Category: Americas

Jan 05 2010

Americas, Libraries, Professional Development

OCLC Minority Librarian Fellowship Program (Cataloging-Metadata Svcs.)

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OCLC is receiving application for a fellowship position that will train a budding librarian in cataloging and metadata procedures and standards. Given OCLC’s size and the amount of contact cataloging...

Dec 29 2009

Americas, Archives, Education, Images, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Manuscripts, National Libraries, OPAC, Open Access, Oral Histories, Photographs, Politics, Preservation, Tools, USA, Web 2.0, World

Library of Congress

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Today I spent the day at the Library of Congress and loved it. I was there with my mother and brother and we took one of the guided tours of...

Dec 27 2009

Americas, Digital, Education, Latin America, Technology, World

El Navegante de la Amazonía

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Between mid November and mid December the boat “El Navegante de la Amazonía” navigated along the Amazon and Putumayo rivers in Colombia offering training in the use of computers and...

Dec 21 2009

Academic Libraries, Americas, Books, Libraries, USA

“The Festive Library 2009”

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My friend Elissa just sent me the link to this great Christmas tree. The display was put together at the William H. Hannon Library, at the Loyola Marymount campus. Enjoy!...

Dec 17 2009

Academic Libraries, Americas, bi/multilingual, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development, World

Plaza de Personal Academico de la Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas de el Colegio de Mexíco

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Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City is looking for a new librarian. Job duties will includes descriptive cataloging, Dewey Decimal System classification, collection development, and reference. The successful candidate must...

Dec 07 2009

Americas, Latin America, Libraries, Literacy, Mobile Library, Public Libraries, Videos, World

Bibliomoto Peruana

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I’ve seen biblioburros, a camel mobile library, a traveling library in a suitcase, and now here’s a bibliomoto offering library services around the Huarmey province in Peru. The bibliomoto is...

Dec 06 2009

Americas, Poetry, World

Leaves of Bark; of Bark and Bookworms

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Know any librarian poets? Leaves of Bark is an online project that is documenting the intersection of poetry and librarianship. The site has 3 main categories; Poet Librarians of the...

Dec 05 2009

Americas, Images, Oral Histories, Photographs

One in 8 Million

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One in 8 Million is a project by the New York Times to profile characters of the city. The guidelines for the interviews are simple; you must live in one...

Dec 03 2009

Americas, Libraries, Public Libraries, Tools

Tool lending libraries

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I just came across a blog entry at Superpatron about how the community organization Hands on New Orleans has decided to create a tool lending library. Hands on New Orleans...

Nov 22 2009

Americas, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Literacy, World

La Casa del Colibrí

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La Casa del Colibrí is a Cultural Center that works to improve conditions for the community of Chirimoto, in the Peruvian Amazon region. The project includes a large emphasis on...