Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual
The Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual is a project created by UNAM which aims to make legal material available to everyone. This virtual library of legal material began by uploading digital files...
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Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología
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Cada cuatrimestre la Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología de la Universidad de Antioquia publica la Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología, dedicada a la bibliotecologia y la ciencia de la información con énfasis...
World Music on Radio 3
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A few months ago the BBC launched a new archive of world music. During the ten years that Radio 3 has been on the air the program has been visiting...
Help A Librarian
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Earlier today I got a Facebook friend request from Heather Durkin Negley and discovered a great project she set up. Help A Librarian is an online tool that helps librarians...
OnlineCourses.net
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A few days ago I received an email from someone at SR Education Group showing me a site they have put together on free online courses. I’d never heard of...
Engineering videos now on Youtube
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The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and IITs, two of India’s premier engineering schools, are now offering close to 5,000 technical lecture videos and web-based courses targeting science and engineering...
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!...
Yale Silk Road Database
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The Yale Silk Road Database gathers over 6,000 images takes across the Silk Road region by faculty members during site visits between 2006 and 2009. The visits were led by...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, World
Chilean Protest Murals
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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...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Open Access, Oral Histories, Photographs, Politics
The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea Exodus
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Last weekend I was attending the annual SALALM conference and heard about a lot of great projects relating to libraries and Latin American. The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea...