Category: Professional Development

Sep 12 2010

bi/multilingual, Education, Language, Libraries, Professional Development, Public Libraries, Tools, World

Language Learning at the Library

by Bilingual Librarian

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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...

Sep 04 2010

Asia, Education, Open Access, Professional Development, Technology, Videos, World

Engineering videos now on Youtube

by Bilingual Librarian

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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...

Aug 15 2010

Digital, Education, Open Source, Professional Development, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

OpenScholar

by Bilingual Librarian

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OpenScholar is a new framework developed at Harvard that will allow scholars to build and maintain high quality websites. The idea is to allow academics to easily create useful, and...

Aug 08 2010

Americas, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development, Technology, World

Mun2.0 “vibración positiva y conocimiento”

by Bilingual Librarian

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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...

Jul 08 2010

Academic Libraries, Libraries, Professional Development, World

Latest ANSS meeting

by Bilingual Librarian

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I’ve recently become a member of the ANSS (Anthropology and Social Sciences) committee on Subject and Bibliographic Access (previous post on the group), and at our meeting while at ALA,...

Jun 25 2010

Americas, Education, Libraries, Professional Development

Unconference at ALA

by Bilingual Librarian

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I’m in DC for the ALA annual conference, before I had even arrived in DC proper, I was already learning about interesting stuff going on. This morning I ran into...

May 06 2010

Europe, Libraries, Professional Development, Social Networks, Technology, Tools, Videos, Web 2.0, World

This Week in Libraries

by Bilingual Librarian

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I just learned about This Week in Libraries (twil) an online TV series about libraries all over the world! (Does it get any better than this?!) Twil is hosted by...

Apr 22 2010

Libraries, Professional Development, Videos

So you want to be a librarian?

by Bilingual Librarian

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I just saw 1946 video which was part of the “Your Life Work Series” which promoted librarianship as a career. The video suggests that you must love book and people...

Mar 21 2010

Academic Libraries, Americas, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development

UCLA Library Research Grants 2010

by Bilingual Librarian

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UCLA has three grants for people interested in using the holdings of the Latin American collection on campus. Awards of up to $1,500 will help candidates with transportation, lodging, and...

Mar 21 2010

Americas, Education, Law, Libraries, National Libraries, Professional Development

Summer Internships at the Library of Congress

by Bilingual Librarian

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The Library of Congress (LOC) has 40 openings for summer internships! The focus of this year’s program is to increase access to the collections and increasing awareness of their digital...