Tag: USA

Nov 05 2008

bi/multilingual, Language, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, USA, World

WorldLinQ

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WorldLinQ is a site created at Queens Public Library which gathers a wide range of useful websites in a variety of different languages. The site offered link to public websites...

Apr 14 2008

Libraries, National Libraries, USA, Venezuela, World

National Library of Venezuela to Fight Cultural Imperialism

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Based on the belief that American popular culture is shaping a new global environment which each day looks more hegemonic, the National Library of Venezuela has decided to fight back....

Mar 28 2008

Archives, Databases, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Earlier this week Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration offered a new Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The actual memorial consist of two large granite walls inscribed with the...

Jul 31 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Open Library

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Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single database for all book ever published! This massive...

Jul 25 2007

Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Youtube and the 2008 White House election

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Just a couple of days ago the 2008 USA presidential race took a bit of an different route. Candidates are trying to adjust and make the most of new technologies...

May 17 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA, World

Room to Read

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Room to Read is an amazing nonprofit organization founded by John Wood, a former executive at Microsoft who had his life flipped upside down after traveling to Nepal. On this...

May 11 2007

Databases, Digital, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Encyclopedia of Life

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Later this year the project to create an Encyclopedia of Life will pick up speed for this ambitious project. The encyclopedia was first proposed by scientist E.O. Wilson who wished...

Apr 28 2007

Digital, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Semacodes

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A Semacode is a machine-readable, Data Matrix symbol which encodes URLs; basically it’s a barcode for web locations. The idea is to create one of these labels which looks like...

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 22 2007

USA, World

Earth Day

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In the USA Earth day sprung out of the growing environmental awareness of the 1960, which among other things led to Congress passing the Wilderness Act, and Rachel Carson‘s Silent...