Get Lost in Translation

The world wide web makes finding information easy, but what about when you find that special something in a language you can’t read?  Thanks to technophilia, here are some easy translation tools:
Google Translate, which will work with blocks of text or a whole website.  There’s also a handy dictionary that will translate words.
Another one to try is WordReference, very complete online Spanish, French, and Italian dictionaries.  There’s also a Language Forum here. 
Lastly, try Newstran - translates 10,000+ foreign newspapers!

Our friend Flickr

The Library of Congress is now posting pictures at Flickr, so anyone can view and comment on them.  According to their official blog, “We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves. ” You can find their pilot project in an area of Flickr called The Commons where you can browse the 1930’s and 1940’s in color and News in the 1910’s.   Go ahead and add your voice.

Feed Your Head

Look up there at the box that says Our Feeds.  I’ve noticed we get hits on that page, but I’m wondering if everyone who looks knows what an RSS feed is.  Never mind about that – I’ve changed it so you can see our del.icio.us bookmarks directly from the links instead of having to subscribe to the feeds.  So click on the box and take a look at our secret weapons when searching the web – our librarians’ favorites, organized (naturally!) by category.  And if you subscribe to the Reference feed, you’ll know when we’ve discovered a new treasure.