Author: Bilingual Librarian

Feb 19 2010

Americas, Archives, Databases, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Maps, Open Access, Public Libraries, World

Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango

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While I was growing up in Colombia libraries were very scarce, the only library one ever heard mentioned was the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (BLAA), which I finally got to...

Feb 19 2010

Americas, Archives, Latin America, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Source, World

Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia

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I arrived in Bogota last night and today I’m off to visit a few libraries, my first stop is the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. As Colombia’s national library, one of...

Feb 15 2010

Americas, Archives, Book Reviews, Books, Libraries, Manuscripts, Public Libraries, Social Networks, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

This Books Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, by Marilyn Johnson

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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I picked up a galley of this book while...

Feb 13 2010

bi/multilingual, Databases, Libraries, Professional Development, Social Networks, Tools, World

Travesía is a website put together by Spain’s Ministry of Culture’s General Subcommittee on the Coordination of Libraries. Basically the sites aims at promoting collaboration among Spanish librarians, and offers...

Feb 12 2010

Books, Databases, Europe, Images, Libraries, National Libraries, Preservation, World

Database of Bookbindings

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The British Library is always up to something interesting; I just discovered their Database of Bookbindings. This is an entire online collection dedicated to the bindings of books held by...

Feb 07 2010

Americas, Book Reviews, Books, Latin America, Politics, World

Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin

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Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews I picked up this book because of the title;...

Feb 06 2010

Americas, Books, Libraries, Literacy, National Libraries, Open Access, Web 2.0

Read.gov

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Yesterday while I was riding the bus to work a new billboard caught my eye, one for Read.gov. Read.gov is part of the Library of Congress, and it aims to...

Feb 03 2010

Academic Libraries, Americas, Databases, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, World

El Colegio de México, Revistas

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My friend Alberto Martinez, who works at El Colegio de México, is always collaborating on great projects, the most recent one has resulted in free access to all the journals...

Jan 31 2010

bi/multilingual, Language, Tools

Medical Spanish Podcasts

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My friend Lena always says she wished she had taken advantage of my fluency in Spanish to learn the language while we were roommates, since as a doctor in the...

Jan 31 2010

Books, Images, Literacy, Photographs, World

IKEA Create World’s Longest Outdoor Bookcase On Bondi Beach

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Here’s a slide show of the world’s longest outdoor bookcase. The bookcases were filled with books that visitors could swap with their own book, or which they could purchase for...