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Aug 01, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Tubefilter: Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rickrolls Its Way Past 1 Billion YouTube Views. "The cult-favorite music video for Rick Astley's 1987 single ‘Never Gonna Give You […]
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Jul 31, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: Snap Map adds ‘My Places' for a Google Maps feel. "What if Google Maps, but more Snapchat? That's what the new ‘My Places' feature on the disappearing messaging […]
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Jul 31, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Vail Daily: History Colorado to award locals for work in preserving Alfred Borah photos and journals from 1882 to 1917. "The journals of Brush Creek settler Alfred Borah, brother of […]
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Jul 31, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Daily Record: Haynes offers new AutoFix digital help for motorists. "AutoFix has been designed to ensure that people new to motoring DIY can build skills over time as they get […]
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Jul 30, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Times of Israel: National Library digitizes poet-soldier Hannah Senesh's literary estate. "In honor of the 100th birthday of Hungarian-born soldier and poet Hannah Senesh, who was captured and killed by […]
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Jul 30, 2021
There's been an increasing amount of tension between state and local government so I've separated them into two categories. Please stay safe. Please get vaccinated. Please wear a mask when you're inside […]
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Jul 30, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Courier: Largest collection of Scottish family history records now available online through Findmypast. "The vast new online collection of Old Parish Records has been published in collaboration with local […]
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Jul 30, 2021
NEW RESOURCES OperaWire: African Diaspora Music Project Seeks to Diversify Arts Programming. "In order to facilitate research, performance, and appreciation of African Diaspora music, Dr. Louise Toppin has launched the African Diaspora […]
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Jul 29, 2021
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from University of Illinois: UIC websites offer early science and math resources for teachers of young children. "The Early Math Counts website, which began in 2012 with grants from […]
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Jul 29, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Saffron Walden Reporter: Essex village celebrates 1,000 years of memories with new archive. "St Botolph's Church in Hadstock was consecrated 1,001 years ago, with celebrations marking the milestone throughout 2020 […]
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Jul 29, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Using AI to map Africa's buildings. "Google's Open Buildings is a new open access dataset containing the locations and geometry of buildings across most of Africa. From Lagos' […]
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Jul 28, 2021
NEW RESOURCES University of Kansas: Dole Institute Accepting Submissions For Newly Announced Kansas Veterans Virtual Memory Wall . "The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas is calling […]
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Jul 28, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Italy's capital of culture: Parma. "Beyond being the capital of iconic food such as Parmigiano and Prosciutto, Parma is a city of incredible cultural heritage that gained the […]
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Jul 28, 2021
Here we are right in the middle of it again. Please stay safe. Please get vaccinated. Please wear a mask when you're inside with a bunch of people. Much love. NEW RESOURCES […]
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Jul 28, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Independent Catholic News: Scotland's Catholic Museum launches interactive virtual site. "The new website unites all the collections of the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust Museum, and the historic Library and […]
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Jul 27, 2021
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Adding 1,277 East African maps to Georeferencer. "I'm delighted that 1,277 maps from our War Office Archive have been added to the Georeferencer in the last few days. […]
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Jul 27, 2021
NEW RESOURCES National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators: New NASFAA Toolkit Provides Guidance to Help Colleges Build and Deploy Unbiased Financial Aid Policies. "Financial aid administrators — as one of the […]
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Jul 27, 2021
NEW RESOURCES TVO: Writing in the margins: The story behind Kingston's Prison for Women magazine. "When inmates at Kingston Penitentiary decided in 1950 to start the KP Telescope, their very own newspaper, […]
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Jul 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Peter H. took time out of his busy day to let me know about this newspaper collection and I sure do appreciate it! Oireachtas Library: Oireachtas Library presents new digitised […]
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Jul 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Radio Prague International: New website lets people know if they have unclaimed money from voucher privatisation era . "A new website called Zapomenuté miliardy (Forgotten billions) offers Czechs the chance […]
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Jul 26, 2021
Here we are right in the middle of it again. Please stay safe. Much love. NEW RESOURCES - MEDICAL/HEALTH Fast Company: Delta variant update: New CDC map shows most vulnerable U.S. areas […]
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Jul 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Brigham Young University: Curious about Utah's frontier women? Browse BYU's new database of women's newspaper ads . "A single bottle of tonic to cure diabetes, cancer, ulcers and dizziness. Raisins […]
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Jul 25, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Penn State News: Libraries' digital exhibit highlights Penn State participation at Olympics. "‘Olympic Lions: A History of Penn State's Participation at the Olympic and Paralympic Games' digital exhibit, now open […]
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Jul 25, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Mike Shouts: Italy Has A Mobile Game To Promote Italy's Cultural Heritage. "Published by Italy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ITALY. Land of Wonders aims to bring the cultural heritage […]
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Jul 24, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Caltech: Albert Einstein at 50 . "The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech has released the 16th volume of its massive scholarly collection of Albert Einstein's scientific and nonscientific writings and […]
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Jul 24, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Cultural Pit-Stops: making hours of boring travel time fly by. "We plan our journey ahead with chills of excitement, eagerly choosing which swimsuits will make it into our […]
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Jul 24, 2021
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Issues of The Charlotte News, 1888-1922, Added to DigitalNC. "We've added a whopping 10,000 issues of The Charlotte News to DigitalNC. The paper was published daily, and these issues […]
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Jul 23, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Bing: Get quickly caught up to speed on the Summer Games 2020 with Microsoft Bing. "We're excited to announce our new experience from Microsoft Bing that helps you get […]
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Jul 23, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES La Prensa Latina: Sao Paulo's Portuguese language museum returns 6 years after devastating fire. "The Museum of the Portuguese Language, an institution housed in this Brazilian metropolis' Estacao da […]
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Jul 23, 2021
Please get vaccinated. If you are vaccinated, thank you. UPDATES Texas Tribune: Texas has seen nearly 9,000 COVID-19 deaths since February. All but 43 were unvaccinated people.. "Of the 8,787 people who […]
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Jul 23, 2021
NEW RESOURCES EDM: New Artist Database Launched In Support Of Non-Binary Creatives. "The database currently contains over 200 entries and spans several disciplines with non-binary DJs, producers, dancers, and lighting technicians all […]
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Jul 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Brigham Young University: BYU professor highlights unsung stories from Utah's rich pioneer history with Intermountain Histories website. "Immigrant communities such as a Jewish settlement in Clarion and a Thai community […]
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Jul 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: AI firm DeepMind puts database of the building blocks of life online. "Last year the artificial intelligence group DeepMind cracked a mystery that has flummoxed scientists for decades: […]
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Jul 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Explore the undeciphered writing of the Incas. "‘Khipus,' which means ‘knots' in the Quechua language, are the colorful, intricate cords made by the Incas, who inhabited some parts […]
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Jul 21, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Rolling Stone: Brian Wilson Announces Tour, Drops Demos, Rarities on New Website. "Wilson's new site contains a timeline feature organized by decades spanning from his birth in 1942 to the […]
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Jul 21, 2021
Hi. I was really hoping I was done with this, but Delta is here to stay and I find myself compelled once again to rake information into piles and send it out […]
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Jul 20, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Boston Herald: FBI file on Boston serial killer James ‘Whitey' Bulger declassified. "Months before sadistic Southie mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was recruited by the FBI, he was hunted for loan […]
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Jul 19, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Travel Agent Central: Wheel The World Launches New Website. "The online travel marketplace allows travelers to browse and book places to stay, things to do, and multi-day tours in more […]
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Jul 19, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Pappas Post: Unique Collection of Recorded Greek Folk Music Digitized. "A unique collection of recorded Greek folk music has been digitized and made available to the public by Harvard University's […]
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Jul 18, 2021
NEW RESOURCES r/UnsolvedMysteries: Introducing ‘Mapping The Missing Australia', an interactive online mapping resource for individuals who are Missing within Australia.. "Mapping the missing is an interactive map database, listing Australia's long-term missing […]
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Jul 18, 2021
NEW RESOURCES KPAX: Agritourism industry sees opportunity with new website. "A labor of love 3 years in the making came to fruition this May with a first-of-its kind website offering a step-by-step […]
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Jul 17, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Saltwire: New Innu language app is another tool in maintaining Indigenous langauge. "A very important part of any culture is language. For many First Nations in Canada maintaining their languages […]
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Jul 17, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Tasmania Examiner: Australian first historical website to illuminate Tasmania's Indigenous history. "[The site] was believed to be the first site of its kind in Australia and tells the history of […]
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Jul 16, 2021
NEW RESOURCES My Modern Met: Download 1,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Edo-Era Master Hiroshige . "The Minneapolis Institute of Art recently made their extensive digital collection of woodblock prints by Hiroshige available […]
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Jul 16, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Star: Sheffield's amazing cutlery history celebrated at online project launch. "The Name on a Knife Blade project, which actually began last year, is the brainchild of the city's unique […]
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Jul 16, 2021
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: EBSCO Information Services Releases Art Magazine Collection Archive (PRESS RELEASE). "Art Magazine Collection Archive is a fully searchable full-text archive that assists researchers and those interested in topics […]
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Jul 15, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Civil rights-era issues of Savannah's leading African American newspaper, the Savannah Tribune, are now available freely online. "The Digital Library of Georgia, in partnership with Live […]
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Jul 15, 2021
NEW RESOURCES New York University: Center on International Cooperation Launches Digital Tool to Map Data- and Tech-Driven Peacebuilding Work. "A new interactive digital tool visualizes more than 200 data- and tech-driven global […]
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Jul 14, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Legal Services Corporation: New Eviction Laws Database Reveals Striking Differences in Eviction Processes Around the Country. "The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) launched the LSC Eviction Laws Database today, a new […]
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Jul 14, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The New Humanitarian: Scanning the past: The League of Nations archive goes digital. "Archivists and historians are making a permanent digital copy of almost every document, letter, memo, photo, and […]
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Jul 14, 2021
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Deccan Herald: Wondering what to do with old gramophone records?. "Vikram Sampath, historian and author, launched Archive of Indian Music (AIM) in 2011, a private non-profit trust, to […]
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Jul 13, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: Site republishes comics strips circulated internally at Google. "Goomics collects comics strips that went around inside Google. Many concern abstruse industry topics; some offer an insight on the […]
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Jul 13, 2021
NEW RESOURCES State Archives of North Carolina: Senate Audio, 1993-2005, Now Available in NCDC, and CLIR Recordings-at-Risk Grant Expanded. "As discussed in our behind-the-scenes post on this grant, to make the audio […]
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Jul 12, 2021
NEW RESOURCES J Source: New Database Aims To Amplify Muslim Voices In Canadian Media. "A new online expert database was launched in May with the goal of increasing Muslim voices featured in […]
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Jul 12, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Wired: A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World. "Search Atlas makes it easy to see how Google offers different responses to the same query on versions […]
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Jul 12, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Pensacola News Journal: UWF Historic Trust releases first academic report on Wentworth KKK documents. What's next?. "A year after Pensacola learned that the beloved local historian T.T. Wentworth Jr. was […]
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Jul 09, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Philadelphia Magazine: Philly Entrepreneur Creates Search Engine for Jobs That Don't Require Marijuana Testing. "Let's say you're on the hunt for a job. So you turn to any of a […]
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Jul 08, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Baptist Standard: Around the State: Standard digital archive project continues. "More than 2,315 digitized issues of the Baptist Standard—including some dating back to 1920— now are accessible online here. The […]
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Jul 08, 2021
Good morning. Elsa will be rolling through and smacking us around later today. I'm trying to get as much done in advance as possible but we may have a publishing delay here […]
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Jul 07, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Meridian Star: Documents digitized in Governors' Letters Project, volunteers needed. "A documentary project led by a University of Southern Mississippi history professor that is digitizing more than 20,000 letters […]
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Jul 07, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Library of Congress Adds ‘A Century of Lawmaking' to Congress. gov. "The Library of Congress announced today that U.S. congressional records dating back to the days of […]
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Jul 06, 2021
EVENTS University of Miami: Explore Florida's fashion trends throughout the years. "Although visions of shorts, tank tops, and flip-flops may come to mind when one thinks of fashion in South Florida, the […]
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Jul 06, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Brown University Library News: Announcement | Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. "The Library has been contributing to a community-centered database project led by Professor Linford […]
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Jul 05, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Two mid-twentieth-century collections, now digitized and available freely online, recall Atlanta neighborhoods lost to urban renewal, and Georgia's growing Catholic community. "Two new collections of digitized […]
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Jul 05, 2021
NEW RESOURCES KRQE: New website connects New Mexicans to jobs, training opportunities. "Ready NM allows people to browse current job openings, learn about career fields, find career training and education programs near […]
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Jul 05, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers. "Neeva is indeed a new search engine, officially launching today, that carries a subscription fee. Though it's extremely similar […]
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Jul 04, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Liverpool Echo: Birkenhead's little known links to the father of science fiction. "John [Lamb] has used his research to create a new website, ‘Jules Verne and the Heroes of Birkenhead' […]
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Jul 04, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Just Security: January 6 Clearinghouse. "Welcome to this all-source, repository of information for analysts, researchers, investigators, journalists, educators, and the public at large." University of Maryland Archives: Launch of the […]
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Jul 03, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNN: Facebook tests prompts that ask users if they're worried a friend is ‘becoming an extremist'. "Some Facebook (FB) users in the United States are being served a prompt […]
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Jul 03, 2021
NEW RESOURCES CKNI: Provincial Art Collection Goes Online. "New Brunswickers can now view the provincial art collection on their computer or smartphone. The province has launched collectionArtNB, a website showcasing the collection […]
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Jul 03, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Islington Gazette: How a radical Kings Cross bookshop was HQ to McLibel and spawned Pride marches. "An exhibition celebrating 5 Cally Road's role in radical politics goes on show this […]
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Jul 02, 2021
NEW RESOURCES UPI: New website allows users to track mesmerizing journey of a raindrop. "A Pittsburgh web developer has made a website that allows anyone to trace the path of a raindrop […]
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Jul 02, 2021
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from RideApart: USC Archive Sheds Light On LA's Gay Motorcycle Clubs. "A massive archive of LGBTQ materials in Los Angeles is bringing attention to some of the oldest gay […]
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Jul 02, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Queen Anne and Magnolia News: SPL and Earshot Jazz partner to create digital collection of magazine archives . "The Seattle Public Library and Earshot Jazz, the city's preeminent jazz organization, […]
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Jul 01, 2021
NEW RESOURCES The Mayor EU: Denmark makes sure people of all ages and abilities can access nature. "According to a press release by the Ministry, the Danish Nature Agency has collaborated with […]
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Jul 01, 2021
NEW RESOURCES WUSF: State Launches Website To Provide Surfside Assistance, Warns Of GoFundMe Scams . "Florida has created a new website that pools together federal, state and community efforts to help victims, […]
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Jul 01, 2021
NEW RESOURCES CBC: Anishinabek Nation's new interactive online resource teaches students about treaties, rights. "The Anishnabek Nation in northern Ontario has launched a new online program to help students learn more about […]
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Jun 28, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Texas Film Commission: Texas Film Commission, Texas Archive of the Moving Image Launch Online Exhibit ‘Parks Under the Lone Star'. "The Texas Film Commission and the Texas Archive of the […]
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Jun 27, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Lethbridge News Now: New tool developed to help preserve the language of Blackfoot. "Eldon Yellowhorn is working hard to preserve the Blackfoot language. Yellowhorn is a professor in the department […]
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Jun 27, 2021
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Gale Unveils New Archive on Far-Right Groups in America (PRESS RELEASE). "Gale, a Cengage company, has released the second installment of its Political Extremism and Radicalism series. Political […]
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Jun 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Dallas News: New North Texas Database Connects Nonprofit Talent with Opportunities for Board Service. "Communities Foundation of Texas has introduced a new database that connects individuals willing to commit their […]
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Jun 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES NME: Arcade Fire launch new ‘Past Lives' series, sharing archive gig footage. "Arcade Fire have launched a new archive series, sharing footage from past gigs during the summer. Past Lives […]
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Jun 26, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Maine Public Radio: In Fight Over Right Whales And Lobster Fishery, All Sides Want To Know More About Whale Activity Off Maine. "Last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration […]
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Jun 25, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Wired: Citizen Scientists Digitized Centuries of Handwritten Rain Data. "IN MARCH 2020, as the United Kingdom went into pandemic lockdown, climate scientist Ed Hawkins put out a call to people […]
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Jun 24, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Issues of the Georgia Bulletin, the weekly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, are now available freely online on the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. […]
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Jun 24, 2021
NEW RESOURCES AP: Tennessee Supreme Court Full Case Records Now Online. "The opinions have long been available electronically, but the associated case files were stored in more than 10,000 boxes in the […]
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Jun 23, 2021
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: A new site for banana-related research. "MusaNet, the global collaborative network for Musa-related research, was created in 2011 to implement the Global Musa Strategy established with the banana research […]
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Jun 23, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Green Blog: UC launches WeedCUT, a new online tool to manage invasive weeds in wildlands without herbicides. "Cal-IPC and the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM), […]
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Jun 23, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Cycling Industry News: New tool lists nearly 300 EU subsidy and tax incentives for bike firms. "A new tool developed by the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) and the City Changer […]
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Jun 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES MIT: Online hub for research and teaching brings digital humanities to the fore. "… a new collaboration between the MIT Programs in Digital Humanities (DH Lab) and the MIT Libraries […]
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Jun 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES WSAZ: ‘SkillsMatch' tool launched to help Ohio job seekers. "A new resource is now available for Ohioans looking for a job. The tool links Ohio job seeks with potential employment […]
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Jun 22, 2021
NEW RESOURCES WTVQ: New website helps students research college majors and salaries. "Students have a new interactive tool to research degree programs at Kentucky's public colleges and universities, allowing them to compare […]
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Jun 21, 2021
NEW RESOURCES UNC University Libraries: New toolkit from University Libraries helps communities tell their stories. "Communities working to preserve their own histories—and the libraries and archives seeking to support them—have new tools […]
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Jun 21, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Exhibits and experiments that are music to your ears. "Today is World Music Day, also known as "Fête de la musique." It's an annual celebration of music that […]
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Jun 21, 2021
NEW RESOURCES Backstage: Exclusive: Years of Theater Diversity Data Now Housed in 1 Place With Launch of Counting Together Website. "What is the racial and ethnic makeup of actors hired in theater? […]
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Jun 19, 2021
NEW RESOURCES KTVU: New tool consolidates fire information into zones for California residents. "As dry conditions lead to growing fear, a new tool is emerging to help first responders and the public: […]
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Jun 19, 2021
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: the Curvy Pattern Database. From the About page: "I started sewing when I was young - my grandmother is an award winning quilter and my mother is a well […]
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Jun 19, 2021
NEW RESOURCES University of New Hampshire: New Mobile App from Carsey School Allows for Easy Exploration of Federal Government Spending. "Curious how much U.S. government spending goes toward the military, health care, […]
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Jun 18, 2021
NEW RESOURCES ARTNews: Germany Unveils Comprehensive Database of Its Benin Bronzes. "This week, Germany unveiled a digital database for its Benin Bronzes that offers provenance and images for more than 1,100 objects. […]
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Jun 18, 2021
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Wire Science: Is the Google Maps Island off Kochi Really an Island?. "According to The News Minute, the tourism development organisation had also been aware of the mass's […]
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