The World’s First Airport Library!
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...
Tag: Europe
A Library in a Pub
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Take a look at this nice video about a pub in Yorkshire Dales, UK, which has begun offering library services! What a clever idea. The folks behind this clever project...
Jul
11
2010
A couple of cool librarians
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While at ALA I met a couple of very cool librarians, one of which has a blog I have been following for some time now. Here’s a brief description of...
May
06
2010
Europe, Libraries, Professional Development, Social Networks, Technology, Tools, Videos, Web 2.0, World
This Week in Libraries
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I just learned about This Week in Libraries (twil) an online TV series about libraries all over the world! (Does it get any better than this?!) Twil is hosted by...
… Without Borders
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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
04
2010
Hispana
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Late last month the Spanish Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, announced the release of Hispana: colecciones digitales de archivos, bibliotecas y museos españoles. Hispana aggregates over one million digital items...
Feb
12
2010
Database of Bookbindings
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The British Library is always up to something interesting; I just discovered their Database of Bookbindings. This is an entire online collection dedicated to the bindings of books held by...
Nov
29
2009
Little library in a phone booth
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Take a look at the UK’s smallest library! The resourceful folks from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset converted an old phone booth that was out of use into a small lending library...
Nov
29
2009
Stendhal goes online
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The Stendhal University of Grenoble has joined forces with the city’s public library to create the digital collection Les Manuscrits de Stendhal. The site includes Stendhal‘s personal correspondence, as well...