Congress.gov
Congress.gov was launched this Wednesday, offering us a new tool to research USA federal legislation information. The site will eventually replace THOMAS.gov, which after years of service has started showing...
Category: Politics
Google’s Political Trends Spotting
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The official elections may be over a year away, but it’s never too early to start paying attention to the process and looking at the trends. Yesterday Google announced another...
Americas, Archives, Audio, Books, Images, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, Photographs, Politics
The Library of Congress on C-SPAN
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Here’s a great documentary about the Library of Congress which C-SPAN has made available for free! The documentary is an hour and a half and showcases the marvels of the...
Americas, Databases, Law, Law Libraries, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Professional Development
Orientation to Legal Research and the Use of Law Library Collections
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Today I spent the morning at the Law Library of Congress attending their Orientation to Legal Research and the Use of Law Library Collections session. I first learned about this...
Satellite Sentinel Project
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The Satellite Sentinel Project hopes to deter the resumption of war between North and South Sudan. The project provides documentation with the hope that exposing the country’s situation will prevent...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Digital, Education, Law, Libraries, Library Science, Maps, Open Access, Politics, Professional Development, Public Libraries, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0
E-Gov: Make It Work @ your library (ALA webinar)
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This afternoon I attended an ALA webinar about E-Government. The session offered some good sites where we can find government information (local, state, and federal), shared some information about patron...
Americas, Colombia, Education, Latin America, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Politics, Public Libraries, World
Juárez wants to model itself after Medellín
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Here are parts one, two, and three of a news report highlighting the impressive change the city of Medellín, Colombia has had in the last decade or so, and how...
15 Movies Based on Banned Books
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The Huffington Post has a nice collection of 15 famous movies (including clips) based on banned books. The collection has put together in collaboration with the ALA and Banned Books...
Sep
08
2010
Bill Clinton will now start taking questions!
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On September 20th Bill Clinton will be holding the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, and this year he will be taking questions from the general public through Youtube! To participate...
Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Politics, World
Chilean Protest Murals
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On that same SALALM panel titled “Documenting in Times of Adversity, Survival and Hope” my friend Lynn Shirey presented on a newly acquired collection of slides by photographer Andrés Romero...