Category: Technology

Nov 16 2007

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

WorldCat Local

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Not too long ago OCLC rolled out a new OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) of sorts. This new tool known as WorldCat Local offers a three tiered display of cataloged...

Oct 26 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA, Women, World

“Información: Puente Hacia el Bien Social”

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I recently ran across a blog by a Puertorican library student titled “Información: Puente hacia el bien social“. Yesenia Hernández is a student at the University of Puerto Rico, Río...

Oct 18 2007

Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

A World Digital Library is coming together after an agreement signed yesterday between Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information, and James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress...

Oct 09 2007

Europe, Technology, World

Russian schools to adopt Linux

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The Russian government aims to convert all school computers to Linux by 2009. The change is an effort to cut cost from licensing fees. Apparently, since Russian became a member...

Oct 04 2007

Europe, Technology, USA, World

It’s been 50 years since Sputnik

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Today is the 50th anniversary since Sputnik soars the skies, making it the first man-made object to orbit the earth. Created in the tense atmosphere surrounding the cold war, the...

Sep 28 2007

Technology, World

Rural Relations

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Pradeep Lokhande is an India-based entrepreneur who has been helping bring computers into some of the most remote corners of his country while simultaneously bringing information about rural villages to...

Aug 29 2007

Archives, Digital, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, World

Apollo Moon Photographs

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In the 1970’s the various Apollo missions took a number of highly detailed photographs of the moon which have been seen only by a handful of scientist. For three decades...

Aug 23 2007

Europe, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Virtual Graveyards

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While it’s not entirely new to create online memorials for loved ones who have passed away, I’m just starting to realize that there are a number of websites out there...

Jul 31 2007

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

Open Library

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Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single database for all book ever published! This massive...

Jul 25 2007

Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Youtube and the 2008 White House election

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Just a couple of days ago the 2008 USA presidential race took a bit of an different route. Candidates are trying to adjust and make the most of new technologies...