Libro al Viento
Nowadays is seems that so many of us spend hours and hours commuting back and forth (and hopefully we are doing this on public transportation). For those of us lucky...
Author: Bilingual Librarian
Feb
21
2008
Looted Cultural Goods
by Bilingual Librarian
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This morning the New York Times had an article about two parallel art exhibits displaying art looted during WWII. The exhibit is a collaboration between France and Israel in aims...
Feb
17
2008
Valentine’s other side
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A recent article in the BBC shows how recent violence in Kenya sparked from election disputes has affected the flower industry. Usually Valentines means that workers can expect to work...
Feb
14
2008
bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, World
Europeana
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The European Digital Library project has been working since September 2006 on creating a portal to gather digital collection from National Libraries around Europe, including Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein,...
Feb
13
2008
Harvard Faculty Embrace Open Access
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Yesterday The Harvard Crimson published an Op-Ed by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, who has set the groundwork to create an Office...
Feb
09
2008
The Digital Divide
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has recently published Information Economy Report 2007-2008 which notes that the digital divide is still very much an issue that must...
Feb
06
2008
Stephen J. Gould bequeaths his collection to Stanford
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The late Stephen J. Gould has bequeathed his entire collection to Stanford University, who intends to digitize much of it and create a “hyperlinked” version of it. An article in...
Feb
01
2008
Latino Students in Tucson to be Interpreters
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This morning on NPRs Morning Edition I heard a fascinating story about schools in Tucson that are trying to address both the high rates of Latino student dropout from school,...
Jan
25
2008
Memory Archive
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Memory Archive is an online project that is gathering memoirs from everyday people. The site allows you to search for memoirs indexed for particular words (either in the title or...
Jan
24
2008
The Commons
by Bilingual Librarian
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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...