Just a leetle bit more with the reference madness this morning.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, the grand old man of encyclopedias, has all its content available online… for a fee. But there are some pretty cool features there that are free.
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Today’s post is going to be all about cool things concerning the information chase, with me dropping some links and generally babbling some things I find fascinating. Feel free to pass this one by if the above doesn’t sound like your cup of tea… [...] The Boston Public Library is digitizing their maps and making them available online. I love the Google maps-style control that allows users to zoom and scroll. I was able to get a good look at Q-town circa 1877 and see how much my neighborhood has changed. I added a new category of links to the sidebar: The Librarians. These are all sites I came across when I was researching the idea of going back to school and pre-big decision making ritual of considering all the angles, from every possible angle. Anyhoo, you may find some of them of interest. And how [...] Courtesy of the Library of Congress: a treasure trove of color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s, in an the exhibit America from the Great Depression to World War II, conveniently indexed by subject, geography and creator. There’s all sorts of interesting things to dig up – this shot looks like a still from an [...] |
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