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Mar 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES State of Michigan: Secretary Benson launches new online government transparency tool during Sunshine Week. "Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson today unveiled the Michigan Transparency Network (MiTN ‘Mitten'), the state's new […]
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Mar 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Montreal Rocks!: New Digital Archive Celebrates Women in Extreme Vocals. "A new digital archive, Gueuleuses, is raising the roof for female vocalists who push the boundaries of singing. Launched just […]
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Mar 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Morning AgClips: New Illinois Pollinator Website Provides Knowledge and Tools for Users. "The new Illinois Pollinator website is raising awareness about the importance of pollinators and equipping users with the […]
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Mar 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Nevada Today: Nevada Farm Network launches to support Nevada agricultural producers. "After nearly a year in the works, a grower-led initiative has launched the Nevada Farm Network, a new online […]
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Mar 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Art Libraries Society of North America: Digital Art History Directory (This link goes to a PDF file.) "The Art Libraries Society of North America is pleased to announce the formal […]
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Mar 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Our Newest Georgia Exhibit "Thy Neighbor as Thyself" (March 2024). "The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) and the New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) are pleased to present […]
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Mar 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Harvard Law Today: Harvard Law School celebrates the Caselaw Access Project and its efforts to transform justice with the digitization of millions of pages of case law. "A trove of […]
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Mar 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Manchester: University and BBC co-create exciting Religions and Theology learning tool. "The resource has been conceived to support students in schools and colleges to access a collection of […]
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Mar 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services: New dashboard helps families and health care workers determine bed availability in long-term care settings. "A new dashboard has been developed to assist […]
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Mar 14, 2024
Four years ago today I put out the first issue of CoronaBuzz, my attempt to keep up with the rapidly-evolving changes to news about covid-19/coronavirus/the ‘rona or whatever you call it. It […]
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Mar 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Virginia: CAD Library Provides Teachers With Tools Fit To Print. "Professors at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development are working to provide schools and […]
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Mar 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Daily Breeze: Roundhouse Aquarium launches dolphin awareness, conservation project. "Bottlenose dolphins are one of the most recognizable sea mammals for those who visit the ocean. But everyday beachgoers don't typically […]
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Mar 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Clare Champion: Sharing the spirit of the Russells of Doolin. "The rich history of one of Clare's most influential traditional music families is being pieced together for the first time […]
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Mar 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES European Commission: New EU toolkit provides focused support to rural areas. "To ensure that Europe's rural areas continue to provide Europeans with food, homes, jobs and other services, the EU […]
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Mar 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Association of State Energy Officials: NASEO and NARUC Release Advanced Nuclear State Action Tracker to Highlight State Activities Surrounding Advanced Nuclear. "On March 4, 2024, the National Association of […]
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Mar 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Register: AI mishaps are surging - and now they're being tracked like software bugs . "Initially launched as a project under the auspices of the Partnership On AI, a […]
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Mar 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Getty: Download, Edit, and Print Your Favorite Getty Artwork for Free. "The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today nearly 88,000 images of artworks from its collection are now available for […]
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Mar 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Department of Veterans Affairs: VA launches new financial resource website to help promote financial wellness and prevent Veteran suicide. "Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a new website to […]
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Mar 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: How Google's Women Techmakers program is using maps to tell their stories. "Women Techmakers (WTM) is a Google program that provides visibility, community, and resources for women in […]
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Mar 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Hawaii Public Radio: Digital archive of Moloka?i history launches with more than 20,000 records. "The digital repository is the first of its kind in Hawai?i that's island-specific. It contains digitized […]
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Mar 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES D Magazine: One Man's Quest to Uncover the History—and Mystery—of Dallas' Ju-Nels. "It was 2006 when D Home first told you the story of Ju-Nel Homes, a Dallas architecture firm […]
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Mar 08, 2024
Yesterday the New York Times published an article called Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S. (that link goes to a gift article.) It's about how Russia […]
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Mar 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Association of State Energy Officials: NASEO Publishes K-12 School Energy Program Map. "The K-12 public school energy programs map will be regularly maintained to summarize notable facilities-focused energy and […]
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Mar 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES ScienceNews: See 3-D models of animal anatomy from openVertebrate's public collection. "Frog entrails, lizard scales and mouse tails, oh my. These creatures are among more than 13,000 museum specimens that […]
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Mar 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES European Heritage Hub: Hub launches two new digital tools: Heritage Library and Policy Monitor . "The Heritage Library is a digital repository offering a rich and multilingual collection of heritage-related […]
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Mar 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NextSense Australia: Deaf History Collections digital archive launches. "The first comprehensive online collection of Australian Deaf history brings together historical photos, records and artefacts covering places, artefacts, people, groups and […]
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Mar 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Colorado Judicial Branch: Judicial launches website for Colorado appellate opinions dating to 1864. "Published opinions issued by the Colorado Supreme Court and Colorado Court of Appeals dating to 1864 are […]
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Mar 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES CODART: Rijksmuseum Launches Online Collection Catalogue of European Sculpture. "The Rijksmuseum has launched the first part of its online collection catalogue of European Sculpture. The new catalogue will present a […]
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Mar 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Disability Scoop: Feds Take Steps To Shore Up Disability Caregiver Workforce. "The Biden administration is rolling out a host of new initiatives aimed at addressing the severe shortage of workers […]
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Mar 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of North Carolina: Library develops all-digital Watergate exhibit. "Old enough to remember daytime TV being pre-empted for the Senate Watergate Committee hearings? Or young enough to wonder why every […]
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Mar 04, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Times of India: ‘Sorry, we are unreliable': Google apologised to government on Gemini's results on PM Modi. "Unable to offer any explanations for the unsubstantiated comments on PM Modi […]
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Mar 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Doug Beeferman sent me a note about CivicSearch months ago and unfortunately it sank to the bottom of my email. But I recovered it yesterday and I encourage you to […]
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Mar 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES StateScoop: Pennsylvania creates fact-checking website ahead of 2024 election. "Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday announced the creation of Fact-checking PA-related Election Claims?, a new website to provide voters with […]
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Mar 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Chicago: New tool created by UChicago Data Science Institute sheds light on palm oil production . "The DSI and the IDI, with support from the 11th Hour Project, […]
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Mar 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from KDVR: Stolen scrap metal database helps recover part of vandalized MLK statue. "A nationwide database of stolen scrap metals may have assisted in the recovery of some of […]
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Mar 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES United Against Book Bans: New Free Book Résumé Resource. "Created in partnership with dozens of publishers and with information provided by publishers, librarians, and School Library Journal, Unite Against Book […]
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Mar 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Marijuana Moment: California Regulators Unveil New Marijuana Dashboard With Data On Sales, Pricing, Licensing And Harvests. "California regulators have rolled out a new marijuana database that's meant to help consumers, […]
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Mar 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Native Community Data Profiles tool connects information on Native places and people. "Native Community Data Profiles gathers information from more than a dozen public sources […]
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Feb 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: New online tool reveals how much Australian aged care homes spend on food, care and services. "The federal government's ‘Dollars to Care' tool, which launched on Wednesday night […]
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Feb 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Wilson Center: Reintroducing the Saddam Hussein Regime Collection of the Conflict Records Research Center. "Michael Brill introduces the new collection of documents, The Saddam Files. These records, donated by Steve […]
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Feb 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES France Minister of Culture: Archaeology: a large collection of digitized and accessible audiovisual archives. "In 2021, the Regional Archaeological Service (SRA) of Hauts-de-France saved from destruction a Audiovisual archive collection […]
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Feb 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES USGS: USGS provides easy access to Colorado River science with new online portal. "All users of the Colorado River now have a more efficient way to find U.S. Geological Survey […]
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Feb 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Odessa Journal: The collection of the Mystetskyi Arsenal has been digitized and presented in an online catalog . "Now you can get acquainted with the collection of the Mystetskyi Arsenal […]
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Feb 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Learn about the cultural history of Transport for London. "Transport for London (TfL) has a rich history that spans more than 160 years and transcends the borders of […]
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Feb 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: CDPHE partners with the Colorado School of Public Health to launch the state's first gun violence prevention resource bank. "The Colorado Gun Violence […]
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Feb 26, 2024
Last December I launched SearchTweaks.com, a collection of sixteen tools to tweak Web search and make it easier
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Feb 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NARA: Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives. "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has established an ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection,' per sections 1841-1843 […]
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Feb 25, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES How-To Geek: Stable Diffusion 3 Has Arrived . "Midjourney and Stable Diffusion were some of the first modern AI image generators capable of creating realistic images, but recently OpenAI's […]
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Feb 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Tivi: Massive Project Completed: 3.9 Million Pages of Finnish History Digitized. "All Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland are now available digitally, as the National Library's digitization project has been completed. […]
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Feb 24, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES DigitalNC: Issues of The Central Express and The Sanford Express Now Available on DigitalNC!. "Over 1,700 issues of The Central Express and The Sanford Express are now available to […]
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Feb 24, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES DigitalNC: 1904-1909 Issues of Asheville Gazette-News Now on DigitalNC!. "1,691 issues of The Asheville-Gazette News are now available on the site, thanks to our partners at Buncombe County Public […]
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Feb 23, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES POWRR: Data Accessioner 1.2 Released! . "The Digital POWRR Project is pleased to announce the latest release of Data Accessioner 1.2. Data Accessioner is an open source application, free […]
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Feb 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Vanderbilt University: ‘Vanderbilt Magazine' now fully digitized and available online. "The complete archive of Vanderbilt University's flagship publication has been fully digitized and is now available online, making more than […]
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Feb 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Simon Fraser University: Digital repatriation of Tse'k'wa archive democratizes 50 years of archaeological and cultural knowledge. "Fifty years of archaeological knowledge and scholarship from one of British Columbia's most significant […]
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Feb 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES WBNS: DeWine launches new digital tool to provide centralized information on nursing homes in the state. "The Ohio Nursing Home Quality Navigator includes a searchable map of all active nursing […]
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Feb 21, 2024
EVENTS MuckRock: For the Record: How a Brazilian newsroom created a digital archive of the Jan. 8 coup . "On January 8, 2023, a group of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair […]
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Feb 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Journalism.co.uk: New European journalism database facilitates cross-border collaboration. "The Directory of European Journalism Networks launched this month as a free, searchable and growing database of journalism groups focused on collaboration […]
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Feb 20, 2024
EVENTS Dartmouth College: Navigating the ‘Memosphere'. "Professor Nirvana Tanoukhi created the first college course on the rise of meme culture and will co-lead a public conference at Dartmouth on Feb. 23 and […]
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Feb 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Evanston Round Table: Paging through the lively CCC Newsette, a ‘substantial record' of Evanston's Black history. "The small but mighty CCC Newsette warmed hearts and heated up mailboxes across Evanston's […]
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Feb 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Mediazona: Wanted in Russia. Mediazona scraped and analyzed the entire Ministry of Internal Affairs' wanted database—and developed a user-friendly search tool. "We have collated all the wanted notices from the […]
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Feb 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Business Aviation Association: New NBAA Tool Helps Members Navigate Customs at Hundreds of GA Airports. "NBAA has created a valuable resource for its members that details critical port-of-entry information […]
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Feb 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Deccan Herald: Unsung heroes from past come alive, digitally. "In what is likely a first-of-its-kind initiative, over 600 hero stones scattered in and around Bengaluru can now be traced thanks […]
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Feb 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES RTE: New website to track media ownership in Ireland amid concentration concerns. "A new website that will track the ownership of media organisations in Ireland is to be launched today. […]
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Feb 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES CineD: SHOTDECK iOS App Launched - a Movie Stills Library for iPhone and iPad. "ShotDeck, the online database of movie stills where users can create ‘decks' and share references with […]
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Feb 17, 2024
EVENTS North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: State Archives to Host Virtual Program on Lives of the Enslaved Laborers Who Built the North Carolina State Capitol. "The men who built […]
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Feb 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Federal News Network: OMB stands up first online database of all federal programs. "The Office of Management and Budget flipped the switch Thursday on the new Federal Program Inventory, a […]
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Feb 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NIST: New NIST Database of ‘Forever Chemicals' Will Help Scientists Monitor Environmental Pollution. "… researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a database that can […]
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Feb 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Wilson Center: Romania and the Marshall Plan. "Although historians and political scientists have published dozens of books and hundreds of articles about the Marshall Plan, few of these works have […]
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Feb 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES 1015 The Hawk (Nova Scotia): Antigonish Heritage Museum will launch newspaper database. "In a release, museum curator and StFX instructor, Dr. Barry Mackenzie, says historical issues of community newspaper, The […]
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Feb 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES 9Now (Australia): Australian War Memorial brings historic Aussie love letters to life in digital collection. "The Australian War Memorial is calling on the public to assist in transcribing thousands of […]
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Feb 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Harvard University: HURI launches online database Fontes: Open Access Sources for Ukrainian History. "The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to launch the website Fontes: Open Access Sources for Ukrainian […]
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Feb 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery: New 3D collection takes users behind-the-scenes like never before. "A new online database showcasing objects from the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery collection […]
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Feb 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES KMXT: Kodiak History Museum publishes database showcasing its entire object archive. "The Kodiak History Museum has published an online photo database of thousands of items in its collection. As KMXT's […]
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Feb 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National University of Singapore: The Complete Library of Charles Darwin revealed for the first time. "The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online… has released an online 300-page catalogue detailing Darwin's […]
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Feb 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Running Magazine: Toronto woman creates online database to find local run clubs. "Within a month of launching, Lauren Mantha has built a website to connect runners with run clubs in […]
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Feb 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology: Zygon archives and current issues free online. "One of the most widely respected academic journals dedicated to religion and science, Zygon: Journal of […]
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Feb 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me, from Tulane University: Carnival Collection at Tulane presents a vibrant chronicle of history and culture. "In addition to the materials stored at Jones Hall, the collection includes an online […]
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Feb 10, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES MacRumors: Apple Starts Letting Developers Add Alternative App Marketplaces to App Store Connect. "EU developers can now add alternative app marketplaces to App Store Connect, Apple said today. Apple […]
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Feb 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES What's Up Newp: Newport Historical Society launches new digital database to highlight Black and Indigenous history. "The project, called Voices from the NHS Archives, has been in the works for […]
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Feb 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Lumberjack (Cal Poly Humboldt): Cal Poly Humboldt, Home of the World's First 3D Herbarium. "… the 3D herbarium has digitized 3D models of various plants with information on each […]
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Feb 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New Jersey State Library: The NJ State Library is providing all NJ residents with free access to over 20,000 eBooks & Audiobooks through the Palace Project. "The New Jersey State […]
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Feb 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: Child Behavioral Health Dashboard Launches. "The dashboard tracks key behavioral health indicators, including the percentage of children who have been diagnosed with […]
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Feb 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES EBU: EBU Launches Eurovision Sport Streaming Platform Boosting Free Public Access To Live Sport Across Europe . "The EBU has today launched a pioneering digital streaming platform, underpinning its commitment […]
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Feb 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Spectrum News: Special report: Map and database of 2023 police shootings in N.C.. "Spectrum News 1 began tracking each police shooting in North Carolina on Jan. 1, 2023. The information […]
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Feb 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES PC Gamer: Inkle reveals a surprise collaboration with Google in The Forever Labyrinth, ‘an art-filled quest through time and space'. "Inkle, the developer of highly-regarded narrative-focused games including 80 Days, […]
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Feb 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Explore Alvin Ailey and the performing arts on Google Arts & Culture . "As we celebrate our 65th anniversary season with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Black History […]
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Feb 06, 2024
I'm sure I don't have to tell you that the Google search engine has lately become a focus of complaint (Gizmodo, 4
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Feb 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: Penny presses: find squashed penny machines near you. "Now collectors of kitchy coins and touristy trinkets can easily find the locations of those coin-operated, hand cranked penny press […]
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Feb 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Queen's University Belfast: Researchers reveal the best-selling ‘pop' songs of 17th century England . "Broadside Ballads were the pop music of the Elizabethan and Stuart era. The cheapest form of […]
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Feb 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Hoodline: Albina Music Trust Launches Digital Archive to Preserve Portland's Rich Black History. "Northeast Portland's Albina neighborhood, with a legacy rich in Black culture and arts, has taken a digital […]
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Feb 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES KSAT: DPS launches Violent Offender Database. "The Texas Department of Public Safety has launched a new, free database that contains the names of people who have been convicted of certain […]
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Feb 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: North Carolina Central University Materials Now Available for Viewing!. "The materials consist of publications from historically Black Churches in and around Raleigh, Durham, Henderson and Oxford North Carolina, a […]
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Feb 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Breaking AC: New website helps N.J. farmers, composters share the … manure. "The state Department of Agriculture and Rutgers University have teamed up to develop a unique web service that […]
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Feb 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Wilson Center: The Helmut Kohl Collection: A New Resource for Post-Cold War History. "The Helmut Kohl Collection on the Wilson Center Digital Archive features hundreds of conversations between German Chancellor […]
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Feb 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES WPRI: RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence launches new dashboard. "On Wednesday, the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV) launched a new tool to help people better understand the scope […]
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Feb 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: New Issues of The North Carolina Mason now available on DigitalNC!. "The oldest and largest fraternal organization in the state, The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons […]
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Jan 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES KARE: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community awards grant for teaching Native American content. "The tribe has also announced two publications to support educational efforts as well: ‘A Guide to Reliable Native […]
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Jan 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Fisher Phillips: Fisher Phillips Launches Organizing Activity Map. "Fisher Phillips, an international labor and employment law firm representing employers, has launched a new Organizing Activity Map that draws upon publicly […]
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Jan 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES United Nations: Leading Database On Conservation By Indigenous Peoples And Local Communities Opens To Public . "Information on hundreds of territories and areas conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities […]
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