Chronicling America

Neat old newspapers from Library of Congress on Chronicling America.

Friday Cat Pix

I just like this one.

UN info

The UN Chief Executives Board for Coordination has created a website of the major/flagship publications from the UN Specialized Agencies (FAO, ICAO, UNESCO, WIPO, etc.).  Statistics and other areas are covered.

Abbey Road crossing cam?

Ok, I suppose so.  Here it is in honor of the birthday of George Harrison, who was born either yesterday or today.

Finding depository libraries

The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) helps citizens connect to government information and the website has a directory tool for locating Congressional districts. Use the following parameters in the advanced search tool :

State = California (or whichever state you're interested in)
Cong. Dist. = 01

to find FDLP libraries within the 1st Congressional District of California.
Note you need a preceding "0" for single-digit districts. For places that
don't have a congressional district (like DC) enter "00."

Play fair

Fair Use Week this year is Feb. 23-27, supported by the Association of Research Libraries and others.  This graphic and other info provided will help with understanding the concepts of copyright and fair use.

DipLawMatic

DipLawMatic is the official blog of the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Group of the American Association of Law Libraries. Here you'll see ideas and information on foreign, comparative and international law and legal research.

FRASER

FRASER - the Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research - has added thousands of new items to its free digital library of economics and banking history and offers a wealth of primary and secondary sources for economics and history researchers, and now offers integration with the citation manager Zotero.

Highlights of new additions include:

* Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the late 1800s through the early 1920s, including historic reports on women and minority labor conditions

* Annual Reports of the FDIC from the first issue in 1934 through 2013

* Publications of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, including the magazine Econ Focus, the research journal Economic Quarterly, and more than 300 working papers

* Policy statements and speeches of the presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 1914 - present

* Thousands of additional statistical releases from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1914 - present

Find FRASER at https://fraser.stlouisfed.org. Follow @FedFRASER on Twitter for updates on new collections and items added, interesting photos and documents, and glimpses into US economic history. FRASER librarians are also available at historical@fraser.stlouisfed.org for reference questions.

Friday Cat Pix

La-Zee-Boyz

Word play

We’ve had a lot of requests for older dictionaries lately, and this is actually a common question year round. Slate ran a piece a few weeks ago, The Definition of a Dictionary, that should be of interest to word history buffs.

Happy President's Day!

Don't buy a mattress today, go visit a Presidential Library - virtually if you have to.

Fugitive hunter?

Free Government Info has details on contributing to the fugitive documents effort.

Friday Cat Pix

Hunting what's under the stove.

Getting ready for Mardi Gras

Some history here. 

Translation station

Some great ideas for finding case translations from Lyonette Louis-Jacques.

Little Free Libraries

Little Free Libraries on the wrong side of the law - LA Times.

Free e-book on Hispanics in Congress

GovBookTalk posts on a few of their notables titles and offers a free ebook too. 

Language change

Another neat article on language by Arika Okrent.

Friday Cat Pix

Someone enjoyed the Kitten Bowl.

CRS blues

An article about the Congressional Research Service in Washington Monthly has a view about the problems going on there. Love the photo caption "a temple of wonkery".

Postage stamps are cool

Carlos Diaz has been doing great stuff in gov docs for years. He has a fun site using stamps (those are like gov docs, right?) in themes, showing the great variety of people, events and such.  Take a look.

Satire, cartoons, politics

EBSCO has a new-ish blog and this recent post explores political cartoons with some great illustrations.

100 days

Jill Lepore, writing in the New Yorker, says “The average life of a Web page is about a hundred days”.  The article is The Cobweb: Can the Internet be Archived?  Sheesh, the sites you want others to be able to find disappear but photos someone posted that you’d rather not see can float around forever.