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Jan 20, 2026
NEW RESOURCES The Register: Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software. "The splendidly-named ‘OpenSlopware' was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM […]
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Jan 19, 2026
NEW RESOURCES BBC: Writer's poems helped boost the abolition campaign. "Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a ‘massive bit of the jigsaw' in the abolition campaign history, […]
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Jan 19, 2026
NEW RESOURCES University of Miami: Preserving the legacy of the first woman US attorney general. "Through a major preservation effort led by University of Miami Libraries, damaged physical media from the Janet […]
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Jan 18, 2026
NEW RESOURCES State of Delaware: Delaware Public Archives Explores Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy in New Digital Exhibit. "The Delaware Public Archives is presenting a new digital exhibit exploring one of the most […]
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Jan 18, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Royal Canadian Mounted Police: National High Risk Child Sex Offender Database goes live. "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database, a national publicly […]
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Jan 17, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Cord Cutters News: More Than 100 Classic Sesame Street Episodes Are Now Streaming on YouTube. "The iconic Sesame Street library has officially arrived on YouTube in a big way. As […]
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Jan 17, 2026
NEW RESOURCES GPO: GPO And The Library Of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes Of The United States Serial Set. "U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) achieved a major milestone by uploading and making available […]
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Jan 16, 2026
NEW RESOURCES WTTW: Inspector General Launches New Dashboard to Identify ‘Hot Spots' of Police Misconduct. "The database, which includes only closed complaints, was designed to allow both police brass and Chicagoans to […]
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Jan 16, 2026
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Maps Mania: War Atlas: Mapping 3,500 Years of Conflict. "War Atlas is an interactive, web-based map that visualizes 8,500 historical battles spanning from around 1500 BC to the […]
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Jan 15, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: Mapping ICE Activity. "People Over Papers is a community-driven map showing reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity. People Over Papers lets anyone submit sightings of possible […]
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Jan 15, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Library of Congress Celebrates America's 250 Years. "The 225-year-old Library of Congress serves Congress and the American people with more than 181 million physical items and an […]
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Jan 14, 2026
NEW RESOURCES 2600: The 2600 Voice BBS Archives, Hope_16 Videos, And A Shower Curtain. "For those who don't know, the 2600 Voice BBS was a unique hacker bulletin board system run by […]
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Jan 14, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Spotted in my RSS feeds: Blogs Are Back. From the About page: "Blogs Are Back is a privacy-focused RSS reader built for people who want to follow writers, not algorithms. […]
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Jan 13, 2026
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive:
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Jan 13, 2026
EVENTS Digital Meets Culture: Webinar on the state of 3D Digitisation in Cultural Heritage. "…the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Methodologies, Technologies & Best Practices webinar is dedicated to presenting the results of […]
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Jan 12, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: What's New Online at the Library of Congress: January 2026. "Interested in learning more about what's new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares […]
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Jan 12, 2026
Yoo Hoo Alam!
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Jan 12, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Taiwan Ministry of Culture: NMTH launches digital database highlighting Taiwan in global history. "The National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH) has launched the ‘Overseas Historical Materials on Taiwan' portal, a […]
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Jan 11, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Goshen College: The Bulletin archive fully digitized. "The Bulletin, Goshen College's official magazine, is now available online in its entirety thanks to the digitization work of the Internet Archive. Every […]
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Jan 11, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Heckmeck: Amiga Pointer Archive. "Whenever a disk was put out into the world - be it a game, a magazine cover disk, or a demo - chances were high that […]
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Jan 10, 2026
Apologies for the silence, I'm having a very unpleasant experience with Google Fiber. Happily T-Mobile's hotspot service is helping me out. NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from University of Cambridge: Price of a bot […]
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Jan 07, 2026
NEW RESOURCES WXXI: Digitized issues of the weekly Brighton-Pittsford Post's entire run now available online. "The entire production run of the Brighton-Pittsford Post has been digitized and is now available online. The […]
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Jan 06, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Texas Policy Research: Texas Launches Local Bond and Tax Transparency Database. "Following the passage of House Bill 103 (HB 103) during the 89th Texas Legislative Session (2025), the Texas Comptroller […]
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Jan 06, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Museum of Flight: Digital Collections 2.0. "The Museum of Flight is beyond excited to announce the relaunch of our Digital Collections site! The site address is unchanged from before (digitalcollections.museumofflight.org) […]
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Jan 05, 2026
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over ‘obscene' AI content. "India has ordered Elon Musk's X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot […]
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Jan 05, 2026
EVENTS Techdirt: Let's Go! The Public Domain Game Jam Starts Today. "This year, that means we enter a new decade, as works originally published in 1930 finally exit copyright protection and become […]
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Jan 04, 2026
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data. "California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit […]
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Jan 02, 2026
EVENTS Engadget: CES 2026: What to expect when tech's biggest conference starts on January 4. " The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, but the fun […]
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Jan 01, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. "The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage […]
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Dec 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of Vietnam: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches the National Database on International Treaties.. "The website provides comprehensive public information about international treaties, with flexible search functions based on […]
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Dec 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Enfilade: Collecting250 Educator Guides Available from The Decorative Arts Trust. "The Decorative Arts Trust is excited to announce the publication of four complimentary educator guides related to Collecting250.org, a free, […]
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Dec 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive: Archive Lawsuit Opens Vladimir Putin Memcons/Telcons. " The verbatim transcripts of Vladimir Putin's meetings and telephone calls with U.S. president George W. Bush from 2001 to 2008 […]
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Dec 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hyde Park Herald: New archive reunites the art and Legacy of Shaddle and Baum. "…created over more than a decade by their son, Charles Baum, [the Alice Shaddle and Don […]
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Dec 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hoodline: Bay Area Hospital Safety Sins Exposed In New Chronicle Database. "A new database from the San Francisco Chronicle is pulling back the curtain on hospital safety problems across California, […]
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Dec 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Because I am concerned that they might be taken down, I am going to mention all the Epstein Files sites I come across. The latest is https://epsteinfilez.com/. From the About […]
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Dec 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me, I missed the launch last year: The Hydrant Directory. From the About page: "The Hydrant Directory is a free design resource created from public infrastructure. Each hydrant has been […]
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Dec 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES COURIER: We created a searchable database for the Epstein Files, including everything the DOJ wants hidden. "Prior to the DOJ's attempt to walk back what little transparency was to be […]
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Dec 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Anna's Archive: Backing up Spotify. "Anna's Archive normally focuses on text (e.g. books and papers). We explained in ‘The critical window of shadow libraries' that we do this because text […]
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Dec 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Pan American Health Organization: WHO launches the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Library. "The WHO Traditional Medicine Global Library is an inclusive and specialized digital information resource developed in collaboration with […]
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Dec 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES OECD: New Climate Policy Database maps mitigation policies across the 60 IFCMA countries. "The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) has released the first edition of its Climate Policy […]
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Dec 20, 2025
Things will be sporadic until at least after Granny's services next week. NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: How The New Yorker digitized its entire magazine archive. "You can now read every article that […]
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Dec 17, 2025
My best friend. I'll be back when I'm back. Love you.
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Dec 16, 2025
My Granny is not well (yes, I still have a Granny, she's 102) and I have spent much of the last two days at her care center. Headed back there this afternoon. […]
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Dec 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Phys.org: Searchable Bronze Age site database could help answer key questions about ancient Anatolia. "To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists […]
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Dec 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES NTV: Avalanche Canada launches new database for fatal avalanche incidents. "Avalanche Canada has just launched a new site documenting every known avalanche fatality in Canada since 1792. In addition to […]
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Dec 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Progress and Poverty: Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D. "Today, we are thrilled to launch CivicMapper, a new interactive tool that brings cities to life through 3D visualizations…. CivicMapper […]
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Dec 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES International Council on Archives: SAHR Announces its New Database "Truth and Reconciliation Mechanisms Archives Locator" (TRMAL) on International Human Rights Day and Discusses Human Rights Archives. "The TRMAL is a […]
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Dec 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES World Meteorological Organization: New WMO Database on National Laws and Decrees Regulating Meteorology & Hydrology. "The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new database […]
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Dec 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Publishing Perspectives: Belarus: Where Independent Work is Branded Extremism. "On November 27, PEN Belarus and the Belarusian Association of Journalists hosted an event…where authors and journalists shared powerful testimonies about […]
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Dec 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Lauren Leek: How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London's restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it. "I built the London food dashboard. The dashboard […]
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Dec 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Daily News-Record: Free online resource shows people how to identify poisonous Virginia mushrooms. "The book covers the top 40 of the state's more than 2,700 poisonous mushrooms, [Dave] Saylor said. […]
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Dec 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Eastern Daily Press: UEA's Institute for Volunteering Research releases archive. "A new archive showcasing 25 years of volunteering research has been launched by the University of East Anglia. Published by […]
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Dec 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Scientific Data: Mapping Climate Extremes and Infrastructure Vulnerability: A New Database for U.S. Railroads . "The resulting dataset provides railroad segment-level assignments of hazard exposure across the continental U.S. from […]
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Dec 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Standard (Kenya): Government unveils a new era of community driven tourism innovation. "As part of this transformative agenda, the Cabinet Secretary noted that the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) […]
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Dec 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Wales: Explore Your Archive: Newly Catalogued Archives. "As well as the expertise of our staff, who have been exploring a variety of new cataloguing methodologies, we greatly […]
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Dec 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Online database for Arkansas agency rules launches quietly after 5 years, $2.7 million. "Without any fanfare, an Arkansas legislative agency launched an online database of the administrative rules […]
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Dec 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UC San Francisco: Voices of Mount Zion Hospital: Physician Oral Histories Digitized and Online. "A trove of 54 oral-history audio recordings from Mount Zion Hospital, now part of the University […]
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Dec 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Announces Collections Newly Accessible Online. "The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made […]
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Dec 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hungary Today: New Database Showcases Hungary's Military Occupation between 1944-1945. "After 80 years, 117,000 families can now learn about the circumstances of their ancestors' wartime sacrifices, and the residents of […]
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Dec 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Divernet: War Log maps out 1,000 Baltic shipwrecks. "A new open-access database called the War Log has been released, recording the many forgotten but often well-preserved historic Swedish warships that […]
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Dec 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Times of India: 41 years On: Bhopal gas tragedy documented online by Sambhavna Trust. "The Sambhavna Trust Clinic that has been providing free medical care to the survivors of the […]
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Dec 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: Introducing the Global Building Atlas. "The Global Building Atlas is a new global, high-resolution 3D dataset of the world's 2.75 billion buildings. Developed by a research team at […]
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Dec 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES City of London England: New online archive launched to celebrate more than 20 years of the Liberty Festival and the UK's disability arts scene. "Now, for the first time, materials […]
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Dec 05, 2025
EVENTS Internet Archive Blog: 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!. "This contest offers a chance to explore and reimagine the […]
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Dec 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Royal Danish Library: The Carl Nielsen Letter Edition is published digitally. "Royal Danish Library and Multivers are now publishing the Carl Nielsen Letter Edition digitally with English translations, so that […]
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Dec 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES South Texas College of Law: The Voices of Houston's 1917 Race Riot: How Creating a Digital Archive Changed a Librarian's View of Justice and Led to Overturned Convictions. "Partnering with […]
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Dec 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Agerpres: Library of Romanian Academy launches digital library on National Day. "The Library of the Romanian Academy launched its digital library on the National Day of Romania, giving readers the […]
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Dec 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of California San Francisco: UCSF Print News Preserved and Digitized Through California Revealed . "Thanks to generous support from California Revealed, a state-wide initiative to digitize, preserve, and provide […]
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Dec 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM): RILM Acquires and Relaunches the Hofmeister XIX Database. "The Hofmeister XIX database provides comprehensive, searchable access to over 330,000 bibliographic records from the Hofmeister […]
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Dec 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: One Million Screenshots. From the front page: "We rendered over 1 million of the web's top homepages. This is the result. Zoom, pan and click to explore - like […]
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Dec 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES United Nations University: Regulated Plants Database: UNU's New Open-Access Tool to Help Prevent the Spread of Harmful Plants . "…the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), […]
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Dec 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Guelph: New Pet Loss and Grief Resources Launched by OVC Pet Trust. "A new online hub from OVC Pet Trust at the University of Guelph is blending personal […]
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Dec 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Ghost Blog: Explore the independent web. "Google search is making it harder than ever before to find anything. Social media algorithms reward the loud rather than the nuanced. Closed publishing […]
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Nov 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Turkish Historical Society and machine-translated from Turkish: Cemal Pasha Photograph Collection Opened to Remote Access. "Photographs from the Cemal Pasha Collection, held in our institution's archives, are now available for […]
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Nov 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Jewish News: Holocaust Centre North unveils three new digital galleries. "Holocaust Centre North is enabling people to explore parts of its rich archive remotely for the first time via a […]
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Nov 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Putting the American Revolution in Context Through Transcription. "What do patriotic songs, society women's diaries, and nautical maps have in common? All give context to life in […]
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Nov 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Binghamton University: First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close. "You can now explore Rano Raraku, one of the major quarries on Easter Island, from the comfort […]
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Nov 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming. "The PALABRA Archive is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers from Luso-Hispanic […]
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Nov 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Explore 200 years of the railway with Google Arts & Culture and AI. "Celebrating its 50th anniversary and the railway bicentenary, the UK's National Railway Museum launches on […]
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Nov 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boyle Heights Beat: House Democrats launch tracking system for immigration abuses. "Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight on Monday launched a new tracking system to document possible misconduct and […]
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Nov 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Variety: The Rainbow Project Launches Archive to Chronicle LGBTQ Representation in Children's Television and Film (EXCLUSIVE). "LGBTQ media advocacy organization The Rainbow Project has launched an archive dedicated to chronicling […]
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Nov 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Tovima: 1,000 Nikos Kazantzakis Letters Released Online. "The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum has launched a major cultural project, releasing 1,000 digitized letters written by the internationally known Greek author and thinker." […]
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Nov 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Virginia: New Public Database Brings Transparency to AI Tools Used in Hiring. "On November 6, the Talent Acquisition and Recruiting AI (TARAI) Index—a first-of-its-kind, public, interactive database—will officially […]
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Nov 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New York University: Media Targeted by Dozens of SLAPPs in 2024, New Analysis Finds. "The SLAPP Back Initiative [is] the country's first national database of SLAPP claims —potentially meritless legal […]
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Nov 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ARTnews: You Can Now Explore the Archives of Jay Gorney Modern Art, a Seminal New York Gallery in the 1980s and '90s. "Independent, which runs two art fairs in New […]
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Nov 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted in my RSS feeds: Stonking News. From the About page: "Stonking News monitors the Bluesky firehose in real-time, tracking all link posts, including World News, Regional News, and Gift […]
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Nov 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES European Broadcasting Union: EBU to open digital Ukraine Archive as trustworthy source of material for journalists, researchers and other investigators. "The EBU has launched an extensive digital archive of curated […]
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Nov 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Reddit: Instant Pot Database . "Complete cooking times and guide for dried legumes and vegetables." Includes a page of best practices and a bunch of sources. Mashable: Read […]
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Nov 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: HKMU launches the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature & the "Beyond Distance: Half a Lifelong Friendship of Eileen Chang, Stephen Soong, and Mae Fong Soong" Exhibition (PRESS RELEASE). […]
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Nov 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Spot 518: Hudson River School: Albany Institute launches new in-person, online museum guide. "The Albany Institute of History & Art is introducing new ways for visitors to engage with […]
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Nov 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Yale Library: Five new and nine expanded collections now available for researchers. "Beinecke Library reports that from July to September, staff processed 5 new collections and added new materials to […]
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Nov 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Harvard Law Today: Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records. "Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, […]
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Nov 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Wire: New Smartphone-Friendly Nehru Archive Goes Live. "…the platform offers an easily searchable and freely downloadable collection initially centred on the 100 published volumes of the Selected Works of […]
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Nov 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It's a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: "Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder and BAM […]
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Nov 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of Maine: Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Launches New Statewide Food Access Map. "The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) today announced the launch of […]
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Nov 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Video Game History Foundation: Library Highlight: The art of GamePro. "Years ago, we were donated the internal art archives from GamePro magazine. Whenever the staff at GamePro received artwork or […]
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Nov 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Florida Department of State: Secretary Byrd Announces the Launch of the Florida Main Street App. "In preparation for Thanksgiving travel and Small Business Saturday, Secretary of State Cord Byrd announced […]
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Nov 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES American Ancestors: New Database: Kentucky: Kentucky Enslaved Church Records Project. "We are excited to share a new 10 Million Names database today, Kentucky: Kentucky Enslaved Church Records Project. These valuable […]
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Nov 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Radio Prague International: Czech Academy of Sciences launches a digital archive of 15,000 folk songs. "Nearly fifteen thousand songs from all regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are now freely […]
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Nov 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Artmarket.com news: Artprice launches Artprice News, the world's first news agency entirely dedicated to art and its market, available in 11 languages and 122 countries, with Cision PR […]
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