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Sep 20 2007

Yale is returning Inca artifacts

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Yale University has agreed to return most of the Inca artifacts it has housed since Professor Hiram Bingham “rediscovered” Machu Pichu and brought back over 4,000 pieces from the site....

Sep 16 2007

Libraries, USA

Standardized Library Chapel Project

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Recently the Bureau of Prisons decided that material being housed in prison chapel libraries has been inciting more violence and disorder than it was fomenting good will, and has begun...

Sep 13 2007

Databases, Open Access, World

The Red List

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The latest update of the Red List of Endangered species is bringing attention to a number of new animals now threatened with extinction. According to the World Conservation Union, we...

Sep 05 2007

Europe, Women, World

First Woman Beefeater

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Over the weekend London finally broke a tradition that had been running for over 500 years, that of only employing men as Beefeaters at the Tower of London. Moira Cameron...

Aug 29 2007

Archives, Digital, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, World

Apollo Moon Photographs

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In the 1970’s the various Apollo missions took a number of highly detailed photographs of the moon which have been seen only by a handful of scientist. For three decades...

Aug 25 2007

Women, World

Microfinancing and Women

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For some years now more and more initiatives are being created to help out poor women develop industries and help communities pull themselves out of poverty. The main belief behind...

Aug 23 2007

Libraries, USA, World

Book Auction

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Earlier this week I was in NYC to witness the auction of a portion of a collection I helped inventory about two years ago. The collection was pieced together by...

Aug 23 2007

Europe, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Virtual Graveyards

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While it’s not entirely new to create online memorials for loved ones who have passed away, I’m just starting to realize that there are a number of websites out there...

Aug 14 2007

Language, USA

¿Habla Español?

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I just found a really interesting article recounting the experiences of two BBC correspondents who spent two weeks traveling the length of the USA speaking only Spanish. The aim of...

Aug 12 2007

Venezuela, World

A few days ago the Christian Science Monitor had an interesting article about conservation efforts for bufeos, (also known boto, pink dolphins, or fresh water dolphins). Scientist Fernando Trujillo from...