The World’s First Airport Library!
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has opened the doors to the world’s first permanent airport library! What a great idea! Airports can often be such boring places, specially when your flight is...
Category: Libraries
bi/multilingual, Education, Language, Libraries, Professional Development, Public Libraries, Tools, World
Language Learning at the Library
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A couple of days ago my friend Liz called with a work related questions; Her employer wants to offer all the employees at this business the opportunity to improve their...
IFLA World Report 2010
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A couple of weeks ago IFLA released its latest World Report, and for the first time made it available online in a fully searchable database, including a graphical map interface!...
A Library in a Pub
by Bilingual Librarian
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Take a look at this nice video about a pub in Yorkshire Dales, UK, which has begun offering library services! What a clever idea. The folks behind this clever project...
Aug
09
2010
Adding the hashtag #biblioteca
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Tomorrow a group of librarians and library enthusiast from around the world will try to make the hashtag #biblioteca one of the Trending Topics on Twitter. The event will take...
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
by Bilingual Librarian
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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...
Americas, Archives, Colombia, Digital, Education, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, Public Libraries, Videos, World
Bicentenario Colombiano, 1810-2010
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Con ganas de celebrar el bicentenario de Colombia aquí recojo información sobre algunos eventos y colecciones que se han organizado en Colombia y virtualmente. ¡A celebrar se dijo! El proyecto...
Americas, Archives, bi/multilingual, Digital, Images, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Maps, National Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Public Libraries, Tools, World
La Grande Bibliothèque
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At the beginning of the month I was in Montreal and got to visit La Grande Bibliothèque! This library is one of the city’s largest public libraries, and the collection...
Jul
11
2010
A couple of cool librarians
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While at ALA I met a couple of very cool librarians, one of which has a blog I have been following for some time now. Here’s a brief description of...