Electronic find of the month:
I detoured through New York on my way to the Symposium in New Haven
and stopped off to view the amazing multilingual resources of Queens Borough
Public Library (at the Flushing location - I did not have time to get
to Astoria <g>)
One interesting project is their sponsorship of "Wordlinq" see at:
http://www.worldlinq.org/
which forms a bi-lingual portal to access a multiplicity of on-line
resources in
a range of languages and scripts (11 at present) for public library users.
Once they get round to doing Greek I think it will be one more useful
resource for members of this list.
June S
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WorldLinq
International Electronic Resource of the Queens Library
Enriching Multicultural Communities Everyday
Queens Library's WorldLinQ� (
www.worldlinq.org) is the revolutionary
international electronic resource of the next generation. WorldLinQ�
provides scholarly and popular multilingual web resources to our
customers worldwide. Compiled and maintained by a team of specialist
librarians with expertise in their language fields; WorldLinQ�
currently has eleven language modules including Arabic, Bengali,
Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
and Ukrainian. More language modules are under development.
Providing excellent international electronic resources to our
world-wide customers is the goal of WorldLinQ�.
How we enrich lives�
� Access WorldLinQ� from any Internet-accessible workstation,
anytime and anywhere around the world.
� Fully participate in the information revolution in multiple languages.
� Scholarly and popular multilingual resources unlike any other.
� Visit Websites from all over the world in multiple languages.
� Check the daily newspapers of major cities such as Shanghai,
Prague, Hong Kong, Caracas, Moscow, Seoul and many others in their own
languages.
� Access valuable non-English (international language) Websites
from a regularly updated list of thousands that have been compiled and
reviewed by teams of expert librarians.
� Search for information in the languages that are the most
meaningful to you.
� Constantly updated international electronic resources unlike any other.
� Access local multiethnic and multicultural information resources.
� Link to the Queens Library homepage and access our catalog in
multiple languages.
� Access online/virtual reference services.
� Use a mouse and a virtual keyboard to input characters in
multiple languages.
� See bibliographic references to the Queens Library's catalog
in the language in which the material was written.
� E-mail around the globe.
WorldLinQ� has received the Highsmith Inc. Library Innovation Award
from the Public Library Association; the Joseph F. Schubert Library
Experience Award by the New York State Regents Advisory Council on
Libraries; has been named an exemplary program in the Tomas Rivera
Policy Institute�s Digital Steppingstones research project; was a
major factor in Queens Library�s receiving the first National Award
for Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
and has been nominated for several other national recognitions.
Extensive articles have been written in the trade and general press.
It is a pioneering model for libraries nationwide.
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com