And now this, from the NY Times
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html
Friday, June 02, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
That "Fake News" Infographic...
By IFLA (http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174) [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
IFLA has made this infographic with eight simple steps (based on FactCheck.org’s 2016 article How to
Spot Fake News) to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece in front of you. Image credit and
more information: https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
1951 Egg Candling Kansas document at KGI Online Library
Dedicated to the Egg Lady (Julie Smith) and her daughter at Butler.
From Bill Sowers, State Library of Kansas, 3/13/2017
Does anyone remember Candling eggs? Today we added this little gem to the State Library's KGI Online Library, "Candling and Grading Manual for Shell Eggs." Published in 1951 this booklet gives a full description of candling.
http://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16884coll113/id/174
The preface states, "This manual is prepared for use in properly training persons and to develop skilled candlers and graders. It may also be used in developing a more thorough knowledge of the egg, the importance of its care, and factors which constitute quality."
Cool little read.
Does anyone remember Candling eggs? Today we added this little gem to the State Library's KGI Online Library, "Candling and Grading Manual for Shell Eggs." Published in 1951 this booklet gives a full description of candling.
http://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16884coll113/id/174
The preface states, "This manual is prepared for use in properly training persons and to develop skilled candlers and graders. It may also be used in developing a more thorough knowledge of the egg, the importance of its care, and factors which constitute quality."
Cool little read.
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
International Woman's Day
Hello Girls Trailer from Shell Studios, LLC on Vimeo.
Book coming to the library soon: The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs (Harvard University Press).
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
From a colleague:
"This week has been dubbed fair use weekby a whole bunch of organizations (mostly universities and libraries) as a chance to celebrate the usefulness and wonder that is fair use in protecting free speech, enabling creativity and inspiring innovation. As we've said many times in the past, fair use is an incredibly important concept -- if often misunderstood -- so it's good to see these organizations working together to better educate the public on why fair use is so key.
However, not everyone is so enthralled with fair use. The MPAA is apparently so frightened by fair use that it, and some of its friends, have been posting weirdly uninformed screeds against fair use over the past few days. Some are more silly than others (such as one that tries to claim that the MPAA has never been against fair use, ignoring that the MPAA's long-time boss Jack Valenti once declared -- totally incorrectly -- that fair use wasn't in the law), but let's focus on the one that comes straight from the horse's mouth: Neil Turkewitz, the MPAA's "Senior Policy Council" has published a piece at Medium (a site that relies heavily on fair use to protect it from being sued into oblivion) pretending to honor fair use while actually criticizing it.
http://tinyurl.com/gux4t53
…brig
--
Brig C. McCoy
Network Services Manager
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
625 Minnesota Ave
Kansas City, Kansas 66101"
"This week has been dubbed fair use weekby a whole bunch of organizations (mostly universities and libraries) as a chance to celebrate the usefulness and wonder that is fair use in protecting free speech, enabling creativity and inspiring innovation. As we've said many times in the past, fair use is an incredibly important concept -- if often misunderstood -- so it's good to see these organizations working together to better educate the public on why fair use is so key.
However, not everyone is so enthralled with fair use. The MPAA is apparently so frightened by fair use that it, and some of its friends, have been posting weirdly uninformed screeds against fair use over the past few days. Some are more silly than others (such as one that tries to claim that the MPAA has never been against fair use, ignoring that the MPAA's long-time boss Jack Valenti once declared -- totally incorrectly -- that fair use wasn't in the law), but let's focus on the one that comes straight from the horse's mouth: Neil Turkewitz, the MPAA's "Senior Policy Council" has published a piece at Medium (a site that relies heavily on fair use to protect it from being sued into oblivion) pretending to honor fair use while actually criticizing it.
http://tinyurl.com/gux4t53
…brig
--
Brig C. McCoy
Network Services Manager
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
625 Minnesota Ave
Kansas City, Kansas 66101"
Thursday, January 05, 2017
State Library of Kansas Link to Historical State of the State addresses!
It’s coming! The 2017 Kansas Legislative Session is almost here. And with the new session the annual State of the State address will be delivered.
This issue of the Kansas Government Information (KGI) Blog provides a link to previous Legislative Messages delivered by Kansas governors stretching back to the 1860s. We invite you to read the blog and take a look at the state of the state through the years.
KGI BLOG
https://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=351#item
Bill Sowers
This issue of the Kansas Government Information (KGI) Blog provides a link to previous Legislative Messages delivered by Kansas governors stretching back to the 1860s. We invite you to read the blog and take a look at the state of the state through the years.
KGI BLOG
https://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=351#item
Bill Sowers
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Resources for the Elections from State Library of Kansas.
With Election Day just two weeks away, we’d like to point out a great series in the EBSCO History Reference Center database. In this database, you'll find journal articles, reference ebooks, and primary source documents on historical topics (of course!).
Flash Focus: Presidential Elections 1788-2000. Each article overviews the candidates, big issues of the time, the campaign, and election outcomes (including voter turnout on modern elections).
History Reference Center has a search component, but we really enjoy the homepage Browse feature. This is a great way to pick a topic for a research paper or just to quickly learn about an era. Choose a section (U.S. or World) then a time period to view a list important events, issues, and people during that time. Each item on the list will take you to a package of materials on the topic. U.S. History sections will commonly contain materials for presidents, if you’d rather browse towards presidential information.
Direct link to this on our blog: http://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=316
Thanks,
Lianne Flax
Online Services and Programming
State Library of Kansas
Phone: 800-432-3919
Support email: audiobooks@ks.gov
http://www.kslib.info/digitalbooks
**PLEASE NOTE that my email has changed to lianne.flax@ks.gov **
Republished from Lianne Flax.
Flash Focus: Presidential Elections 1788-2000. Each article overviews the candidates, big issues of the time, the campaign, and election outcomes (including voter turnout on modern elections).
History Reference Center has a search component, but we really enjoy the homepage Browse feature. This is a great way to pick a topic for a research paper or just to quickly learn about an era. Choose a section (U.S. or World) then a time period to view a list important events, issues, and people during that time. Each item on the list will take you to a package of materials on the topic. U.S. History sections will commonly contain materials for presidents, if you’d rather browse towards presidential information.
Direct link to this on our blog: http://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=316
Thanks,
Lianne Flax
Online Services and Programming
State Library of Kansas
Phone: 800-432-3919
Support email: audiobooks@ks.gov
http://www.kslib.info/digitalbooks
**PLEASE NOTE that my email has changed to lianne.flax@ks.gov **
Republished from Lianne Flax.
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