The Yale Silk Road Database gathers over 6,000 images takes across the Silk Road region by faculty members during site visits between 2006 and 2009. The visits were led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) with the help of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. The collection will be of [...]

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 elegant websites which showcase their publications, classes, blog entries, biography, calendar of events, and many other items. Here is the test example from the video. [...]

Mun2.0 “Vibración Positiva y Conocimiento” is a brand new radio program dedicated to the world of information and its management. The program is created and hosted by a group of library science students and professionals from La Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. The first program aired last Monday, beginning with a broad background discussion on [...]

Con ganas de celebrar el bicentenario de Colombia aquí recojo información sobre algunos eventos y colecciones que se han organizado en Colombia y virtualmente. ¡A celebrar se dijo! El proyecto Libro al Viento se ha asociado con la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (BLAA) para traer varias biografías sobre los grandes de Colombia al público en [...]

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 these great woman and their projects. Hannah Winkler is the woman behind the Global Librarianship blog. I’ve had this blog on my RSS feed for [...]

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 my friend Cindy on the bus and she told me about ALA’s Unconference. I’d never heard about this before, but apparently this was it’s second [...]

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 site has been up and running for 6 years, and by now gathers over 20,000 resources, and has over a million visitors every month. Information [...]

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It sometimes seems to me that the phrase “Without Borders” has become a franchise; I think the first one was Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Fronteires), but now there are a whole bunch of them. Libraries Without Borders are affiliated with the French based Bibliothèques Sans Frontières and they supports “education in developing and disaster [...]

Yesterday the Berkman Center and eIFL announced the launch of Copyright for Librarians. This handy wiki aims at offering librarians a great reference tool for all things related to copyright and the law. The wiki is divided into nine different modules, each covering a specific aspect of copyright. The modules are design for use in [...]