11 Most Impressive Libraries from the Ancient World
The folks at Online College put together a nice list on librarians from ancient world. The list includes a brief description of each library and a link to an external...
Tag: Africa
RueFind
by Bilingual Librarian
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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....
Newspaper Map
by Bilingual Librarian
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I just discovered this cool site that help you find newspapers across the globe! Newspaper Map is very easy to use, and color coordinated to make things easy to find. The different...
Satellite Sentinel Project
by Bilingual Librarian
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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...
World Music on Radio 3
by Bilingual Librarian
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A few months ago the BBC launched a new archive of world music. During the ten years that Radio 3 has been on the air the program has been visiting...
… Without Borders
by Bilingual Librarian
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It sometimes seems to me that the phrase “Without Borders” has become a franchise; I think the first one was Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Fronteires), but now there are...
Sep
16
2009
Connectivity Across The African Continent
by Bilingual Librarian
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The BBC has had a number of interesting, and at times conflicting articles about connectivity across the African continent. The first article that caught my eye was one about a...
Sep
08
2009
Bubisher
by Bilingual Librarian
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Bubisher is a really heart-warming project that started with a group of students at the Colegio San Marciso who wanted to help promote literacy among refugees in the Sahara. The...
Apr
20
2009
Archives, bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Access, Photographs, Videos, Web 2.0, World
World Digital Library Goes Live
by Bilingual Librarian
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Today the World Digital Library goes live! The project has been in the works for about 4 years now, and was initially conceived by James Billington of the USA Library...
Jul
25
2008
360 Cities
by Bilingual Librarian
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360 Cities is a great site that allows you to see all 360 degrees of over 50 cities around the world. Well you don’t actually get to see every corner...