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Sep 18, 2018
NEW RESOURCES British Library: 15,000 images of Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta now online. "The Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project, generously supported by Mr S P Lohia, aims to digitise 75 manuscripts […]
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Sep 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES DW: Why hurling tomatoes became a symbol for the German women's movement. "A new digital archive is shining a light on the history of German feminism. The archive was launched […]
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Sep 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Firstpost: Researchers Make A Massive Map Of Changes That Our Brain Undergoes As An Infant. "Researchers from the St Jude's Childrens' Hospital have compiled a huge database with the many […]
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Sep 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Columbia University: Albert Field Playing Cards go online. "The Columbia University Libraries has digitized cards from nearly two hundred decks of the Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards. The cards […]
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Sep 16, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Quartz: The White House's website deleted the whole archive of its daily newsletters. "American citizens can get daily updates on the government directly from the White House's ‘1600 Daily' […]
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Sep 15, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Horse: New NetPosse National Disaster Website for Horses and Pets. "NetPosse's new, free resource is meant to bring disaster rescue organizations and victims together in one place, making it […]
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Sep 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES KTVZ: New free resource for Alzheimer's disease caregivers. "Providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease can be a challenge, but AARP and the Alzheimer's Association have announced an […]
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Sep 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Pacific Standard: A New Website Shows Nearly Half Of E.U. Clinical Trial Data Isn't Publicly Disclosed. "Three researchers created a website earlier this year to name and shame pharmaceutical companies […]
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Sep 13, 2018
Hey y'all. As you may know I'm in North Carolina. I'm not near the coast, but Hurricane Florence is so flippin' wide that we're already getting rain and she hasn't even made […]
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Sep 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Trade Arabia: Google brings Lebanon's rich history and culture to the world. "Today, anyone with an internet connection can virtually explore the natural landscape of Lebanon including the pearl of […]
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Sep 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Winnipeg FreePress: Defunct Winnipeg Tribune enters digital age. "The dearly departed Winnipeg Tribune is getting a new lease on life online. The Tribune — a metropolitan daily newspaper which shut […]
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Sep 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES This is from the end of August, but it's a great project so in it goes. From Bepress: FIU Shares Thesis Digitization Project and Lessons Learned . "Late in 2016 […]
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Sep 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Not new, but new-to-me. Eurasianet: Central Asia: Database tracks authoritarians' long arm. "The database, now in its second edition, draws on publicly available information, such as media reports and archives. […]
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Sep 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Yale University Library: Grammy Museum-funded digitization project brings rare Charles Ives performances to the world. "The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library has completed an eighteen-month project to digitize and stream […]
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Sep 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Thanks to John O. for bringing this to my attention. From the Clements Library Chronicles: Announcing the Illustrated Manuscripts Project. "For over 15 years, as Clements Library staff have processed […]
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Sep 10, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Kitchen Sisters: The Keepers - A New NPR & Podcast Series. "This week, we launch a new series — The Keepers — stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, […]
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Sep 10, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Flickr Blog: All new Flickr galleries . "Flickr's galleries have long been one of the tools available to our community for visual storytelling, though they have gotten dusty over […]
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Sep 10, 2018
You may have heard that Google announced on September 5 a new search for datasets. I know some of you did because a bunch of people let me know. Y'all are awesome! I […]
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Sep 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: ‘Over my dead body': Booker prize archives reveal unknown judging battles. "British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976's award to Joanna […]
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Sep 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Tribune: New website offers comparative shopping data for prospective Illinois college students. "The state is rolling out an ambitious new centralized data portal for prospective Illinois college students that […]
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Sep 08, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Lincolnite: Bomber Command valentine letters bring back lost voices of WWII. "A thousand lost voices of those who lived through aerial bombing campaigns of WWII have been brought to […]
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Sep 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Greeneville Sun: Black In Appalachia Website Now Online. "Items on the site are sourced from a mix of local institutions and community members who lent digital copies of resources. Free […]
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Sep 07, 2018
There's been a fair amount in the news lately about how Twitter is getting a bit more restrictive on its API. This is not new; Twitter has a long history of being hard […]
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Sep 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Radio Praha: New Website Documents Communist-Era Anti-Semitism. "Israel as the headquarters for Rothschild political power, kibbutzs as indoctrination centres and Jewish schools as centres of racist, militaristic teaching. These are […]
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Sep 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES CBC: Digital archive of old B.C. textbooks highlights ‘constant dehumanizing of Indigenous people'. "Pia Russell does her work and research deep in the archives of the library at the University […]
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Sep 06, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Wikipedia seeks photos of 20 million artifacts lost in Brazilian museum fire. "Wikipedia is fighting to preserve the memories of the 20 million artifacts lost in Sunday's Brazilian […]
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Sep 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Automation .com: Coordinate Metrology Society releases digital library of technical papers. "The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) announced the launch of its digital library of original technical papers delivered by metrology […]
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Sep 05, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Japan Times: Databases run by National Diet Library and 10 other institutions to be unified on new website. "The government plans to create a website to unify databases that […]
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Sep 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Exploring Late 1800s Political Cartoons through Interactive Data Visualizations. "Over the course of my three month internship with the LC Labs team, I developed a website/interactive data […]
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Sep 04, 2018
NEW RESOURCES National Library of New Zealand: The Turnbull Library Record: Past and Future. "Unscrupulous scholars, courtship and marriage in colonial New Zealand, women photographers, pirates, Joan of Arc, a 17th-century Persian […]
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Sep 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Take a spin around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Google Maps. "While the true feeling of the Indy 500 can only be experienced in person, I wanted to […]
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Sep 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Tribune India: Digital archive of Rabindranath Tagore poems launched. "A digital archive of 3,500 poems of Rabindranath Tagore was launched here in a private initiative with 15 recitations by the […]
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Sep 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES FBI: The FBI Launches a Combating Foreign Influence Webpage. "Today the FBI is launching a webpage on combating foreign influence. This information is provided to educate the public about the […]
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Sep 01, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from The Wilson Post: Antique Southern furniture sleuth. "The Southern furniture historian said the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts is ‘the largest collection of Southern-made material culture in […]
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Aug 31, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Costa Rica News: Meet The New "Virtual Art Museum" Of Costa Rica. "If you are a lover of painting and you want to see the beautiful pieces that the […]
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Aug 31, 2018
A hearty hello to all the people who signed up to the newsletter because of Helen Brown's article. I hope you like it. NEW RESOURCES Stanford Libraries: Stanford launches digital library to […]
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Aug 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Phys .org: Scientist develops database for stellar-exoplanet ‘exploration'. "[Dr. Natalie] Hinkel built a publically available database, called the Hypatia Catalog, to help researchers explore thousands of stars, as well as […]
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Aug 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Herald-Mail Media: Jefferson Co. Museum collection on new website. "The Jefferson County Museum's county history collection now is available online. Internet users can view the museum's collection of objects, images, […]
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Aug 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Rice University: Houston Folk Music Archive brings history to life. "A new story map of Houston's vanished folk music venues and a big-name homecoming concert underscore the importance of documenting […]
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Aug 29, 2018
NEW RESOURCES EOS: Landslide Database Reveals Uptick in Human-Caused Fatal Slides. "Researchers now have an idea of how many such landslides are occurring around the globe. They have compiled the most comprehensive […]
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Aug 28, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Helping veterans make their next move in civilian life. "Starting today, service members can search ‘jobs for veterans' on Google and then enter their specific military job […]
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Aug 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES EurekAlert: New platform by NYU Tandon, Frick, brings art history research into the digital age . "Can 21st century data science and visualization revolutionize the impact of art created millennia […]
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Aug 27, 2018
This issue is dedicated to Laura Prescott. NEW RESOURCES Cornell University: Empathy project goes online. "Since its launch in September 2016, the Cornell Race and Empathy Project has recorded, archived and shared […]
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Aug 27, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Library of Congress: New Online: "Poetry of America" Recordings. "This summer, we kicked off our refreshed ‘Poetry of America' series with a selection of new recordings. Originally launched in […]
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Aug 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Kyodo News: Digital archives in Japan keep WWII survivors' memories alive online. "With memories of World War II fading 73 years after its end as an increasing number of people […]
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Aug 26, 2018
NEW RESOURCES WSBT: New interactive map tracks Nalaxone use in Indiana. "The full scale of the opioid epidemic can be hard to imagine. There's a new tool in Indiana to help visualize […]
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Aug 25, 2018
It's a rare Saturday twofer as I try to catch up. NEW RESOURCES Hollywood Reporter: New Garry Shandling Website Chronicles Late Comedian's Personal Journals, Notes on Stand-Up Craft. "The estate of comedian […]
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Aug 25, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Eleven Myanmar: Population Department launches new website with complete census data. "The Department of Population launched a website with redatam database and micro census data at M Gallery Hotel in […]
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Aug 24, 2018
NEW RESOURCES TechXplore: Researchers compile a new database of executable Python code snippets on GitHub. "A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has recently carried out an empirical analysis of […]
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Aug 24, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CogDogBlog: My 15 Year Old Web Tool Still Works (and was just updated) . "Do you know what you were doing in 2003? What do you rely on? I […]
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Aug 23, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Scotsman: The Royal Scots bring history into the present with digital archive. "Edinburgh-born James Fleming was only 22 when he was killed in battle in Belgium on October 14, […]
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Aug 22, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Ozarks First: Eric Schmitt Launches new Website to Access Information on Government Finances. "Prior to the launch of the new website, state financial data was often difficult to find and […]
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Aug 22, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Press-Enterprise: Why UC Riverside, local students are writing life stories of veterans buried at Riverside National Cemetery . "The names on the gravestones at Riverside National Cemetery represent not […]
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Aug 21, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Al Jazeera: Research group launches online database of accused Irish clergy. "Ahead of Pope Francis' scheduled visit to Ireland, an international research group launched a database of Irish clergy convicted […]
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Aug 20, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Tulane University: New digital library collection showcases Small Center's impact. "Whether you're a scholar interested in studying early images of Latin America or a high school student searching for float […]
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Aug 19, 2018
NEW RESOURCES British Library: A bumper crop of manuscripts (part 1). "The summer holidays may be here but we have been busy at the British Library, adding more items to our Digitised […]
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Aug 18, 2018
Apologies for the late. I've been a bit under the weather the last few days and have not been keeping up. TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: New WordPress policy allows it to shut […]
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Aug 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES KBZK: Montana environmental group launches informational website on wildfire smoke. "The group Climate Smart Missoula has used $10,000 from the Montana Wildfire Relief Fund to put forward out educational information […]
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Aug 17, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Gizmodo: Google Releases Political Ad Database and Trump Is the Big Winner. "Google has finally opened up about political ad-spending on its platforms and published a living archive of who's […]
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Aug 16, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Twitter Blog: Finding the news in the noise. "As Bloomberg recently announced, we are expanding our partnership so that Bloomberg can now provide a new, real-time feed of curated […]
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Aug 15, 2018
I spend a lot of time searching Amazon in the course of my job. I don't use it as much as I do a Web search engine — I'm not sure that's […]
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Aug 15, 2018
NEW RESOURCES FamilySearch: Expanded Ellis Island Immigrant Records 1820-1957 Online. "What do over a 100 million Americans have in common? Their ancestors immigrated through Ellis Island or one of the New York […]
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Aug 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian Magazine: Hundreds of Newly Found Poems Reveal the Devastation of the U.K.'s ‘Cotton Famine'. "During the first half of the 20th century, factories in Lancashire spun threads and churned […]
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Aug 14, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Radio New Zealand: New database to improve aid transparency in Pacific. "Last week the Institute's [Lowy Institute] Pacific Aid Map was released, covering close to 13,000 aid projects from 62 […]
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Aug 13, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Howard University: The Hilltop Digital Archive is now available on Digital Howard! (this is the Web version of an e-mailed newsletter so I apologize if the formatting looks odd.) "Phase […]
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Aug 12, 2018
NEW RESOURCES AZCentral: VR tours open up Taliesin West, other Arizona attractions to digital tourism. "Not all VR is about imagining new, fantastical realities. It also enables people to explore the real […]
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Aug 11, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Pasatiempo: Digital footprints of the past: An online archive of Native history . "What if you could view a vast archive of your family's history and your cultural records from […]
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Aug 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Nerdvana: The Strong Museum announces wargaming online exhibit. "The Strong museum (home to the World Video Game Hall of Fame) has launched an online exhibit with Google Arts and Culture […]
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Aug 10, 2018
In our last episode about online photo analysis tools, we took a look at a tool that broke down all kinds of information, and other one that broke out metadata in an […]
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Aug 10, 2018
NEW RESOURCES UNESCO: UNESCO launches the website for the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019). "The website will contribute to raising the awareness about this International Year and about the urgent need […]
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Aug 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Business Green: New database to highlight benefits of integrated reporting. "The free database includes a wide range of studies and papers exploring how integrated reporting that brings together financial and […]
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Aug 09, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Bustle: Therapy For Latinx Online Database Helps Connect People With Culturally Competent Counselors. "A lack of culturally competent therapists — therapists who've been trained to be respectful and understanding of […]
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Aug 08, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Neowin: Microsoft Teams announces a slew of back to school improvements. "The back-to-school season is rapidly approaching, and Microsoft is gearing up its education tools for the upcoming school […]
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Aug 08, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: For Louis Armstrong's birthday we tune in to ‘Tiger Rag' on a Gramophone. "To mark the birthday of Louis Armstrong 117 years ago, Google Arts & Culture and […]
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Aug 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me but apparently online since 2013: an online archive of rave flyers. "The largest archive of independently collected rave flyers in the world is tucked away in the mountains of […]
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Aug 07, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian Insider: See thousands of orchids in incredible detail in the Smithsonian's newly digitized collection. "More than 8,000 living specimens in the Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection have been digitized and […]
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Aug 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES This was announced in early July and yet I completely missed it until yesterday. Library of Congress: Library of Congress Offers Unprecedented Access to North Korean Serial Collection. "Home to […]
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Aug 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: The Secret Maps of World War II Admiral Morton L. Deyo. "The Geography and Map Division has processed the map collection of an American vice admiral who […]
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Aug 06, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Billings Gazette: Public gets digital access to Little Bighorn Battlefield collections. "A new digital archive will allow the public to view historic images in the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument […]
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Aug 05, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Rhinegold: New partnership for RPO and Google Arts & Culture. "The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) and Google Arts & Culture have launched a new project to bring some of the […]
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Aug 04, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES NDTV: National Digital Library To Collaborate With Top Digital Libraries Of World. "The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is all set to collaborate with several top digital libraries […]
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Aug 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES VR Focus: Learn Star Trek's 52-Year History At The Roddenberry Nexus. "Star Trek fans might be enjoying some gameplay sessions on Star Trek: Bridge Crew The Next Generation DLC at […]
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Aug 03, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Hyperallergic: A New Online Project Rethinks How We Learn About Artists and Archive Their Life and Work. "In 2015, [Glenn] Wharton joined his colleague Deena Engel at New […]
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Aug 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES While wandering around Twitter I heard about a new WordPress site — the Irish Diaspora Histories Network. From the About page: "The histories of the Irish diaspora are varied and […]
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Aug 02, 2018
NEW RESOURCES RTÉ Radio 1 via PlayerFM: Digital archive of Conradh na Gaeilge's weekly newspaper goes online. "Cuan Ó Seireadáin, Curator with Conradh na Gaeilge, speaks to us ahead of the launch […]
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Aug 01, 2018
NEW RESOURCES BusinessWire: Friends of Lincoln Collection Launches New Website (PRESS RELEASE). "Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc., has launched a new website serving as a gateway to thousands of […]
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Aug 01, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Arizona State University: Marking 100 years of Grand Canyon National Park history. "For the first time ever, thousands of high-quality archival materials — photographs, documents and correspondence — chronicling the […]
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Jul 31, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Browse the web in VR: Chrome launches on Daydream View. "Chrome is built to be accessed across all types of devices and platforms, regardless of what operating […]
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Jul 31, 2018
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Over 60 Years of Gaston College Catalogs Now Online at DigitalNC. "Over 60 years and dozens of catalogs from Gaston College are now online at DigitalNC. The publications span […]
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Jul 30, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES More goodness from Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration: Email Studio adds Mail Merge and Email Scheduler Directly in Gmail. "Introducing Email Studio, our new open-source Gmail add-on that brings […]
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Jul 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Cult of Mac: Here's almost every wallpaper Apple has ever made for Mac and iOS. "Do you want a blast of Apple nostalgia which takes you back to an earlier […]
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Jul 30, 2018
You probably know that digital images can provide a lot more information than just what they're showing in a picture, but do you know how to get to it? You don't have […]
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Jul 30, 2018
NEW RESOURCES NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence: Facebook game teaches how to spot disinformation. "NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence introduces its new indie game designed to train readers to identify […]
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Jul 29, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Fortune: Twitter Shares Plunge as Company Predicts Decline in Users . "Twitter Inc. said monthly users dropped by 1 million in the second quarter, and predicted that number will […]
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Jul 28, 2018
NEW RESOURCES My Twitter buddy Steve D. clued me in on this site I hadn't heard of: https://www.civilwarphotosleuth.com/ . It's an initiative to identify people in US Civil War photos. The public […]
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Jul 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Documented NY: Early Arrival: New Database Casts Light on NYC ICE arrests. "Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights created the database, which spans from 2013 until today, using data […]
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Jul 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES WAMC: NYCLU Launches Database Of Police Policies . "The New York Civil Liberties Union has launched an online database of policies from a number of police departments across the state. […]
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Jul 26, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Preserving and Sharing Spelman Archival Treasures. "A faded page of an 1885 catalog. A photograph of young black women wearing academic regalia and nurses uniforms in […]
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Jul 26, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Scoop NZ: NZ Mine Plans database goes online. "The NZ Mine Plans database, which holds approximately 3500 mine plans, is now available online via links on the websites of both […]
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Jul 25, 2018
NEW RESOURCES Fox59: IPS digital collection will launch this week with access to photos and files dating back to 1800s. " Thousands of files and pictures depicting the history of Indianapolis Public […]
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