to  4:30pm at the William and Ida Friday Center

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Using Flight Gear to Test Debris Trackers

An article posted last week on i-programmer suggests that the flight simulator Flight Gear, hosted here at ibiblio, could be used to test drone flights aimed at spotting ocean debris. If deemed successful, the drones could be used to search for floating detritus and direct clean-up ships to the appropriate areas.

Flotsam and jetsam  is no joke, as evidenced by news of the first appearances of 1.5 million tons Japanese Tsunami debris that could wash ashore along the Canadian and American coastlines in the coming year. You can see the  projected spread of the debris from an article from Our Amazing Planet.com. Unfortunately, it’s arriving sooner than expected.

From the Flight Gear Blog:

The quality of FlightGear ocean scenes can now (in many cases) make them almost indistinguishable from real camera imagery.

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On Slashdot.org, the idea of using flight gear to test drone flights was received with a varied mix of skepticism, enthusiasm, and  the token host of suggestions about how to pull such a simulation off, and ways to make it better.

Well what do you think? the latest versions of flight gear are now available on our awesome new bitTorrent platform terasaur. Take an aircraft for a spin and see if you can spot any of the ocean junk headed our way.

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Celebrating Women

March 8th was International Women’s Day, a celebration of our sisters, our mothers, our daughters, our wives, our partners, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, our heroes, our bosses, and all of the women who make our world what it is. Even though March 8th has passed, in the United States, March is Women’s History Month. We are called to reflect upon the journey that women have taken and the road that lies ahead.

Unfortunately, in spite of women’s incredible steps forward, there is still much work to be done, and that is why ibiblio is extremely proud to host EMpowerME, a resource for women in potentially abusive relationships.

 

We hope that EMpowerMe continues to be a source for empowerment, strength and refuge, and we solute the women of the world, the women in our lives, and the women that make the world a better place.

 

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