Tag: Education

Apr 24 2009

Europe, Images, Open Access, Photographs, USA, Videos, Web 2.0, Women, World

Latinas in History

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As the name implies, Latinas in History is about Latinas around the world, and throughout the ages (although with heavy emphasis on the USA); both the stories of individual women,...

Apr 21 2009

Americas, Archives, Professional Development, Spain, World

Library Scholarships for Residents of Certain Spanish Speaking Countries

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I just found out that the Spanish Ministry of Culture is offering scholarships for library and archive professionals from a number of Spanish speaking countries. To apply you must be...

Apr 20 2009

Archives, bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Access, Photographs, Videos, Web 2.0, World

World Digital Library Goes Live

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Today the World Digital Library goes live! The project has been in the works for about 4 years now, and was initially conceived by James Billington of the USA Library...

Apr 01 2009

Open Access, Videos, Web 2.0

YouTube Edu

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YouTube has created a section of their site titled YouTube Edu where they will be gathering videos with educational content, organized by academic institution (and there are a lot of...

Mar 07 2009

Digital, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA, Women

Financial Advice at the Library?

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Financial advice at the public library? Apparently so. As unstable and scary as the financial landscape appears these days all of us seem to be looking for advice where we...

Mar 01 2009

Archives, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, USA, Women

March is Women’s History Month in the USA and a number of universities, libraries, and other educational institutions are preparing events to celebrate. This month long celebration started with events...

Jan 31 2009

Education, World

University of the People

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Shai Reshef, an Israeli entrepreneur is working on bringing education to the masses (as long as you understand English and have an internet connection). Reshef is working on establishing University...

Jan 31 2009

Digital, Europe, Open Access, Technology, USA, Videos

Academic Earth

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I just ran into the site Academic Earth and was fascinated to find entire academic lectures available for free! The site is a collaboration between a number of prestigious American...

Apr 19 2008

Europe, Open Access, Technology, Web 2.0, World

Commonwealth of Learning

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The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is a collaboration, started in 1989, of the 53 Commonwealth head’s of state to promote open and distance learning (ODL), as well as sharing resources...

Dec 21 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OLPC out in the World

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After 5 years of planing and development the “$100 Laptop” is finally making its way out into the real world! One of the first countries where the XO, as it...