Category: Libraries
Dec
10
2007
December 10
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
December 10 seems to be a date that gathers many great events. Today is International Human Rights Day. This year the UN is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration...
Nov
30
2007
“Public Libraries for Profit”
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
Akito Yoshikane recently wrote the article titled “Public Libraries for Profit” commenting on a developing trend to privatize public libraries around the country. Yoshikane explain that a number of counties...
Nov
21
2007
Amazon.com’s Kindle
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
Amazon.com just launched a new electronic reader called Kindle. This new device is said to hold as many as 200 books and weights only 10.3 onces. Its screen seems to...
Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, 2007
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
This weekend I attended the 31st. Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. I heard about this event after a visit to the John Carter Brown Library and decided to check it...
Nov
16
2007
WorldCat Local
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
Not too long ago OCLC rolled out a new OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) of sorts. This new tool known as WorldCat Local offers a three tiered display of cataloged...
Nov
07
2007
Chile Returns Plundered Books
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
In a gesture of good faith, the Chilean government has returned close to 4,000 books that were plundered from the Peruvian National library back in 1881 during the War of...
Oct
26
2007
“Información: Puente Hacia el Bien Social”
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
I recently ran across a blog by a Puertorican library student titled “Información: Puente hacia el bien social“. Yesenia Hernández is a student at the University of Puerto Rico, Río...
Oct
18
2007
Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World
World Digital Library
by Bilingual Librarian
1 Comment
A World Digital Library is coming together after an agreement signed yesterday between Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information, and James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress...
Oct
10
2007
International postal rates to hurt book donations
by Bilingual Librarian
No Comments
The US Postal Service used to mail books internationally for $1 a pound, making it possible for small groups, such as a classroom of students, to donate and ship books...