Yale Silk Road Database
The Yale Silk Road Database gathers over 6,000 images takes across the Silk Road region by faculty members during site visits between 2006 and 2009. The visits were led by...
Category: World
Aug
09
2010
Adding the hashtag #biblioteca
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Tomorrow a group of librarians and library enthusiast from around the world will try to make the hashtag #biblioteca one of the Trending Topics on Twitter. The event will take...
Mun2.0 “vibración positiva y conocimiento”
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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...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, World
Chilean Protest Murals
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On that same SALALM panel titled “Documenting in Times of Adversity, Survival and Hope” my friend Lynn Shirey presented on a newly acquired collection of slides by photographer Andrés Romero...
Americas, Archives, Colombia, Digital, Education, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, Public Libraries, Videos, World
Bicentenario Colombiano, 1810-2010
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Con ganas de celebrar el bicentenario de Colombia aquí recojo información sobre algunos eventos y colecciones que se han organizado en Colombia y virtualmente. ¡A celebrar se dijo! El proyecto...
Americas, Archives, bi/multilingual, Digital, Images, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Maps, National Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Public Libraries, Tools, World
La Grande Bibliothèque
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At the beginning of the month I was in Montreal and got to visit La Grande Bibliothèque! This library is one of the city’s largest public libraries, and the collection...
Jul
11
2010
A couple of cool librarians
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While at ALA I met a couple of very cool librarians, one of which has a blog I have been following for some time now. Here’s a brief description of...
Jul
08
2010
Latest ANSS meeting
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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,...
Colombia Aprende
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Colombia Aprende is an educational site created by the Colombian Ministry of Education which aims at offering access to educational tools to anyone who has access to the web. The...