11 Most Impressive Libraries from the Ancient World
The folks at Online College put together a nice list on librarians from ancient world. The list includes a brief description of each library and a link to an external...
Category: Middle East
Nov
27
2009
Digitizing treasures from the National Museum of Iraq
by Bilingual Librarian
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I recently read an article in the Guardian where Google announced they plan to digitize 14,000 items from the National Museum of Iraq. Google explains that this project aims at...
Sep
10
2009
ImHalal
by Bilingual Librarian
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Today the Times Online has a interesting article about ImHalal, a new search engine designed to help Muslims navigate the web without running into potentially “sinful” material. The service was...
Aug
06
2009
Haystack
by Bilingual Librarian
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Just as I was falling asleep last night listening to the BBC, I heard about a very interesting software called Haystack. Basically Haystack is software that was developed by Austin...