Free Burma
Hopefully Burma’s military junta will soon surrender to the demands of ordinary burmanese people and the countries munks. For the last decade and a half the junta have stood for a hardline politics prompting economic stagnation and international condemnation.

I ENCOURAGE EVERY LIBRARIAN AROUND THE WORLD TO TAKE PART IN A SILENT ACTION AGAINST THE [...]

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Rift Valley Institute
The Rift Valley Institute is an independent research and educational association based in Kenya and the United Kingdom. It has been working in Eastern Africa, including Sudan and the Horn, since 2001. More background information could be found here.
For those of you interested in Sudan research a very nice feature on the [...]

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Masai Women
The Masai of Kenya
-Granada Television International, 1974
Another film is added to our collection of anthropological film, this time it’s a film from the highly acclaimed Disappearing World series from Granada Television.The Masai are animal herders in the East African Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania.The DVD is divided into different scenes:
1. Play the whole [...]

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Ceedo Personal#Programs run from any portable storage
“Easily installed on any portable storage gadget you choose – whetherit’s a thumb drive, an iPod, or a pocket hard drive – Ceedo Personalallows you to enjoy the convenience and productivity of your personalcomputer on any host PC.”
Several  has  probably  experienced  the annoying fact that you don’t have [...]

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Anthropological Film
Dragvoll library, NTNU, Norway had no antropological films in our collection until recently, I have now bought several DVDs, they are  all located together with the rest of our DVD collection. 
Here are some samples:
A day in the life of a village in AfricaScenes of daily life in the village of Sayaga, a small [...]

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EditGrid
Online open source free spreadsheet with functionalities that makes it possible for instance to display the spreadsheet data on a Google Map or Google Earth.

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The Geography Site
Coursework, teaching, lessons,information… English website with several useful links and also a couple of blogs (not very updated I might add…). Probably most information for new students, some useful background information and could be used for refreshing  old “knowledge”.

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Visual search engines
Search engines on the web don’t need to be only text oriented, we have search engines  combining visual display and text results like for instance Kart00.Kart00 uses Flashplayer to draw interactive maps.

You also have several other visual search engines:

PagebullQuinturaUjiko

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