Category: Libraries

Jan 04 2010

85 Reasons to be Thankful for Librarians

by Bilingual Librarian

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Some of these are just plain silly, or reinforce stereotypes, but the majority hit the nail on the head. Originally from Zen College Life. 1. Librarians take care of libraries,...

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

by Bilingual Librarian

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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 21 2009

Academic Libraries, Americas, Books, Libraries, USA

“The Festive Library 2009”

by Bilingual Librarian

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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

by Bilingual Librarian

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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 13 2009

Education, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Professional Development, Technology, Tools

Attended “Opening up Library Systems through Web Services and SOA”

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On Thursday I attended the webinar titled “Opening up Library Systems through Web Services and SOA” which was co-hosted by WebJunction and ALA Tech Source, and moderated by Marshall Breeding....

Dec 09 2009

bi/multilingual, Language, Libraries, National Libraries, Professional Development, World

Call for simultaneous interpreters – English/Arabic

by Bilingual Librarian

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I just received an email with a call for simultaneous interpreters – English/Arabic to translate at IFLA‘s annual conference, which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 10 – 15,...

Dec 07 2009

Education, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Professional Development, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Opening up Library Systems through Web Services and SOA

by Bilingual Librarian

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This Thursday Marshall Breeding will be moderating a webinar discussing whether a integrated library system be open without being open source. He will explore the ways that an Application Programming...

Dec 07 2009

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

Bibliomoto Peruana

by Bilingual Librarian

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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 03 2009

Americas, Libraries, Public Libraries, Tools

Tool lending libraries

by Bilingual Librarian

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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 29 2009

Europe, Libraries

Little library in a phone booth

by Bilingual Librarian

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Take a look at the UK’s smallest library! The resourceful folks from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset converted an old phone booth that was out of use into a small lending library...