Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso by Gustavo Bolivar Moreno My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a piece of fiction that weaves together a lot of Colombia’s recent history relating to the drug war. The story follows a young girl along her struggle to become physically “beautiful” in order to gain the attention and [...]

Archivo Chile is a site that gathers information in all formats primarily about Chile’s social/popular movements, and secondarily about Latin America. The site also emphases human rights, and leftist politics. The site is rather cumbersome to navigate, but full of interesting material. You can find documents on Salvador Allende, Gabriela Mistral, Violeta Parra, and Miguel [...]

openDemocracy is a one stop site for news with a Human Rights and pro-Democracy slant. The site is owned by the openDemocracy Foundation for the Advancement of Global Education which promotes education and the understanding of democracy. The site is divided into 6 main categories: 50.50, openEconomy, openIndia, Our Kingdom, Russia, and Terrorism and Security. [...]

Recently the Vanderbilt library has digitized and made available a portion of their material on Colombia, specializing in 19th century culture and history, titled The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana. Currently the collection is divided into three main categories; broadsides, 1825-1972; pamphlets (including novenas), 1785-1969; and programas, 1819-1914. The site also allows for easy [...]

My friend Lynn found this and it brought a huge smile to my face! This great description of librarians comes from Erica Firment’s blog Librarian Avengers. Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about who librarians are and what they do. Many people think of librarians as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about “Sssh-ing” [...]

Those folks at MIT really are crafty; look at the amazing pop up book a student there created. Each page opens up to a different scene which included lights, and in a couple of cases sound and vibrations when a battery is added. The video also explains some of the technical tricks used to achieve [...]

The Alliance Library System and TAP Information Services will be hosting a Library and Information Science online career fair January 12th, 2010. The day long event will include a number of keynote speakers, including Rachel Singer Gordon, webmaster of LISjobs.com, with a talk titled “Career Building in a Down Economy.” There will also be some [...]

RTVE.es is Spain’s Radio and Television Corporation, and between news reports and other stories they also include reviews of the world’s literary classics. Presenter Esther Lorenzo creates brief descriptions of the story, gives some historical background, gives a little description of the specific edition she read, and encourages the listener to read the classics. Currently [...]

Boston’s Chinatown used to have a public library, but this library has had its ups and downs. It opened in 1896, closed in 1936, reopened in 1951, and closed again in 1956. After this there was a bookmobile that attempted to fill the void, but this didn’t last too long. For several years now there [...]

The British Library is constantly coming up with new great projects to make their collections accessible to all; In the latest, Archival Sound Recordings, they have digitized all of their audio collections and made them available to the world. The full collection gathers about 28,000 items which include recordings of singing, yelling, speaking, banging, and [...]