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Recently Released: The AFRO-American Newspapers Online Archive, Over One Million Articles Available (Free)
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From an AFRO-American Newspapers Announcement: The AFRO-American Newspapers, one of the nation’s oldest news organizations dedicated to covering the African American community, has created a comprehensive collection of over a million articles that captures the African American experience in business, civil rights, education, health, law, and sports beginning in the late 19th century. Google partnered […]
From an ALA Announcement: American Library Association (ALA) President Roberta Stevens released the following statement today regarding President Obama’s 2012 budget request: “The president’s budget proposal strips funding away from one of our greatest resources for lifelong learning – our libraries. Libraries are fundamental to meeting the reading and information needs of communities nationwide. During this […]
Note: Don’t Forget, the National Library of Australia Also Provides a Wonderful “Must See” Metasearch Service named Trove. From a Marketing Vox Article: The Washington Post Co. is getting ready to roll out a website in which readers can customize the type of news they want to see. Called Trove, users will be able to build […]
From a PC World Article: Buying e-books sounds so easy, and using them seems so effortless. The books are a breeze to purchase, and you can easily store great numbers of them, especially if your e-reader has a removable storage card. Not surprisingly, e-book sales are jumping. In fact, a report by Forrester Research predicts […]
Ujala Sehgal from Business Insider has compiled images of the front pages from 17 newspapers and has made them available on the BI web site. The collection includes newspapers from several countries. Sehgal writes: The front pages of newspapers in moments like this become part of history itself, so we went through the world’s newspapers today […]
From O’Reilly Radar: Citizens have a new tool to visualize data and map it onto their own communities. Geospatial startup FortiusOne and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have teamed up to launch IssueMap.org. IssueMap is squarely aimed at addressing one of the biggest challenges that government agencies, municipalities and other public entities have in 2011: converting […]
From an Article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: The Archdiocese of New Orleans says it will unveil Tuesday a new online database containing records of baptisms, marriages and deaths in colonial New Orleans — including those of African slaves, who until now have been nearly invisible to genealogical research. ‘This is a cache of records […]
From a TechNet Post (One of Many Microsoft Company Blogs): How do you find the utterance of a single phrase in 4+ hours’ worth of video. I gave up as I as trying to find that precise moment in the broadcast was a classic needle in a haystack problem. What if I could just search […]
New Audio, Transcript of MLK Speech
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From a Wake Forest University News Center Item: In October of 1962, more than ten months before delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium in Wait Chapel and spoke to a crowd of 2,200. Nearly 50 years later, the public can experience that moment in Wake […]
The full text of the 652 page book can be downloaded as a PDF file for free. Title: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property Edited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski From a Blurb on the MIT Press Web Site: At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with […]
