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Feb 08, 2026
NEW RESOURCES University of Galway: Minister Calleary launches digital edition of first Irish-language newspaper An Gaodhal. "An Gaodhal was a bilingual newspaper, published monthly in Brooklyn, New York, at the end of […]
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Feb 08, 2026
NEW RESOURCES University of Manchester: New online collection of Arabic manuscripts I: the Glorious Qur?an. "A small selection of the John Rylands Library's Arabic manuscripts is now available online for the first […]
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Feb 07, 2026
NEW RESOURCES University College London: Launch Event: UCL Warning Database Launch. "The UCL Warning Database builds on the world's first global warnings database developed under the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as part […]
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Feb 07, 2026
NEW RESOURCES NewsWise: New Database Maps the Politics of America's Workplaces. "Researchers, including Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, have […]
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Feb 06, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Washington University in St. Louis: A Crash Course in WashU History—WashU Libraries Digitize Historic Images . "More than 6,400 historic images of Washington University in St. Louis' buildings, events, and […]
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Feb 06, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Engadget: A developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed. "While it's important to stay informed about what's going on in the world, endlessly scrolling through your social media feeds […]
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Feb 05, 2026
NEW RESOURCES BusinessWire: Sagenverse Expands Outreach of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Worldwide (PRESS RELEASE). "This month, Sagenverse, a developer of interactive 3D experiences and immersive virtual online tools, enabled the Eco-Discovery […]
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Feb 05, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: Introducing GeoCards - A Wiki Labeled Map. "GeoCards is a new interactive web map designed to turn geographic exploration into a lightweight discovery experience. Instead of simply viewing […]
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Feb 04, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Virginia Tech: New database reveals how Americans use water. "[Landon Marston and Yunus Naseri] have created the United States Water Withdrawals Database, the first nationwide resource to track who is […]
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Feb 04, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Reddit: After launching in 2019, my search engine for free 3D assets is now open source. "I built 3Dassets.one in 2019 as a partner website to ambientCG and now decided […]
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Feb 03, 2026
NEW RESOURCES University of Exeter: New Ocean Equity Index launches to drive fair and inclusive ocean governance. "Today marks the launch of the Ocean Equity Index (OEI), a new free tool designed […]
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Feb 03, 2026
NEW RESOURCES State of Hawaii: Hawai?i State Archives Digitizes Indexes To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Records . " The Department of Accounting and General Services, (DAGS) Hawai?i State Archives division, has finished […]
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Feb 02, 2026
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Economist: Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless. "Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in […]
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Feb 02, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Times of Malta: Hundreds of postcards of warships, submarines in Malta can now be viewed online. "The collection was started by Judge Emeritus Giovanni Bonello when he was a child. […]
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Feb 01, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: Meet Language Explorer: Google's New Open-Source Linguistic Atlas. "Google Research's Language Explorer, is a new interactive map that anyone can use to explore the world's languages." TWEAKS AND […]
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Feb 01, 2026
NEW RESOURCES St. Francis Xavier University: McGregor Family Letters - New digital collection available on StFX Scholar. "This remarkable collection of letters, dating from 1805 to 1842, was donated to the Angus […]
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Jan 31, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Scientists Just Mapped the Family Tree of 11,000 Bird Species—And You Can Explore It. "The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new […]
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Jan 31, 2026
EVENTS Geneanet: Indexing Week at Geneanet! Help us transcribe the New York City Geographical Birth Index. "From January 31st through February 8, Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription […]
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Jan 30, 2026
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Malaysia lifts ban on Grok after taking X at its word. "Malaysian authorities appear to be taking X at its word, after the MCMC released a statement confirming […]
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Jan 30, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: The Giant Pixel Art Map of New York. "Isometric NYC is a huge pixel art map of New York City - and I mean huge. Anyone who lives […]
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Jan 29, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Mother Jones: Who Takes Palantir's Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.. "Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge Palantir, compiles data from FEC filings to account […]
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Jan 29, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Stats and R: nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs. "I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package providing convenient, tidy access to […]
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Jan 28, 2026
NEW RESOURCES The Sun (Malaysia): Malaysia launches digital archive of British colonial records for public access. "The National Archives of Malaysia launches a digital collection of British Colonial Office records, offering over […]
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Jan 27, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Intent Press: Operational Command "South" opened a virtual museum. "The virtual museum is dedicated to the units that are now part of the operational command ‘South'. Currently, the museum has […]
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Jan 27, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Spotted in my RSS feeds: African Traditional Architecture. From the front page: "We are building a comprehensive database of Indigenous African architecture from pre-colonial Africa to date. Our goal is […]
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Jan 26, 2026
NEW RESOURCES EIN Presswire: As National Handwriting Day Approaches, New Data Resource Challenges Classroom Myth (PRESS RELEASE). "The interactive resource, published by Handwriting Success, provides the first comprehensive, state-by-state overview of handwriting […]
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Jan 26, 2026
NEW RESOURCES KMJ: Korean Folk Painting Becomes an AI Language With 9,000 Images Now Digitized. "The National Heritage Promotion Agency of Korea announced this week that it has completed a large-scale AI […]
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Jan 25, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Seafood Source: SAFET releases technology database and research brief to promote sustainable ocean technology. "The new mapping system, called ‘Sea-Tech-In-Motion,' is an online interactive database system aimed at providing a […]
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Jan 25, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Irish Central: Guinness Adverts Project on Irish Film Institute's Archive Player. "The Guinness Archive partnered with the Irish Film Institute's (IFI's) Irish Film Archive to catalog, digitize, and preserve a […]
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Jan 24, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Media Play News: ‘Sports Illustrated' Launches Branded ‘SI TV' FAST Channel. "Sports Illustrated, the 70-year-old media platform, Jan. 20 announced the launch of ‘SI TV,' a free ad-supported streaming television […]
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Jan 24, 2026
We're about to get whomped by an ice storm but issues will continue as long as the power stays on. If you'd like to check local news coverage of the weather, check […]
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Jan 23, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Computer History Museum: Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Vast Collection. "The Computer History Museum (CHM), a leader in decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact […]
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Jan 23, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Bluesky: TrumpCensorship.com. From the About page: "Whether through the suppression of scientific research, the erasure of inconvenient historical truths, the rewriting of history, or the direct targeting of […]
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Jan 22, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Panini Cultura News: From Stone to Digital: The online Archive celebrating Pinuccio Sciola's genius. "The Foundation bearing his name has presented the Pinuccio Sciola Digital Archive, a project that makes […]
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Jan 22, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Digital Repository of Ireland: New Collection in DRI - The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants . "The complete collection contains some 20,000 samples of plant products, […]
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Jan 21, 2026
TWEAKS AND UPDATES NBC News: One month after the Epstein files deadline, only a fraction of the DOJ's records have been released. "Monday marks one month since the deadline for the Justice […]
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Jan 21, 2026
NEW RESOURCES CATIE: Launch of the Coffee Agroforestry E Library. "This January 19 marks the launch of the Coffee Agroforestry E Library -the world's first comprehensive online database dedicated to scientific literature […]
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Jan 20, 2026
NEW RESOURCES CBC: ‘First of its kind' database for Yukon salmon looks at chinook and chum more extensively. "The organization's latest assessment of Yukon salmon conservation units, outlined in their Pacific Salmon […]
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Jan 20, 2026
NEW RESOURCES The Register: Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software. "The splendidly-named ‘OpenSlopware' was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM […]
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Jan 19, 2026
NEW RESOURCES BBC: Writer's poems helped boost the abolition campaign. "Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a ‘massive bit of the jigsaw' in the abolition campaign history, […]
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Jan 19, 2026
NEW RESOURCES University of Miami: Preserving the legacy of the first woman US attorney general. "Through a major preservation effort led by University of Miami Libraries, damaged physical media from the Janet […]
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Jan 18, 2026
NEW RESOURCES State of Delaware: Delaware Public Archives Explores Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy in New Digital Exhibit. "The Delaware Public Archives is presenting a new digital exhibit exploring one of the most […]
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Jan 18, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Royal Canadian Mounted Police: National High Risk Child Sex Offender Database goes live. "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database, a national publicly […]
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Jan 17, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Cord Cutters News: More Than 100 Classic Sesame Street Episodes Are Now Streaming on YouTube. "The iconic Sesame Street library has officially arrived on YouTube in a big way. As […]
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Jan 17, 2026
NEW RESOURCES GPO: GPO And The Library Of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes Of The United States Serial Set. "U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) achieved a major milestone by uploading and making available […]
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Jan 16, 2026
NEW RESOURCES WTTW: Inspector General Launches New Dashboard to Identify ‘Hot Spots' of Police Misconduct. "The database, which includes only closed complaints, was designed to allow both police brass and Chicagoans to […]
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Jan 16, 2026
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Maps Mania: War Atlas: Mapping 3,500 Years of Conflict. "War Atlas is an interactive, web-based map that visualizes 8,500 historical battles spanning from around 1500 BC to the […]
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Jan 15, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: Mapping ICE Activity. "People Over Papers is a community-driven map showing reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity. People Over Papers lets anyone submit sightings of possible […]
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Jan 15, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Library of Congress Celebrates America's 250 Years. "The 225-year-old Library of Congress serves Congress and the American people with more than 181 million physical items and an […]
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Jan 14, 2026
NEW RESOURCES 2600: The 2600 Voice BBS Archives, Hope_16 Videos, And A Shower Curtain. "For those who don't know, the 2600 Voice BBS was a unique hacker bulletin board system run by […]
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Jan 14, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Spotted in my RSS feeds: Blogs Are Back. From the About page: "Blogs Are Back is a privacy-focused RSS reader built for people who want to follow writers, not algorithms. […]
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Jan 13, 2026
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive:
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Jan 13, 2026
EVENTS Digital Meets Culture: Webinar on the state of 3D Digitisation in Cultural Heritage. "…the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Methodologies, Technologies & Best Practices webinar is dedicated to presenting the results of […]
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Jan 12, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: What's New Online at the Library of Congress: January 2026. "Interested in learning more about what's new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares […]
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Jan 12, 2026
Yoo Hoo Alam!
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Jan 12, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Taiwan Ministry of Culture: NMTH launches digital database highlighting Taiwan in global history. "The National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH) has launched the ‘Overseas Historical Materials on Taiwan' portal, a […]
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Jan 11, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Goshen College: The Bulletin archive fully digitized. "The Bulletin, Goshen College's official magazine, is now available online in its entirety thanks to the digitization work of the Internet Archive. Every […]
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Jan 11, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Heckmeck: Amiga Pointer Archive. "Whenever a disk was put out into the world - be it a game, a magazine cover disk, or a demo - chances were high that […]
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Jan 10, 2026
Apologies for the silence, I'm having a very unpleasant experience with Google Fiber. Happily T-Mobile's hotspot service is helping me out. NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from University of Cambridge: Price of a bot […]
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Jan 07, 2026
NEW RESOURCES WXXI: Digitized issues of the weekly Brighton-Pittsford Post's entire run now available online. "The entire production run of the Brighton-Pittsford Post has been digitized and is now available online. The […]
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Jan 06, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Texas Policy Research: Texas Launches Local Bond and Tax Transparency Database. "Following the passage of House Bill 103 (HB 103) during the 89th Texas Legislative Session (2025), the Texas Comptroller […]
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Jan 06, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Museum of Flight: Digital Collections 2.0. "The Museum of Flight is beyond excited to announce the relaunch of our Digital Collections site! The site address is unchanged from before (digitalcollections.museumofflight.org) […]
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Jan 05, 2026
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechCrunch: India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over ‘obscene' AI content. "India has ordered Elon Musk's X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot […]
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Jan 05, 2026
EVENTS Techdirt: Let's Go! The Public Domain Game Jam Starts Today. "This year, that means we enter a new decade, as works originally published in 1930 finally exit copyright protection and become […]
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Jan 04, 2026
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data. "California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit […]
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Jan 02, 2026
EVENTS Engadget: CES 2026: What to expect when tech's biggest conference starts on January 4. " The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, but the fun […]
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Jan 01, 2026
NEW RESOURCES Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. "The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage […]
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Dec 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of Vietnam: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches the National Database on International Treaties.. "The website provides comprehensive public information about international treaties, with flexible search functions based on […]
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Dec 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Enfilade: Collecting250 Educator Guides Available from The Decorative Arts Trust. "The Decorative Arts Trust is excited to announce the publication of four complimentary educator guides related to Collecting250.org, a free, […]
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Dec 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive: Archive Lawsuit Opens Vladimir Putin Memcons/Telcons. " The verbatim transcripts of Vladimir Putin's meetings and telephone calls with U.S. president George W. Bush from 2001 to 2008 […]
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Dec 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hyde Park Herald: New archive reunites the art and Legacy of Shaddle and Baum. "…created over more than a decade by their son, Charles Baum, [the Alice Shaddle and Don […]
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Dec 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hoodline: Bay Area Hospital Safety Sins Exposed In New Chronicle Database. "A new database from the San Francisco Chronicle is pulling back the curtain on hospital safety problems across California, […]
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Dec 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Because I am concerned that they might be taken down, I am going to mention all the Epstein Files sites I come across. The latest is https://epsteinfilez.com/. From the About […]
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Dec 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me, I missed the launch last year: The Hydrant Directory. From the About page: "The Hydrant Directory is a free design resource created from public infrastructure. Each hydrant has been […]
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Dec 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES COURIER: We created a searchable database for the Epstein Files, including everything the DOJ wants hidden. "Prior to the DOJ's attempt to walk back what little transparency was to be […]
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Dec 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Anna's Archive: Backing up Spotify. "Anna's Archive normally focuses on text (e.g. books and papers). We explained in ‘The critical window of shadow libraries' that we do this because text […]
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Dec 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Pan American Health Organization: WHO launches the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Library. "The WHO Traditional Medicine Global Library is an inclusive and specialized digital information resource developed in collaboration with […]
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Dec 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES OECD: New Climate Policy Database maps mitigation policies across the 60 IFCMA countries. "The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) has released the first edition of its Climate Policy […]
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Dec 20, 2025
Things will be sporadic until at least after Granny's services next week. NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: How The New Yorker digitized its entire magazine archive. "You can now read every article that […]
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Dec 17, 2025
My best friend. I'll be back when I'm back. Love you.
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Dec 16, 2025
My Granny is not well (yes, I still have a Granny, she's 102) and I have spent much of the last two days at her care center. Headed back there this afternoon. […]
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Dec 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Phys.org: Searchable Bronze Age site database could help answer key questions about ancient Anatolia. "To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists […]
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Dec 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES NTV: Avalanche Canada launches new database for fatal avalanche incidents. "Avalanche Canada has just launched a new site documenting every known avalanche fatality in Canada since 1792. In addition to […]
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Dec 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Progress and Poverty: Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D. "Today, we are thrilled to launch CivicMapper, a new interactive tool that brings cities to life through 3D visualizations…. CivicMapper […]
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Dec 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES International Council on Archives: SAHR Announces its New Database "Truth and Reconciliation Mechanisms Archives Locator" (TRMAL) on International Human Rights Day and Discusses Human Rights Archives. "The TRMAL is a […]
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Dec 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES World Meteorological Organization: New WMO Database on National Laws and Decrees Regulating Meteorology & Hydrology. "The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new database […]
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Dec 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Publishing Perspectives: Belarus: Where Independent Work is Branded Extremism. "On November 27, PEN Belarus and the Belarusian Association of Journalists hosted an event…where authors and journalists shared powerful testimonies about […]
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Dec 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Lauren Leek: How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London's restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it. "I built the London food dashboard. The dashboard […]
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Dec 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Daily News-Record: Free online resource shows people how to identify poisonous Virginia mushrooms. "The book covers the top 40 of the state's more than 2,700 poisonous mushrooms, [Dave] Saylor said. […]
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Dec 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Eastern Daily Press: UEA's Institute for Volunteering Research releases archive. "A new archive showcasing 25 years of volunteering research has been launched by the University of East Anglia. Published by […]
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Dec 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Scientific Data: Mapping Climate Extremes and Infrastructure Vulnerability: A New Database for U.S. Railroads . "The resulting dataset provides railroad segment-level assignments of hazard exposure across the continental U.S. from […]
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Dec 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Standard (Kenya): Government unveils a new era of community driven tourism innovation. "As part of this transformative agenda, the Cabinet Secretary noted that the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) […]
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Dec 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Wales: Explore Your Archive: Newly Catalogued Archives. "As well as the expertise of our staff, who have been exploring a variety of new cataloguing methodologies, we greatly […]
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Dec 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Online database for Arkansas agency rules launches quietly after 5 years, $2.7 million. "Without any fanfare, an Arkansas legislative agency launched an online database of the administrative rules […]
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Dec 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UC San Francisco: Voices of Mount Zion Hospital: Physician Oral Histories Digitized and Online. "A trove of 54 oral-history audio recordings from Mount Zion Hospital, now part of the University […]
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Dec 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Announces Collections Newly Accessible Online. "The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made […]
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Dec 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hungary Today: New Database Showcases Hungary's Military Occupation between 1944-1945. "After 80 years, 117,000 families can now learn about the circumstances of their ancestors' wartime sacrifices, and the residents of […]
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Dec 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Divernet: War Log maps out 1,000 Baltic shipwrecks. "A new open-access database called the War Log has been released, recording the many forgotten but often well-preserved historic Swedish warships that […]
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Dec 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Times of India: 41 years On: Bhopal gas tragedy documented online by Sambhavna Trust. "The Sambhavna Trust Clinic that has been providing free medical care to the survivors of the […]
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Dec 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Maps Mania: Introducing the Global Building Atlas. "The Global Building Atlas is a new global, high-resolution 3D dataset of the world's 2.75 billion buildings. Developed by a research team at […]
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