The Red de Bibliotecas will provide you with all the information you may need about the network of libraries in the Medellín area. The main page regularly posts related stories, news updates, and other relevant items. Along the left hand side you can find links that will give you a better idea of the services [...]

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 collections. Flanagan expects that students will be interested in the game which presents a player with an image for which they have to create “labels” [...]

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 was taken from statistics gathered from ALA documentation and the Right to Read Project. You can click on each pin to get a brief description [...]

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 city’s public services and environmental resources. Some of the programs they work on are an interactive museum focused on science and technology; a series of [...]

Wiki Acceso Abierto is an initiative that was born out of the listserve Lista Latinoamericana sobre Acceso Abierto y Repositorios, and works with support from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. The wiki’s aim is to bring together information on Open Access projects from the Spanish Speaking world. Right now the wiki is very much in [...]

Microsoft’s “search engine” Bing has been widely advertised lately and seems to be attracting a decent amount of attention. If you’d like to compare it to Google and see which of the two provides you with better search results try one (or all) of the following massups. For the basic web searches I ran, both [...]

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 “Documents” for easier browsing, but there is also a search box you can use. The logs will give you a lot of documentation showing the [...]

I’ve just been trying out Wolfram|Alpha, released this past March, to see how it works.  The site looks more like an online encyclopedia than a search engine, since their results will provide you only with a variety of objective facts on the topic you searched, leaving out all the usual junk that would generally come [...]

Razones de vida by Vera Grabe My rating: 5 of 5 stars I looked up this book because I was curious to read the story of one of Colombia’s guerilla groups (The M-19) from their point of view. Vera Grabe‘s story is similar to that of many other guerrilla fighters, they want to believe that [...]

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England’s Tragic Queen by Joanna Denny My rating: 3 of 5 stars In this book Denny sets out to “correct” the negative impression history has left on Anne Boleyn, but unfortunatly she goes to the opposite extreme painting Boleyn as a passive victim to Henry VIII and history. The [...]