Tag: Politics

Mar 30 2009

Images, Law, Libraries, Photographs, USA

Obama at the Library

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This picture has been doing the round through email and I just had to share it. I LOVE that we have a president now who has brought back intelligence as...

Jan 24 2009

Europe, Libraries, World

Living Library

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Living Library is a project working to breakdown stereotypes and prejudice. The project is based on the simple notion of open dialog and interactions, with the aims that these will...

Jan 09 2009

Archives, Libraries, Manuscripts, USA, World

Rubén Blades’ collection to go to Harvard’s Music Library

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I grew up listening to Rubén Blades, -by far one of my favorite musicians-, and I just found out that he has agreed to donate his personal papers to the...

Apr 05 2008

Databases, World

“Abortion” Taken Out of Publicly Funded Database

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In the last couple of days it has come to light that the term “abortion” had been taken out of Popline, a publicly funded health database managed by John Hopkins...

Mar 26 2008

Databases, Law, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Change-Congress.org

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Stanford law professor Larry Lessing has come up with a new tool (still in beta) to try and keep the USA government clean and honest. The Change Congress aims to...

Mar 14 2008

Archives, Manuscripts, World

Guatemala to Open War Archives

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Back in late February Álvaro Colom (official website), Guatemala’s president announced that he would be opening the country’s military archives to the public. The announcement was made in honor of...

Jan 06 2008

Archives, Digital, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA

Government Documents at the BPL to be Digitized

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The Boston Public Library (BPL) has joined forces with PublicResource.org and the Internet Archive in order to begin digitizing the library’s large collection of government documents. This project has first...

May 23 2007

USA

Congressional Food Stamp Challenge

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Between May 15 and May 21 members of the USA congress were challenged to eat only what they could afford on about $3 a day which is the average food...

Apr 25 2007

USA, World

“You Are What You Grow”

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Today, Michael Pollan (author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Botany of Desire”) had a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine about how the agribusiness is who determines...

Apr 25 2007

Women, World

Mexico City Legalizes Abortion

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Mexico seems to be paving the way for social reforms in Latin America. In January the country legalized same sex civil unions, and today they have legalized abortion in the...