Tag: Web 2.0

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)

by Bilingual Librarian

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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...

Nov 09 2010

Education, Europe, Libraries, Professional Development, Web 2.0, World

Cycling for libraries

by Bilingual Librarian

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If you are ready for a great vacation/networking opportunity here’s your chance – Cycling for libraries! Kai, a library teacher in Tampere, Finland is organizing a cycling trip between Copenhagen...

Oct 11 2010

Libraries, Open Access, Professional Development, Social Networks, Tools, Web 2.0, World

Help A Librarian

by Bilingual Librarian

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Earlier today I got a Facebook friend request from Heather Durkin Negley and discovered a great project she set up. Help A Librarian is an online tool that helps librarians...

Oct 09 2010

Social Networks, Videos, Web 2.0, World

One Day On Earth, 10.10.10.

by Bilingual Librarian

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One Day On Earth wants to capture a slice of our humanity across the globe. Tomorrow, 10.10.10, we are invited to film event in our lives that move us with...

Oct 03 2010

Books, Europe, Videos, Web 2.0, World

El Quijote en Youtube

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¡El Quijote ha llegado a Youtube! La Real Academia Española recién lanza una invitación para que todos participemos en una lectora colectiva del famoso Quijote de la Mancha. La Academia...

Sep 26 2010

bi/multilingual, Education, News, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Finding Dulcinea

by Bilingual Librarian

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Taking after Don Quijote, Finding Dulcinea is a site that evaluates millions of website and offers you only the best, and most trustworthy ones. The site offers over 300 web...

Sep 19 2010

Education, Open Access, Professional Development, Tools, Web 2.0

OnlineCourses.net

by Bilingual Librarian

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A few days ago I received an email from someone at SR Education Group showing me a site they have put together on free online courses. I’d never heard of...

Aug 15 2010

Digital, Education, Open Source, Professional Development, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

OpenScholar

by Bilingual Librarian

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OpenScholar is a new framework developed at Harvard that will allow scholars to build and maintain high quality websites. The idea is to allow academics to easily create useful, and...

Aug 09 2010

Libraries, Social Networks, Tagging, Web 2.0, World

Adding the hashtag #biblioteca

by Bilingual Librarian

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Tomorrow a group of librarians and library enthusiast from around the world will try to make the hashtag #biblioteca one of the Trending Topics on Twitter. The event will take...

May 06 2010

Europe, Libraries, Professional Development, Social Networks, Technology, Tools, Videos, Web 2.0, World

This Week in Libraries

by Bilingual Librarian

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I just learned about This Week in Libraries (twil) an online TV series about libraries all over the world! (Does it get any better than this?!) Twil is hosted by...