Tag: USA

Jun 13 2011

Americas, bi/multilingual, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development, Technology, World

Research Fellow position: Inter-American Development Bank

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The Inter-American Development Bank is offering a fellowship position to work with the Bank’s Institutional Repository. This is a great opportunity for someone who knows about cataloging and taxonomies, and who is bilingual...

May 22 2011

Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, bi/multilingual, Books, Latin America, Libraries, World

La Cocina Histórica

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The University of San Antonio Texas has created a bilingual blog titled La Cocina Histórica, to share recipes from their Mexican, Texan, and Southwestern cookbook collection, which includes items that date back...

May 14 2011

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

Celebrating 100 Years at the NYPL

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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

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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

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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...

Feb 23 2011

Americas, Libraries, Public Libraries

“The Language of Conservation”

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“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,...

Jan 13 2011

Education, Libraries, Technology

“10 Most Impressive Elementary School Libraries in the U.S.”

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Last night I received an email from Julia Watson with the Online Education Database and she shared this list of the 10 Most Impressive Elementary School Libraries in the U.S....

Dec 27 2010

Libraries, Library Science, National Libraries, Professional Development, Tools, USA

Career Assistance Resources Gathered by the LOC

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A couple of months ago the Business Reference Services at the Library of Congress released four pages gathering online resources that will help in the job hunting process. Good luck!...

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)

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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...

Oct 17 2010

Americas, Books, Library \ Book Tourism

Boston Book Festival, 2010

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Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the Boston Book Festival. This is the second year the festival has been organized, and it seems to get bigger every year. While at...