Today I went to visit a couple of the libraries that make up the BiblioRed in Bogota. BiblioRed is Bogota’s public library systems, and it’s composed of a number of large, and small libraries, as well as a bibliobus. Today I went to visit the Biblioteca Pública Parque El Tunal, and the Biblioteca Pública Virgilio [...]

Travesía is a website put together by Spain’s Ministry of Culture’s General Subcommittee on the Coordination of Libraries. Basically the sites aims at promoting collaboration among Spanish librarians, and offers them a space to work together.
Information on the site is divided into three main categories; 1) Documentation that will aid collaboration among Spanish Librarians; 2) [...]

My friend Lena always says she wished she had taken advantage of my fluency in Spanish to learn the language while we were roommates, since as a doctor in the USA she is constantly running into patience who have a hard time explaining their medical needs in English. Well I may not be in the [...]

Mi Vida Loca is a web based tutorial created by the BBC to help you learn Spanish. The lessons consist mainly of videos that will teach you key phrases for specific situations. The videos include a local host who takes the viewer out. During the duration of the video can turn the subtitles, in English [...]

Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City is looking for a new librarian. Job duties will includes  descriptive cataloging, Dewey Decimal System classification, collection development, and reference.  The successful candidate must be fluent in both English and Spanish.
El Colegio de Mexico is one of Mexico’s leading universities. The school includes one of the best libraries in [...]

I just received an email with a call for simultaneous interpreters – English/Arabic to translate at IFLA’s annual conference, which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 10 – 15, 2010. The title for the upcoming conference is “Open access to knowledge – promoting sustainable progress.”
Here is the description for the position.
As the IFLA Center [...]

IFLA has just launched “Sister Libraries for Children’s and Young Adult’s Reading,” a new project to bring together libraries and librarians focused on children and young adults in order to share ideas, experiences, collaborate and develop joint programs.
The project is open to a variety of participants, including public libraries, school libraries, and organizations working with [...]

The European Library portal can help you search the online catalogs to all the major libraries in the European Union. The project originates from the TEL-project which was set up as a cooperative framework that would facilitate access to all the major national and deposit collection from Europe’s national libraries. The European Library is [...]

The MLA created a database that maps out languages in the USA with information originating from the 2000 census. The site allows you to “build” maps according to language and which reflect information of the entire country, or each individual state. You can chart out information on these maps by percentages, counties, or zip code [...]

Here are a few free online services that can spell check your documents.
I tried a couple of these and I like Jspell spell checker, and Orangoo the best. Using it requires simple cutting and pasting of the text, and best of all, both can spell check in multiple languages! Orangoo has the added benefit of [...]