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Join us for ML2SIG, every third Monday during the school year!
Join us for ML2SIG, every third Monday during the school year!
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: '''Your Next Wallet Could Be Your Smartphone'''
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: '''The Recent E-book Settlement'''
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: Monday, October 15, Noon to 1 PM
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: Monday, November 19, 2012, Noon to 1 PM
: Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
: Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)
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Have you paid for something using Google Wallet on your smartphone? Maybe you've used Square at a local retailer, and signed your signature on an iPad with your finger? What does it mean that it's becoming possible to pay for things without cash, plastic and even IDs?
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Please join ML2SIG this Monday for a discussion of the September e-book pricing settlement. Bobby Glushko from the Copyright Office will introduce the topic and lead our discussion.
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Join us for a lively discussion of the technologies already around us that are slowly replacing our wallets.
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For background reading, this New York Times blog post summarizes the situation: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/judge-approves-e-book-pricing-settlement-between-government-and-publishers/
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For some quick background reading, Wired journalist Christina Bonnington summarizes the future of wallets replacing smartphones, and then embarks on a month-long attempt to live without a wallet full of paper and plastic :
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* http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/when-smartphone-replace-wallet/
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* http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/living-without-a-wallet
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Feel free to bring your lunch.
Feel free to bring your lunch.

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MLibrary Lightning Talks

The next round of MLibrary Lightning Talks was be held on Thursday, July 26, from 2–3:30 p.m. in Bert's Study Lounge in the Shapiro Library Lobby.

Brownbags

Join us for ML2SIG, every third Monday during the school year!

The Recent E-book Settlement
Monday, November 19, 2012, Noon to 1 PM
Hatcher Gallery Lab (1st floor Hatcher Graduate Library)

Please join ML2SIG this Monday for a discussion of the September e-book pricing settlement. Bobby Glushko from the Copyright Office will introduce the topic and lead our discussion.

For background reading, this New York Times blog post summarizes the situation: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/judge-approves-e-book-pricing-settlement-between-government-and-publishers/

Feel free to bring your lunch.

See our list of past brownbags.

(ML2SIG events are open to all who are interested, especially those at the University Library and School of Information.)

Workshops

Complete Workshop List

Other Area Events

Complete Other Area Events List

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