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Apr 17 2008

Immigrant Heritage Week

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This week NYC is celebrating a legacy of immigration through Immigrant Heritage Week. The New York Public Library has created a number of events highlighting the culture of a number...

Apr 15 2008

Digital, Libraries, Open Access, World

Memoria Chilena

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Memoria Chilena is a project under Chile’s DIBAM (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) to help gather book, photographs, music and other works which have helped form national identity. A...

Apr 14 2008

Libraries, National Libraries, USA, Venezuela, World

National Library of Venezuela to Fight Cultural Imperialism

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Based on the belief that American popular culture is shaping a new global environment which each day looks more hegemonic, the National Library of Venezuela has decided to fight back....

Apr 05 2008

Databases, World

“Abortion” Taken Out of Publicly Funded Database

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In the last couple of days it has come to light that the term “abortion” had been taken out of Popline, a publicly funded health database managed by John Hopkins...

Mar 28 2008

Archives, Digital, Europe, Manuscripts, Technology, World

World’s First Audio Recording?

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Audio historian David Giovannoni seemed to have found the first human voice recording in a French patent office. The recording is of a human signing “Au Claire de la Lune”...

Mar 28 2008

Archives, Databases, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Earlier this week Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration offered a new Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The actual memorial consist of two large granite walls inscribed with the...

Mar 26 2008

Databases, Law, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Change-Congress.org

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Stanford law professor Larry Lessing has come up with a new tool (still in beta) to try and keep the USA government clean and honest. The Change Congress aims to...

Mar 18 2008

Digital, Technology, USA

“Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism”

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Yesterday Wired magazine had an interesting article titled “Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism,” about the effect that the web has had on journalism, and it’s not what I would...

Mar 14 2008

Archives, Manuscripts, World

Guatemala to Open War Archives

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Back in late February Álvaro Colom (official website), Guatemala’s president announced that he would be opening the country’s military archives to the public. The announcement was made in honor of...

Mar 07 2008

Libraries, Public Libraries, World

Parque Biblioteca España

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Medellin‘s neighborhood of Santo Domingo Savio is changing its face thanks to a new library that was inaugurated back in August 2007. The library includes a computer room, daycare center,...

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