Biblioteca Digital Mexicana
Mexico has recently release the Biblioteca Digital Mexicana, a great digital collection giving us access to documents dating back to Mexico’s precolonial history, independence and revolutionary period. The site offers...
Category: Americas
Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual
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The Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual is a project created by UNAM which aims to make legal material available to everyone. This virtual library of legal material began by uploading digital files...
Americas, Colombia, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Politics, Public Libraries, World
Juárez wants to model itself after Medellín
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Here are parts one, two, and three of a news report highlighting the impressive change the city of Medellín, Colombia has had in the last decade or so, and how...
Sitios de Memoria en América Latina
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Sitios de Memoria en América Latina gathers information about human rights across Latin America, which has been produced by the 27 organizations from Latin American countries that make part of...
Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología
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Cada cuatrimestre la Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología de la Universidad de Antioquia publica la Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología, dedicada a la bibliotecologia y la ciencia de la información con énfasis...
Boston Book Festival, 2010
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Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the Boston Book Festival. This is the second year the festival has been organized, and it seems to get bigger every year. While at...
Sep
08
2010
Bill Clinton will now start taking questions!
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On September 20th Bill Clinton will be holding the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, and this year he will be taking questions from the general public through Youtube! To participate...
Mun2.0 “vibración positiva y conocimiento”
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Mun2.0 “Vibración Positiva y Conocimiento” is a brand new radio program dedicated to the world of information and its management. The program is created and hosted by a group of...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, World
Chilean Protest Murals
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On that same SALALM panel titled “Documenting in Times of Adversity, Survival and Hope” my friend Lynn Shirey presented on a newly acquired collection of slides by photographer Andrés Romero...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Open Access, Oral Histories, Photographs, Politics
The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea Exodus
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Last weekend I was attending the annual SALALM conference and heard about a lot of great projects relating to libraries and Latin American. The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea...