Category: Technology

Dec 09 2010

Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Digital, Education, Law, Libraries, Library Science, Maps, Open Access, Politics, Professional Development, Public Libraries, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

E-Gov: Make It Work @ your library (ALA webinar)

by Bilingual Librarian

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This afternoon I attended an ALA webinar about E-Government. The session offered some good sites where we can find government information (local, state, and federal), shared some information about patron...

Sep 26 2010

bi/multilingual, Education, News, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Finding Dulcinea

by Bilingual Librarian

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Taking after Don Quijote, Finding Dulcinea is a site that evaluates millions of website and offers you only the best, and most trustworthy ones. The site offers over 300 web...

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 28 2010

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Technology, Tools, World

IFLA World Report 2010

by Bilingual Librarian

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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!...

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 01 2010

Libraries, Technology, Tools

Trying to Prevent Scrapping/Plagiarism

by Bilingual Librarian

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A few weeks ago I noticed another blog (Alabama Library Expo) has been scrapping content off my blog and adding it to theirs and I’d like it to stop –...

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...

May 03 2010

Libraries, Social Networks, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Choose Privacy Week

by Bilingual Librarian

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The ALA (American Library Association) just established Choose Privacy Week (May 2 -8), which is part of Privacy Revolution. This new event aims at creating awareness of the digital environment...

Apr 29 2010

bi/multilingual, Language, Technology, Tools, World

Virtual Keyboards for Google Searching

by Bilingual Librarian

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Google just announced a new tool that will help us search the web in languages other than English. If you use Google search in any of the non-English languages that...