This is kinda thrilling. I was looking for the current article about yesterday's online book club that's in Woman's Day's "Dare to Dream" column entitled "For the Love of Reading". But I got distracted by one of thier current contests, promoting family history and libraries in a unique way. Woman's Day Magazine
Discover Your Family History at the Library
In 700 words or fewer, let us know why you'd like to have the opportunity to research your family history with a genealogist and librarian. Why are you so interested in your roots? What does it mean to you? How do you think the library can help you discover your family history?
Email your entry to wdwriting@hfmus.com.
Two readers will be chosen to be meet with a genealogist at their local library and will be featured in an upcoming issue of Woman’s Day.
Be sure to include your name, age, address and phone number.
Entry period: Feb. 5, 2005 - May 3, 2005 Noon ET
etc, etc. Check the page here.
Just thought it was cool... Our databases no longer cover Woman's Day (ProQuest did for a few years) but their website is pretty fully loaded for content.
Woman's Day and Family Circle have been some of my main reading over the years!
In 700 words or fewer, let us know why you'd like to have the opportunity to research your family history with a genealogist and librarian. Why are you so interested in your roots? What does it mean to you? How do you think the library can help you discover your family history?
Email your entry to wdwriting@hfmus.com.
Two readers will be chosen to be meet with a genealogist at their local library and will be featured in an upcoming issue of Woman’s Day.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Population: One Plus 5,000 Volumes
Pop.: 1 Plus 5,000 Volumes
I started library work in 1993... well, I started school then. It was actually the fall of 1992 when I went to my daughters' new grade school in Waltham, MA, to volunteer for an hour a week just to see if I liked working in a library as much as I liked visiting one.
It was a delightful time, even when I had to make amends for the library book my #2 daughter left in a snowbank out of fear of the consequences of it being returned late. I've ever since been in favor of no fines, of making it easy to borrow, easy to return books and such. That's moved me into advocating a "Barnes&Noble" or club style library, even in the academic setting: a place to go that's not home or work or church that one can sit and read and learn and visit or just contemplate the world.
Now I must express my admiration for the town of Monowi, Nebraska and the work of Elsie Eiler, who runs "Rudy's Library." Full story here, and God bless you, Elsie!
I started library work in 1993... well, I started school then. It was actually the fall of 1992 when I went to my daughters' new grade school in Waltham, MA, to volunteer for an hour a week just to see if I liked working in a library as much as I liked visiting one.
It was a delightful time, even when I had to make amends for the library book my #2 daughter left in a snowbank out of fear of the consequences of it being returned late. I've ever since been in favor of no fines, of making it easy to borrow, easy to return books and such. That's moved me into advocating a "Barnes&Noble" or club style library, even in the academic setting: a place to go that's not home or work or church that one can sit and read and learn and visit or just contemplate the world.
Now I must express my admiration for the town of Monowi, Nebraska and the work of Elsie Eiler, who runs "Rudy's Library." Full story here, and God bless you, Elsie!
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
JOIN A CLUB
JOIN A BOOK CLUB Online...
Join a book club and every morning Suzanne Beecher sends you a portion of a book in your email. After you've read two or three chapters from a book, she'll start sending a new book portion. It's free and you can read at more than one club. Join today and start taking a five minute reading break every day.
And she has lots of clubs, from Nonfiction to Science Fiction, from Romance to Audio.
I've been at it a few months, and now know that I've seen some great books go by, and have a place to choose new fiction for the library from.
Join a book club and every morning Suzanne Beecher sends you a portion of a book in your email. After you've read two or three chapters from a book, she'll start sending a new book portion. It's free and you can read at more than one club. Join today and start taking a five minute reading break every day.
And she has lots of clubs, from Nonfiction to Science Fiction, from Romance to Audio.
I've been at it a few months, and now know that I've seen some great books go by, and have a place to choose new fiction for the library from.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Science.gov : FirstGov for Science - Government Science Portal
Science.gov : FirstGov for Science - Government Science Portal
Science.gov, the "go to" Web portal for federal science information, now provides a free and convenient "Alert" service that delivers information about the most current science developments right to desktops each Monday.
Launched at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Feb. 17-21, 2005) in Washington, D.C., the Science.gov Alert Service provides weekly emails to those interested in science.
From the Science.gov homepage (http://www.science.gov), individuals can set up an account and let Science.gov do the searching for them. Each week, up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to the subscriber's email account. Results are displayed in the Alert email and in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles edited.
Individuals can choose specific sources to monitor, or select the "All Sources" option. Science.gov drills down into hard-to-find research information collections, spanning more than 47 million pages of government R&D results. More than 1,700 government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics are available - all in one place and searchable with just one search tool.
Since its launch in 2002, Science.gov, the science companion to FirstGov, has been the one-stop gateway to reliable federal science and technology information. Science.gov allows individuals to search for information based on subject, rather than by government agency.
Science.gov is made possible by the Science.gov Alliance, a collaboration of 12 federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services and the Interior, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Science.gov, the "go to" Web portal for federal science information, now provides a free and convenient "Alert" service that delivers information about the most current science developments right to desktops each Monday.
Launched at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Feb. 17-21, 2005) in Washington, D.C., the Science.gov Alert Service provides weekly emails to those interested in science.
From the Science.gov homepage (http://www.science.gov), individuals can set up an account and let Science.gov do the searching for them. Each week, up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to the subscriber's email account. Results are displayed in the Alert email and in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles edited.
Individuals can choose specific sources to monitor, or select the "All Sources" option. Science.gov drills down into hard-to-find research information collections, spanning more than 47 million pages of government R&D results. More than 1,700 government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics are available - all in one place and searchable with just one search tool.
Since its launch in 2002, Science.gov, the science companion to FirstGov, has been the one-stop gateway to reliable federal science and technology information. Science.gov allows individuals to search for information based on subject, rather than by government agency.
Science.gov is made possible by the Science.gov Alliance, a collaboration of 12 federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services and the Interior, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Kansas Traveler
Kansas Traveler
Kansas is an exciting, wonderful place to live and a fascinating place to visit. Kansas Traveler talks about tempting trips to take, unusual places to see and really weird and fun things Kansans are prone to do.
We're a quarterly print publication that's easy to read and carry along on your trips for reference or for just good armchair reading at home.
***I enjoyed the complete lyrics to the Kansas State song "Home on the Range" published in the last edition. It now holds pride of place on my refrigerator door.
We have a subscription to multiple copies of Kansas Traveler here at the library, so stop by and pick one up, or visit this website for your own subscription.
Kansas is an exciting, wonderful place to live and a fascinating place to visit. Kansas Traveler talks about tempting trips to take, unusual places to see and really weird and fun things Kansans are prone to do.
We're a quarterly print publication that's easy to read and carry along on your trips for reference or for just good armchair reading at home.
***I enjoyed the complete lyrics to the Kansas State song "Home on the Range" published in the last edition. It now holds pride of place on my refrigerator door.
We have a subscription to multiple copies of Kansas Traveler here at the library, so stop by and pick one up, or visit this website for your own subscription.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
New Database Trial: Oral History Online
Access to Oral History Online is completely free now through February 15. No passwords are required. Just go to www.alexanderstreet2.com/orhilive. But that's not all--you can win a chance at a free yearlong subscription to ANY Alexander Street product for your institution! Look at the 8 questions selected to help you explore the database--just answer those questions online, or fax in your answers, and you'll be entered in the drawing. Visit the contest page here (http://alexanderstreet.com/contest.htm).
Oral History Online is the first and only index to thousands of English-language oral history collections around the world. Users link directly to the narratives of individuals from all walks of life, from the 1930s to the present, from all over the world. Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. The deep semantic indexing allows users to search more than 250,000 pages of full-text interviews with approximately 6,300 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains links to some 1,900 audio and video files and more 13,500 bibliographic records. Users can search the histories in new ways, including by interviewee’s name, occupation, and other details; by interviewer; by location; by date of interview; and using other criteria – through a newly created, fully controlled subject thesaurus.
“The personal narratives are drawn from repositories around the world and relate to virtually every area of research,” said Eileen Lawrence, Vice President for Sales and Marketing. “From 11 full-text interviews in 1930 of people who remember Crazy Horse, to the 2004 audio and video interviews of Karl Lyon in the ‘Oral History of the Holocaust’ project, users will find history come alive through these voices.”
One winner will be drawn from all correct entries received in Alexander Street offices by the end of the promotion. The winner will be announced on March 1, 2005.
Please contact your sales representative if you have any questions, or drop me a line and I will get you in touch with your sales rep!
Best regards,
Helen
Helen Thompson, Marketing and Public Relations Manager
hthompson@alexanderstreet.com
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