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Mar 30, 2025
USEFUL STUFF Mashable: YouTube channels to help keep your mind calm. "The age of being extremely online has produced many unusual meditative practices. Many of us apparently enjoy singing bowl TikToks. Others […]
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Mar 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Cambridge: Modern Magic Unlocks Merlin's Medieval Secrets. "A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered […]
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Mar 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Malay Mail: Batang Kali landslide survivors reclaim their story with new website on fatal disaster. "The Batang Kali landslide on December 16, 2022, left an indelible mark on Malaysia's history, […]
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Mar 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES International Chess Federation: FIDE launches first digital museum dedicated to chess history. "As part of its 2024 centenary celebrations, FIDE has unveiled an online museum tracing chess history from ancient […]
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Mar 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Urban Milwaukee: Evers Seeks to Hire Displaced Federal Workers in Wisconsin. "Gov. Tony Evers is trying to recruit displaced federal workers to Wisconsin following waves of mass layoffs by the […]
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Mar 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES BroadwayWorld: BroadwayWorld Launches Global Theater & Fringe Festival Database. "BroadwayWorld has launched a new Theater & Fringe Festival Database, designed to serve both artists looking to perform and audiences seeking […]
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Mar 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Santa Fe Reporter: Darkness visible. "The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection is an important new archive for documents that were generated, in large part, by victim lawsuits brought […]
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Mar 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: New Primary Source Set on the Eugenics Movement in North Carolina. "We have another new primary source set on DigitalNC. This new set focuses on the eugenics movement and […]
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Mar 26, 2025
EVENTS Mashable: Apple announces WWDC 2025 dates. "Dates for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) have officially been announced. WWDC 2025 will take place from June 9 to 13, with the keynote taking […]
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Mar 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of Japan: Launch of Webpage on "Google Arts & Culture" to Share the Attractions of National Parks of Japan. "Google's ‘Google Arts & Culture' platform, launched in 2011, allows […]
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Mar 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Goan: Goa Water Stories: An interactive digital archive of Goa's rich water heritage. "As the world celebrates ‘World Water Day' today, The Goan takes a sneak peek into ‘Goa […]
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Mar 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Behind the Numbers: LIVE TRACKER: GenAI in media - 70 tools and products from around the world (in English and in Finnish). "…in this blog you can now find an […]
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Mar 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Globe Newswire: Key State Capital Launches Web of Trust Database for Safe and Efficient Digital Identification (PRESS RELEASE). "Key State Capital has launched the Web of Trust map, which is […]
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Mar 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES William & Mary: A vital link to local news. "Say you were offered a job in a town you'd never been to. How would you know if you would like […]
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Mar 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of North Carolina: Governor Josh Stein Launches New Website for Displaced Federal Public Servants. "Today, Governor Josh Stein launched a new website to welcome talented and dedicated people to […]
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Mar 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Radio Prague International: Close to 100 digitised art collections in Czechia now available online. "The Ministry of Culture is supporting the digitization of close to one hundred historical collections in […]
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Mar 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Michigan: War of the Worlds fan mail: Over 1,300 letters digitized, open access from U-M Library. "The University of Michigan Library has digitized, transcribed and categorized more than […]
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Mar 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Security Archive: CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy. "The memorandum, declassified in full for the first time yesterday, is part of a final release of […]
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Mar 21, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES NiemanLab: The New York Times picks up the shuttered FiveThirtyEight's poll tracking database. "When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site's publicly available polling databases — like […]
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Mar 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Discovered via Calishat Snaps: Invisiclues. From the About page: "This website is a labor of love maintained by an Infocom fan and obssessive archivist who fondly remembers the first time […]
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Mar 20, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Tom's Hardware: ERNIE 4.5 AI model by Baidu claims to match DeepSeek R1 at half the cost. "Baidu, the Chinese technology giant, has announced the release of two advanced […]
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Mar 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New to me and discovered via MetaFilter (what, y'all don't read MetaFilter?): The Sampler Archive. From the front page: "The Sampler Archive database has been designed to share detailed information […]
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Mar 19, 2025
EVENTS Tubefilter: YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday with nearly 40 "Creator Collectives" in major U.S. cities. "YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday in 2025, and the platform's creator experience team is […]
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Mar 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Magnum Photos: Magnum Presents: A World in Color. "Magnum Photos, in partnership with Fujifilm and MPP (Heritage and Photography Library of Paris), presents A World in Color, a historic project […]
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Mar 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Alpena News: Besser Museum launches publicly accessible online database. "The Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan's Collections Department is excited to announce the official launch of its publicly accessible online […]
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Mar 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found in my RSS feeds: Tractorspedia. From the front page: "Welcome to Tractorspedia, where decades of hands-on farming wisdom meet a comprehensive tractor database. Founded by seasoned farmer Abner Carter, […]
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Mar 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES King's College London: Launch of first online dashboard for AI and cancer papers to accelerate AI adoption in the clinic. "Researchers at King's have launched a first-of-its-kind dashboard that collates […]
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Mar 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress Blogs: What's New Online at the Library of Congress: March 2025. "Interested in learning more about what's new in the Library of Congress's digital collections? The Signal […]
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Mar 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Drew University: Drew University Releases Digital Archives on Operation Americas (Duck Diaries). "Drew University's Library has launched a detailed website documenting the famous goodwill journey of seven college students—three from […]
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Mar 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Unveiling royal style: A digital journey through five centuries of fashion. "Among [Historic Royal Palaces'] most remarkable collections is the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection (RCDC), an extraordinary archive […]
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Mar 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found on LinkedIn: Pixel Icon Library. From the front page: "Introducing HackerNoon's Pixel Icon Library, an open-source collection of Pixelated Icons. Meticulously designed on a 24px grid, ensuring perfect alignment […]
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Mar 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Korea.net: Nat'l Palace Museum of Korea revamps online display section. "The National Palace Museum of Korea has revamped its online section to showcase a diversity of digital content. The museum […]
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Mar 14, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: Google cracks down on Chrome extensions following Honey scandal. "Late last year, a YouTube video uncovering the shady affiliate tactics of PayPal's coupon Chrome extension, Honey, went viral. […]
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Mar 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES CTV News: B.C. watchdog launches police misconduct database. "Information about police misconduct is now available to the public in B.C. through an online database created by the provincial watchdog for […]
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Mar 13, 2025
EVENTS Duke University: Attend Artificial Intelligence in Higher Ed Webinar Series. "The full impact of Artificial Intelligence on higher education and in our classrooms is becoming clearer. An upcoming webinar series from […]
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Mar 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Travel Through History with New Blue Ridge Parkway Primary Source Set. "New to DigitalNC is our primary source set on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which traces the history of […]
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Mar 12, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Tubefilter: Washington's attempted ban is helping TikTok Shop become big business in Mexico. "The increasing interest in the Mexican version of TikTok Shop — which launched last month amid […]
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Mar 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Thanks to Diane R. for sending this my way: Online Archive for WWII. "Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary […]
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Mar 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Future of Privacy Forum: Data Sharing for Research Tracker. "In celebration of International Open Data Day, FPF is proud to launch the Data Sharing For Research Tracker, a growing list […]
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Mar 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Jerusalem Post: Unveiling the past: State Archives digitizes official British Mandate newspaper . "The Israel State Archives published on Sunday the digital collection of the Palestine Gazette, the official newspaper […]
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Mar 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Elle Canada: Introducing North Finder, the Ultimate Search Engine for Canadian Beauty Products. "Given the state of our current climate, the push for Canadians to support local businesses has felt […]
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Mar 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection. "The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection is an initiative to rescue and preserve materials from government organizations facing the removal of public […]
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Mar 09, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Reddit's rule check feature will help users avoid breaking subreddit rules. "Reddit has announced several new tools that seem like they were designed to encourage more lurkers to […]
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Mar 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES WAVY: CareWatch website aids families in finding top-rated skilled nursing facilities. "A new website aims to help people find the right skilled nursing facility for a loved one. The site, […]
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Mar 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Discover World of Japanese Arcades and Many Ways to Enjoy Them on SEGA Fave's New Website (PRESS RELEASE). "SEGA FAVE CORPORATION, headquartered in Tokyo and a group company […]
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Mar 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Scene Noise: The Digital Archive of Arabic Music in the Age of Streaming. "On February 24th, 2025, the Arabic Independent Music Archive (AIMA) officially launched its digital platform at the […]
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Mar 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Global Investigative Journalism Network: A New Digital Archive to Preserve an Investigative Legacy in Central America. "For more than a quarter century, elPeriódico was Guatemala's boldest daily newspaper, proudly describing […]
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Mar 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Discovered on LinkedIn: Meaningfully. That link goes to a GitHub repository. From the readme: "Meaningfully is a semantic search tool for text data in spreadsheets. Keyword searching in Excel or […]
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Mar 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Manchester Journal: SVAC unveils digitized archive of permanent collection. "Southern Vermont Arts Center (SVAC) recently announced the launch of a digitized archive of its Permanent Collection, making a wide range […]
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Mar 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: What was life in Chicago like in 2000? . "From January to December that year, more than 200 photographers, videographers and journalists captured moments like these […]
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Mar 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Discovered on LinkedIn: Global AI Regulation Tracker. From the front page: "An interactive world map that tracks AI law, regulatory and policy developments around the world. Click on a region […]
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Mar 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hackster.io: Jason Scott Launches DISCMASTER 2, a Semantic Search Engine for Classic CD-ROM Compilations. "Jason Scott, self-described ‘free-range archivist' at the Internet Archive, has announced the launch in full of […]
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Mar 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Scientific Data: Constructing a global human epidemic database using open-source digital biosurveillance. "We developed a dataset consisting of outbreak data collected from official, open-source surveillance reports representing more than 170 […]
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Mar 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Colorado Department of Education: Colorado Department of Education publishes free K-12 math resources. "The Colorado Department of Education released a suite of free K-12 resources to support educators and families […]
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Mar 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found on LinkedIn: the Western North Carolina Housing Guide. From the front page: "Where do I go for housing repairs? How do I find trusted information about the recovery process? […]
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Mar 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Calishat: SearchTweaks.com Updated - 16 Free Tools for Better Web Search. "I learned so much overhauling WikiTwister that I immediately came up with several ideas for improving SearchTweaks, my collection […]
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Mar 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Associated Press: NFL introduces ‘Combine IQ': A new tool for fans to understand scouting data. "The NFL scouting combine provides a blizzard of data with hundreds of prospects running through […]
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Mar 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Exeter: Oral history project recovering voices of Spanish and Latin American women celebrated at Spanish Embassy. "An oral history project that is creating powerful video postcards to recover […]
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Mar 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Southern California: Gene Ontology Consortium releases comprehensive resource describing functions of more than 20,000 human genes. "For the first time, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of […]
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Mar 01, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Survey: 42% of people say Google Search is becoming less useful. "Google continues to lose ground among younger generations, with 61% of Gen Z and 53% […]
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Feb 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES BMW Blog: The New BMW Digital Archive Lets You Explore 424 Models. "BMW Group Classic launched a historical overview of MINI and Motorrad models back in 2021. However, we had […]
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Feb 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES REI: PeopleForBikes and REI Co-op Launch Groundbreaking New Tool to Expand Access to Recreational Bicycling Across the U.S.. "The Recreational Bicycling Access Tool provides comprehensive data highlighting the current state […]
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Feb 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES American Chemical Society: Research reveals potential alternatives to ‘forever chemicals'. "The database identifies over 300 applications of PFAS used across 18 categories, including pharmaceuticals, cookware and clothing, and 530 alternatives […]
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Feb 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Phiresky's Blog: Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space. "International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) are 13-digit numbers that are assigned to almost all published books. Since the first three […]
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Feb 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Learn to Earn Dayton: Learn to Earn Dayton Releases Online Data Dashboard, Annual Report. "Dashboard users can view data specific to each of Ohio's 611 School Districts, including comparison data […]
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Feb 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: Governor Newsom announces stronger accountability measures, launches new tool measuring local progress in tackling homelessness. "Today's announcement comes alongside the debut of a new online tool accountability.ca.gov, […]
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Feb 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog: Medieval Women manuscripts now online. "It's the final week of our major exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words and we have some fantastic news! […]
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Feb 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Times of India: TRIS: The Mother of All Search Engines on India's Soul and Spirit. "The Tuli Research Centre for India Studies has launched an extensive digital archive … capturing […]
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Feb 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Sudbury.com (Canada): Library releases decades of historic newspapers online. "Local history enthusiasts have a new resource at their fingertips, with the Greater Sudbury Public Library releasing decades of historic newspapers […]
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Feb 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Cornell Chronicle: DisabilityStatistics.org offers visualization and local data. "When the revamped DisabilityStatistics.org website launches later this month, it will provide data about disability prevalence and demographics on the national, state, […]
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Feb 23, 2025
EVENTS Wyoming State Library: Free Online Conference-Big Talk From Small Libraries 2025. "Big Talk From Small Libraries is a free online conference sponsored by the Association for Rural & Small Libraries and […]
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Feb 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES MottG tipped me to this on Mastodon: Papers Tok . From the About page: "An experiment to try to improve accessibility and discoverability of AI academic papers." The page shows […]
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Feb 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Notre Dame News: New homelessness prevention toolkit empowers communities with proven, cost-effective way to keep families housed. "Developed through a collaboration among the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) […]
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Feb 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Finland: Online discussions on forests preserved in the Finnish Web Archive. "For a long time, public discussion on forests has been marked by the issue of defining […]
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Feb 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hartford International University for Religion and Peace: Dr. Walter Fluker: Howard Thurman Papers Now Accessible Online. "Dr. Walter Earl Fluker, Distinguished Professor of HIU's Howard Thurman Center, announced this month […]
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Feb 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Phys.org: New tool to verify Aussie food product claims and green credentials. "CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has today launched an important new national resource of isotopic data—food's unique fingerprint—that […]
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Feb 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of Canada: Parks Canada Launches Three New Ways to Virtually Experience Sable Island National Park Reserve. "Two new digital exhibits on the Google Arts and Culture platform take visitors […]
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Feb 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Cornell Chronicle: One-stop bird flu resource center fills information gaps. "Cornell has launched a comprehensive resource that offers a one-stop clearinghouse for the most current and trustworthy information on bird […]
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Feb 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Long Island Press: Digital archive of Port News delivers 20th century history to your fingertips. "For three years, library archivists have been working to digitize over 115,000 pages of The […]
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Feb 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Husker journalism professor launches Nebraska News Map. "[Professor Jessica] Walsh and her team published the Nebraska News Map in January following a year of data collection and […]
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Feb 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES WPRI: Rhode Island officially launches ‘Rental Registry' database. "The Rhode Island Department of Health unveiled its Rental Registry public database Wednesday, which allows renters and prospective tenants to check whether […]
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Feb 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Map Room: GeoFeeds. "Nearly 20 years ago, James Fee launched Planet Geospatial, which aggregated all the GIS, geospatial and map blogs into a single feed. It's been gone for […]
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Feb 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boston Herald: Massachusetts launches ‘user-friendly' tool for veterans to access financial benefits. "Massachusetts veterans and their families seeking financial assistance can now use a tool that state officials say is […]
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Feb 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES USPTO: USPTO launches new Open Data Portal for easy, quick access to data. "As we modernize our systems and improve customer experience, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched […]
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Feb 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Historic Environment Scotland: Unlock Scotland's past with trove.scot. "Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has today launched trove.scot, its new digital portal for the historic environment. Users can now delve into Scotland's […]
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Feb 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Game Font Library is a library of game fonts. "Wondering what typeface was used in any given video game? Charlotte Couderc's Game Font Library is exactly […]
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Feb 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. "A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states […]
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Feb 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES United States Courts: New Tool Helps Public Find Local Court Civics Resources and Programs. "Federal courts regularly engage in public outreach and civics education efforts. A new interactive civics map […]
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Feb 14, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Register: After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected. "Australia's Department of the Treasury has found that Microsoft's Copilot can easily deliver return on […]
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Feb 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Konstanz: Mapping the quality of public transportation in Germany. "How good is the public transportation from your home address? For an objective perspective, you can check the interactive […]
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Feb 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hürriyet Daily News: Website listing supermarket prices may help fight inflation. "The searchable website… lists the current prices of goods sold by seven chain supermarkets, including discount grocers, across various […]
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Feb 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National University of Singapore: The largest collection of caricatures of Charles Darwin and evolution in history unveiled. "On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National […]
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Feb 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Pragmatika: An online database of abandoned Jewish tombstones has been created in Lviv. "An online database of transcriptions and translations of Jewish matzevs (tombstones) found in the city has been […]
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Feb 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Museo Galileo: A Digital Library on Women and Astronomy: a project of participatory history of science. "On February 11 th , on the occasion of the International Day of Women […]
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Feb 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: California launches dashboard to track LA recovery, adds new services finder to connect firestorm survivors with resources. "California launched a new dashboard on the CA.gov/LAfires website to […]
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Feb 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Discovered via Calishat Snaps: TimePortal: an Internet Archive explorer. From the front page if you click the "Filter Content" button: "Explore the Internet Archive's vast collection through time. Discover historical […]
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Feb 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Art Daily: Goya in print: The Prado Museum unveils groundbreaking online archive. "‘The Inventory of Printed References. 1771-1828' is the world's first comprehensive collection of every printed mention of the […]
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Feb 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Harvard Crimson: Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab Launches U.S. Federal Data Vault. "The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab published a vast collection of federal datasets on Thursday, […]
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Feb 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Coast TV: Delaware launches website to support immigrant students in schools. "Delaware Secretary of Education, Cindy Marten, has launched a new website providing guidance and resources for educators and families […]
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Feb 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Maynooth University: MU and Regional Assemblies launch National Census Atlas dashboard . "Ireland's three Regional Assemblies, in collaboration with the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) at Maynooth University, have launched the […]
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