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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Dark Side of the Web
Google sees only a fraction of the content that appears on the internet. Stuart Andrews finds out what's lurking in the deep web.
The deep web isn’t half as strange or sinister as it sounds. It refers to those portions of the web that, for whatever reason, have been invisible to conventional search engines such as Google. Interesting read.

Found via LISNews (Librarian And Information Science News)

Original posting at Dark side of web
Posted By Callie at 4:35 PM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Women's History Month at IONA COLLEGE
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 11:09 AM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

FRB Announces New Online Consumer Guide to Credit Cards
"The Federal Reserve Board on Friday launched a new interactive website to help consumers better understand the new credit card protections that will take effect on February 22. These rules ban several harmful practices and require greater transparency in the disclosure of the terms and conditions of credit card accounts."

"The site, which can be found at www.federalreserve.gov/creditcard, summarizes the main provisions of the rules and explains how they will affect credit card users. Two interactive features will allow consumers to learn more about the terms and fees of credit card offers and about the new features of their monthly statements."
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 10:50 PM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

More Women's History Month Resources!
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 1:51 PM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Women's History Month Information Resources
March is Women's History Month!

Check out the Women's History Month site from the Library of Congress. This guide gathers together and links to information sources on women's history including images and multimedia, teacher resources, and more! The site is cosponsored by The Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 1:42 PM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth.gov
AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth.gov
By resourceshelf on Resources
The site contains several categories of resources:
+ Exhibits & Collections
+ Images
+ Audio/Video
+ For Teachers
......
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 1:48 PM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Friday, January 29, 2010

African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project
"Headquartered at Amherst College, the African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project (AARDOC) was founded in 1987. The goal of the project is "to produce a comprehensive history of African-American religion." The history is scheduled to be published in a print edition by the University of Chicago Press later in 2010, and the authors of the project have created this site to bring a selection of these materials to the attention of educators and students. The "Advice for Beginners" section contains a brief description of external reference works of note, and then visitors can make their way through brief outlines of different phases in African-American religious history in areas like "Atlantic World" and "Global Phase". The "Sample Documents" area is a real treat, as it features primary documents that tell the story of Billy Sunday's interactions with African-Americans and the 1822-1823 journal of Betsey Stockton, who joined a company of missionaries as they set sail for the Sandwich (Hawaii) Islands.
The site is rounded out by a selection of teaching resources, including syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses."
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 11:51 AM in Category: Current Hot Topics

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Quick, Free Calendar Printouts
Calendar Labs, at http://www.calendarlabs.com/, contains a wide variety of free, useful calendars in several formats. You can custom make your own calendar with an online generator. There are several paper templates for calendars in weekly, monthly, and yearly formats. There are lists of holidays for several countries and calendars for religious holidays--even for movie releases (updated to January at this writing) and general horoscope information.

If you want to put a calendar on your site, the site also offers a customizable calendar widget that inserts a calendar into your Web site via an iframe. The site does note that if you want to have a calendar where you can list and keep events, you’d be better off using another resource like Google Calendar.
from ResearchBuzz

Go to Calendar Labs

Posted By Callie at 11:00 AM in Category: More Resources & Tech Tips

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Book of the Week: Paul was not a Christian...


Paul was not a Christian : the original message of a misunderstood Apostle


By Michelle Eisenbaum
2009

Ryan Library: 225.92 P 32e


More info...

Posted By Ryan Library at 9:53 AM in Category: Book of the Week

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Database of Monologues and Scenes from Films
Searchable database of monologues and scenes available from actorama web site.
Specify monologue or scene, for male or female, dramatic, comic or serio-comic, and time period. You may input keywords as well.
Posted By Adrienne Franco at 6:02 PM in Category: Humanities Resources