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: Middle East
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...
… 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...
Nov
27
2009
Digitizing treasures from the National Museum of Iraq
by Bilingual Librarian
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I recently read an article in the Guardian where Google announced they plan to digitize 14,000 items from the National Museum of Iraq. Google explains that this project aims at...
Sep
10
2009
ImHalal
by Bilingual Librarian
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Today the Times Online has a interesting article about ImHalal, a new search engine designed to help Muslims navigate the web without running into potentially “sinful” material. The service was...
Aug
06
2009
Haystack
by Bilingual Librarian
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Just as I was falling asleep last night listening to the BBC, I heard about a very interesting software called Haystack. Basically Haystack is software that was developed by Austin...
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...
Aug
27
2008
Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Bilingual Librarian
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Israel’s Antiquities Authority has begun digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls to make them available to everyone on the web. The project is an effort to preserve the remains of this...