Fascinating Open Letters the Internet Made Possible. Open letters are by no means a new concept, and have existed long before the advent of the Internet. Being able to publish just about anything online ourselves, has however, really catapulted the concept of open letters, making it easy to share them with millions of people at the click of a button. Open letters are often critical missives, aimed at addressing a person publicly.
The Internet is home to open letters from celebrities to one another, from fans to celebrities, and from companies to their customers, among many others. We’ve put together a list of the more interesting letters we’ve seen surface on the World Wide Web in the past few years, and here they are, in no particular order. Sufjan Stevens to Miley Cyrus Inspired by a series of open letters from Sinead O’Connor to Miley Cyrus, singer Sufjan Stevens decided to get in on the fun. In case you managed to miss all five (yes, count them five) open letters sent to Miley Cyrus by Sinead O’Connor, the story goes like this. A note about searching Google Scanned Newspaper archives. As you might know, Google currently has a collection of newspaper archives that's worth knowing about.
It turns out that the Newspaper Archive search still works, it just requires a bit of special technique to actually search it out. and it will show you a popup. Fill in the fields the way you want, THEN do a date-restrict to the dates you want, and THEN in the "Source" field, enter the name of the newspaper you want. And the results... If you click on the first result, you'll see this excerpt from the NYTimes of 1893 As another example, you can put in the name of one of the newspaper scanned collection in the source: field. Be sure you put in the name of a newspaper that we have in our scanned archive.
Once you're on a roll and have started one of these, you can then substitute the name of another paper in the source: field slot at the top of the page without having to go back to the original URL shown above. Let us know what interesting things you discover in the news archives. Search on! MSU News - MSU Library developing online atlas of natural sounds of Montana and the American West. November 1, 2013 -- MSU News Service The Montana State University Library is developing an atlas of natural sounds of Montana and the American West. The library’s new Acoustic Atlas includes animal and environmental sounds of some of the West’s most iconic species and places, including the snorts of bison in Yellowstone National Park, the howls of grasshopper mice and the underwater calls of frogs, according to Jeff Rice, program director. The atlas is available for interested individuals to access online for free at Co-founded by Kenning Arlitsch, dean of the MSU Library, and Rice, a sound recordist based in Seattle, the Acoustic Atlas draws on the talents of MSU faculty librarians and staff who help organize and describe the sound files, develop and maintain the website, and provide the hardware and software that allows sounds to be streamed to users on the Internet.
The project has seed funding from the MSU Library and the Willow Springs Foundation. Ipl2: Information You Can Trust. Oldbooks Used and Rare, ABAA and ILAB. Repositories of Primary Sources. Rare Books Information. Rare Book School Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand Fellowship Program. Rare Book School at the University of Virginia has received a second grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the reach of an ambitious fellowship program that is reinvigorating bibliographical studies within the humanities. The $783,000 grant, announced earlier this month, will fund 20 additional three-year fellowships in the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography program for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty seeking advanced training in the study of rare books, manuscripts and other material texts.
Aiming to encourage humanities scholars to look at books as physical artifacts worthy of study beyond the text on their pages, the program was launched last academic year with an $896,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. While bibliographical training was a required element of elite graduate programs in English literature and other humanities disciplines five decades ago, that priority has long since faded at U.S. universities. Rarebooks.info. Rarebooks.info. Usenet and discussion list archives. Discussion lists These are also referred to as mailing lists or list-servs, but whatever they're called, they mean the same thing.
A mailing list is a glorified email 'cc' - sending copies of exactly the same email or, when referring to mailing lists or Usenet post to a large number of people. Rather than having to know the email addresses of all of the people you want to send a post to, the hosting service does this for you. The hosting service will keep a list of all of the different discussion lists and the people who subscribe to them. All that you have to do is to find the list that you want to join, join it and then start participating in the discussions! The image above shows in a graphical format how a mailing list works. Advantages and disadvantages of discussion lists Advantages Disadvantages A frighteningly easy way to waste time Personal disputes can escalate into 'flame wars' Possible confusion arising from a personal opinion/company viewpoint What information can you get?
Emily Dickinson Archive. Serendip-o-matic: Let Your Sources Surprise You. Welcome · Digital Public Library of America. LA Welcomes Three New Service Hubs to its Growing Collections: New York, North Carolina, Texas. October 24, 2013 Boston, MA – The Digital Public Library of America announced the addition of three new Service Hubs today at a reception celebrating the April 2013 launch of the DPLA and the start of DPLAfest, a two-day series of events free and open to the public taking place in Boston on October 24-25, 2013. The three new Service Hubs – Empire State Digital Network (New York), The Portal to Texas History (Texas), and the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (North Carolina) – will bring hundreds of thousands of new digital materials into the DPLA collections in the weeks and months following the DPLAfest festivities.
The DPLA Service Hubs are state or regional digital libraries that aggregate information about digital objects from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions within their given state or region. These new Service Hubs represent the geographic and cultural diversity of the expanding DPLA collections: Empire State Digital Network (New York) Find Your Library | County of Los Angeles Public Library.