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It’s been kind of a rough week here at ArchivesFound headquarters- but I plan to be back with a few new posts soon. For now,it’s Friday,thank goodness. In celebration of an oft overlooked constituency,you can now translate your Google search into Pirate–just in time to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day! [...] Library of Congress Web archive of September 11,2001 The September 11 Web Archive A late call to the Atonement Phone last night brought an update to the saga of Stephen Colbert’s painting:while April 1st was the last day the portrait was hanging in the National Portrait Gallery,apparently Brent Glass of the Smithsonian decided to take it for the next two weeks. Stephen’s portrait will be hanging [...] This morning’s brief NYT article about the death of one of the last known survivors of the Titanic made me pause for a moment. Not because I’m a Titanic buff (I’m not,though I do find the story to be fascinating),but because of the mention that the deceased was one of the last two [...] NARA announced yesterday that they are opening approximately six million veterans records at NPRC. This is exciting news for veterans,genealogists,and historians. The original records can be viewed at the NPRC reading room in St. Louis. Honestly,understanding which military records reside in various NARA (and other) facilities is somewhat confusing,but there’s a [...] I always love to find out what other people are reading,and I found it especially interesting to see how many Nobel Prize winners attribute their early influences to libraries. I feel like the ALA or a literacy group should try to team up with them for some sort of publicity campaign. If you have a spare $20-30 million dollars in your pocket this fall,the Ross Perot Foundation is selling its copy of the Magna Carta. It is the document that laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law. Angry colonists complained long before the Boston Tea Party that King George III had violated it. [...] |
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