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LIbrary of Congress American Memory Project Património Cultural da Humanidade Não só livros, mas também livros. Focus on multi lingualism With annotations With cultural contextualization

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Uma série de apresentações muito interessante, por aocasião do refluxo do movimento de open source. Acho que os slides estavam muito mais giros que os PDF’s, mas enfim. Nem tudo corre bem, e os bibliotecários têm de planear para a contingência de terem de carregar os dados todos pelos professores e investigadores. Como incentivo ao depósito no IR… Read More »

O anúncio definitivo da WLIC07 a decorrer na África do Sul entre 19 e 23 de Agosto de 2007 inclui entre as diversas pré-conferências e encontros satélites um “5th International Meeting of Portuguese Speaking Librarians” a ser organizado pela Biblioteca Nacional de Angola

A Association for Learning Technology vai realizar este ano a sua 13ª conferência internacional Apesar de muitos dos meus professores não entenderem a minha enfatuação por blogs no ensino superior (por blogs em todo o lado, aliás) o programa apresenta 10 sessões e posters com o termo “blog”. Exploring blogs as a collaborative tool for advancing professional development… Read More »

[…] National libraries are in fact rather like dogs: dogs also exhibit an enormous variety, but we somehow recognize them all as dogs. If you wish to take the analogy further, national libraries range from mastiffs to chihuahuas, from sleek thoroughbreds to starving mongrels it is safe to say that there are no greyhounds or pit bull terriers… Read More »

Não pude ir este ano (em cima de exames ) mas a blogosfera permite manter-me a par dos acontecimentos: Eric Lease Morgan’s Top Tech Trends for ALA 2006; “Sum” pontificationshttp://litablog.org/2006/06/18/eric-lease-morgans-top-tech-trends-for-ala-2006-sum-pontifications/ é um posto que apareceu no blog da LITA a que tenho de dar mais atenção assim que passe a época. Os tópicos são: The increasing availability of… Read More »

How often do you hear of librarians who never venture out of the library to meet with users? How many librarians cling to cataloguing and classification but pay little attention to any in-depth indexing, content analysis or abstracting services? How much so called reference work is glorified signposting? Those librarians who undertake the major tasks well are invaluable.… Read More »

[…]broad overview of those imperatives which should inform any consideration of Library and Information Studies (LIS) education. When we design, deliver or even just talk about curriculum, what we mean is a complex integration of the fostering of knowledge, understanding and skills; teaching and learning styles and delivery mechanisms. In addition, at any one time, a curriculum does… Read More »

E o vencedor é: Ann Arbor District Library Web