Category: Open Access

Jul 09 2008

bi/multilingual, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, USA, World

Sister Library Initiative

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While at ALA a couple of weeks ago I attended a great lecture on the IRRT Sister Library Initiative, a project spearheaded by Meaghan O’Connor, Simmons College’s Fellow for Dean’s...

Jul 03 2008

Open Access, Web 2.0

Bibliotheka

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Bibliotheka is a site that gathers digital files of books in Spanish. The collections can be searched by title, author, and subject. Files can also be browsed through larger topical...

Jun 11 2008

Libraries, Open Access, World

Crítica Biliotecológica (Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Information Sciences Recorded in Documents) is a budding publication from the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo...

May 23 2008

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

OCLC Partners with Google Books

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A few days ago OCLC and Google Books created a partnership that will allow uses of both services to benefit, and better locate library material. OCLC member libraries who already...

Apr 27 2008

Databases, Libraries, Open Access, Web 2.0, World

A Wiki for Guatemala’s Libraries

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A couple of library enthusiasts in Guatemala have set out to create a directory of Guatemala’s librarians in wiki format. The project is still quite new and with only a...

Apr 19 2008

Europe, Open Access, Technology, Web 2.0, World

Commonwealth of Learning

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The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is a collaboration, started in 1989, of the 53 Commonwealth head’s of state to promote open and distance learning (ODL), as well as sharing resources...

Apr 15 2008

Digital, Libraries, Open Access, World

Memoria Chilena

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Memoria Chilena is a project under Chile’s DIBAM (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) to help gather book, photographs, music and other works which have helped form national identity. A...

Feb 14 2008

bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, World

Europeana

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The European Digital Library project has been working since September 2006 on creating a portal to gather digital collection from National Libraries around Europe, including Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein,...

Feb 13 2008

Databases, Digital, Law, Libraries, Open Access, USA

Harvard Faculty Embrace Open Access

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Yesterday The Harvard Crimson published an Op-Ed by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, who has set the groundwork to create an Office...

Feb 06 2008

Databases, Manuscripts, Open Access, USA

Stephen J. Gould bequeaths his collection to Stanford

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The late Stephen J. Gould has bequeathed his entire collection to Stanford University, who intends to digitize much of it and create a “hyperlinked” version of it. An article in...