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Aug 14 2008

Databases, Digital, Europe, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, World

Turning The Pages

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Turning the Pages is a great collection digitized books, at the British Library, that allow you to turn the pages and almost experience the real thing. The works included in...

Jul 25 2008

Digital, Europe, Open Access, Photographs, World

360 Cities

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360 Cities is a great site that allows you to see all 360 degrees of over 50 cities around the world. Well you don’t actually get to see every corner...

Jul 12 2008

Archives, Databases, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, USA

At ALA I sat in on a great presentation titled Digitizing Indian Country. The first presentation was on Alaska’s Digital Archives. The collection brings together photographs, oral histories, maps, moving images...

Jul 09 2008

bi/multilingual, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, USA, World

Sister Library Initiative

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While at ALA a couple of weeks ago I attended a great lecture on the IRRT Sister Library Initiative, a project spearheaded by Meaghan O’Connor, Simmons College’s Fellow for Dean’s...

Jul 03 2008

Open Access, Web 2.0

Bibliotheka

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Bibliotheka is a site that gathers digital files of books in Spanish. The collections can be searched by title, author, and subject. Files can also be browsed through larger topical...

Jun 11 2008

Libraries, Open Access, World

Crítica Biliotecológica

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Crítica Biliotecológica (Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Information Sciences Recorded in Documents) is a budding publication from the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo...

May 30 2008

Technology, World

Updates on the OLPC Project

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The OLPC has reinvented their signature laptop and come out with a new model that looks more like an e-books, is more energy efficient, and will cost only $75. This...

May 26 2008

Libraries, Public Libraries, USA, World

Lubuto Library Project

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Lubuto means knowledge, enlightenment and light in the Bemba language, and this is exactly what the Lubuto Library Project is proving vulnerable children throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The project is a...

May 23 2008

Archives, Databases, Digital, Libraries, Technology, World

Digitizing Works from Timbuktu

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The Mali government has begun work to create a library that will house material from Timbuktu‘s golden age. Material consists of works of law, history, poetry, and science, much of...

May 23 2008

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

OCLC Partners with Google Books

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A few days ago OCLC and Google Books created a partnership that will allow uses of both services to benefit, and better locate library material. OCLC member libraries who already...