Tag: Libraries

Jan 24 2009

Living Library

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Living Library is a project working to breakdown stereotypes and prejudice. The project is based on the simple notion of open dialog and interactions, with the aims that these will...

Jan 09 2009

Archives, Libraries, Manuscripts, USA, World

Rubén Blades’ collection to go to Harvard’s Music Library

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I grew up listening to Rubén Blades, -by far one of my favorite musicians-, and I just found out that he has agreed to donate his personal papers to the...

Nov 05 2008

bi/multilingual, Language, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, USA, World

WorldLinQ

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WorldLinQ is a site created at Queens Public Library which gathers a wide range of useful websites in a variety of different languages. The site offered link to public websites...

Oct 19 2008

Archives, Databases, Digital, Europe, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Spain, World

Spain’s National Library has recently set the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica to highlight some of its most valuable items, including paintings, photographs, maps, and written texts spanning several centuries. The collection can...

Aug 14 2008

Databases, Digital, Europe, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, World

Turning The Pages

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Turning the Pages is a great collection digitized books, at the British Library, that allow you to turn the pages and almost experience the real thing. The works included in...

Jul 12 2008

Archives, Databases, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, USA

Alaska’s Digital Archives

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At ALA I sat in on a great presentation titled Digitizing Indian Country. The first presentation was on Alaska’s Digital Archives. The collection brings together photographs, oral histories, maps, moving images...

Jul 09 2008

bi/multilingual, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, USA, World

Sister Library Initiative

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While at ALA a couple of weeks ago I attended a great lecture on the IRRT Sister Library Initiative, a project spearheaded by Meaghan O’Connor, Simmons College’s Fellow for Dean’s...

Jun 11 2008

Libraries, Open Access, World

Crítica Biliotecológica

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Crítica Biliotecológica (Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Information Sciences Recorded in Documents) is a budding publication from the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo...

May 26 2008

Libraries, Public Libraries, USA, World

Lubuto Library Project

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Lubuto means knowledge, enlightenment and light in the Bemba language, and this is exactly what the Lubuto Library Project is proving vulnerable children throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The project is a...

May 23 2008

Archives, Databases, Digital, Libraries, Technology, World

Digitizing Works from Timbuktu

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The Mali government has begun work to create a library that will house material from Timbuktu‘s golden age. Material consists of works of law, history, poetry, and science, much of...