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May 16, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

I just finished a haunting and powerful digital book available in its entirety at the Library of Congress’ American Memory Project: Born Free and Equal is a “selection of Ansel Adams's photographs of the Manzanar internment camp which was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera along with a text by Adams.” There’s not much that I could possibly say that would add to what Adams achieved in the bo...Read More

May 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Saw this list of 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library at the Art of Manliness site (a site “dedicated to helping men uncover what manliness means in the 21st century), and was struck by several things:

1. 1.  I’ve read an awful lot of these books, and I’m a woman,

May 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

The beta release of Alexander Street Press’s Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera is now live, and will remain freely accessible for trial use from now until June 30, 2008. You can search the file by Title, Caption, Keywords, Date (e.g. 1863), Place (e.g. Richmond, Virginia), Battle/Campaign/Event (e.g. Overland Campaign), Setting (e.g. Exterior), Photographer/Creator (e.g. George Barnard), Image Type (e.g. Photograph), Publisher, and Contributor,...Read More

May 13, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

Finally!  I have found the definitive online training tool for those of us who work at public desks: MultiTasking, the Game. Play (or at least try to play) this game before the next time you go on the desk and it will put the multitasking we are called on to do each day in perspective, sort of. Between Sunday and last evening, I spent 9 hours at the reference desk and could have used a clone… or the ability to juggle flash drives and earphones while filling the printer and photocopier and searching and tea...Read More

May 12, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

An article in Saturday’s Guardian reports that “Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem.” According to the article, “Real doctors will log on and offer advice to their anonymous patients. What both will see is an image of a consulting room with a doctor and a typical patient.”