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Mar 27, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: The Anti-Bullseye Name Search Most names in English are expressed in news articles and other places like this: Firstname Lastname, or possibly Firstname Middlename Lastname. TABNS takes […]
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Mar 26, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Bleeping Computer: Microsoft pushes OOB security updates for Windows Snipping tool flaw. "Now tracked as CVE-2023-28303, the Acropalypse vulnerability is caused by image editors not properly removing cropped image […]
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Mar 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES News on 6: Tulsa Historical Society And Museum Adds 50,000 Photos To Online Archive. "The Tulsa Historical Society and Museum has now added 50,000 of its photos online. This means […]
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Mar 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES British Library Endangered Archives blog: New online - March 2023. "This month we would like to highlight five new collections that have recently been made available online. They have come […]
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Mar 24, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Penn State: Expanded Judy Chicago Research Portal relaunches with five unified collections. "Penn State University Libraries has announced the relaunch of an expanded Judy Chicago Research Portal, a searchable gateway […]
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Mar 24, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Back That Ask Up Remove recent Google News from your search results by day, month, or year. NEW RESOURCES University of Illinois Chicago: New UIC early learning […]
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Mar 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion. "The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a memory forever etched in the minds of millions […]
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Mar 23, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: No Shop Sherlock No Shop Sherlock is a Google filter designed to get cruft out of your search results. Options let you filter out general Web clutter, […]
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Mar 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map. "The state health department's Air Pollution Control Division has launched a […]
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Mar 22, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Politician Parade Politician Parade adds a state's Congresspeople to your Google News search. Depending on how many reps your state has, this tool will generate one or […]
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Mar 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Global Investigative Journalism Network: New Investigative Tools for Monitoring Social Media Platforms. "Originally designed to monitor disinformation and ‘junk news,' Junkipedia has developed to the point where the tool will […]
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Mar 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Reveals Identities of Hundreds of People in Early 19th-Century Portrait Album. "The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has announced the launch of William Bache's Silhouettes Album, […]
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Mar 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New York University: Researchers launch database with new classification system for minority-serving institutions in US. "The MSI Data Project, launched in March 2023, offers dashboards with data on MSI eligibility, […]
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Mar 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Radio Prague International: Czech Radio digitises full archive of trial with key figure in Lidice massacre. "On the occasion of the anniversary of the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia […]
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Mar 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES ABS-CBN News: Online presidential library memorializes late Fidel V. Ramos. "Aside from his leadership journey which can be seen in the archival collection of photos and videos, speeches, and key […]
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Mar 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Ekathimerini: Canada's Greeks share their stories. "These and many more stories form the core of the Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada, an initiative that is part […]
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Mar 18, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Visual Studio Magazine: Microsoft Open Sources Tool for GPT-4-Infused Apps. "Microsoft has open sourced an internal incubation project that can help developers integrate cutting-edge AI models quickly and easily […]
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Mar 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES General Aviation News: General Aviation News archives digitized back to 1990. "The print edition of General Aviation News has been digitized from 1990 through March 2023. Those archives can be […]
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Mar 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Scientific Data: LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States . "This article introduces LOCALVIEW, the largest existing dataset of […]
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Mar 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Berkeley News: New Berkeley Terner Center database gives ‘road map' for local housing reform. "Local municipalities around the U.S. now have a road map to pursue housing reform through a […]
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Mar 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Hawaii: Largest catalog of exploding stars now available. "The newly-released data contains information on nearly 2,000 supernovae and other luminous variable objects with observations in multiple colors. It […]
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Mar 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES TouringCars .net: TouringCars.Net launches comprehensive touring car database. "TouringCars.Net is today (14 March) announcing the launch of the Touring Car Database, featuring one of the internet's most comprehensive sources of […]
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Mar 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive. "Online forums and message boards have long been significant venues for special-interest discussion and debate. They […]
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Mar 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Stanford Libraries launches Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46 (PRESS RELEASE). "The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is […]
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Mar 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Diet Library, Japan: 320,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service. "The National Diet Library has made roughly […]
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Mar 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES EU Science Hub: A new tool maps the state of soil health across Europe. "EU-wide harmonised soil datasets and a novel methodology are among the main features of the soil […]
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Mar 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Nintendo Life: Random: Fan Compiles Archive Of Over 450 Interviews From Shigeru Miyamoto. "In what must have been an incredible effort, one person has managed to compile over 450 interviews, […]
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Mar 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES From EL PAÍS, and machine-translated from Spanish: Colombia builds its first digital archive of indigenous languages ??of the Amazon. "More than one hundred audios can now be consulted in a […]
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Mar 12, 2023
EVENTS SW VA Today: Grand Ole Opry archivist to offer online look backstage. "As archives manager for The Grand Ole Opry, Jen Larson has access to 96 years of the institution's greatest […]
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Mar 12, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Evening Standard: Microsoft says GPT-4 AI is coming next week with video features. "GPT-4, the next large-language model in the company's GPT-series after GPT-3.5, which underpins ChatGPT, is apparently […]
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Mar 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Health IT Analytics: Researchers Develop Health Equity Data Dashboard for Medicare Plans. "Researchers have developed a dashboard that shows how equitably Medicare Advantage plans are serving their enrollees in an […]
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Mar 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Tribune / Elkin Courier-News: Thanks to grant and hours of museum volunteer work, old Elgin newspaper photos now available online. "Hundreds of old black-and-white photos capturing decades of Elgin's […]
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Mar 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES American Legion: 50 years of Sons of The American Legion newsletters now available. "More than 1,400 pages of Sons of The American Legion newsletters are now available through the American […]
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Mar 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Limerick: ‘20th century gems': University of Limerick and An Garda Síochána launch new digitised archive . "The Garda Review was established in 1923, a year after the force […]
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Mar 09, 2023
I'm getting faster! This 58-second video only took me four hours: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NX_AwNeri_E NEW RESOURCES Codart: Ackland Art Museum Launches Website Entirely Dedicated to a Collection of Drawings. "In 2017, UNC alumnus Dr. […]
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Mar 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Columbia Climate School: New Website Tracks Inflation Reduction Act's Climate Provisions. "Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund unveiled a new website today to […]
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Mar 08, 2023
I'm sorry, obviously running VERY late today. I'm taking another crack at doing short videos about my Search Gizmos. I like this effort better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfAaWRi2kY . NEW RESOURCES Fordham University: Center for […]
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Mar 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Condé Nast Traveler: Native California, a Just-Launched Online Database, Connects Travelers to the State's Indigenous Heritage. "Launching this week, Visit Native California is an online hub from the state's tourism […]
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Mar 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Tennessee Department of Health: New Online Resource Connects Tennesseans In Substance-Use Crisis To local Treatment Services. "FindHelpNowTN.org guides individuals to location-based openings and services available at substance use treatment facilities. […]
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Mar 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES CBS: DOT tool shows which airlines let families sit together for free. "The Transportation Department on Monday debuted a new dashboard that shows families which airlines guarantee they can sit […]
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Mar 06, 2023
EVENTS National Library and Archives (United Arab Emirates): The National Library and Archives focuses on artificial intelligence techniques in the field of translation.. "The National Library and Archives third international translation conference, […]
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Mar 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Winnipeg Free Press: A treasure of Ukrainian culture open to the world. "The curator of Oseredok Ukrainian Culture and Exhibition Centre has spent the last 14 months digitizing items in […]
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Mar 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Court News Ohio: Free Online Help for Kinship Caretakers. "Ohio Legal Help, with funding from a Supreme Court of Ohio federal Court Improvement Grant, has developed an interactive section of […]
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Mar 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES British Library Endangered Archives Blog: New online - February 2023. "This month we would like to highlight five new collections that can be accessed via the EAP website. Two of […]
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Mar 04, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Wrap: CNET Lays Off 10% of Staff Just Weeks After Launching Articles Written by AI. "CNET is laying off roughly 10 percent of its editorial staff - around […]
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Mar 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online. "The archive of a magazine chronicling the lives of Britain's black community during the 1970s and 1980s […]
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Mar 03, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Museo Galileo: Leonardo//Thek@. "Leonardo//Thek@-Codex Atlanticus is an innovative digital repository that provides access to images and transcriptions of the nearly 1200 pages of the Codex Atlanticus, and to the results […]
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Mar 03, 2023
NEW RESOURCES KSTP: Minnesota Department of Health introduces new tool to track violent death. "The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) introduced the Minnesota Violent Death Reporting System (MNVDRS) dashboard on Wednesday, a […]
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Mar 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Baltimore Sun: Baltimore launches new public safety accountability dashboard with crime, arrest, conviction metrics. "The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard… will offer the public a view of police and court data […]
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Mar 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES State of Delaware: State Crash Data Now Available to Public Through Open Data Portal. "Those evaluating or planning the safety enhancement of potential crash sites or hazardous roadway conditions will […]
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Mar 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Press of Atlantic City: Black History Month at Atlantic City Library strengthened by digitized collection. "The Atlantic City Library marked Black History Month by touting its newly digitized repository […]
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Mar 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Library of Congress Releases Newly Digitized Colonial-era African Postcards. "The Library of Congress has announced the initial release of over 1,300 newly digitized postcards from the Africana […]
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Feb 28, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive: The "Patriarchs of Nonproliferation". "A few days after President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend its observation of START, the only U.S.-Russia arms control agreement still […]
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Feb 28, 2023
NEW RESOURCES UCLA Law: UCLA Law Releases New Database To Monitor Deaths In U.s. Prisons With Funding From Arnold Ventures . "…the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project is releasing a comprehensive […]
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Feb 27, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Carleton University (Canada): Criminologist Collaboratively Launches National Database of Deaths Caused by Police Use of Force. "The searchable database demonstrates that the number of people who have been killed in […]
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Feb 27, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Sun-Times: Newberry Library online exhibition showcases images from the Great Migration. "A new chapter in Black American history is unfolding at the Newberry Library, courtesy of a recently acquired […]
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Feb 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian Magazine: See Rare Images of Early 20th-Century Antarctic Expeditions. "A trove of historic images from early 20th-century Australian and British expeditions to Antarctica is officially available to the public, […]
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Feb 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Illinois News Bureau: Video series highlights history of skin in the early modern world. "A series of eight videos available online highlights the research of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history […]
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Feb 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Library of the Netherlands: Libraries make their foreign language collections easier to find. "The dashboard lists all non-Dutch language books available for borrowing in libraries in the Netherlands, or […]
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Feb 24, 2023
NEW RESOURCES This is from last November but I just found out about it and it's too good to miss. From the National Library of the Netherlands: KB launches Religion and Philosophy […]
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Feb 24, 2023
NEW RESOURCES San Francisco State University: SF State Bay Area Television Archive is a treasure trove of history on film — and streaming online . "Based in the J. Paul Leonard Library […]
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Feb 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Minnesota Judicial Branch: Court of Appeals Special Term Orders Now Available Online. "The Minnesota Court of Appeals, in partnership with the Minnesota State Law Library, is now making available the […]
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Feb 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Korea JoongAng Daily: Experience Korea's DMZ virtually in latest Google Arts & Culture project. "The project scale is massive: Divided into three sections — history, art and nature, the ‘DMZ' […]
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Feb 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Premium Beauty News: Cosmetics Europe launches database of cosmetic ingredients. "… the database provides information on almost 30,000 ingredients used in cosmetics. It includes information on ingredient properties, their function, […]
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Feb 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Arizona: UArizona helps launch archive sharing stories of detained immigrants. "University of Arizona faculty and community partners have created a public archive of interviews with asylum seekers and […]
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Feb 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Business Insider: A 17-year-old Seattle high schooler is tracking more than 150 private jets' emissions. "Using [Jack] Sweeney's Ground Control Registration Database — which was developed to famously track Elon […]
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Feb 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Lancaster University: Focus on silver screen stars and cinema-going now open to all. "The Lancaster team worked with experts from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow […]
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Feb 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Engadget: Viz Media makes ‘Sailor Moon' and other anime classics available for free on YouTube. "Viz Media has uploaded some of the most well-known anime series out there to YouTube […]
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Feb 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Transportation Safety Board: NTSB Releases Data Visualization Tool for General Aviation Accidents. "The General Aviation Accident Dashboard provides summary statistics, investigative findings and safety recommendations for general aviation accidents […]
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Feb 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Thanks to the Distant Librarian for pointing me toward this new-to-me research guide on artificial intelligence. From the front page: "This guide has been created for students and instructors to […]
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Feb 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Radio Free Asia: New search tool helps Uyghurs discover fate of missing loved ones in China. "The search tool was unveiled on Feb. 9 by the Victims of Communism Memorial […]
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Feb 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES This link goes to a PDF file. The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre: Berkeley Rep School of Theatre Launches DIG IN. "—The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre is excited to […]
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Feb 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT: European forensic experts have published for the first time a practical guide for analyzing manipulated audio files. "This helpful guide describes technical procedures, […]
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Feb 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Medical Marketing and Media: Digital Medicine Society unveils resources to boost DE&I in digitized clinical trials. "The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) launched a suite of free resources designed to boost […]
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Feb 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Drexel University: Drexel Launches Digital Database, Making Atwater Kent Collection Available to the Public. "The Atwater Kent Collection includes an extraordinary assemblage of some 130,000 historic artifacts and archival materials […]
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Feb 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES International Council of Museums: ICOM New Red List of Brazilian Cultural Objects at Risk. "The purpose of this Red List for Brazilian Cultural Objects at Risk is to contribute to […]
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Feb 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Plan the perfect family day out in the UK with Google Arts & Culture . "Right on time for half-term (or any school holiday), Google Arts & Culture […]
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Feb 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Waterloo: DREAM resources support the health and wellness of persons living with dementia. "The [Dementia Resources for Eating, Activity, and Meaningful inclusion] project has developed a new series […]
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Feb 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Canadian Coin News: Ferguson Foundation launches ‘long overdue' digital repository. "Its creators hope the CNR [Canadian Numismatic Resources] will soon serve as the most complete resource of Canadian numismatic documents […]
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Feb 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Education NC: Perspective | New online tools provide snapshot of NC early childhood landscape. "The map provides detailed information about initiatives across the state whose work advances a shared vision […]
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Feb 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Northern Arizona University: NAU students illuminate diversity of Route 66 in online exhibit . "Cline Library Special Collections and Archives recently released Shades of Route 66: Celebrating Diversity along Historic […]
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Feb 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES We Rave You: New website launches with live and rare unreleased music from The Prodigy. "… a new website has been published that documents the group's career while presenting a […]
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Feb 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES UK Authority: Veterans Data Dashboard live. "The Office for Veterans' Affairs (OVA) has launched a Veterans Data Dashboard with information on ex-armed forces personnel. It brings together data from different […]
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Feb 12, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Opera's building ChatGPT into its sidebar. "Opera's adding a ChatGPT-powered tool to its sidebar that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles. The feature, called ‘shorten,' is […]
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Feb 12, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New York Times: Soul Told Black Musicians' Stories. Its Archives Are Going Digital.. "The newspaper, which started in 1966 with a focus on R&B, funk and disco, shut down in […]
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Feb 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: A worldwide map of memorial benches. Over 26,000 of them. From the About Page: "There are blue plaques to commemorate the famous and influential figures of the past. For […]
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Feb 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Discovered via a convoluted route it would take entirely too long to tell you about: the Flex Index. From the front page: "The world's most robust source for full time, […]
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Feb 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me, from University of Massachusetts Amherst: Umass Amherst Political Economy Research Institute Updates Tool Tracking Air Pollution At Every U.S. School. "The tool, Air Toxics at School, reports toxicity-weighted concentrations […]
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Feb 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Michigan: Beyond Rhetoric offers road map for responding to racism as a public health crisis. ‘The research team is sharing what they learn on their website, where they've […]
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Feb 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Princeton University Library: Sidney Lapidus '59 gift to Princeton University Library opens digital access to collection of rare Revolution-era books and publications. "The collection includes more than 2,700 original books, […]
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Feb 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Farming Online: New insect genome database to boost nature friendly pest control. "A new database of 19 insect genomes encompassing some of the most damaging pests of crops worldwide has […]
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Feb 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Business Insider: The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet is launching his own flight-tracking website. "Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old college student known for tracking Elon Musk's private jet […]
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