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August 26, 2008
Search engines in webs of librarianship
The social Web technologies enable information resources are shared, since they are based on open applications where interoperability is guaranteed. Users can customize sites and services, according to their needs. For example, are various possibilities to set up specialized search engines in an area or target a specific type of pages. Services such as Rollyo and Swicki or customizable search engines of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo, through its services and Search Monkey BOSS, replacing its Yahoo Search Builder, provide a particular form of consultation on the website of the person or institution that has created this custom search engine, besides enabling the user to choose where he wants the resources to search. Thus, various consulting services that using these technologies, have created search engines specializing in library science, such as Blogs on reports and documents, with half a hundred selected sites, and SeekLIS, which allows simultaneous consultation to a hundred specialized blogs , Both created and Spain. In the international arena, custom vertical search engines are more prominent Libworm, you are looking at 1,500 sources related to library science, information and documentation, Liszen, which interrogates about 750 that allows resources and integrate its search engine to anchor engines Mozilla Firefox, and Librarian's E-Library, which directs his consulting some 300 sites and which also uses the Google API. it comes to search engines to the letter, a solution to personalize our websites, creating search engines that only consult sites and resources that previously have been selected, those sites that most interest to our users and our library.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: August 26, 2008
August 22, 2008
74 World Library and Information Congress
Between 10 and August 14 was held in Quebec (Canada) 74th General Conference and Council of IFLA. The World Congress of library and information professionals meets annually around the world who come together to discuss the agenda and the focus of IFLA, as well as to analyze the situation of libraries in the world, through working groups and meetings of communications. On this occasion, moved to Quebec thirty Spaniards, many of whom are part of different sections and governing bodies of IFLA, the most important international organization librarian. The IFLA Council approved the reform of its statutes, as well as the various programmes of action of its eight divisions, working in more than half a hundred groups. As usual, the record of this Congress are openly available via Web of days, in many cases also translated into Spanish. The next editions will be held in Milan in 2009 and 2010 in Brisbane. It was also adopted in Quebec, that the 2011 congress takes place in Puerto Rico, so that IFLA will jump to Hispanic accent, something that only happened in Barcelona in 1993 and in Buenos Aires in 2004.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Conferences | Published: August 22, 2008
August 11, 2008
Geocultura, the Spanish cultural map
At the end of last July the Ministry of Culture presented Geocultura, a web application based on Google Maps in which are located geographically major cultural institutions in the country, including some 5,000 public libraries, 453 archives, museums and 1420 the 40 property declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco, as well as other cultural organizations. To these are added in successive stages new locations.
The availability of free tools geolocation has opened a new front in the web of possibilities: the launch of simple, free and reusable Google Maps (its API is undoubtedly one of the most reinterpretation) in late 2005 and other similar services has popularized the description of objects in terms of latitude and longitude, which is what is basically the geolocation; sírvannos as examples Flickr, YouTube or Panoramio, which allow geographically locate your photos and videos. Increasingly found at any site for a map showing the location of places, a trend which has joined the Ministry with this initiative.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: August 11, 2008
August 03, 2008
Historical collection of children's literature
The Centre International Book Children and Youth (CILIJ) from the German Foundation Ruipérez Sanchez de Salamanca had joined the catalogue Fund Historic Old images for the covers or covers of the books included in this catalogue. This fund is composed of 1413 titles of children's literature published before 1959. It is available for consultation in the catalogue Special Funds Documentation Centre CILIJ. This catalogue is available historical collection, comprising works of children's literature published before 1959 (Historic Old Fund), edited since 1960 (Modern Historic Fund), as well as compilations of Spanish authors (Library Author).
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: August 03, 2008
