Author: Bilingual Librarian

Aug 27 2009

Americas, Books, Censorship, Libraries, Maps

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009

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My friend Lars just found this great map that plots all the challenges against books that took place in the USA between 2007 and 2009. Information to create this map...

Americas, Books, Censorship, Google, Libraries, Maps, Public Libraries, USA

Aug 25 2009

Americas, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Public Libraries, USA, World

Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín

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The Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is a non-profit organization that works to promote a variety of projects that aim at raising awareness about the need to preserve the...

Americas, Colombia, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Public Libraries, USA, World

Aug 25 2009

Open Access, Tools, Web 2.0, World

Wiki Acceso Abierto

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Wiki Acceso Abierto is an initiative that was born out of the listserve Lista Latinoamericana sobre Acceso Abierto y Repositorios, and works with support from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario....

Open Access, Tools, Web 2.0, World

Aug 22 2009

Tools

Bingle?

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Microsoft’s “search engine” Bing has been widely advertised lately and seems to be attracting a decent amount of attention. If you’d like to compare it to Google and see which...

Google, Tools

Aug 19 2009

Americas, Archives, Open Access, Politics

Government Attic

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Government Attic is a site that collects hundreds of government documents that have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. The site divides its content into “FOIA Logs” and...

Americas, Archives, Open Access, Politics, USA

Aug 13 2009

Tools

Wolfram|Alpha

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I’ve just been trying out Wolfram|Alpha, released this past March, to see how it works.  The site looks more like an online encyclopedia than a search engine, since their results...

Tools

Aug 13 2009

Book Reviews, Books, Colombia, Latin America, Politics, Women, World

Razones de Vida, by Vera Grabe

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Razones de vida by Vera Grabe My rating: 5 of 5 stars I looked up this book because I was curious to read the story of one of Colombia’s guerilla...

Book Reviews, Books, Colombia, Latin America, Politics, Women, World

Aug 12 2009

Book Reviews, Europe, Women, World

“Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England’s Tragic Queen”, by Joanna Denny

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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England’s Tragic Queen by Joanna Denny My rating: 3 of 5 stars In this book Denny sets out to “correct” the negative impression history...

Book Reviews, Europe, UK, Women, World

Aug 11 2009

Tools, Web 2.0

Project Wombat

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Have a challenging question no one seems to have an answer for? Try Project Wombat, a discussion list for difficult reference questions. The project has three different versions, with the...

Tools, Web 2.0

Aug 06 2009

Middle East, Politics, Technology, Tools, World

Haystack

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Just as I was falling asleep last night listening to the BBC, I heard about a very interesting software called Haystack. Basically Haystack is software that was developed by Austin...

Iran, Middle East, Politics, Technology, Tools, World