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: Asia
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...
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...
Engineering videos now on Youtube
by Bilingual Librarian
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The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and IITs, two of India’s premier engineering schools, are now offering close to 5,000 technical lecture videos and web-based courses targeting science and engineering...
Yale Silk Road Database
by Bilingual Librarian
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The Yale Silk Road Database gathers over 6,000 images takes across the Silk Road region by faculty members during site visits between 2006 and 2009. The visits were led by...
… 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...
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...
Apr
19
2008
Commonwealth of Learning
by Bilingual Librarian
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The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is a collaboration, started in 1989, of the 53 Commonwealth head’s of state to promote open and distance learning (ODL), as well as sharing resources...