LIFE Photo Archive
A couple weeks ago Google come out with one more impressive online collection. This time it’s the LIFE Photo Archive. Most of us have probably seen the powerful images that...
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Nov
25
2008
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 2008
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In honor of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, I’m highlighting a couple stories about the subject from around the world. Earlier this year UN Secretary...
Sep
14
2008
La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Libros
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Radio Televisión Española has created a great radio series tracing the history of literature. Each session is about an hour long and covers a specific topic, such as knights in...
Sep
14
2008
Google is Digitizing Old Newspapers
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Google as set out with the ambitious goal of digitizing as many news papers (large and small, national and international), as they can get their hands on. These digital files...
Aug
27
2008
Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Israel’s Antiquities Authority has begun digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls to make them available to everyone on the web. The project is an effort to preserve the remains of this...
Aug
14
2008
Turning The Pages
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Turning the Pages is a great collection digitized books, at the British Library, that allow you to turn the pages and almost experience the real thing. The works included in...
Jul
25
2008
360 Cities
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360 Cities is a great site that allows you to see all 360 degrees of over 50 cities around the world. Well you don’t actually get to see every corner...
Jul
12
2008
Alaska’s Digital Archives
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At ALA I sat in on a great presentation titled Digitizing Indian Country. The first presentation was on Alaska’s Digital Archives. The collection brings together photographs, oral histories, maps, moving images...
Jul
09
2008
Sister Library Initiative
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While at ALA a couple of weeks ago I attended a great lecture on the IRRT Sister Library Initiative, a project spearheaded by Meaghan O’Connor, Simmons College’s Fellow for Dean’s...
Jul
03
2008
Bibliotheka
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Bibliotheka is a site that gathers digital files of books in Spanish. The collections can be searched by title, author, and subject. Files can also be browsed through larger topical...