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Digitized Maps: David Rumsey Map Collection Adds Nearly 1700 Historic Maps and Images
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Public Libraries
|From a Rumsey Map Collection Blog Post: 1,676 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection, bringing the online collection to 27,800 maps and images. Included in this addition are 666 images of Pocket Maps, a rare edition of Sanborn’s 1905 Atlas of San Francisco from the S.F. Public Library […]
The Spencer Library at the University of Kansas has digitized and made a collection Sandborn Maps for 241 Kansas towns and cities covering a period from 1883 through the 1930s available online (free). From a KU Libraries Announcement: The Sanborn Map Company, of Pelham, New York, began surveying the business districts of cities and towns […]
U.S. Education Stats: EduBudgetProject.org Database Relaunches With New Features and Updated Data
Academic Libraries, Awards, Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Maps, News, Resources, School Libraries
|From a California Health Foundation Blog Post: A new website*** launched this month weaves together multiple sources of education data into a single place, allowing parents, students and researchers to quickly size up schools. The site, www.EdBudgetProject.org, includes information for both K-12 school districts and colleges. Every school and district page includes financial, demographic and […]
Digitization Projects: "Academics Create Digitized Archive of Korean War"
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Maps, News, Profiles, Resources
|From Yonhap News (South Korea): A group of South Korean and U.S. academics is working to revisit the Korean War six decades later in a tech-savvy way: by digitizing photos, maps, official documents and video footage of interviews with war veterans. [Clip] A formal Web site will be launched around October that will include a […]
New Report: "Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2010-2011"
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Reports
|The overview and links to the complete report are below. We e want to call your attention to a few useful resources that might be useful but could be overlooked. 1. Statistical Summaries For All 50 States and the District of Columbia are Available HTML (Separate Document For Each State and DC) PDF (One PDF […]
Archives: Northern Michigan University Digitizes Thousands of Historic Mining Documents and Photos
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Reports, Resources
|From WLUC-TV: [Northern Michigan] University’s (NMU) Archiving Department recently scanned and posted over 70,000 documents relating to CCI’s (Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company) annual reports and lumber company. They also scanned over 500 maps and 200 photographs. It took the staff of five over a year to scan and touch up the documents. NMU acquired the records […]
Via WRCB: Tennessee is turning to modern technology to trace the state’s history. On Wednesday the Tennessee Department of State announced an interactive map of events during the Civil War, using the state’s geographic information system or GIS. The first of its kind in the nation, the Tennessee Civil War Geographic Information System (GIS) Survey shows […]
New State Department iPhone App Available Smart Traveler, the official State Department app for U.S. travelers, invites you to see the world with easy access to frequently updated official country information, travel alerts, travel warnings, maps, U.S. embassy locations, and more. With Smart Traveler, you can create personal itineraries, add notes, and organize your trips. […]
A busy week at Bing. A couple of days ago we pointed out that Bing had updated their mobile site (m.bing.com) with several new features including an option to view a map and directions simultaneously. Today, two more new features from Bing. 1. Info Visualization: “New Heat Map Creator app makes heat maps easy” (via […]
From an Announcement: The new discipline-specific, three-pane article design sets a new standard for both the presentation and the content of the scientific article. The prototypes, available in seven disciplines, are based on feedback from researchers with whom Elsevier cooperated throughout the development of the Article of the Future format. The improved format will begin […]