Category: Tools

Nov 06 2009
Americas, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development, Tools, Web 2.0, World

La Cuña; a forum for Latin American and Iberian librarians

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Yesterday I got an email announcing the beginning of La Cuña, an online forum dedicated to librarianship for and about Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula. The forum wants to...
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Sep 10 2009
Europe, Middle East, Tools, World

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...
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Aug 28 2009
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Source, Tagging, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

Labeling Library Archives at Dartmouth College

by Bilingual Librarian
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With some financial help from the National Endowment for the Humanities, digital-humanities professor Mary Flanagan is developing a game that will help add tags to some of Dartmouth College’s archival...
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Aug 22 2009
Tools

Bingle?

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Microsoft’s “search engine” Bing has been widely advertised lately and seems to be attracting a decent amount of attention. If you’d like to compare it to Google and see which...
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Aug 13 2009
Tools

Wolfram|Alpha

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I’ve just been trying out Wolfram|Alpha, released this past March, to see how it works.  The site looks more like an online encyclopedia than a search engine, since their results...
Aug 11 2009
Tools, Web 2.0

Project Wombat

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Have a challenging question no one seems to have an answer for? Try Project Wombat, a discussion list for difficult reference questions. The project has three different versions, with the...
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