Today I spent the day at the Library of Congress and loved it. I was there with my mother and brother and we took one of the guided tours of the building. This tour starts off with a short movie including a number of brief interviews with some of the librarians who highlight many of [...]

My friend Elissa just sent me the link to this great Christmas tree. The display was put together at the William H. Hannon Library, at the Loyola Marymount campus. Enjoy!
Mi amiga Elisa me acaba de enviar el vínculo a un árbol de Navidad. El árbol se armo en la Biblioteca William H. Hannon de la [...]

My friend found this article and started a great conversation. The article explains the story of two women (Sharon Cook, and Beth Boisvert) who work at a public library in Jessamine County, Kentucky, who decided what material was “appropriate” for young patrons, and went so far as to remove a book from the collection so [...]

The poet Amy Lowell passed away in 1925, leaving behind a trust fund that once a year sponsors a USA-born poet to travel as much as they wish outside the North American continent. The scholarships favors poets with “progressive tendencies”, who shall commit to present at least three poems upon their return to North America.
Here’s an interview conducted [...]

Need help finding something interesting to do? Well Goby could help you. It offers you three search boxes where you can input information about the type of activity you would like to do, location, and time. Hit search, and there you go, lots of options! When you click on the individual results you will be [...]

Those folks at MIT really are crafty; look at the amazing pop up book a student there created. Each page opens up to a different scene which included lights, and in a couple of cases sound and vibrations when a battery is added. The video also explains some of the technical tricks used to achieve [...]

The Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups bring together professional librarians in the early years of their career to develop skills that will help continue their professional development. The program will provide participants with skills in leadership, organizational behavior, and grant writing. The program will also help participants network with previous [...]

Yesterday was the official launch of “StoryCorps Historias“, the Latino version of StoryCorps, the project that gathers personal stories in audio format. Since 2003 the independent and nonprofit project has gathered thousands of interviews, often in conversation format between two people. These interviews are then available though public radio stations and online. These oral histories [...]

DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) has just been released in Beta. The repository is the product of a university initiative to fully participate in the Open Access movement by making available faculty publications to the world.
This project establishes that publications by Harvard faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Law [...]

With some financial help from the National Endowment for the Humanities, digital-humanities professor Mary Flanagan is developing a game that will help add tags to some of Dartmouth College’s archival collections. Flanagan expects that students will be interested in the game which presents a player with an image for which they have to create “labels” [...]