Tag: Americas

May 15 2011

Americas, Books, Colombia, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Professional Development, World

24a Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

Last week I was back home for the 24a Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá! I’ve attended this fair before as a kid, but this was my first attendance in...

May 14 2011

Americas, Archives, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Photographs, Public Libraries

Celebrating 100 Years at the NYPL

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

Here are a few items that form part of NYPL’s exhibition Celebrating 100 Years. The exhibit includes items of our last 100 years of history. Aquí hay algunos artículos que forman parte de la...

Apr 13 2011

Americas, Databases, Law, Law Libraries, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Professional Development

Orientation to Legal Research and the Use of Law Library Collections

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

Today I spent the morning at the Law Library of Congress attending their Orientation to Legal Research and the Use of Law Library Collections session. I first learned about this...

Mar 16 2011

Americas, Law Libraries, Libraries, USA

Dog for checkout at Yale Law Library

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

At the end of the month the Yale Law Library will run a three day pilot program allowing students to check out a therapy dog for 30 minutes at a...

Mar 13 2011

Academic Libraries, Americas, Latin America, Law, Law Libraries, Libraries, World

Navegador Jurídico Internacional

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

Navegador Jurídico Internacional es un sitio web creado por el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM que ofrece toda clase de recursos jurídicos sobre México y el resto del...

Feb 23 2011

Americas, Libraries, Public Libraries

“The Language of Conservation”

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

“The Language of Conservation” is a program that hopes to promote awareness of the environment through poetry installations in zoos, and participating public libraries (New Orleans, Milwaukee, Little Rock, Jacksonville,...

Feb 03 2011

Images, Open Access, Photographs, Social Networks, Web 2.0, World

RueFind

by Bilingual Librarian

No Comments

I just received an email from Thabo Jakavula who shared this great site called RueFind. The site is a Google map that gathers images and information about interesting sites around the world....

Jan 28 2011

Databases, Europe, News, Open Access, Tools, World

Newspaper Map

by Bilingual Librarian

3 Comments

I just discovered this cool site that help you find newspapers across the globe! Newspaper Map is very easy to use, and color coordinated to make things easy to find. The different...

Jan 14 2011

Academic Libraries, Americas, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development, World

ENLACE-SALALM LVI

by Bilingual Librarian

1 Comment

SALALM stands for the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials and every year we gather for an amazing conference dealing with all things related to libraries and Latin America....

Dec 09 2010

Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Digital, Education, Law, Libraries, Library Science, Maps, Open Access, Politics, Professional Development, Public Libraries, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

E-Gov: Make It Work @ your library (ALA webinar)

by Bilingual Librarian

1 Comment

This afternoon I attended an ALA webinar about E-Government. The session offered some good sites where we can find government information (local, state, and federal), shared some information about patron...