Satellite Sentinel Project
The Satellite Sentinel Project hopes to deter the resumption of war between North and South Sudan. The project provides documentation with the hope that exposing the country’s situation will prevent...
Tag: Images
Dec
16
2010
Body Browser (Google Labs)
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Here is Google’s new Body Browser. This new lab allows has been described as the “Google Earth” for the body. To use this lab you will need a web browser...
Biblioteca Digital Mexicana
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Mexico has recently release the Biblioteca Digital Mexicana, a great digital collection giving us access to documents dating back to Mexico’s precolonial history, independence and revolutionary period. The site offers...
“Circle Library” Chair
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Here’s another take on the circular library, this time in the form of a chair. Designer Thomas Mills. Looks very comfortable. (Here’s the other one.) He aquí otra versión de...
Sitios de Memoria en América Latina
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Sitios de Memoria en América Latina gathers information about human rights across Latin America, which has been produced by the 27 organizations from Latin American countries that make part of...
“Library Desk Made from Recycled Books”
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Here are a few photographs from My Modern Met of a reference desk made out of old books. It’s beautiful! Aquí hay algunas fotos de Mi Modern Met de un...
Yale Silk Road Database
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The Yale Silk Road Database gathers over 6,000 images takes across the Silk Road region by faculty members during site visits between 2006 and 2009. The visits were led by...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, World
Chilean Protest Murals
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On that same SALALM panel titled “Documenting in Times of Adversity, Survival and Hope” my friend Lynn Shirey presented on a newly acquired collection of slides by photographer Andrés Romero...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Open Access, Oral Histories, Photographs, Politics
The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea Exodus
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Last weekend I was attending the annual SALALM conference and heard about a lot of great projects relating to libraries and Latin American. The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon: A Unique Sea...
Americas, Archives, Colombia, Digital, Education, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, Public Libraries, Videos, World
Bicentenario Colombiano, 1810-2010
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Con ganas de celebrar el bicentenario de Colombia aquí recojo información sobre algunos eventos y colecciones que se han organizado en Colombia y virtualmente. ¡A celebrar se dijo! El proyecto...