Author: Bilingual Librarian

Jul 19 2010

Americas, Archives, bi/multilingual, Digital, Images, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Maps, National Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Public Libraries, Tools, World

La Grande Bibliothèque

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At the beginning of the month I was in Montreal and got to visit La Grande Bibliothèque! This library is one of the city’s largest public libraries, and the collection...

Jul 11 2010

Americas, Education, Europe, Libraries, Literacy, Mobile Library, Women, World

A couple of cool librarians

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While at ALA I met a couple of very cool librarians, one of which has a blog I have been following for some time now. Here’s a brief description of...

Jul 08 2010

Academic Libraries, Libraries, Professional Development, World

Latest ANSS meeting

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I’ve recently become a member of the ANSS (Anthropology and Social Sciences) committee on Subject and Bibliographic Access (previous post on the group), and at our meeting while at ALA,...

Jul 01 2010

Libraries, Technology, Tools

Trying to Prevent Scrapping/Plagiarism

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A few weeks ago I noticed another blog (Alabama Library Expo) has been scrapping content off my blog and adding it to theirs and I’d like it to stop –...

Jul 01 2010

Americas, Libraries, Public Libraries

“Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?”

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Can Fox News really be this detached from reality? Apparently so. Here’s the headline to one of their recent stories; “Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?” The...

Jun 25 2010

Americas, Education, Libraries, Professional Development

Unconference at ALA

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I’m in DC for the ALA annual conference, before I had even arrived in DC proper, I was already learning about interesting stuff going on. This morning I ran into...

Jun 23 2010

Books, Images

“The Most WTF Cookbooks Of All Time”

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The Huffington Post just came out with a great picture collection of the most WTF cookbooks! They are hilarious! Visit their posting for the complete collection. ¡El Huffington Post acaba...

Jun 20 2010

Books, Images

Beautiful Book Art

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I know this will be rather blasphemous to a number of book lovers, but oh well, here are some beautiful pieces of art made out of books. Sé que esto...

Jun 13 2010

Americas, Colombia, Education, Tools, World

Colombia Aprende

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Colombia Aprende is an educational site created by the Colombian Ministry of Education which aims at offering access to educational tools to anyone who has access to the web. The...

Jun 13 2010

Education, Videos, World

Great Video on Plagiarism

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