Tag: Spain
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...
Parque Biblioteca España – Santo Domingo Savio
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Today I spent the day at the Parque Biblioteca España – Santo Domingo Savio. I had read about this library before in the NYT, and was fascinated to see...
Feb
13
2010
Travesía
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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...
Nov
29
2009
Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS)
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The Spanish Ministry of Culture has created the Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS) in order to make the holdings of a number of museum libraries available to the general...
Oct
18
2009
Recommending classics on Radio 5
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RTVE.es is Spain’s Radio and Television Corporation, and between news reports and other stories they also include reviews of the world’s literary classics. Presenter Esther Lorenzo creates brief descriptions of...
Sep
08
2009
Bubisher
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Bubisher is a really heart-warming project that started with a group of students at the Colegio San Marciso who wanted to help promote literacy among refugees in the Sahara. The...
Jun
02
2009
Pregunte: Las Bibliotecas Responden
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The Ministry of Culture and the Autonomous Communities in Spain have joined forces to offer a new online reference system called “Pregunte: Las Bibliotecas Responden” (Ask, The Libraries will Answer)....
Apr
21
2009
Library Scholarships for Residents of Certain Spanish Speaking Countries
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I just found out that the Spanish Ministry of Culture is offering scholarships for library and archive professionals from a number of Spanish speaking countries. To apply you must be...
El Castellano.org
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Sometimes is seems like all my friends are trying to learn or improve their Spanish, which I love, and encourage as much as I can. So here’s a tool that...