Tag: USA

Sep 25 2009

Americas, Latin America, Libraries, National Libraries, USA, World

Latino StoryCorps – Historias

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Yesterday was the official launch of “StoryCorps Historias“, the Latino version of StoryCorps, the project that gathers personal stories in audio format. Since 2003 the independent and nonprofit project has...

Sep 04 2009

Academic Libraries, Americas, Databases, Education, Law, Libraries, Open Access, USA

DASH – Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

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DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) has just been released in Beta. The repository is the product of a university initiative to fully participate in the Open Access movement...

Aug 28 2009

Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Source, Tagging, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

Labeling Library Archives at Dartmouth College

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With some financial help from the National Endowment for the Humanities, digital-humanities professor Mary Flanagan is developing a game that will help add tags to some of Dartmouth College’s archival...

Aug 27 2009

Americas, Books, Censorship, Libraries, Maps

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009

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My friend Lars just found this great map that plots all the challenges against books that took place in the USA between 2007 and 2009. Information to create this map...

Aug 25 2009

Americas, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Public Libraries, USA, World

Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín

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The Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is a non-profit organization that works to promote a variety of projects that aim at raising awareness about the need to preserve the...

Aug 19 2009

Americas, Archives, Open Access, Politics

Government Attic

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Government Attic is a site that collects hundreds of government documents that have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. The site divides its content into “FOIA Logs” and...

Jun 25 2009

Maps, Tools

Google City Tours

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Google just released yet another cool tool, Google City Tours. This time they are going to help you travel, and make sure you see all the important sights at handful of...

May 26 2009

Politics, Technology

Data.gov

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The current USA administrations is keeping its word of making more information available to everyone. Today, 120 into the new administration the site Data.gov has been launched. This new site...

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,...

Feb 16 2009

Law, USA, World

GlobaLex

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GlobaLex is a site maintained by the Hauser Global Law School Program, of New York University’s School of Law, which gathers a large amount of useful information on foreign law....