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Oct 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Guttmacher Institute: Guttmacher Institute Releases Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, A New Online Tool for Estimating Health Benefits of Investing in Family Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. "Today, the […]
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Oct 01, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Utah: Celebrating the launch of the France Davis Utah Black Archive. "This man marched at Selma. He served as Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church for 45 years. He […]
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Oct 01, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Chicago: Fletcher Group, NORC, and ETSU Launch Substance Use Recovery Tool. "Today, NORC at the University of Chicago, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), and the Fletcher Group, Inc. […]
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Sep 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Central Arkansas: UCA digitizes more than 1,000 historic photos. "Archivists in Torreyson Library at the University of Central Arkansas have recently digitized more than 1,000 historical photographs. The […]
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Sep 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Northeastern University School of Law: 1,000 Racial Homicides Investigated in Unprecedented Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive. "The Archive brings together evidence demonstrating the extensive scale and scope of killings between 1930 and […]
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Sep 29, 2022
Queue's getting a little too big so enjoy this extra issue. NEW RESOURCES Pitchfork: Aphex Twin Launches "Sample Mashing" App. "Aphex Twin summarized the app in a statement through Warp: ‘What if […]
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Sep 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Kentucky: New searchable website will help people in recovery find housing. "The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), housed in the University of Kentucky College of Public […]
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Sep 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES India Today: US Embassy launches website to document cultural heritage of tribes in Arunachal Pradesh. "The United States Mission in India launched a website to celebrate the intangible cultural heritage […]
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Sep 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, via Awesome Archives: Marginalia. From the About Page: "Remember when you used to explore the Internet, when you used to discover cool little websites made by people and it […]
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Sep 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES downthetubes: British comic fanzines archive "The Fanscene Project" has a new online home. "Founded back in 2015 as the Classic UK Comic Zines site, artist and comic archivist David Hathaway-Price […]
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Sep 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES American Kennel Club: AKC Launches Digital Library To Commemorate Anniversary. "The digital library will include the entire run of the AKC Gazette from 1889 to the present day. The AKC […]
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Sep 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Michigan: New online tool can calculate your neighborhood's ‘cognability'. "A new tool, an interactive map developed by University of Michigan researchers, allows you to plug in your address […]
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Sep 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Tricycle: A New Monument Addresses the Erasure of Japanese American Incarceration . "At the heart of the Irei Monument is the first comprehensive and accurate list of over 125,000 names […]
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Sep 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Jewish News Service: First digital translation of Mishneh Torah interconnected with other Jewish texts goes online. "A complete English translation of the Mishneh Torah interconnected with other Jewish texts is […]
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Sep 26, 2022
The best thing about the Internet is that it's constantly getting bigger, with more information being added every second. The worst thing about the Internet is that it's constantly getting bigger, with […]
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Sep 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: 19th and early 20th century collections from the Presbyterian Church are now available online without paywalls or passwords.. "Selected by Georgia stakeholders and funded by the […]
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Sep 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Connecting Andean Voices and Heritages. "The Hispanic Reading Room has a new research guide, Interconnecting Worlds: Weaving Community Narratives, Andean Histories & the Library's Collections. This guide, […]
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Sep 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Indianapolis Public Library: Digital Indy Reveals Indianapolis Public Schools Architecture Collection. "The Indianapolis Public Schools Architecture Collection spans three centuries and includes documents from the 1890s through the 1970s. The […]
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Sep 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Miami Herald: Venezuela is a conduit for Russian propaganda, says disinformation watchdog. "Venezuela has become a conduit for Russian Spanish-language propaganda in Latin America, according to a media watchdog that […]
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Sep 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas: U of A Museum Launches Online Database to Explore Collection. "From the first computer on campus to a meteorite that fell near Fayetteville in 1934, the museum […]
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Sep 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Digitizing artwork to share Puerto Rican culture around the globe . "10 museums and archives in Puerto Rico have come together through a partnership with Google Arts & […]
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Sep 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Houston Libraries: New Online Exhibit Features DJ Screw Recordings. "From Coast to Coast: A Tour of DJ Screw's Record Collection was created by Jenna Goodrich as part of […]
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Sep 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES South Carolina Department of Natural Resources: South Carolina Wildlife magazine goes digital!. "South Carolina Wildlife magazine, in partnership with the South Carolina State Library, is proud to announce that many […]
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Sep 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES State of Kentucky: New Discover KY Archaeology Website Profiles Archaeological Sites and Research Across the Commonwealth. " A new website highlighting more than 100 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites across […]
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Sep 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New Jersey 101.5: Digital archive catalogs thousands of Holocaust survivors in NJ. "When Stockton University professor Michael Hayse and some students started working in 2019 on a project to catalog […]
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Sep 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the LGBTQ Communities of the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe Web Archive. "The collection archives a broad range of websites maintained by and […]
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Sep 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Route Fifty: New Data Resource Focuses on Racial Wealth Gap. "A tool launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative Thursday aims to provide better access to data about racial wealth inequities […]
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Sep 19, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ars Technica: Facebook reverses permanent ban on Holocaust movie after outcry. "Facebook moderators told Newton that his film was banned because the company's ad policy restricts content that ‘includes […]
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Sep 19, 2022
Do you ever suffer from Temporary Curiosity? I have a terrible time with it. I'll hear about something that happened, or an event that's coming up, and I'll want to know how […]
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Sep 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Wall Street Journal: Ukrainians Try Crowdsourcing to Catch Russian War Criminals. "The Justice Initiative Fund focuses its efforts only on war-crimes suspects officially ‘wanted' by Ukrainian or foreign authorities. It […]
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Sep 19, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Associated Press: New tool to track the migration of birds across the world. "The Bird Migration Explorer mapping tool, available free to the public, is an ongoing collaboration between 11 […]
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Sep 18, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Google Adds Hotel Sustainability Info to Search Results. "Googling your next potential hotel stay? The search giant will now serve up information on a hotel's sustainability and health […]
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Sep 18, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Artnet: A.I.R. Gallery Broke Barriers by Showing Women and Nonbinary Artists. Now the Collective's Story Is Finally Being Told. "Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Artists in […]
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Sep 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Institute of Contemporary History (Portugal): Digital Archive On The History Of The Portuguese Maimed By War. "This week saw the launch of the digital archive ‘Os Mutilados da Guerra (1914-1918): […]
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Sep 17, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Lifehacker: Use This Site to Get a Deeper Look at Your Favorite Video Game Maps. "Part of what makes video games so darn fun is the pure exploration. […]
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Sep 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Discovered on Twitter, I think: PromptHero. It's a search engine for AI-generated images. You can do a regular keyword search or get a set of random images. I did a […]
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Sep 16, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Brown University: Brown Library publishes five new volumes in the "Race & … in America" digital book series . "Open access publication expands series delving into comparative perspectives on the […]
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Sep 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES RadioWorld: AAPB Releases Resources to Honor Hispanic Heritage. "To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is releasing a selection of documentaries, interviews and other archival […]
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Sep 15, 2022
I think I've mentioned before that I don't watch a lot of regular network TV (or cable TV for that matter), but I do spend a couple of hours a night watching […]
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Sep 15, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Verge: The Inflation Reduction Act's tax credits are confusing, so the White House launched a website to help. "The Biden administration launched a new website… aimed at helping Americans […]
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Sep 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Center Square: New Ohio website gives public voice in business regulations. "In the works since 2018, the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review's Cut Red Tape Ohio website - […]
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Sep 14, 2022
NEW RESOURCES OpenSecrets: OpenSecrets launches new tool to track ballot measures across the country . "OpenSecrets has launched a new tool to track ballot measures across the country as part of a […]
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Sep 13, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Science Foundation: Researchers develop dashboard to track invasive and vector mosquitoes. "Researchers at the University of South Florida, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, created the Global Mosquito […]
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Sep 13, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Loop News: Kingston Creative launches database of 370 Caribbean artists. "Kingston Creative has launched the Caribbean Creative Network (CCN), a public, searchable online database of artists and cultural and creative […]
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Sep 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Brookings Institution: A new data set for better monitoring of the political podcast ecosystem. "To help policymakers, researchers, and the tech community better understand podcasting's role in the information ecosystem, […]
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Sep 12, 2022
This tool is thanks to one of my longtime Patreons, Carl. We've been trading email for years and he's always been generous with encouraging words. A couple of weeks ago he gave […]
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Sep 12, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Introducing the Congress.gov API. "The Congress.gov API will cover many of the Congress.gov collections out of the gate, including bills, amendments, summaries, Congress, members, the Congressional Record, […]
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Sep 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES BBC: Heritage organisations merge archives for new website. "Two Jersey heritage organisations have merged their collections to create an online catalogue of the island's history. Jersey Heritage and Société Jersiaise […]
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Sep 11, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Government of Luxembourg: Léier Lëtzebuergesch Online - LLO. LU A new tool to learn Luxembourgish: digital, global and free. "At a press conference on September 9th, 2022, the Minister of […]
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Sep 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Teen Vogue: Our Bodies Ourselves Today Launches Sex and Health Website For a New Generation. "Our Bodies Ourselves Today launched its new website on September 9, bringing a new look […]
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Sep 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES EU Neighbors East: EU launches new platform to inform Ukrainians about EU assistance during war. "The EU Delegation to Ukraine has launched a new website… which provides detailed information on […]
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Sep 10, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Route Fifty: A New Tech Tool to Help Communities Confront Climate Risks . "The Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation portal is an online dashboard that provides real-time and location-specific […]
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Sep 09, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: FBI tracked Aretha Franklin's civil rights activism, declassified file shows. "The FBI has declassified its file on Aretha Franklin, the late ‘Queen of Soul' who died in 2018 […]
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Sep 09, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Sound Cafe: New Digital Archive Protecting Legacy Of Piping In Scotland Goes Live. "The Archives from The National Piping Centre holds digitised copies of five influential piping periodicals dating […]
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Sep 08, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources: Pu?u Wa?awa?a Virtual Tour Offers New Ways To Explore. "Hawai?i residents have a wealth of natural resources to explore, but in some cases […]
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Sep 08, 2022
NEW RESOURCES KCBX: Mapping company develops web app to provide context, resources during local wildfires. "A new web service by a California-based mapping company shows detailed information on wildfires in real time. […]
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Sep 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES George Mason University: Mason students build digital archive for victims of China's Anti-‘Rightist' Campaign. "Predating China's Cultural Revolution, the Anti-‘Rightist' Campaign was launched by Chairman Mao Zedong to purge ‘Rightists' […]
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Sep 07, 2022
One of my favorite games lately is creating JavaScript programs where physical space intersects with social media space. It lets me carve out little portholes and see how the physical space is […]
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Sep 07, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Commercial-News: Quick receives broadcast pioneer award. "Doug Quick, retired TV weathercaster/news anchor, broadcaster, author and museum curator has been named Illinois Broadcasters Association's 2022 W. Russell Withers Jr. […]
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Sep 06, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: What's new online at the Library of Congress - Summer 2022. "The Manuscript Division has recently released the Shippen Family Papers, a collection of 6,500 items (15,666 […]
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Sep 06, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Big shout to Twitter user @osint_unleashed who found this: the Limerick castles database. From the project about page: "Joseph Lennon is an historian and a graduate of Limerick Institute of […]
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Sep 05, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Elon University: Students launch new constitutional law journal. "Led by inaugural Editor in Chief Esther Bouquet L'23, We the People - Elon Law's Constitutional Law Journal aspires to promote the […]
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Sep 05, 2022
If I were ever limited to one search modifier on Google, I'd make it site:edu. Why? Because edu is one of the few major domain names (along with gov and mil) that […]
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Sep 05, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Institute of Standards and Technology: Deciding Whether to Install Solar Panels on Your Home? A New NIST Web Tool Can Help. "Whether it's to live more sustainably, save money […]
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Sep 04, 2022
NEW RESOURCES City University of New York: New Data Dashboard Reporting Street-level Flooding In NYC Gives Government, Responders, The Public, And Researchers Real-time Information On Rising Waters. "Created in partnership with FieldKit, […]
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Sep 04, 2022
NEW RESOURCES British Library Maps Blog: The new Roy Military Survey Gazetteer. "The British Library and National Library of Scotland are pleased to announce the availability of a new gazetteer which allows […]
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Sep 03, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WUSF: An online tool to find addiction treatment launches in Florida. "The online assessment and treatment locator is called ATLAS, and it's designed to serve individuals struggling with addiction or […]
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Sep 03, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Department of Labor: US Department Of Labor Launches App To Provide Miners Access To Health, Safety, Miners' Rights Information. "The app allows miners to easily use the tool at mine […]
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Sep 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Good Morning America: New online dashboard helps fliers navigate flight delays and cancellations. "The U.S. Department of Transportation debuted its airline customer service dashboard today, which details airlines' ‘commitments' to […]
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Sep 02, 2022
NEW RESOURCES IrishCentral: Did your ancestors come from Armagh? Massive amount of new records released online. "Are you searching for family history in Co Armagh? We might have another breadcrumb to add […]
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Sep 01, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Premium Times (Nigeria): Josplay launches database for African music. "The library is launching on 1st September, with data on over 3,000 artists across Africa, and over 10 million data points […]
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Sep 01, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Hawaii Public Radio: Memorial concert for Harry B. Soria to support digitizing his Hawaiian music collection. "Territorial Airwaves is the longest-running weekly radio show on Hawaiian music here in the […]
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Aug 31, 2022
EVENTS USPTO: Quarterly series introducing intellectual property beginning this week in Spanish and English. "Are you curious about intellectual property (IP) and want to learn more? This free United States Patent and […]
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Aug 31, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Carolina Public Press: As NC's decades-old rape kits are tested, new DNA evidence emerges. "After having the largest backlog of untested kits in the entire country, North Carolina is methodically […]
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Aug 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES WDTN: New website provides free naloxone to Ohio residents. "A new website will provide Ohioans with a simplified process for accessing naloxone, a lifesaving drug used in the event of […]
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Aug 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Fold3: New British Royal Air Force Records! . "We are pleased to announce a new collection of military records from the United Kingdom. The UK, British Air Force Lists, 1919-1945 […]
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Aug 29, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: You Can Now Listen to Podcasts on Twitter. "Podcasts are now available to stream directly from the Spaces tab on Twitter, the social media giant said in a […]
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Aug 29, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Museums Heritage Advisor: Six months on, Ukraine remains in focus. "This week marks six months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an attack which has continued to devastate […]
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Aug 29, 2022
Researching famous people has always been a favorite search puzzle of mine. Google works to a point, and there are little search tricks you can use to narrow down your results, but […]
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Aug 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Poynter: Repustar debuts a tip line tool for US fact-checking organizations. "Repustar, a fact-checking organization that crowdsources fact checks, is partnering with journalism and fact-checking outlets in the […]
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Aug 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Review Geek: You Can Now Access iFixit's Entire Catalog Offline. "To many people, the internet is an invasive, essential, and ever-present force. But nearly half of the world's population lacks […]
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Aug 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Stirling: Historic children's home archive opens with donation from former resident. "The archive is the result of a year-long project led by a team of University experts, who […]
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Aug 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES State of Maine: DHHS Launches New Dashboard Highlighting Services By the Numbers . "Today, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) posted a new ‘DHHS By the Numbers' […]
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Aug 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Fox 26 Houston: University of Houston highlighting city's resilience during Hurricane Harvey. "Entitled Resilient Houston: Documenting Hurricane Harvey, viewers may access an online archive of oral history interviews from residents […]
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Aug 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Hildegard-go! "Thanks to generous funding from Joanna and Graham Barker, the British Library is digitising many of its manuscripts, rolls and charters connected with women from Britain and […]
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Aug 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Crunchyroll: The World's Largest Japanese Anime Database "Anime Taizen" Opens to The Public Today. "As of the end of July 2022, Anime Taizen has approximately 15,000 registered titles, mainly Japanese […]
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Aug 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Illinois State University: School of Theatre and Dance programs now online. "Did you know that the actor who plays Officer Kevin Atwater in the hit NBC series Chicago P.D. also […]
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Aug 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Thanks to Tish W for always keeping an eye out and sending me cool stuff. From Fine Books & Collections: Oxford English Dictionary Correspondence Heads Online. "The Murray Scriptorium has […]
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Aug 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES World Health Organization: New mobile friendly web tool with interactive dashboard gives individuals the information they need on monkeypox in advance of attending gatherings. "WHO/Europe has launched a new tool […]
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Aug 24, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: A Facebook bug spammed celebrity comments to everyone for hours. "Facebook experienced a bizarre bug on Wednesday morning that filled user feeds with endless posts from celebrity […]
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Aug 24, 2022
Every now and again I have to pause and marvel at the fact that Web directories as a category are pretty much defunct. There are specialized directories for specific categories, of course […]
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Aug 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Mixed: Open Source DALL-E "Open Diffusion" is now available via website. "Open Diffusion is now available via a web interface. After logging in, you can generate images via text prompts, […]
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Aug 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Globe Newswire: Medical Device Association Launches Hub for Research, Standards, News: AAMI ARRAY (PRESS RELEASE). "The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) has launched a new online platform […]
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Aug 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES National Fisherman: The National Fisherman Collection: Penobscot Marine Museum. "National Fisherman is the nation's preeminent publication in the commercial fishing industry, originally a consolidation of earlier, regional fisheries trade papers. […]
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Aug 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Climate Modeling Alliance: GriddingMachine: A new database and software for sharing global datasets. "The ever increasing amount of data, various data formats, and different data layouts are increasing the time […]
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Aug 22, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Verge: This site exposes the creepy things in-app browsers from TikTok and Instagram might track. "Did you know you're potentially being tracked when you load an in-app browser on […]
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Aug 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES KRDO: CPW launches conservation dashboard to show progress on protecting sensitive species. "Prior to the launch of the Species Conservation Dashboard, the only way for the public to view information […]
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Aug 21, 2022
NEW RESOURCES 6 Sq Ft: Landmarks launches digital photo archive of NYC landmarks and historic districts. "The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission on Thursday launched the LPC Designation Photo Collection, a digital photo […]
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Aug 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: TechCrunch launches TheTruthSpy spyware lookup tool. "TechCrunch today launched a spyware lookup tool that allows anyone to check if their Android device was compromised by a fleet of consumer-grade […]
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Aug 20, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry: Bureau of Parks and Lands Announces New Outdoor Recreation Investments Map. "The map highlights investments in outdoor recreation such as trails, parks, and […]
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