Tag: Americas

Mar 26 2008

Databases, Law, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Change-Congress.org

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Stanford law professor Larry Lessing has come up with a new tool (still in beta) to try and keep the USA government clean and honest. The Change Congress aims to...

Mar 18 2008

Digital, Technology, USA

“Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism”

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Yesterday Wired magazine had an interesting article titled “Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism,” about the effect that the web has had on journalism, and it’s not what I would...

Mar 14 2008

Archives, Manuscripts, World

Guatemala to Open War Archives

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Back in late February Álvaro Colom (official website), Guatemala’s president announced that he would be opening the country’s military archives to the public. The announcement was made in honor of...

Mar 07 2008

Libraries, Public Libraries, World

Parque Biblioteca España

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Medellin‘s neighborhood of Santo Domingo Savio is changing its face thanks to a new library that was inaugurated back in August 2007. The library includes a computer room, daycare center,...

Feb 21 2008

Libraries, World

Libro al Viento

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Nowadays is seems that so many of us spend hours and hours commuting back and forth (and hopefully we are doing this on public transportation). For those of us lucky...

Feb 17 2008

Africa, Colombia, Environment, Europe, Flowers, Latin America, Women, World

Valentine’s other side

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A recent article in the BBC shows how recent violence in Kenya sparked from election disputes has affected the flower industry. Usually Valentines means that workers can expect to work...

Feb 13 2008

Databases, Digital, Law, Libraries, Open Access, USA

Harvard Faculty Embrace Open Access

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Yesterday The Harvard Crimson published an Op-Ed by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, who has set the groundwork to create an Office...

Feb 01 2008

Language, USA

Latino Students in Tucson to be Interpreters

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This morning on NPRs Morning Edition I heard a fascinating story about schools in Tucson that are trying to address both the high rates of Latino student dropout from school,...

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 18 2008

Libraries, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

During ALA Midwinter I attended a Hot Topics Discussion Group titled “Tag You’re It: A revolution in patron-library interaction”. The first presenter was Jennifer Sweda, cataloging librarian at the University...