OpenScholar is a new framework developed at Harvard that will allow scholars to build and maintain high quality websites. The idea is to allow academics to easily create useful, and elegant websites which showcase their publications, classes, blog entries, biography, calendar of events, and many other items. Here is the test example from the video. [...]

Tomorrow a group of librarians and library enthusiast from around the world will try to make the hashtag #biblioteca one of the Trending Topics on Twitter. The event will take place August 10, 2010 and will last an hour (10-11am EST). This experiment was conducted exactly a year ago, and they almost achieve their goal, [...]

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 Erik Boekestejin and Jaap van de Geer, both from the DOK Library Concept Center in Delft, Netherlands. With each episode the two hosts interview  librarians, [...]

The ALA (American Library Association) just established Choose Privacy Week (May 2 -8), which is part of Privacy Revolution. This new event aims at creating awareness of the digital environment we live in and how to best manage it. Before many of us adopted all the digital tools that help facilitate our work, daily chores, [...]

Boston Public Library (BPL) branches  are on the cutting board; sad but true. The first USA city to offer its residents the service of public libraries is now planning on cutting 15 out of the 26 branch libraries. Sadly, Amy E. Ryan, the BPL’s director, and Mayor Menino are all for this idea. Both have [...]

Jeff Howe has a large following on Twitter  – @crowdsourcing – and is trying to get as many people as possible to read the same book and discuss it. Sounds like a great social experiment. Right now the top choice for the book is Fahrenheit  451. To get the full details of this project read [...]

It’s been almost fifty years since the Peace Corps first started sending volunteers around the world to help in a variety of projects. To commemorate this history and anticipating many new adventures to come, the Peace Corps has created a digital library which encourages current and past volunteers to submit photographs and stories of their [...]

RedEsColombia is an online platform that offers a space where Colombians around the world, and everyone one else interested in the country can interact, and share ideas. Ultimately the network hopes that these interactions will help bring about new ideas, and development for the country. You do have to register to get the full benefit [...]

For the 20th anniversary after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Guardian has gathered a number of online projects reflecting its history and present. Para el 20 º aniversario de la caída del Muro de Berlín, The Guardian ha reunido una serie de proyectos en línea que refleja su historia y presente. Videos  documenting [...]

Yesterday I got an email announcing the beginning of La Cuña, an online forum dedicated to librarianship for and about Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula. The forum wants to gather Latinoamericanist who wish to exchange information on collection development, reference, instruction or any other issue that may come up. I hope people from around [...]