Category: World

Feb 14 2008

bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, World

Europeana

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The European Digital Library project has been working since September 2006 on creating a portal to gather digital collection from National Libraries around Europe, including Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein,...

Feb 09 2008

Digital, Maps, Technology, World

The Digital Divide

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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has recently published Information Economy Report 2007-2008 which notes that the digital divide is still very much an issue that must...

Jan 25 2008

Archives, Databases, Open Access, USA, World

Memory Archive

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Memory Archive is an online project that is gathering memoirs from everyday people. The site allows you to search for memoirs indexed for particular words (either in the title or...

Jan 24 2008

Archives, Europe, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

The Commons

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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...

Jan 07 2008

Digital, Europe, Technology, USA, World

Opera at the Movie Theater?

by Bilingual Librarian

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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...

Dec 21 2007

Databases, Digital, Europe, Open Access, Technology, USA, World

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

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

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

Europe, Libraries, USA, Women, World

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...

Dec 01 2007

World

World AIDS Day

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World AIDS Day began in 1988 at the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programs for AIDS prevention, today governments, NGOs, international charities and local organization have adopted the...

Nov 25 2007

Women, World

International Day to Stop Violence Against Women

by Bilingual Librarian

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In 1960 the Mirabal sisters were brutally murdered after a long struggle against Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The sisters grew up comfortably on the island, but once Trujillo...