Tag: bi/multilingual

Jun 13 2011

Americas, bi/multilingual, Latin America, Libraries, Professional Development, Technology, World

Research Fellow position: Inter-American Development Bank

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The Inter-American Development Bank is offering a fellowship position to work with the Bank’s Institutional Repository. This is a great opportunity for someone who knows about cataloging and taxonomies, and who is bilingual...

Jun 11 2011

bi/multilingual, Europe, Language, Libraries, Professional Development, World

Practicing English: Volunteer opportunity wanted

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Eva, an IT Librarian and program coordinator is looking for an opportunity to improve her English. She is currently based in Hungary and wants to volunteer at a library where she can...

May 22 2011

Academic Libraries, Americas, Archives, bi/multilingual, Books, Latin America, Libraries, World

La Cocina Histórica

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The University of San Antonio Texas has created a bilingual blog titled La Cocina Histórica, to share recipes from their Mexican, Texan, and Southwestern cookbook collection, which includes items that date back...

Nov 06 2010

Americas, Archives, Latin America, Manuscripts, Photographs, World

Sitios de Memoria en América Latina

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Sitios de Memoria en América Latina gathers information about human rights across Latin America, which has been produced by the 27 organizations from Latin American countries that make part of...

Sep 26 2010

bi/multilingual, Education, News, Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Finding Dulcinea

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Taking after Don Quijote, Finding Dulcinea is a site that evaluates millions of website and offers you only the best, and most trustworthy ones. The site offers over 300 web...

Sep 15 2010

bi/multilingual, Europe, Libraries, Public Libraries, World

The World’s First Airport Library!

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Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has opened the doors to the world’s first permanent airport library! What a great idea! Airports can often be such boring places, specially when your flight is...

Sep 12 2010

bi/multilingual, Education, Language, Libraries, Professional Development, Public Libraries, Tools, World

Language Learning at the Library

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A couple of days ago my friend Liz called with a work related questions; Her employer wants to offer all the employees at this business the opportunity to improve their...

Jul 19 2010

Americas, Archives, bi/multilingual, Digital, Images, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Maps, National Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Public Libraries, Tools, World

La Grande Bibliothèque

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At the beginning of the month I was in Montreal and got to visit La Grande Bibliothèque! This library is one of the city’s largest public libraries, and the collection...

Apr 29 2010

bi/multilingual, Language, Technology, Tools, World

Virtual Keyboards for Google Searching

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Google just announced a new tool that will help us search the web in languages other than English. If you use Google search in any of the non-English languages that...

Apr 18 2010

bi/multilingual, Tools

Google’s Word Translator

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A couple days ago Google announced that they have given us yet another tool to help with instant translations. Word Translator is an addition to the Google Toolbar which allows...