http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/Themes.htm
excerpt:
During the 2006-2007 school year, National History Day invites students to research topics related to the theme Triumph & Tragedy in History. As is the case each year, the theme is broad enough to encourage investigation of topics ranging from local history to world history, and from ancient time to the recent past.
Excerpt from the e-mail newsletter sent out by mnartists.org:
...former Minnesota Film Arts programmer Adam Sekuler has undertaken a major recycling mission of his own, liberating and repurposing hundreds of 16mm films that were set to be discarded by the University of Minnesota.
see full article.
This might be useful with some History Day projects etc., and it forms a nice
contrast to our own WWI and WWII war posters site at
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html
The National Library of Scotland has launched an
online collection of propaganda that was used
during World War II. The collection is divided
into "white propaganda" (they define as "mostly
practical information intended for the Home
Front") and "black propaganda," which targeted
enemy morale.
http://www.nls.uk/propaganda/index.html
>From http://www.nls.uk/propaganda/index.html , you
can read an overview of the collection and select
white or black propaganda. Each link selected will
give you a more general overview of the topic as
well as a thumbnails to propaganda images -- not
posters, but rather booklets and postcards in the
case of white propaganda and leaflets in the case
of black propaganda. Clicking on the images brings
larger images and detail pages about the item. The
content of the item itself is not available
online.
The collection is rather small but I found it
interesting as most online collections of this
type tend to focus on posters.
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above is from the 27 July 2006 ResearchBuzz / forwarded by Denny
We had a bewildered international student in yesterday trying to understand how to find impact factors for journals. She had a printout from what turned out to be a section of the Web of Science, but he had blocked out the impact factors column. In order to get to what she had from him, you have to reset the ISI menu at the top from Web of Science to Journal Citation reports, and set up and submit a search. I notice also that once you do that, you apparently need to logout before you can change the category. I didn't get as far as finding in which category kinesiology falls but it may be that they can set up the search by journal title instead.
I started with the Journal Citation Reports and the students have to use both the earlier years of JCR which are in fiche format, and the recent years which are in ISI. I helped as long as I could and then needed to leave.
I sent a note to Scott saying he might want to check with Michael Wade about the assignment for the summer session of KIN 5981 Research Methodology in Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport .
I checked with Lois , and her understanding is that we can't suppress the call number from displaying for on-order items now that we are creating holdings records for all orders. The words "On Order" do appear on all the screens where the call number appears, in most cases immediately adjacent to the call number information. - Stephen
** Australian National University Launches Database of Biographies
The Australian National University (ANU) has launched a Dictionary of Biography, which contains 10,000 articles on people who have played an important role in the history of Australia and died before 1980. The Web site is available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/
Once you've entered the site, you'll see that the front page actually offers three different ways to browse â€" by people, occupation, or author. You may also do a quick keyword search. An advanced search tab at the top of the page lets you do really detailed searching (gender, cultural heritage, religious influence, occupation, place of occupation, etc.)
A little intimidated by the advanced search, I did a quick search for Cooper and got 242 results. Search results include the name of the person and the first line or so of their biography; clicking on their name gives them the full article. The articles I looked at were fairly extensive; your searched keyword is highlighted in the entire article and there's a summary box to the left that includes the birth and death date and place, cultural heritage, and occupation (or in the cases I looked at series of occupations.) Sometimes there's a picture, and sometimes there's crosslinking with other biographies.
For those who just want the facts and a way to report them, there are a few links beneath the summary which provide life details in a quick table, provide a list of abbreviations common to all articles, and provide information on the print version of the article (as it appeared in the multivolume Australian Dictionary of Biography) and any revisions there have been to the print version and when. Not all articles I looked at had all these links, and a couple had a "Resources" link that pointed to external writings on the subject of the biography and offered a Google search box.
For details about the history of the Dictionary and future plans, check out http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/about.htm .
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the above is from ResearchBuzz; forwarded and posted by Denny Lien
If you wish to search Obituaries in the New York Times Proquest Historical online, try omitting the person's first name, because the entry may not include it. SG
*Advanced Search screen has a link to More Search options screen includes Document type: Obituaries
Title: New York Times (access via ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Coverage: 1851-2001
Description: The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/nytph.cgi
keywords: obits NYT
The index picks out words only in the titles of articles, apparently, because the caption only read "Brig-General Clagett" with no first name. The index gets confused, I guess, if you throw too many names at it. -- comment from Al L.
We currently have a trial for the Professional level of the Foundation Directory Online, trial lasts through July 14.
We currently have a trial for the Professional level of the Foundation Directory Online. This database contains over 80,000 records for U.S. foundations, grantmaking public charities, and corporate givers, including sponsoring company information. It has full-text search capability across 230,000+ IRS Forms 990; a searchable index of over 360,000 names; direct links to grantmaker and corporate Websites; 19 fields to search by; and flexible sorting and printing capabilties.
The trial will last through July 14th.
To access the database, go to The Foundation Center website: www.fdncenter.org and click the link to the Foundation Directory Online (box in lower, middle of page).
username: trial5
password: research
--Martha
The service packs have been applied to both Aleph and ILL, and both of them are up and running again. Please email "alephelp" immediately if you experience any problems with Aleph or ILL. Thanks, Heather