Mi Vida Loca is a web based tutorial created by the BBC to help you learn Spanish. The lessons consist mainly of videos that will teach you key phrases for specific situations. The videos include a local host who takes the viewer out. During the duration of the video can turn the subtitles, in English [...]

I’ve seen biblioburros, a camel mobile library, a traveling library in a suitcase, and now here’s a bibliomoto offering library services around the Huarmey province in Peru. The bibliomoto is part of the Biblioteca Comunal Obraje which aims at promoting literacy and increasing a general level of education among the population. The project has a [...]

My friend Alberto found this great video that states a simple, yet profound truth. We librarians, and really everyone, should take advantage of the wealth of information found at the local library, and learn something new every day. It would do wonders for our lives.
Mi amigo Alberto encontró este video que esta genial, de manera [...]

Yesterday the Guardian posted an article about a new database the BBC put together called Wildlife Finder. The site gathers hundreds of video footage, from over 30 BBC programs,of wild animals the world over. Videos are organized by type of animal, habitat, adaptation features, or ecozone.
Each entry also includes the animal’s scientific classification, adaptation information [...]

Here’s a  charming short about libraries and their impact on our daily lifes.
Aquí está un lindo video sobre las bibliotecas y el impacto que tienen en nuestro diario vivir.

LIBRARY from singsfish on Vimeo.

As the name implies, Latinas in History is about Latinas around the world, and throughout the ages (although with heavy emphasis on the USA); both the stories of individual women, as well as the groups they form. The site offers a few essays with a general overview of Latinas in the USA, which helps contextualize [...]