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Jan 18, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: Google reveals new Python programming language course: Scholarships for 2,500. "There are six courses in the Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate, including an introductory ‘crash course […]
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Jan 18, 2020
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, with new offshoots: Hasse receives N.J. conservation award for vast online mapping project. "Rowan University Professor of Geography John Hasse and a team of researchers have compiled a massive […]
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Jan 17, 2020
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Newspapers from Northampton County Now Online. "One of our goals is to increase representation of counties and communities that are under-represented on DigitalNC. Most recently we've been focusing on […]
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Jan 17, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Floornature: 100 years of Vico Magistretti - 1920/2020. "The new year started with an important event for the Fondazione Studio Museo Vico Magistretti: on January 7, the website of Studio […]
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Jan 16, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Israel Hayom: Israel's National Library to share oral histories of Sephardi Jews. "The National Library of Israel has begun publishing oral histories from the Sephardi Voices initiative, the first digital […]
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Jan 16, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Motherboard: Verizon Launches ‘Private' Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers' Privacy. "Verizon has spent the better part of the last decade mired in privacy scandals and lobbying the […]
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Jan 16, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Reddit: I've created The Poster Database - A movie and tv show poster website containing over 35,000 high-quality posters. "The Poster Database is a custom-built platform for all posters lovers […]
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Jan 15, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ARN: Google strengthens no-code app dev tech with AppSheet acquisition. "Google has acquired AppSheet, a no-code application development platform, in a move that will see the company join the […]
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Jan 15, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Google Chrome's privacy changes will hit the web later this year. "Google's Chrome team, advancing its web privacy effort, later this year will begin testing the ‘privacy sandbox' […]
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Jan 15, 2020
NEW RESOURCES KJZZ: New Website Lets Citizens Comment On Proposed Bills In Arizona Legislature. "A website maintained by the Arizona Legislature has a full rundown of proposed new laws, amendments to proposals, […]
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Jan 14, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Adam Matthew: Adam Matthew Digital and The Kinsey Institute announce publication of Sex & Sexuality digital archive. "The Kinsey Institute's Archives and Special Collections is one of the largest and […]
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Jan 14, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Tubefilter: YouTube To Stream Coachella For 10th Year Running, Announces Doc About Festival. "YouTube, which has long streamed coverage of Coachella — the trendy music festival that has become […]
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Jan 14, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Los Angeles Times: Time's Up launches a database of diverse film and TV critics and journalists . "Time's Up has officially launched Critical, a database of underrepresented film and television […]
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Jan 13, 2020
NEW RESOURCES State of Michigan: New interactive map highlights Great Lakes shipwrecks and their lore. "The Syracuse and the Cedarville are among 1,500 shipwrecks submerged in Michigan waters, making up one-quarter of […]
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Jan 13, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Milwaukee Independent: First-Of-Its-Kind Portal Launched By Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee Offers Searchable Venue Database. "The Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee recently launched its Venue Search Portal, a first-of-its-kind digital search platform […]
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Jan 13, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Arizona Public Media: New online tool points consumers Native American-owned businesses. "RezRising is meant to be a sort of Yelp for Native American-owned businesses. It's geared both for members of […]
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Jan 12, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Facebook's redesigned look for desktops is coming before spring 2020. "Facebook's begun giving some users access to its redesigned desktop experience, first announced in April, that's less cluttered […]
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Jan 11, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Hyperallergic: Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public . "Paris Musées announced yesterday that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks […]
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Jan 10, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNBC: Alphabet's legal chief David Drummond is leaving the company: Reports. "Former senior contracts manager Jennifer Blakely published about her relationship with Drummond last summer, alleging he broke company […]
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Jan 10, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Another November release I missed, from the National Association of Secretaries of State: NASS Launches #TrustedInfo2020: A Public Election Education Initiative. "#TrustedInfo2020 encourages American citizens to look to their state […]
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Jan 10, 2020
NEW RESOURCES International Institute for Environment and Development: IIED publishes archive on post-quake planning in Haiti . "IIED is marking the ten-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake by publishing an online archive […]
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Jan 09, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BetaNews: With Chrome 80, Google is making website notifications STFU. "When Mozilla released Firefox 72 yesterday, users were happy to find that the company had tamed the popup messages […]
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Jan 09, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Christian Science Monitor: ‘Numbers don't lie': The team ‘Counting Dead Women' in Kenya. "For years, whenever Kathomi Gatwiri complained that violence against women in her home country of Kenya was […]
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Jan 09, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BBC: Facebook to ban ‘deepfakes'. "Facebook said it would remove videos if it realised they had been edited in ways that weren't obvious to an average person, or if […]
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Jan 08, 2020
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Pilot Light Launches First-Ever Free Online Library For K-12 Grade Food Education Lesson Plans (PRESS RELEASE). "In addition to providing free lesson plans, the Food Education Center also […]
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Jan 08, 2020
NEW RESOURCES KX Net: State Flood Risk Map Now Available To Residents."The North Dakota Water Commission recently unveiled a new interactive map you can check out before the water starts to rise. […]
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Jan 07, 2020
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: a database of Wisconsin-affiliated fishing and duck lures. "[Gene] Davis said people are occasionally confused when they visit [his site]. They assume the images of more than 3,000 items […]
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Jan 07, 2020
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Polygon: The chroniclers of Jeopardy!. "Jeopardy!, now in its 36th season, celebrates the brain's limitless capacity to carry inessential insight. The archive is of the same breed. Those […]
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Jan 07, 2020
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from WNIU: Rockford's Schreiner Leaves Legacy Of Music. "A longtime collector of rare sheet music has died. Lee Schreiner donated much of his collection to Northern Illinois University where […]
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Jan 06, 2020
NEW RESOURCES A translated news release FROM NOVEMBER and I missed it — apologies to the National Library of Greece! National Library of Greece: Access to millions of electronic items from the […]
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Jan 06, 2020
Finally got past that bug that was giving me a hard time and finished my four-part article on what made me teary (in a good way) in 2019. Part 1 is here. […]
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Jan 06, 2020
This is part 4 of 4 of my list of 92 people, groups, and projects that made me grateful and teary in 2019. There are people working all over the world to […]
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Jan 06, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Museum Hue has created a map of what it describes as Culturally-specific museums created by people of color in the United States.. A clickable map on top and more detailed […]
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Jan 05, 2020
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from PRWeb: American Hot Rod Foundation Announces the Launch of New Website (PRESS RELEASE). "The new website not only has the ability to include more content but is also […]
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Jan 04, 2020
The Leader: Findabed helps Australia's bushfire evacuees get refuge. "Set up just five days ago, Find A Bed is a service aimed at helping those displaced by the bushfire crisis and already […]
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Jan 04, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Spectrum News: New data establishes norms for developmental milestones. "Children usually reach developmental milestones such as speaking and walking by a certain age. Pediatricians use these cutoffs to screen for […]
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Jan 03, 2020
TWEAKS AND UPDATES PopBuzz: The ‘which meme are you?' Instagram filter will reveal your inner meme. "Are you the shocked Pikachu or are you the Spongebob's pink glasses? The ‘which meme are […]
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Jan 03, 2020
Yeah, um, so, apparently I was a little optimistic yesterday…. NEW RESOURCES BusinessWire: Collective Memories of Golden Years: Highlights from the 1950s to 1960s Taiwan (PRESS RELEASE). "In response to the Taiwan […]
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Jan 02, 2020
NEW RESOURCES Bleeding Cool: The Official Roy Thomas Characters, Concepts and Creations Database Launches For 2020. "Happy New Year everybody! In celebration of a new decade, my manager and friend John Cimino […]
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Jan 02, 2020
Y'all, that's about the sickest I've been in a long time. Thank you for your nice comments. Think I finally got rid of the last of it this morning, but I expect […]
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Jan 01, 2020
Of course I got sick last night. Of course I did. There was no alcohol involved, either. Guess I'm just lucky. Anyway, I had to go out today because I was not […]
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Dec 31, 2019
This is the only issue today and the last part of teary 2019 will be tomorrow; something's come up. I've been struggling hard over the last couple of months this is par […]
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Dec 31, 2019
This is part 3 of 4 of my list of 92 people, groups, and projects that made me grateful and teary in 2019. Here's part 1. Here's part 2. 47. Ira Rothstein. Dr. […]
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Dec 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES ClassicCars Journal: FIVA launches online source for parts for vintage vehicles. "According to the…website, it lists more than 6 million parts for more than 17,000 historic vehicles with information and […]
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Dec 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES UChicago News: Stamp collection provides rare picture of North Korea. "A group of masked dancers, frozen in dramatic poses. A plane descending at an airport, with another trailing in the […]
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Dec 30, 2019
This is part 2 of 4 of my list of 92 people, groups, and projects that made me grateful and teary in 2019. Here's part 1. Part 3 will be tomorrow morning, […]
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Dec 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Blog of the APA: Academic journal The Philosopher joins with Exact Editions to put their archive online. "Recently, the academic journal The Philosopher decided to partner with the company Exact […]
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Dec 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES This is from early December but apparently I missed it. From ABC News (Australia): The final words of CY O'Connor captured in a suicide note displayed on Culture WA website. […]
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Dec 28, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Reclaim the Records: Reclaim The Records Wins The Nebraska Death Index (1904-1968) . "Earlier this year, one of our board members was noodling around with some Nebraska genealogical research, and […]
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Dec 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Consequence of Sound: Radiohead upload their entire discography to YouTube. "Radiohead, the band who revolutionized music accessibility yet hates Spotify, have uploaded their entire discography to YouTube. This news arrives […]
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Dec 27, 2019
We are now at that time of year where my Google Alerts are stuffed with "Best of" lists. The best of basically anything you can think of, including tech, popular culture, and […]
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Dec 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Education Week Teacher: New Public Data Tool Lets You See What Curricula Schools in Nebraska Are Using. "The interactive instructional materials map, which Nebraska's education department debuted on Thursday, shows […]
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Dec 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from CBC: Why this ‘language geek' provides hundreds of Indigenous language tools for free. "Chris Harvey had a ‘pivotal moment' when he was in Grade 7. He found a […]
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Dec 26, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Military .com: Space Force Has Its First Launch: An Official Website. "The U.S. Space Force has launched its official website, giving prospective service members a glimpse into the military's […]
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Dec 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES MIT Management Sloan School: See the future of global warming in less than one second. "Global warming is a defining problem of our age. But how to solve it? MIT […]
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Dec 25, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES 9to5Google: YouTube will test a new ‘featured in this video' grid for collaborators. "YouTube's Android app is about to be the testing grounds for a handy new feature for […]
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Dec 25, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Neowin: Russia completes successful test of national internet alternative. "Russia has announced the successful test of its national internet alternative - Runet. According to Tass, the exercises were held […]
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Dec 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES D.C. Policy Center: New database of D.C. Planned Unit Developments (PUDs). "D.C.'s Planned Unit Development (PUD) process allows developers to gain additional height and density for a project (beyond what […]
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Dec 24, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BetaNews: You can track Santa Claus again this Christmas with Google. "Yes, Google's official Santa Tracker is an annual tradition, and in 2019, it continues. As usual, the search […]
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Dec 24, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Decrypt: Commun's launch kicks off new wave of decentralized social media. "Two weeks ago, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced intentions to create a set of standards for decentralized social […]
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Dec 24, 2019
NEW RESOURCES FindBiometrics: NIST Launches Three New Biometric Databases to Aid Identity Verification Research. "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the release of three new biometric databases aimed […]
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Dec 23, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ProPublica: TurboTax Tricked Customers Into Paying to File Taxes. Now Several States Are Investigating It. . "Multiple state attorneys general, including Josh Stein of North Carolina, have opened investigations […]
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Dec 23, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Bing Blogs: This holiday season from Bing: flight booking and expanded visual search. "The holidays can be a busy time, but at Bing we hope to make your holiday […]
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Dec 23, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Google Transparency Project: New Data: Google Grants to Academics. "Today, we're making available a new data set of nearly 3,000 financial grants awarded by Google to academic researchers. Google discloses […]
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Dec 22, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BBC: YouTube's top earners: Eight-year-old Ryan tops list with $26m. "An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys has been named as the highest earning YouTuber, for the second year in […]
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Dec 21, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Digital Trends: Flickr cash shortage leads to plea for more paying members. "Flickr is still losing money and needs more people to sign up to its Pro tier to […]
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Dec 20, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Google Translate improves offline translation. "When you're traveling somewhere without access to the internet or don't want to use your data plan, you can still use the […]
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Dec 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PRNewswire: GroupChips. com Launches Golf Puns Website - Announces Pun Contest (PRESS RELEASE). "GroupChips.com, the creator of an innovative social media platform for golf instruction has rolled out a new […]
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Dec 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Minnesota Duluth: Duluth African American Oral History Project. "The African American Oral History Project includes interviews designed to document particular aspects of Duluth's history and/or important local institutions, […]
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Dec 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Kilkenny County Council Online (Ireland): "Kilkenny Shopfronts Through the Ages" - Over 4,400 Photos Made Accessible. "Kilkenny County Council is delighted to launch an exciting new online resource, entitled ‘Kilkenny […]
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Dec 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Phys .org: New collection of maps and datascapes capturing the spatial consequences of climate change. "To help take the Green New Deal from idea to reality, Penn's Ian L. McHarg […]
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Dec 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New to me from TexLibris (what a GREAT name): Read, Hot and Digitized: South by—The Border Studies Archive at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. "The Border Studies Archive […]
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Dec 18, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Google.org Fellows bring transparency to local jail data nationwide. "The last nationwide jail census was conducted in 2013, and the federal government's most recent estimate of the […]
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Dec 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas: Defensores de la Democracia seeks to be a living archive of the work of journalists killed in Mexico. "The story of Emilio Gutiérrez […]
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Dec 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Fragrance Creators Association Launches Groundbreaking Digital Fragrance Resource for the Public (PRESS RELEASE). "The Fragrance Conservatory empowers users to: Search ingredients to understand their use and safety. Learn […]
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Dec 17, 2019
NEW RESOURCES World Intellectual Property Organization: WIPO Launches New Publication Series with Leading Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights; China Is First Contributor . "The World Intellectual Property Organization has published the first […]
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Dec 17, 2019
After a year of increasing difficulty trying to do ResearchBuzz on a Chromebook with an external monitor hooked up, I finally broke down and got a refurbished desktop and spent the weekend […]
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Dec 16, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: Twitter's Election Labels return to help you make sense of 2020 elections . "With 2020 around the corner, it's about that time to actually start paying attention to […]
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Dec 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Spectrum News: New database catalogs variants in autism genes. "VariCarta catalogs variants from more than 13,000 autistic people. So far, it has identified and corrected for 16,832 variants that have […]
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Dec 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES H-Announce: Digitized Field Recordings of Lorenzo Dow Turner. "The project digitized close to 40 hours of field recordings made by African American academic and linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner, known as […]
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Dec 15, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Mashup star DJ Earworm ends his decade with two new compilations and a promise. "To mark the end of a decade, [Jordan] Roseman has released two new […]
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Dec 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES ABC News (Australia): Bangarra Dance Theatre marks 30 years with digital archive and exhibition. "In October 1989, Australia's premiere Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company was born around a […]
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Dec 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Pacific Daily News: Search our database of unexploded ordnance found on Guam. "During the 20-day battle to liberate Guam from Japanese forces, the American military bombarded the island with explosives. […]
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Dec 13, 2019
Search Engine Journal: Yahoo Extends Deadline for Deletion of Yahoo Groups Data. "Yahoo is extending the date that it plans to delete all Yahoo Groups data, which was originally scheduled to happen […]
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Dec 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: Introducing the new Becker Archives Database . "Becker Medical Library has released an enhanced database to help users explore and discover our […]
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Dec 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Civil War and Reconstruction newspapers now freely available online . "As part of a $27,405.00 grant from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, the Digital […]
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Dec 12, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Facebook's Messenger adds Star Wars-themed features and AR effects. "Star Wars has come to Facebook's Messenger app. Facebook today announced a new set of Star Wars-themed features for […]
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Dec 12, 2019
This was supposed to be Wednesday Evening ResearchBuzz before the Internet was out most of the day. TWEAKS AND UPDATES Merriam-Webster: Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2019. "Our Word of the Year […]
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Dec 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Toronto: Global Database of Atrocities on Cameroon Crisis. "The database will aggregate, verify, secure, and publish information about atrocities or crimes against humanity committed by Cameroonian military and […]
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Dec 12, 2019
My Internet went out yesterday morning before I left the house, then when I came back I had to goof around with it an hour or so, and then I had to […]
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Dec 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES National Tribune: Queenslands lost hi 1800s Indigenous police database launched at museum. Not sure what's going on with the headline. "The archive - the Frontier Conflict and the Native Mounted […]
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Dec 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Genealogy's Star: Reclaim the Records: The Mississippi Death Index goes online, for free!. "Introducing the first-ever freely-available publication, online or otherwise, of the Mississippi Statewide Death Index! This record set […]
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Dec 10, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Google Doodle invites you to play Mexican card game Loteria. "Google wanted people to kick off their week with a little Mexican flair Monday, giving us an interactive […]
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Dec 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Texas State Library and Archives Commission: From "Unplayable" to Searchable Online: the House Recordings Recovery Project. "In 2007, Texas House of Representatives' Media Services transferred to the Texas State Library […]
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Dec 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Radio New Zealand: Online resource journeys through hidden history of Waipa. "Te Ara Wai Journeys is a self-guided tour of New Zealand Land Wars battle sites, landscapes and early settlements […]
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Dec 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Circular: "Wikipedia for waste" launched as knowledge sharing platform. "Resource management company Monksleigh has created a new company, Wiki Waste Limited - on a not for profit basis - to […]
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Dec 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES St. Olaf College: St. Olaf team creates Caribbean Studies Network. "Thanks to the research and funding opportunities provided by the Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) program, the TRIO McNair […]
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Dec 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES KTVA: New database lists all Alaskans known missing since 1960. "The Alaska Department of Public Safety has completed a project to list online everyone known to be missing in Alaska […]
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Dec 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES BusinessWire: Suretypedia Converts to a #Crowdsourced Platform (PRESS RELEASE). "Suretypedia, the free encyclopedia for surety bonds, launches a major upgrade to https://www.suretypedia.com/, which provides a brand new interface and […]
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Dec 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES From early November, but I missed it then. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries: ASERL Launches Shared Exhibit. The link is to a PDF file. "The exhibit, ‘Enslaved People in […]
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