Category: USA

Apr 04 2007

OpenCourseWare in Chinese

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As mentioned in a previous post, OpenCourseWare is a project which aims at providing high quality educational material on the web for free. Lucifer Chu, a man who became wealthy...

Apr 03 2007

Libraries, Public Libraries, USA

“What They Didn’t Teach Us in Library School”

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I just finished reading an article by Chip Ward, former assistant director to the Salt Lake City Public Library which tries to make sense of the public library’s role in...

Apr 03 2007

Libraries, Public Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Learning 2.0 is a program initially developed by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), NC, which aims to encourage library staff to familiarize themselves with the variety...

Mar 31 2007

Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Latin America, Open Source, Technology, Tools, Uruguay, USA, World

OLPC – One Laptop per Child

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization trying to address the lack of resources many Third World Countries struggle with and how these affect education and hinder technological...

Mar 20 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA

Open Source and Education

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I was just reading “The Case for Open Source: Open Source has Made Significant Leaps in Recent Years. What does it have to Offer Education?” by Miguel Guhlin, in Technology...

Mar 18 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Primo®

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There is a good amount of discussion in the library world that revolve around how and if we want to make library services more like Google or Amazon.com. The belief...

Mar 17 2007

Language, USA

English Only

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I just read an article about proposed legislation making English the official language in Oklahoma, and how American Indians are opposing this move. American Indians point out that their languages...

Mar 16 2007

Archives, Libraries, Technology, USA, World

PLALA – Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives

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This week I got to meet Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for collection development, and what a treat it was! I was most interested in learning about his...

Mar 12 2007

Law, Open Access, Technology, USA

OpenCourseWare

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I’m still not over my fascination with open source, so here is more on the subject… I just learned about the OpenCourseWare which “is a free and open digital publication...

Mar 11 2007

USA

Disappearing Bees

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I’ve wanted a bee colony for years, maybe even decades, but for years I haven’t lived in a place where I could have one. I’m just fascinated by the work...