A couple of weeks ago IFLA released its latest World Report, and for the first time made it available online in a fully searchable database, including a graphical map interface! You can download the full report, or use the maps to select only the sections you are interested in. One of the maps allows you [...]

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. [...]

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 is part of the Library and National Archives of Québec. I presume that since this region of Canada includes a vibrant separatist movement they feel [...]

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 – NOW! I’ve tried contacting the site, but have received no response.  I suspect this is being done through automated scrapping and not by an actual [...]

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 [...]

I just learned about This Week in Libraries (twil) an online TV series about libraries all over the world! (Does it get any better than this?!) Twil is hosted by Erik Boekestejin and Jaap van de Geer, both from the DOK Library Concept Center in Delft, Netherlands. With each episode the two hosts interview  librarians, [...]

The ALA (American Library Association) just established Choose Privacy Week (May 2 -8), which is part of Privacy Revolution. This new event aims at creating awareness of the digital environment we live in and how to best manage it. Before many of us adopted all the digital tools that help facilitate our work, daily chores, [...]

Google just announced a new tool that will help us search the web in languages other than English. If you use Google search in any of the non-English languages that Google supports you should see a small icon which when clicked on, should pop-up a small keyboard in that language. There is also a poll [...]

A couple days ago Google announced that they have given us yet another tool to help with instant translations. Word Translator is an addition to the Google Toolbar which allows you to hover over a word and get an instant translation. This tool will be most helpful when reading material in a language we already [...]

Late last month the Spanish Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, announced the release of Hispana: colecciones digitales de archivos, bibliotecas y museos españoles. Hispana aggregates over one million digital items from 121 different Spanish institutions, including libraries, museums, archives, as well as private and public organizations. The site also includes a directory of ongoing digitization [...]