García Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
This week García Márquez has a lot to celebrate. 2007 marks the 40th anniversary since his famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude was first published; it also marks the...
Mar
27
2007
GPL – General Public License
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InformationWeek for Mach 19, 2007 had an interesting article titled “What Will Drive Open Source?” by Charles Babcock, which discussed the controversy that has been created with the proposal of...
Mar
23
2007
World Water Day
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In 1992 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution making March 22 World Water Day; This year’s theme is “Copying with Scarcity”. When thinking about water, a number of complex...
Mar
22
2007
Remittances
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A couple of days ago, the UK’s Guardian published a story about record breaking remittances going to Latin America. The high numbers involved shouldn’t really come as a surprise to...
Mar
20
2007
Open Source and Education
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I was just reading “The Case for Open Source: Open Source has Made Significant Leaps in Recent Years. What does it have to Offer Education?” by Miguel Guhlin, in Technology...
Mar
18
2007
Primo®
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There is a good amount of discussion in the library world that revolve around how and if we want to make library services more like Google or Amazon.com. The belief...
Mar
17
2007
English Only
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I just read an article about proposed legislation making English the official language in Oklahoma, and how American Indians are opposing this move. American Indians point out that their languages...
Mar
16
2007
Complicated Flowers
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Valentines Day and Mother’s Day are the biggest days of the year for flower sales around the globe, but do you know how those flowers come to you? It’s not...
Mar
16
2007
PLALA – Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives
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This week I got to meet Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for collection development, and what a treat it was! I was most interested in learning about his...
Mar
12
2007
OpenCourseWare
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I’m still not over my fascination with open source, so here is more on the subject… I just learned about the OpenCourseWare which “is a free and open digital publication...