Monthly Archives: April 2009

Exploratree

Posted on April 30, 2009 by kcoronado

Exploratree offers a free online library of “thinking guides”.  Use one from the library or create one to suite your own needs using images, text, and shapes.   Thinking guides offer creative, visual ways to map out ideas, solve problems, … Continue reading →

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Gutenberg Bible

Posted on April 30, 2009 by kcoronado

The Gutenberg Bible at the Library of Congress, was purchased in 1930. It is one of three perfect copies on vellum in the world.

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Annolighting

Posted on April 29, 2009 by kcoronado

Reading strategy from Greece Central School District—Annolighting a text

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Germany Under Reconstruction

Posted on April 29, 2009 by kcoronado

Germany Under Reconstruction http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/GerReconAbout.html Offered as part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection’s History collection, Germany Under Reconstruction provides the public with access to a variety of publications in English and German from the early days following World War … Continue reading →

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Amazon Eliminating Ebook Competition

Posted on April 28, 2009 by kcoronado

Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, an ebook reader application for both the desktop and the iPhone.  The iPhone app from Stanza is free, and offers users the opportunity to shop, buy, read, and organize books.  It has … Continue reading →

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More About LOC

Posted on April 28, 2009 by kcoronado

The general collections of the Library of Congress contain the largest historical collection of U.S. telephone criss-cross (phone number and address) and city directories in the world. The Library acquires more than 8,000 volumes a year and holds more than … Continue reading →

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Chronicling America

Posted on April 28, 2009 by kcoronado

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/home.html If you’ve ever dreamed of reading the January 2, 1900 edition of Paris, Kentucky’s “Bourbon News”, this site will offer a form of wish fulfillment. This newspaper (and many others) are part of the … Continue reading →

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New Database

Posted on April 27, 2009 by kcoronado

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion.

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Mythbusters

Posted on April 27, 2009 by kcoronado

Myth #1: Ebooks will greatly impact the sale of print Myth #2: It’s mainly the “Google generation” that uses ebooks JISC has conducted the largest ebook study ever done and the results say otherwise, read more from the article, London … Continue reading →

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Primary source on UN conferences

Posted on April 23, 2009 by kcoronado

United Nations Diplomatic Conferences http://untreaty.un.org/cod/diplomaticconferences/index.html The United Nations has been involved with eight significant diplomatic conferences since their creation in 1945. Diplomatic conferences of this type serve as the traditional method for the negotiation of treaties, and there were a … Continue reading →

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