The Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is a non-profit organization that works to promote a variety of projects that aim at raising awareness about the need to preserve the city’s public services and environmental resources. Some of the programs they work on are an interactive museum focused on science and technology; a series of [...]

My friend Samira just showed me this blog entry from Shoestring Venture, which although quite sarcastic, absolutely hits the nail on the head. They argue that universities are overpaying for journal articles which vendor are getting, essentially for free. To quote them; The scheme worked like this: [vendors]  charge incredibly high prices for a journal [...]

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak together sitting at a picnic table April 9, 2009, on the South Lawn of the White House. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. El presidente Barack Obama y la Secretaria de Estado Hillary Rodham Clinton hablan, mientras sentado en una mesa de picnic [...]

As the name implies, Latinas in History is about Latinas around the world, and throughout the ages (although with heavy emphasis on the USA); both the stories of individual women, as well as the groups they form. The site offers a few essays with a general overview of Latinas in the USA, which helps contextualize [...]

The Library of Congress (LOC) just set up a YouTube account where they will be sharing a number of the treasured they hold. They currently have over 70 videos uploaded, but they promise to regularly continue adding more material. Right now they have their videos organized in a number of playlists; author presentations, industrial films, [...]

Today both the Guardian and the New York Times had articles about the hard times public libraries are facing because of the economic downturn. The article in the Guardian explained that public libraries in the UK are facing budget cuts, on top of years of inadequate funding, and less than steller attention from local politicians. [...]

This picture has been doing the round through email and I just had to share it. I LOVE that we have a president now who has brought back intelligence as a cool thing. How did we ever get through eight years with a guy who was proud of being a C student? And who would [...]

The Chicano Studies Center at UCLA has uploaded over 41,000 songs to an online repository titled Musica de la Frontera. A number of these songs date back as early as 1900, and cover a wide range of musical genres, including Tejano, Chicano and Mexican American. Full access to the archive is only available to UCLA [...]

I just read about a call for help to assist in the saving of hundreds of years worth of information on birds’ migrating patters. The North American Bird Phenology Program has 6 million note cards, dating back to the 1880s sitting in a Basement in Virginia, which they need help converting into digital files. There’s [...]

Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club is a partnership between Las Comadres, Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Borders to promote the reading of Latino writers. The group meets once a month in a selected venue (usually a Borders book store) to discuss the previously selected book. Discussions are conducted in English as [...]