FUNIBER is an institution that supports social development through agreements and projects and by participating in activities in the following areas: academic, scientific, and research, along with cooperation, development and economic growth. This is accomplished through its close ties with universities and professional institutions. The overall mission is to provide students with a global education while at the same time respecting individual identities.
Since the release of the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education,1 academic libraries have implemented a wide range of initiatives and programs. Formats range from traditional library instruction that integrates information literacy concepts in “one shot” sessions to credit-bearing courses that are librarian led and offer course or discipline specific instruction. Delivery modes also range from face-to-face to online instruction. Increasingly, student assessment and indicators related to program impact have become the focus of ongoing discussions. Guidelines such as the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Standards for Libraries in Higher Education,2 Guidelines for Instruction Programs in Academic Libraries3 and The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report4 offer direction related to student assessment and defining program impacts. These documents also reflect a recognition that information literacy and library instruction programs are varied in response to institutional needs
Contribuye a la promoción y desarrollo del futuro de la lengua francesa en el contexto de la diversidad cultural. Se centra principalmente en enriquecer las relaciones entre los francófonos y francófilos de Quebec , Canadá y las Américas. Por eso fomenta los intercambios , las asociaciones y el desarrollo de redes de habla francesa.
Es el portal de la biblioteca pública americana e incluye numerosos archivos e información de museos y proporciona información (e incluso a veces su formato digital) de manera gratuita en todo el mundo.
Es el portal de la biblioteca pública americana e incluye numerosos archivos e información de museos y proporciona información (e incluso a veces su formato digital) de manera gratuita en todo el mundo.
La Biblioteca Digital de América recoge la riqueza cultural alemana y la ofrece a todos lo interesados. Así, en esta página podemos acceder a obras americanas.
On October 28, 1886, U.S. president Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided the dedication ceremony of the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from the people of France.
On August 29, 1893, American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor Whitcomb L. Judson receives the patent for a "Clasp Locker", today better known as the zipper, the mechanical little wonder that has kept so much in our lives 'together.' But first, the new invention showed only little commercial success. It took almost 80 years that the magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper the popular item it is today.
On July 29, 1805, French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was born. He is best known for his Democracy in America, where he analyzed the rising living standards and social conditions of individuals and their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Today, it is considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Publicado desde 1936 por la División Hispánica de la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos, incluye libros y artículos seleccionados y reseñados por más de 130 especialistas de todo el mundo.
Brinda acceso a normas internacionales y nacionales especializadas en el tema, incluyendo; leyes internacionales, códigos, legislación especifica en derechos humanos, asilo y refugio, regímenes de ingreso, estadía y permanencia, regulación sobre comunidades en el extranjero y delitos vinculados con la migración, entre otros.
Ofrece información sistematizada y centralizada acerca de instituciones y procesos políticos, constituciones nacionales, órganos de gobierno, elecciones, estudios de política constitucional y otros temas relacionados con el fortalecimiento de la democracia en la región. Proyecto no gubernamental del Centro de Estudios para América Latina (Center for Latin American Studies - CLAS) de Georgetown University en colaboración con instituciones como la Secretaría de Asuntos Externos de la Organización de Estados Americanos y FLACSO-Chile y con el apoyo de otras organizaciones y entidades de la región.
On September 16, 1620, the famous transport ship Mayflower started its first voyage to the new world with English and Dutch separatists on board and arriving Plymouth, Massachusetts in the same year.
Communities Magazine is the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes.
Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an authentic look at this past, from the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes, all brought to you in original documents. Captured in the then new techniques of photography, recorded sound, and film, the performing arts of the early twentieth century come alive as never before, preserved by The New York Public Library and brought to you a century later via the Internet.
TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).
Zero Waste America is a non-profit environmental organization that promotes zero waste and provides information and analysis on related matters.This website is devoted to educating visitors on the state of waste management in the U.S. and what you can do about it.
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
Welcome to the home page of the Classification Society of North America (CSNA). The CSNA is a nonprofit interdisciplinary organization whose purposes are to promote the scientific study of classification and clustering (including systematic methods of creating classifications from data), and to disseminate scientific and educational information related to its fields of interests.
Women brought up within a Japanese culture will almost always say "Yes" to any invitation or request, and then simply not follow through. It's better to be polite in the moment, and be true to yourself later, rather than the other way around (as in Ameri
This website provides a large number of free e-books available for immediate download. The books are mainly about holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living. There are secondary collections about social criticism and transf
by Victoria Allison
There is something singularly pathetic about a national dream based on an aging one-time dictator and the memory of a woman who has been dead for 20 years
Here I would like to focus on three related aspects of these aesthetics, namely: 1) their constitutive hybridity; 2) their chronotopic multiplicity; and 3) their common motif of the redemption of detritus. After arguing the special qualifications of the cinema for realizing such a hybrid, multitemporal aesthetics, I will conclude with the case of the Brazilian "aesthetics of garbage" as the point of convergence of all our themes, specifically examining three films literally and figuratively "about" garbage.