Digitized Newspapers: New from LoC and Other Resources
Over on our ResourceShelf.com site we've recently posted on several newspaper and book digitization projects. Here's info (and of course, links) to a couple of them. New today (official launch tomorrow night) is the debut of the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers database and directory from the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities. The project (beta release) includes over 260,000 digitized newspaper pages and a nicely structured and searchable directory of newspaper info back to 1790.
Newspapers in the public domain from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910 are part of the database. More content to come. You can also find information about specific newspapers back to 1690.Next, we are happy to report that it's once again easy (no registration required) to access the FREE "special collections" from NewspaperARCHIVE.com. These collections contain the full text and full images of thousands of digitized newspaper pages. Delivered as PDF files. Not only keyword searchable but many collections offer browsable timelines. Btw, full text access to a large portion of the entire NewspaperARCHIVE database (over 60 million pages) remains available to K-12 schools and public libraries at NO CHARGE. More here! Btw, the current list of free special collections includes the following topics: + Abraham Lincoln + AIDS + Asbestos + Chocolate Wars Content Coming Soon. + Earthquakes + FBI + Global Warming + Holocaust + Immigration + Kennedy Assassination + Martin Luther King, Jr. + Outlaw + Pro Baseball + Ronald Reagan + San Antonio, Texas + September 11 + Space Program + Target America + Hurricanes + Pearl Harbor + Terrorism + Titanic + Tornado + Winter Games Continue reading
Director of National Security Archive on C-SPAN; Rosemary Award Winner For Worst FOIA Performance Announced
Webcast: Tom Blanton, Director of National Security Archive at George Washington University chatted with Briam Lamb on C-SPAN this morning for about one hour. Direct to the Real Video. Also, the National Security Archive has just awarded the 3rd Annual Rosemary Award for Worst FOIA Performance to the U.S. Air Force. Continue reading
TerraFly’s Data
In the early days of the web, TerraFly.com from Florida International University was super cool. Using TerraFly you could virtually fly over the United States using USGS imagery. This feature is still available. Well 7 or so years have passed and the imagery, well, it's everywhere and in some cases better. However, this free service still as one very cool and very useful feature, gobs of local data. From Census info to local hotels to fires, it's in Terrafly. Give it a try. 1) Go to TerraFly 2) Enter in an address or just a Zip and make sure your pop-up blocker is off. 3) Wait for a couple of two new windows to open. 4) Review imagery. Now, click on a specific point on the image. 5) A new window will open with filled with local data. If you clicked a few blocks away some of the numbers and items would be different. Here's what a page for a specific address looks like for a spot in Chicago. Cool! Continue reading
Sunshine Week: Charlotte Observer Info Pros Share Resources, Answer Questions About Public Records on New Blog
It's always cool to see librarians/researchers getting a bit of the spotlight. Maria Wygand and Marion Paynter two researchers/info pros at the Charlotte Observer are publishing the, Your Right to Know blog with info about public records (what they are, where to find them, and how to use them). Impressive work and a great idea. Btw, a link to the blog also appears in the print edition of the paper and on this web page where you can find all of the Sunshine Week articles. Continue reading
The Washington Daybook
A very useful source for calendar info regarding events here in D.C. (from Congressional events, to statistical releases to think tanks issuing reports) is the Washington Daybook from Find-Inc. The Daybook is also published each morning in the Washington Times at this URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/daybook.htm If you look near the top or bottom of the page, you can even have the page spoken to you using the Washington Times "Click-2-Listen" service. Here's an example. Links to the last 5 daybooks are found at the bottom of the page. If you're interested in archiving each Daybook page for the long term, you might want to consider using a web clipping service like eSnips that offers 5GB of free online storage and sharing space. Btw, on our ResourceShelf site, we've collected a number of planning calendars that might be of interest from the BBC, UN, APTV, and other sources. Continue reading
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