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Aug 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES San Francisco State University: History of SF State told through photos. "From its first Commencement in June 1901 to the Third World Liberation Front student strikes of 1968 right up […]
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Aug 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Nature: Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database. "[Sundarapandian] Vaidyanathan, a computer scientist at the Vel Tech R&D Institute of Technology, a privately run institute, is an extreme […]
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Aug 19, 2019
USEFUL STUFF Digital Trends: Best alternatives to Google's preinstalled Android apps. "Every Android user out there is used to getting their shiny new Android phone preloaded with a slew of Google apps. […]
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Aug 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES NECN: ‘There's No Safe Level of Lead:' Vermont Schools, Day Care Centers Undergoing Wave of Lead Tests. "With a sweeping round of statewide lead tests now underway at Vermont schools […]
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Aug 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Oral histories from Georgian WWII veterans now freely available online. "Video recorded recollections from 50 World War II veterans originally from the Bainbridge, GA, area are […]
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Aug 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Michigan Live: Grand Rapids to post hundreds of historic jail mugshots on Instagram. "Looking to trace the roots of your family history? If your early 20th century relatives spent some […]
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Aug 17, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ubergizmo: Google's ‘Assignments' Will Help Students Check For Plagiarism. "….with the announcement of its new education platform ‘Assignments', Google will be offering students and educators an originality report tool […]
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Aug 17, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PaperCity Magazine: Fight to Save Texas' Endangered Historic Buildings Gets an Instagram Ally. "While neglect and redevelopment are destroying the remarkable modernist architecture in Dallas and Houston at an alarming […]
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Aug 16, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Twitter tests ways for users to follow and snooze specific topics. "You may soon be able to organize Twitter's web of hashtags and handles in a smarter way […]
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Aug 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New York Times: Art Disappears in Private Hands. Can Social Media Resurface It?. "Collecteurs, based out of the New Museum's NEW INC., a cultural incubator, is a public benefit corporation […]
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Aug 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Washington: New portal takes you deep within the ocean's hidden world. "The Interactiveoceans website takes you deep into the ocean, offering data on light, temperature and a whole […]
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Aug 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES 4WWL: New database makes veteran-owned businesses easy to find. "The Louisiana Veterans First business initiative launched Thursday. The program promotes veteran-owned businesses through certification, in-business displays, and an online database. […]
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Aug 14, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: More from Google on its indexing issues . "Vincent Courson, Google Search Outreach, has written a blog post about Google's search indexing problems of late, how […]
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Aug 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES International Committee of the Red Cross: Digitalizing the Geneva Conventions - giving greater access to the rules of war. "70 years ago today, on 12 August 1949, the Geneva Conventions […]
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Aug 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Florida State University: Inside the story of Emmett Till: FSU professor launches app with digital perspective of civil rights icon. "A Florida State University professor's five-year research project has opened […]
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Aug 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Australia: Australian Libraries Join Forces to Build National Digital Collection. "Australia's national, state and territory libraries have come together in a world-first collaboration to build a national […]
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Aug 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Macarthur Advertiser: Vast database on Campbelltown's koalas shared . "That treasure trove of scientifically-collated research, along with videos, maps, newspaper clippings, press releases and the back catalogue of Mac Koala […]
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Aug 12, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Poynter: Here comes a tool, approved by WhatsApp, to automate the distribution of fact-checks. "The love/hate relationship between fact-checkers and reader-submitted tips from private messaging may soon be a […]
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Aug 12, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Asbarez: ‘The Christian Architecture of the Levant' Website Launched. "The initial 3,300 photographs, plans and maps of 118 sites presented on the Website are composed of secular, ecclesiastical and military […]
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Aug 11, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Berkeley News: UC faculty to Elsevier: Restart negotiations, or else. "A group of prominent University of California faculty say they will step away from the editorial boards of scientific […]
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Aug 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES ReliefWeb: British Red Cross launches new online knowledge-sharing platform. "The hub is a free online platform with over 300 resources, providing a ‘one stop shop' for anyone mainstreaming community engagement […]
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Aug 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES CBC: Hear Indigenous language speakers from around the globe through Google Earth. "Users of Google Earth are now able to hear over 50 Indigenous language speakers from across the globe […]
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Aug 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Fit to Print: St. Catherine's School Newspapers On Virginia Chronicle. "The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce its collaboration with St. Catherine's School in Richmond to film and digitize […]
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Aug 09, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Atlantic: Instagram Wants Memers to Like It Again. "Today, the company is announcing that it's looking to hire its first-ever strategic-partnerships manager specifically to focus on meme accounts […]
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Aug 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Comcast expands its low-cost internet to another three million households. "Since 2011, Comcast's Internet Essentials program has connected more than eight million low-income individuals from two million households […]
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Aug 08, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES DigitalNC: Over one hundred more issues of the Greensboro High School newspaper are online now. "Thanks to our partners at the Greensboro History Museum, DigitalNC is proud to announce […]
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Aug 07, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Poynter: Fact-checkers have lost important digital tools — and will lose one more in September. "It's been a tough year for fact-checkers. At least three major digital tools have […]
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Aug 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Bloomberg: Sandee Wants to Be the Yelp of Beaches. "Does it have to be on an ocean? Is a sandy shore on a lake a beach? What about a peaceful […]
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Aug 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Wisconsin-Madison: New Online Archive For Africanist Norman Miller. "The Norman Miller Archive is a new open multimedia resource featuring selected research, photos, films, journals, books, and field notes […]
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Aug 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES History News Network: JSTOR Interview Archive Help Preserve History. "The site is a fully-functioning prototype built by JSTOR Labs, a team at the digital library JSTOR that builds experimental tools […]
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Aug 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Advocate: This Webcomic Librarian Is Protecting LGBTQ Stories. "Nearly 1200 webcomics populate the online library created and managed by Luma Lilac, a 21-year-old ‘genderly queer' asexual archivist who maintains […]
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Aug 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES SBS: New app opens the door to the past - 75 year anniversary of Cowra breakout . "Before dawn on the 5th of August in 1944, Japanese prisoners of war, […]
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Aug 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress Blog: Now Online! The Gandhara Scroll, a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Text of Early Buddhism. "The Library's Gandhara Scroll, one of the world's oldest Buddhist manuscripts, has been painstakingly […]
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Aug 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Aberdeen: New resource brings Alaskan school children face-to-face with their past. "For more than 10 years archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen have worked alongside the local community […]
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Aug 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES WBNS: Online database connects public with artwork around Columbus. "On the site, users can search by category (mural, sculpture, fountain), attribute (free parking, indoors, ADA accessible) or by location via […]
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Aug 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Democrat & Chronicle: Worried about your drinking water? A new site may provide some relief. "Have questions about the quality of your drinking water? The state launched a new website […]
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Aug 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Australian Academy of Science: New database to boost the visibility of women in STEM. "Australian women in STEM will be more visible thanks to a new resource showcasing the depth […]
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Aug 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES PressGazette: Telegraph rounds up ‘best of Boris' columns in new online archive. "The Telegraph has published an archive of Boris Johnson's columns for the paper since 2004 so readers can […]
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Aug 01, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Journal: Instagram Purges Meme Accounts, Shutting Down Pages With Millions of Followers. "Dozens of accounts with over 30 million followers combined were deleted without warning. The removal […]
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Aug 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Comicbook: New Website Helps Plan Your Next Pokemon Vacation to Japan. "Have you ever wanted to check out all the Pokemon sights and events in Japan, but the language barrier […]
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Jul 31, 2019
NEW RESOURCES UNAIDS: Mapping HIV laws and policies. "A new website that enables people to identify national laws and policies related to the AIDS response has been launched by UNAIDS. Covering areas […]
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Jul 31, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Confluence: New Digital Library Brings Indigenous Voices into the Classroom. "A new digital resource library will give Oregon and Washington students access to Indigenous stories and perspectives to support lessons […]
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Jul 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Voxy: Revamped digital library of archaeological reports launched today. "Heritage New Zealand has revamped its Archaeological Reports Digital Library and is launching it today. The digital library currently contains over […]
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Jul 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Wyoming Public Media: State Auditor's Transparency Website Goes Live. "Wyoming State Auditor Kristi Racines has launched a new website detailing how Wyoming spends most of its money. The website… went […]
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Jul 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: a database of sandstone archives. From Deseret News: Utah geologist spends days hunting for arches: 1,941 and still counting. "In 2002 [Jens Munthe] published ‘Arches of the Escalante Canyons […]
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Jul 29, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Papers of President James Garfield Now Online. "The papers of President James A. Garfield, who was assassinated in the first year of his short presidency, have been […]
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Jul 28, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Xinhua: Kenya launches data bank on pan-African public health facilities. "Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) on Wednesday launched an inventory that captures the geographical distribution of public health facilities in […]
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Jul 27, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Classical Music: Warner Classics digitises its full catalogue on new streaming site. "Warner Classics's back catalogue of classical music will now be available to stream for free on the label's […]
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Jul 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES KULR: Plan your next backpacking trip with new Wilderness. net from UM. "The University of Montana's Wilderness Institute unveiled a new website that aims to be one-stop shopping for learning […]
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Jul 26, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: New: Omar Bin Said Story Map. "When the Library's Omar Ibn Said Collection was put online earlier this year, the multi-national, multi-lingual story presented a challenge: How […]
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Jul 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES AlphaGalileo: New database to monitor national energy use and CO2 emissions. "How much of the Swedish chemical industry's energy use is from renewables and how much from fuel oil? What […]
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Jul 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES AlphaGalileo: New database to monitor national energy use and CO2 emissions. "How much of the Swedish chemical industry's energy use is from renewables and how much from fuel oil? What […]
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Jul 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES EdWeek Market Brief: A New Tool for Searching Out ‘High Quality' Curricula. "In its first phase, the K12 Instructional Materials Dashboard developed by the State Educational Technology Directors Association, or […]
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Jul 25, 2019
NEW RESOURCES UTSA Today: New grant-funded educator misconduct database to aid in research and prevention . "David Thompson, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the UTSA […]
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Jul 23, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Green Car Congress: New database to speed creation of innovative steels . "Researchers from the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) in Russia have developed a database that will […]
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Jul 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Cayman Compass: Colours Cayman launches ‘Allies' network. "Rainbow turtles have begun appearing in the doorways of some Cayman Islands businesses. The decals represent efforts by Colours Cayman to identify LGBT-friendly […]
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Jul 22, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES New Zealand Herald: Niki Bezzant: Shining light on food facts. "We still don't have, for example, proper country-of-origin labelling on foods. We're maybe halfway there — fresh and frozen […]
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Jul 22, 2019
As you probably know, Google News has a date search option that allows you to limit your searches to a variety of time spans, including recent items, the past 24 hours, and […]
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Jul 22, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Online Historical Directories: New Pages: Farm and Farmers Directories. "I've spent much of this month adding links to the site to farm and farmer's directories on the Internet Archive. There […]
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Jul 21, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: YouTube's exclusive MLB coverage begins streaming today. "Earlier this year YouTube announced an exclusive 13-game streaming deal with Major League Baseball — and it's starting today." It started […]
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Jul 20, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: Twitter tests a new way to label replies. "Twitter is testing a new way to make conversation threads easier to follow, with the launch of a new test […]
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Jul 20, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Royal Gazette: Online gallery gives artists global exposure. "An independent art curator and consultant has launched an online art gallery to develop international awareness of the contemporary visual-art movement in […]
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Jul 19, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Local SEOs Say Google My Business Suspension Issues Not Fixed. "The other day we reported that the Google My Business issues were reportedly fixed according to […]
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Jul 19, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: See the world's oldest emoji in this new archive of 650 ancient symbols. "A new project aims to catalogue hundreds of ancient symbols, drawn from long-gone civilizations like […]
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Jul 18, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Fast Company: Suspicious of Google's reCaptcha? Here's a popular alternative. "In the fall of 2018, Google released a new version of reCaptcha, the company's widely used bot detector. reCaptcha […]
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Jul 18, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Hindustan Times: Now, a database of harmful chemicals in everyday items. "Chennai-based Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) has created an online database — Database of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and their […]
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Jul 17, 2019
Hey y'all! The latest Inside Google & Alphabet newsletter is available at https://inside.com/campaigns/inside-google-alphabet-2019-07-17-15985 . Today's topics include yesterday's hearings in Congress, expanded bike-sharing information on Google Maps, an upcoming AMA for Google […]
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Jul 17, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of St. Thomas: An Ethics Resource at Your Fingertips: Meet BERC. "Business Ethics Resource Center includes ethics and compliance resources from nationally and internationally recognized ethics and compliance centers, […]
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Jul 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Federal Depository Library Program: GPO Digitizes Public Papers of the Presidents. "The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the National Archives' Office of the Federal Register (OFR) have digitized volumes […]
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Jul 16, 2019
Hey y'all! The latest Inside Google & Alphabet newsletter is available at https://inside.com/campaigns/inside-google-alphabet-2019-07-16-15944 . Today's topics include new space exploration features in Google Earth, a partnership with Rite Aid, the first public […]
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Jul 16, 2019
NEW RESOURCES UCLA: Former mayor and UCLA alumnus Tom Bradley focus of new online archive. "The UCLA Film &Television Archive has created a digital portal showcasing local news footage of former Los […]
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Jul 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Verge: Check out this incredible archive of Apple's promotional photos and ads. "Graphic designer and marketer Sam Henri Gold has assembled an incredible archive of Apple's promotional materials that […]
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Jul 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Standard: 22 new species on Hong Kong reefs . "A local marine conservation group discovered at least 22 species of fish that are new to Hong Kong and launched […]
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Jul 15, 2019
NEW RESOURCES National Archives: NARA Digitizes More than 500 Volumes of U.S. Navy Muster Rolls. "The National Archives partnered with the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), […]
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Jul 14, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Thomasville History Center's Cutler Collection now freely available online. "The digitized items from this collection consist primarily of diaries, letters, and family papers dating from 1800-1980 […]
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Jul 14, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Tubefilter: Hank Green's Internet Creators Guild To Shutter, Citing No "Path To Financial Stability". "The Internet Creators Guild (ICG) — a nonprofit launched by online luminary and VidCon co-founder […]
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Jul 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Shift: ‘States using online harassment as a weapon against critical journalists'. "A new website launched by the International Press Institute (IPI) offers comprehensive resources for newsrooms to combat online […]
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Jul 13, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Ohio Attorney General: AG Yost Launches New Tool to Help Ohio Consumers. "Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today announced the launch of a new online tool to help Ohioans gauge […]
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Jul 12, 2019
I currently have over 850 emails to go through and I am running very far behind. If you have emailed, please, please, PLEASE be patient with me. Thank you. NEW RESOURCES Commonwealth […]
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Jul 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Providence Journal: Interactive map reveals all the hidden access points to Rhode Island's shore. "Rhode Island is known as the Ocean State, and sure, every Rhode Islander knows East Matunuck […]
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Jul 11, 2019
NEW RESOURCES KRMG: New Online Tool Provides Patients More Info On Their Medical Costs . "The Medicine Assistance Tool, or MAT, was created by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) to […]
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Jul 10, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Architecture & Design: New public tool to search for design rights. "IP Australia has developed a new tool called Australian Design Search that provides image searching to the public for […]
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Jul 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES From the Tennessee State Library and Archives Page: We're celebrating summer by releasing over 6,000 images from the Department of Conservation Photograph Collection on the Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)!. "This […]
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Jul 09, 2019
Hey y'all! The latest Inside Google & Alphabet newsletter is available at https://inside.com/campaigns/inside-google-alphabet-2019-07-09-15752 . Today's topics include new Stadia details, a teamup for quantum computing research, YouTube TV finally coming to Amazon […]
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Jul 09, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Futurism: A New Website Tracks The Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship . "Last month, a spacecraft called LightSail 2 — which uses a solar sail to propel itself using sunlight — […]
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Jul 08, 2019
NEW RESOURCES CBC: Diaries of St. John's physician spanning 87 years digitized in MUN library. "The diaries of one of Memorial University's first students — which include more than 30,000 daily entries […]
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Jul 07, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The Drum: How Dove, Getty Images and Girl Gaze united to create a commercial image bank featuring real women. "Dove recently partnered with Getty Images and Girl Gaze to create […]
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Jul 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: Important Cultural Property "Dainihonshi Hensan Kiroku" (G.S. Letters) Newly Released. "The Graduate School of Letters of Kyoto University and the Kyoto University Museum have […]
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Jul 06, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Europeana Pro: Extra, extra: Europeana Newspapers is out now. "With the new Europeana Newspapers collection, Europeana Collections gives access to hundreds of newspaper titles and millions of newspaper pages, spanning […]
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Jul 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Belarus News: New website about Belarusian partisans launched in Minsk. "The database of partisans and underground movement members who fought in the territory of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War […]
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Jul 05, 2019
NEW RESOURCES CDN: Digital Cebuano, NCCA project goes online. "The project continues an earlier project with the NCCA [National Commission for Culture and the Arts] - the Shared Future project - which […]
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Jul 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES University of Victoria: Fossil fuel mapping database results released. "A new online mapping tool highlighting the 50 most influential fossil fuel industry players in Western Canada was launched today to […]
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Jul 04, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Qweerist: Award-winning filmmakers launch LGBTQ short film streaming platform to ‘entertain and inform'. "QueerBee is a high-quality online collection of hand-picked LGBTQ independent short films of all genres for all […]
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Jul 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES CBC: UBC prof helps create an online database of banned books. "A life-size replica of the Athenian Parthenon made of ‘banned books' stands as a towering art installation in Kassel, […]
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Jul 03, 2019
NEW RESOURCES The dispatch: Time capsule: Looking back, through the lens of Carl Brown's camera . "For more than four decades, Carl Eugene Brown (1918-1998) was a recorder of history in Lowndes […]
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Jul 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Tennessee Secretary of State: State Library & Archives Launches New Digital Project on Revolutionary War. "As our nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, the Tennessee State Library & Archives has […]
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Jul 02, 2019
NEW RESOURCES WTTW: New ‘Get Outside' Map Features 350 Places to Enjoy Nature in Chicago. "Chicago-based environmental nonprofit Openlands recently launched a ‘Get Outside Map' that serves as an interactive guide to […]
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Jul 01, 2019
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Facebook will fight misinformation linked to the 2020 US census. "Facebook isn't just limiting its anti-interference efforts to elections. The social network has published a second updated on […]
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Jul 01, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Dawn: Who are we hanging?. "To find out who is being sentenced to death or read about prior cases, the Justice Project Pakistan has compiled data, previously unavailable to the […]
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Jun 30, 2019
NEW RESOURCES Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: History In The Cloud. "Some people might think Bentonville wouldn't have room for another museum, what with Crystal Bridges and the Amazeum both calling the city home. […]
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