Jun
13
2010
Category: World
Jun
09
2010
RevisteroVirtual.com
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RevisteroVirtual.com is a relatively new site that offers online access to a number of major Colombian magazines. The site, which launched in 2009, offers access to about 30 titles, including...
Jun
09
2010
Arma de Instrucción Masiva
by Bilingual Librarian
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This Argentinean artist, Raul Lemesoff, has transformed an old car into a mobile library. His rolling library named Arma de Instrucción Masiva ( Weapon of Mass Instruction) aims are spreading...
Jun
06
2010
Toronto Public Library
by Bilingual Librarian
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Earlier this week I got to visit the Toronto Public Library. Before arriving there I had seen some beautiful pictures of the main branch and had read that it is...
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...
Apr
29
2010
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...
… Without Borders
by Bilingual Librarian
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It sometimes seems to me that the phrase “Without Borders” has become a franchise; I think the first one was Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Fronteires), but now there are...
Apr
20
2010
Government Requests tool
by Bilingual Librarian
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Google has just announced the launched the Government Request tool. This tools offers people “information about the requests for user data or content removal [Google] receive from government agencies around...
Apr
04
2010
Hispana
by Bilingual Librarian
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Late last month the Spanish Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, announced the release of Hispana: colecciones digitales de archivos, bibliotecas y museos españoles. Hispana aggregates over one million digital items...