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The Map of Early Modern London
The Map of Early Modern London This new Web site featured in the July 30th issue of AL Direct, features, " the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early...
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Civil Rights Digital Library
The Civil Rights Digital Library :: Home Page This site allows users to discover for themselves what the Civil Rights movement of the 60’s was all about through primary sources and other educational...
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Banned Books Week Banner
Banned Books Week Banner on Flickr – Photo Sharing! via kwout One of the more impressive virtual displays for Banned Books Week (September 27to October 4) is this stars and stripes banner, posted on...
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Learning From Katrina Oral Histories
Learning from Katrina: Conservators’ First-Person Accounts of Response and Recovery; Suggestions for Best Practice (Preservation, Library of Congress) In the spring of 2006 the Library of Congress...
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Calisphere: A World of Primary Sources and More
Calisphere – A World of Digital Resources Calisphere is the California Digital Library’s free database of digitized primary resources from the University of California System along with partner...
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database includes information about over 35,000 slave trade voyages that forced 10 million Africans into the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The...
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Google Puts Magazines Online
Google seems to be at the forefront of digitization first with Google Books, newspapers, the historic Time-Life photos and now magazines. Using Google Book Search, users can find full text of...
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American English Dialect Recordings from LC’s American Memory Project
American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection – (American Memory from the Library of Congress) via kwout The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118...
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Why Do People Collect First Editions?
This interesting blog entry by Laura Massey offers information about why first editions are valuable or sought after by collectors, along with tips on determining whether your book is a first edition.
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The Attack on Libraries and Print Continues
Printed Books vs E-Books via kwout Hugh McGuire asks in his blog post, "What are Libraries For" as he predicts that e-books will be the dominant form of casual reading for adults in the future. If...
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Predatory Journals Exposed by Scholarly Sting
Recently a group of researchers at the University of Sussex offered editing expertise to 360 random open access journals under a female scholar’s fake name with fake credentials and fake publications....
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