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U.S. Higher Education Glossary What’s the difference between a college and a university? Who are undergraduate students versus graduate students? What’s the FAFSA? Studying in the United States can be confusing if you don’t fully understand the words used in U.S. higher education. With that in mind, U.S. News has compiled a glossary of important […]
FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis continues to make digitized reports and other historic documents available online. Here’s a look at just a few of them. A New Collection of Material: U.S. Government Debt “A historical collection of speeches and hearings on or referring to […]
From Library and Archives Canada: Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Canadian Naturalization 1915–1951. The nominal index has been extended with the addition of more than 91,000 names and now covers the years from 1915 to 1936, inclusively. Work is ongoing to […]
From the AP (via MSNBC) A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: The sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today. An ancient version of one book has an […]
A new service that has just launched from Google allows users to see and use related material (from Google sites) based on whatever is in their browser window. It’s not a new concept but this attempt at a real time contextual search tool does a something differently vs. what we’ve seen in the past that […]
Last week we reported that BookLamp.org was expected to go live on Tuesday. Well, it’s now Tuesday AM in the U.S. and the service, the result of an “exploratory project” at the U. of Utah is live. Direct to BookLamp.org Our post from last week has background you might want to have before using BookLamp. […]
Hello Harry! 1 Million Users Now Able To Preview Pottermore.com, The Guardian Offers a First Look
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|From The Guardian: From flying letters to a 4,500 word-discourse on wand woods, early access to JK Rowling’s move into the digital arena, Pottermore, reveals a richly-imagined, elaborately realised behind-the-scenes peek into the world of Harry Potter. Pottermore does not open to wider use until October, but has already been inundated by Harry Potter fans. […]
Half of Young Children in the U.S. are Read to at Least Once a Day, Census Bureau Reports Many young children are getting a head start on acquiring the skills needed to read, as family members take time out of their day on a regular basis to read aloud with them, the U.S. Census Bureau […]
Direct: App Store to Download (Free) Note: NLA Tells Us They’re Looking At “Branching Out Even Further” With Apps for Other Platforms From the App Store Description: The National Library of Australia catalogue is now mobile! It’s a fast and easy way to search the collection and to find resources whenever and wherever you are. […]
Reference: Controlled Vocabularies "The Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version) is Added to the Open Folklore Portal"
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|From the Open Folklore Blog: The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a beta version on the Open Folklore portal, a collaborative effort of the Society, the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries, and the Indiana University Digital Library Program. [Clip] The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access […]