Category: Web 2.0

Mar 06 2013

Americas, Digital, Images, Law, Law Libraries, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Public Libraries, Technology, USA, Videos, Web 2.0

What exactly does the Librarian of Congress do?

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So, what exactly does the Librarian of Congress do? In short, a LOT. Just from this video put together by Washington Notebook, Dr. James H. Billington gives us a great overview of...

Feb 18 2013

Archives, Digital, Europe, Images, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Web 2.0

Interactive Leonardo at the Biblioteca Nacional de España

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The Biblioteca Nacional de España has created “Leonardo Interactivo,” digitizing Leonardo da Vinci’s Madrid Codex I – II, making them available to all of us! The Madrid Codex were discovered...

Oct 11 2011

Americas, Politics, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Google’s Political Trends Spotting

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The official elections may be over a year away, but it’s never too early to start paying attention to the process and looking at the trends. Yesterday Google announced another...

Jul 03 2011

Books, Databases, Language, Libraries, Public Libraries, Web 2.0

13 Things You Pay For That Your Library Has For Free

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A few days ago the SF Gate came up with a list of 13 things we use and pay for on a regular basis that we could be getting for...

Jun 26 2011

Americas, Archives, Books, Digital, Images, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, Social Networks, Technology, Web 2.0

Apps for the New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library is releasing a number of new apps to give you better access to their collection. The apps are designed to do a number of things;...

Jun 09 2011

Searching, Technology, Web 2.0

A Google A Day

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A couple of months ago Google partners with the New York Times to create a daily puzzle called A Google A Day. And for the folks who don’t have a...

Mar 28 2011

Social Networks, Tools, Web 2.0

Facebook Questions

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It seems that everyday one of my facebook friends is requesting advice from the rest of the group. Well Facebook has just made this task a whole lot easier. Facebook...

Feb 03 2011

Images, Open Access, Photographs, Social Networks, Web 2.0, World

RueFind

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I just received an email from Thabo Jakavula who shared this great site called RueFind. The site is a Google map that gathers images and information about interesting sites around the world....

Jan 07 2011

Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

TeachParentsTech.org

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Back in mid December Google released TeachParentsTech.org, a great tool which will help us teach our parents, and really anyone needing some tech support, a little more about computers and...

Jan 04 2011

Africa, Images, Maps, News, Politics, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0, World

The Satellite Sentinel Project hopes to deter the resumption of war between North and South Sudan. The project provides documentation with the hope that exposing the country’s situation will prevent...