Category: USA
Jan
07
2008
Opera at the Movie Theater?
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Yes! You can enjoy the opera at the movie theater! Last season Peter Gelb, director of the Metropolitan Opera began this amazing project of doing live broadcast to a number...
Government Documents at the BPL to be Digitized
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The Boston Public Library (BPL) has joined forces with PublicResource.org and the Internet Archive in order to begin digitizing the library’s large collection of government documents. This project has first...
Dec
21
2007
Million Book Project
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As the year comes to an end the Million Book Project has reached its goal of scanning and making freely available a million books! This project is spearheaded by the...
Dec
21
2007
OLPC out in the World
by Bilingual Librarian
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After 5 years of planing and development the “$100 Laptop” is finally making its way out into the real world! One of the first countries where the XO, as it...
Dec
10
2007
December 10
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December 10 seems to be a date that gathers many great events. Today is International Human Rights Day. This year the UN is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration...
Nov
30
2007
“Public Libraries for Profit”
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Akito Yoshikane recently wrote the article titled “Public Libraries for Profit” commenting on a developing trend to privatize public libraries around the country. Yoshikane explain that a number of counties...
Nov
21
2007
Amazon.com’s Kindle
by Bilingual Librarian
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Amazon.com just launched a new electronic reader called Kindle. This new device is said to hold as many as 200 books and weights only 10.3 onces. Its screen seems to...
Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, 2007
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This weekend I attended the 31st. Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. I heard about this event after a visit to the John Carter Brown Library and decided to check it...
Nov
16
2007
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...