Category: Libraries
May
17
2007
Room to Read
by Bilingual Librarian
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Room to Read is an amazing nonprofit organization founded by John Wood, a former executive at Microsoft who had his life flipped upside down after traveling to Nepal. On this...
May
09
2007
Creative Fundraising for the Library
by Bilingual Librarian
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Usually library fundraisers might involved a party, reading event or book sale, but a few libraries have come up with creative alternatives all their own. The National Library of Peru...
May
04
2007
April 16 Archive
by Bilingual Librarian
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Just a couple of weeks after the incidents at Virginia Tech, the university’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) with help from George Mason University’s Center for History of...
May
01
2007
eFIL – Electronic Information For Libraries
by Bilingual Librarian
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Yesterday I attended a fascinating lecture on eIFL which is an independent consortium for library consortia. Basically what it does is help libraries in the developing world access online journals...
Apr
20
2007
Academic Libraries, Americas, Libraries, OPAC, Open Source, Public Libraries, Tagging, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0
WPopac
by Bilingual Librarian
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At the same lecture that I attended earlier this week I learned about the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, NH. This small public library has done away with their old...
Social Tagging and Cataloging
by Bilingual Librarian
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Earlier this week I attended a lecture that addressed social tagging and its use to libraries. Today more and more libraries and archives are trying to make themselves more visible...
Apr
14
2007
Librarian Act of 2007
by Bilingual Librarian
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To celebrate National Library Week, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) plans to introduce legislation that will amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide Perkins student loan forgiveness in order...
Apr
08
2007
Framingham Library
by Bilingual Librarian
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This week I got to visit the Framingham Public Library to see their Newcomer & Neighbors Center. The city has seen a large growth in their immigrant populations, and currently...
Apr
03
2007
“What They Didn’t Teach Us in Library School”
by Bilingual Librarian
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I just finished reading an article by Chip Ward, former assistant director to the Salt Lake City Public Library which tries to make sense of the public library’s role in...