http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
“Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America’s historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).“–From the Website.
The Virginia Quarterly Review: A National Journal of Literature and Discussion has just opened up its archives. Visitors to the site now have access to everything published between 1975 and 2003. Browsing is possible from the link above, or you can search the archives.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html
Google has announced an initiative to bring more magazine archives and current magazines online and has partnered with a diverse number of magazine publishers to begin digitizing millions of magazine articles. Users can use Google Book Search to search for magazines and magazine articles and as time goes on there will be more and more magazine articles appearing in the results of a Google Book Search.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
From the site: “Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.” I highly recommend doing a search for ‘Memphis’. Good stuff.
http://www.time.com/time/archive
Time Magazine offers a free, searchable database of Time Magazine covers and the content of all of its issues going back to 1923.
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
Sports Illustrated magazine offers a free, searchable database of the content for the last 54 years of Sports Illustrated magazine.
From Kevin Dixon (Staff Development):
“This site shows a map of the US with lots of dots that represent cities. Point to a dot and see the current front page of that city’s newspaper. Click on the dot to see a readable version which also has a link to that newspaper’s website.”
Go to Today’s Front Pages to use the tool Kevin describes. There are also a lot of great stories in the Exhibits and Theaters section.
http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/get-lost-in-translation-sites-312991.php
Lifehacker has a great guide to language translation sites and other language tools. Besides common sites already mentioned in this blog, there are links to language dictionaries, slang sites and newspaper translators. Enjoy!
From Doris Dixon (Raleigh):
Question: Why were the Memphis City Council Super Districts formed?
The Newsbank database for the Commercial Appeal includes the following articles that may jumpstart the research of curious customers:
Chris Conley, “Judge OK’s City Council Remap Plan,” Commercial Appeal, June 20, 1995, A1.
“Chronology of Lawsuits,” Commercial Appeal, April 26, 1995, p. 11
According to Thomas Jones, the Memphis Room clipping file subject heading for this topic is “Memphis–City Council–Election Districts.”
Note: Links work in the library only.
Thanks to Doris for all of the research!
This is a great site for anyone looking for older magazine articles on particular subjects. The site groups articles by subjects, such as “Prohibition” or “Early Cars”, and then provides a .pdf version of the original article. The articles can also be searched by keyword. A great source for students!
This is the website of the Annenberg Political Fact Check, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization “that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.” The organization monitors “the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.”
http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/where-the-web-archives-are-292981.php
This is a great guide from Lifehacker that describes some of the best archival resources online. I suggest that you take a look at the original post, but some of the sites they mention include:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1794683.ece
Britain’s Times Online has compiled a list of their picks for the 160+ top books for boys. Their top 5:
1. The Top 10 of Everything 2007 by Russell Ash
2. Strange Powers of the Human Mind (Forbidden Truths) by Herbie Brennan
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
4. I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
5. Guinness Book of Records 2007
A directory of scholarly and scientific journals that provide free, open access to their resources. Users can browse new journals, or search by journal or article.
From Philip Williams (Cordova):
www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/best_careers_2007/
“U. S. News and World Reports lists what it considers the 25 best careers for 2007 and allows you to see summaries for each of the carreers. It is stated that it is not surprising that many careers are on the list–engineers, dentists, or pharmacists, for example–but that many might be surprising and there is the sentence included: ‘Even though anybody can do a Google search, for instance, librarians will be needed more and more to help us navigate all that digital information.’ What the Report considers the most overrated careers is also listed, as well as tips for recent college graduates. There is also information on salaries.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/102418/When_to_Replace_Common_Household_Items
This article, from Smart Money, gives expert advice on when to replace common household items such as mattresses, toothbrushes and fire extinguishers.
