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Jan 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Penn Today: An online resource for learners across the Italian language community. "The PRIMA site was designed to be used via two approaches: a traditional level-based format, where users can […]
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Jan 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University College Dublin: Mulcahy papers chronicling Ireland's revolutionary history digitised to enhance availability worldwide. "The papers of twentieth-century Irish revolutionary and political leader General Richard Mulcahy will be digitally available […]
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Jan 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UNC: New website will help NC college students learn about food assistance benefits. "A new online resource, NCCollegeFoodBenefits.org, is aiming to reduce food insecurity among college students in North Carolina […]
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Jan 24, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES MIT Press: MIT Press's Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs. "The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to […]
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Jan 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Fold3: New Virginia Military Record Collection!. "We are pleased to announce a new collection of Virginia military records. The Virginia Department of Military Affairs Records Collection contains information on Virginia […]
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Jan 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of California: UC ANR Fire Network shares resources on reducing impacts of wildfire, smoke. "The Fire Network is a team of UC Cooperative Extension fire and natural resource advisors, […]
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Jan 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Route Fifty: Feds offer new data, research to refresh states' water woes. "To help officials identify where water shortages exist, where surpluses are located and the quality of water supply […]
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Jan 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Concordia University: Concordia unveils a comprehensive professional French terminology database. "The work involved was monumental, with more than 4,500 entries. Now anyone can easily access a vast database of specialized […]
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Jan 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Environmental Defense Fund: New Interactive Map Shows Nationwide Pollution from Gas Turbines. "The website, Clearing the Air, has information about gas turbines - how they work, the types of pollution […]
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Jan 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ABC News (Australia): CSIRO, WWF and Australian government team up to launch AdaptLog conservation solutions project. "The online resource is unique in Australia — a list of innovative conservation projects […]
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Jan 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES CISA: CISA Releases the JCDC AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook and Fact Sheet. "Today, CISA released the JCDC AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook and Fact Sheet to foster operational collaboration among government, […]
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Jan 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ProPublica: ProPublica Releases New Private School Demographics Lookup. "Today, we are releasing the Private School Demographics database. This is the first time anyone has taken past surveys and made them […]
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Jan 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Anglican Journal: Digitization of Anglican Video archives a ‘gift to historians'. "Video footage of all General Synods going back to 1988 and documentaries of all 11 Sacred Circles has now […]
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Jan 19, 2025
With the TikTok ban underway but uncertain and the whole social media landscape shifting again, I wanted to remind you about some resources I've made available for the Mastodon social media network […]
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Jan 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES r/flightsim: Need a flight that fits your schedule? I built a free tool that matches routes to your time - from quick GA hops to real airline schedules. "I'd like […]
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Jan 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of Colorado: CDPHE launches updated mapping tool that illustrates areas disproportionately affected by pollution. "The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is announcing the launch of Colorado EnviroScreen […]
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Jan 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Museums Heritage Advisor: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust reveals 3D ‘spatial archive' of Hall's Croft. "A new online archive has been created which offers online access to Hall's Croft, the home of Susanna, […]
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Jan 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES My Press Alert: Introducing MyPressAlert Beta: Real-Time News Monitoring with AI. "Today marks the beta launch of MyPressAlert - a revolutionary platform that monitors news broadcasts in real time and […]
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Jan 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: New platform draws on investigative journalism to identify cross-border patterns of corruption. "… a new platform spearheaded by ICIJ member Milagros Salazar, aims to help […]
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Jan 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: A new hardware hacking wiki. "HardBreak is a new hardware hacking wiki created by Jonas Rosenberger, with an associated GitHub, Discord forum and LinkedIn page. There's an overview […]
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Jan 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES George Mason University: George Mason and Virginia Tech collaborate to build science policy connections. "The team created a database of U.S. science policy programs and conducted a case study of […]
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Jan 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Reclaim the Records: The BIRLS Database. "The Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) database was originally created and maintained by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (the […]
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Jan 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Mass General Brigham: ‘TrueFood' Research Database Offers Rankings for 50,000 Processed Foods. "The researchers gathered and analyzed the ingredient lists, nutrition facts and prices of foods available in three leading […]
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Jan 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES La MaMa Archives' Blog: Staging Shock: a new digital exhibit. "As an experimental theater company, La MaMa was one of the city's first creative houses to address the raw sensations […]
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Jan 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Vicksburg Daily News: Law Library adds Territorial court records from more than 200 years ago found in Vicksburg . "Records of the Supreme Court of the Mississippi Territory spanning 1799 […]
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Jan 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from SoraNews24: Travel through time with these old maps from the Zenrin Virtual Museum. "Putting their decades of experience in the map-making business to good use, Zenrin's Virtual Museum […]
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Jan 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Past is Present: Ephemera Explored: Over 40,000 New Images Give Glimpses into 19th-Century American Life. "With the completion of a recent project, more than 40,000 new images of ephemera were […]
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Jan 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: Los Angeles wildfire survivors can apply for federal aid today, new website launched to help Californians. "Now that a Major Disaster has been declared by President Joe […]
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Jan 12, 2025
EVENTS Naval Postgraduate School: NPS Hosts AI Hackathon for Students to Solve Military Operational Problems. "The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently hosted its inaugural artificial intelligence (AI) Hackathon event in the newly […]
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Jan 11, 2025
EVENTS The Register: Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025. "As they have for the past several years, a group of repairability, sustainability, and privacy […]
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Jan 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Deutsche Welle: Geolocation made easy with new DW tool SPOT. "Natural language prompts enable users to describe the prominent geographic features they see in an image, such as landmarks, infrastructure, […]
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Jan 10, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Reddit Not Ranking As Well In Google Suddenly?. "It seems like Reddit, the site that ranks well for every single query in Google Search, is starting […]
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Jan 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Nature: ‘WithdrarXiv' database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches. "Researchers have launched a database of more than 14,000 studies that have been withdrawn from the preprint server arXiv since its launch […]
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Jan 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Public Domain Review: Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive. "After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the PDR's inception, we've decided it was time to […]
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Jan 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Reader: A private collection of 10,000 Chicago show tapes finds a public home. "Jacobs taped concerts for his own satisfaction. Though he sometimes shared his recordings with the musicians, […]
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Jan 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES NIST: NIST Database Can Help Increase Recycling of Textiles and Clothing. "… according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2018 around 85% of used clothes and textiles headed to […]
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Jan 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UC Santa Cruz: New strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa is a powerful tool for archaeology, forensics, and wildlife conservation. "The map will help archaeologists, conservation scientists, and forensics experts […]
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Jan 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES KLKN: Nebraska treasurer announces new website that tracks state spending. "Nebraska State Treasurer Tom Briese announced a new website Monday that tracks every penny spent by the state…. The site […]
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Jan 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of New South Wales, Australia: NSW Herbarium goes global with state-of-the-art platform. "People from around the world can now access digital records of more than one million plants with […]
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Jan 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Drumheller Online: Province Adds New Tool Discovering History Of Alberta Placenames. "A new online tool gives Albertans the ability to learn the origins of place names across the province. The […]
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Jan 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES KSMU: WashU digital archive details the Founding Fathers' vision of government. "What kind of government did the founding fathers envision? Peter Kastor, a professor of history at Washington University, has […]
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Jan 05, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES MediaPost: Google Sends Promised Funds To Canadian Journalism Collective. "Google has sent $100 million (U.S. $69 million) it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption […]
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Jan 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Arizona Department of Health Services: Arizona Department of Health Services Launches Public Health Data Portal. "The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is proud to announce the launch of the […]
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Jan 04, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Library of Congress: Beta Release of Library of Congress Web Archives Playback Services. "As described in our prior?blog post, we?have been?in the process of modernizing and making improvements to […]
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Jan 04, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Bleeping Computer: New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions. "New details have emerged about a phishing campaign targeting Chrome browser extension developers that led to the […]
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Jan 03, 2025
EVENTS Discover Magazine: Celebrate #MuseumSelfieDay on January 15!. "#MuseumSelfie Day is the perfect blend of art, culture, history—and selfies! Mark your calendars now for January 15, 2025. Mar Dixon, a leader in […]
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Jan 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES PLANSPONSOR: DOL Launches Database for Retirement Savings Lost and Found. "Created as part of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, the database serves as a centralized location where individuals or […]
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Jan 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES arXiv: BioTD: an online database of biotoxins. "A number of venom-derived drugs are already available on the market, with many more candidates currently undergoing clinical and laboratory studies. However, drug […]
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Jan 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Homegrown (India): A New Digital Archive Is Tracing The Micro-Histories Of Migration In East India . "In the modern age, migration has shaped and reshaped societies across the world. In […]
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Jan 01, 2025
USEFUL STUFF MakeUseOf: 9 Tricks to Make Google Photos Search Work Smarter for You. "In the old days, finding a photo meant having to scroll through your gallery endlessly. Fortunately, that's not […]
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Jan 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Taiwan News: Taiwan's Academia Historica digitizes Chiang family diaries. "Academia Historica announced on Monday that the fourth batch of Chiang family diaries is now available to the public via a […]
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Dec 31, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TorrentFreak: More Than Half of All Google Search Takedowns Now Come from Link-Busters. "Link-Busters is the unofficial DMCA takedown champion of 2024. The anti-piracy outfit works for many of […]
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Dec 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES United Nations: MFA and UNDP launch first digital diplomatic archive, featuring documents from time of Ukrainian People's Republic. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, with support from the United […]
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Dec 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Digital Trends: You can play Halo's original 1999 demo for the first time. "The Halo franchise has been around for a long time, but we've never seen a leak quite […]
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Dec 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Photo Consortium: Beautiful 3D collection of pre-cinema heritage digitized by CRDI Ajuntament de Girona. "In the context of project EUreka3D, CRDI Centre for Image Research and Diffusion of the Girona […]
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Dec 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Tom's Hardware: Relive surfing the original internet with new emulator — 34 years later, WorldWideWeb app commemorates the first web browser. "The Web Design Museum is playing its part in […]
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Dec 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES View from the Wing: Which Airport Lounges Can You Actually Access? New Free Tool Will Change How You Travel . "One of the most frequent question I get is about […]
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Dec 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES UK Government: The Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service. "Homes England has launched the Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service to help facilitate and accelerate the sale of uncontracted and […]
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Dec 28, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Google December 2024 Spam Update Burns Through Christmas. "The Google December 2024 spam update seems to have burned through the Christmas holiday, with high volatility on […]
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Dec 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive: CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection. "Today, the National Security Archive and ProQuest (part of Clarivate) celebrate the publication of a new scholarly document […]
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Dec 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES United Nations: Explore Every Word: Full-Text Search for Security Council Resolutions Is Here!. "The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library digitized the historic collection of Security Council resolutions over two decades ago. […]
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Dec 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES WBZ News: Newly digitized Massachusetts DCR blueprints of iconic roadways, parks available to access. " The roadways, parks, and landmarks that are now part of Massachusetts's identity were once just […]
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Dec 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Hackaday: Keeping Track Of Old Computer Manuals With The Manx Catalog. "An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them […]
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Dec 25, 2024
EVENTS Library of Congress Blog: "Can We Capture This?": An Interview on Website Archivability. "The Library of Congress is an active member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), organizer of the […]
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Dec 25, 2024
EVENTS Genealogy's Star: Preview RootsTech 2025 today. "You can already review classes scheduled for in person and online from RootsTech 2025. At the time of this post, there were 220 classes listed […]
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Dec 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive: Fifty Years of Silence: Mexico Faces the Legacy of its Dirty War . "Today, the National Security Archive is publishing a selection of declassified U.S. documents about […]
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Dec 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES International Fund for Agricultural Development: IFAD launches RemitSCOPE: a free global data platform to capture and facilitate remittances for rural development . "As migration continues to increase worldwide due to […]
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Dec 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University College Cork: A Snapshot of Corca Dhuibhne launched. "A Snapshot of Corca Dhuibhne, a new online archive of photographs from the community of Corca Dhuibhne over the last 100 […]
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Dec 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Luxembourg: Discover the updated Luxembourg web archive. "The National Library of Luxembourg is pleased to announce a major update to its web archive portal! With an all-new […]
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Dec 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES WCAX: New website promises inside look at Vermont Legislature. "So much goes on behind the scenes in the Vermont Legislature, and now a new website aims to offer an inside […]
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Dec 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Latina Republic: Mexico's National Museum of Popular Cultures Launches New Website. "In a significant step to preserve and share Mexico's rich cultural heritage, the National Museum of Popular Cultures (MNCP) […]
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Dec 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Luxembourg: Visit the exhibition in virtual reality!. "Our ‘Clerics, Connoisseurs and Collectors' exhibition is now available in virtual reality! We've taken a 3D scan of the space, […]
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Dec 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: What's New Online at the Library of Congress: December 2024. "The Historical Media Publications Collection is now available on loc.gov! This collection features over 4,400 items across […]
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Dec 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES World Trade Organization: New database on critical minerals trade launched to support clean energy transition. "The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the WTO Secretariat have jointly launched a database on […]
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Dec 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Royal Library of Belgium: The BelgicaPress portal of KBR now includes newspapers from the German-speaking Community. . "Thanks to the collaboration with the Zentrum für Ostbelgische Geschichte (ZOG), BelgicaPress now […]
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Dec 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Manitoba: FAUM researchers release new open data sets for data-driven urban design. "The Future Elements Studio, led by Dr. Yuhao Lu at the Faculty of Architecture, has released […]
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Dec 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES KFF Health News: How Are States Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? We Built a Database of Answers. "Dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests, […]
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Dec 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Basketball England: BasketballCourtsNearMe: New database to locate and rate basketball courts. "Today marks the launch of BasketballCourtsNear.Me (BCNM), an innovative, community-driven platform set to become the most comprehensive database of […]
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Dec 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Wisconsin-Madison: Leopold's journals that informed ‘A Sand County Almanac' more accessible than ever before . "Thanks to the careful work of passionate volunteers, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Digital […]
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Dec 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Whisk: Visualize and remix ideas using images and AI. "Today in the US, we're launching our newest experiment in generative AI: Whisk. Instead of generating images with long, […]
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Dec 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES KYW Newsradio: Philly's first-ever Social Impact Database is officially up and running. "This new digital resource highlights more than 100 social impact programs in the city, including areas in education, […]
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Dec 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: Run.Track.Run. Search for places to run all over the world. Indoor/outdoor, surface, cost, lighting, and minimum/maximum distance. You can also limit your results to only recommended places. USEFUL STUFF […]
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Dec 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Cosmopolitan: What Is the Taylor Swift Eras Archive Site? It's Basically a Gift to Fans. "Taylor Swift is officially feelin' 35, and to celebrate, she gave fans the best present: […]
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Dec 15, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES How-To Geek: Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available in Beta. "Linux Mint 22.1 is now available in beta. It's a fairly substantial upgrade with several new features and improvements, […]
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Dec 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Kottke: The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. "Several years ago, Brandon Silverman become obsessed with the lettering and typography on the fire insurance maps published by the […]
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Dec 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Western Washington University: WWU's Border Policy Research Institute launches new interactive tool on Canada-US trade along the border. "The Border Policy Research Institute has launched a new interactive tool that […]
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Dec 14, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ars Technica: Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm. "Following a pair of lawsuits alleging that chatbots caused a teen boy's suicide, groomed a 9-year-old […]
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Dec 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Ian Lind: "Hawaii Observer" has been digitized by UH Library and is publicly available online. "The Hawaii Observer appeared on the scene in February 1973, and its final issue was […]
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Dec 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Yale School of Public Health: New Database Documents Sex Differences in Cancer Biology, Risk Factors, and Treatments. "A groundbreaking new database could lead to vast improvements in precision oncology by […]
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Dec 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The National (Scotland): New interactive map showcases publicly-owned land across Scotland. "Users can explore information on individual land parcels, including its ownership and size. The information has been brought together […]
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Dec 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Alzheimer's Foundation of America: New Alzheimer's Avatar Created by Alzheimer's Foundation of America Now Available to Assist Families Affected by Dementia. "The AFA Virtual Helpline Assistant, an avatar named ‘Allison,' […]
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Dec 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Hawaii: 2024 Quality of Life & Well-Being Dashboard highlights economic strain, health disparities, more. "The College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa, in partnership […]
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Dec 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Irish Farmers Journal: Butter Museum to tackle food information deficit. "The Butter Museum has developed a range of resources for outreach and education which combine the old and the new […]
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Dec 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Violin Channel: Austrian Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Archive Launched Online. "The Nikolaus Harnoncourt Center (NHZ), which is based at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria, has recently launched […]
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Dec 10, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search Having Indexing Issues Again. "Google Search is once again having indexing issues where new content is not showing in the index for all sites. […]
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Dec 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Illinois State University: Milner Library launches P.T. Barnum digital collection. "Milner Library is proud to announce the publication of the P.T. Barnum Letters and Ephemera, a digital collection drawn from […]
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Dec 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Exeter: Pioneering legal toolkit is helping cultural institutions around the world to share their collections online . "Staff at more than 24 institutions around the world have worked […]
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Dec 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from CBC: Digital archive of old Ontario newspapers a hit with readers as far away as New Zealand. "Officials with Stratford-Perth Archives say their new historical newspaper database has […]
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Dec 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas: Website Tells Story of Devil's Den State Park, and Lays Foundation for Its Future . "Since it opened in the 1930s, Devil's Den State Park has attracted […]
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Dec 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: A Legacy of Historic is Preserved in New War of 1812 Records. "Interested in learning more about the War of 1812? Thanks to our new partners at the North […]
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