Category: USA
Oct
20
2009
Computational Sketchbook by Jie Qi and Leah Buechley
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Those folks at MIT really are crafty; look at the amazing pop up book a student there created. Each page opens up to a different scene which included lights, and...
Oct
03
2009
Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups
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The Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups bring together professional librarians in the early years of their career to develop skills that will help continue their...
Sep
25
2009
Latino StoryCorps – Historias
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Yesterday was the official launch of “StoryCorps Historias“, the Latino version of StoryCorps, the project that gathers personal stories in audio format. Since 2003 the independent and nonprofit project has...
Sep
04
2009
DASH – Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
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DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) has just been released in Beta. The repository is the product of a university initiative to fully participate in the Open Access movement...
Aug
28
2009
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Source, Tagging, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0
Labeling Library Archives at Dartmouth College
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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...
Aug
25
2009
Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín
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The Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is a non-profit organization that works to promote a variety of projects that aim at raising awareness about the need to preserve the...
May
12
2009
On Overpaying for Journal Subsciptions
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My friend Samira just showed me this blog entry from Shoestring Venture, which although quite sarcastic, absolutely hits the nail on the head. They argue that universities are overpaying for...
May
02
2009
White House 2.0
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President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak together sitting at a picnic table April 9, 2009, on the South Lawn of the White House. Official White...
Apr
24
2009
Latinas in History
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As the name implies, Latinas in History is about Latinas around the world, and throughout the ages (although with heavy emphasis on the USA); both the stories of individual women,...