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		<title>Depression Memories on Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has announced an oral history project called The New Hard Times.  Readers are invited to interview friends or family members who lived through the Great Depression, and have them share their memories and offer their advice for surviving hard times.
A good example is this  video conversation between 96-year-old business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Room Candidate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living Room Candidate &#8212; If you&#8217;ve had enough of the 2008 election, how about looking to the past?  The Living Room Candidate website is a beautifully-designed online exhibit from the Museum of the Moving Image, showcasing presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2008.    You can explore by year and read a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Public Library on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 12:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Public Library is sharing several collections of artistic and historic images to Flickr, including local brewery posters, rare books, manuscripts, postcards, photographs and much more.  
Two collections are of particular interest for local interest to NOBLE libraries.  The Tichnor Brothers postcards of New England includes over 1,800 Massachusetts images, including many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Community Through Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 23:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a presentation on this topic at the Massachusetts Library Association conference in Falmouth this morning, and posted the PowerPoint on Slideshare:
Building Community Through Photography
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: flickr libraries)


Links don&#8217;t work very well in Slideshare, so here is a list of all the links from this presentation:
Migrant Mother

[page 3] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Archives from Newspapers and Magazines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more newspapers and magazines are making deep archives freely available on the web, dropping requirements for print subscriptions and registration,  making it easy to find the full-text of many well-known and respected publications available online. Richard Pérez-Peña wrote an interesting article called Dusting Off the Archives for the Web for the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Keller and Lizzie Borden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent news stories caught my eye, quite literally.  Each reported the discovery of a previously-unknown childhood photograph of a legendary American woman.   The women couldn&#8217;t be more different : the notorious Lizzie Borden and the inspirational Helen Keller.  In each case, the newly-discovered photographs give us a rare glimpse into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress on Flickr (yet again&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Brainiac column in the Boston Globe, &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s a historian now,&#8221; is about the Library of Congress images on Flickr.  Columnist Joshua Glenn admits that asking the crowd to provide identification and information about these pictures makes him nervous, but notes that &#8220;so far, so good&#8221; and he gives examples of information already provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress on Flickr (More)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress collections on Flickr have gotten a lot of attention and activity since its launch on January 16.  Flickr reported on their blog that in the first twenty-four hours after the launch, users added about 19,000 tags and just over 500 comments.   The Library of Congress reported on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress and Flickr have a new pilot project called The Commons.  Photographs from two of the American Memory collections, 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s, a total of over 3,000 images.  
The first set consists of photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Newsreels at the Internet Archive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1929 to 1967, Universal City Studios produced newsreels twice a week to be shown at movie theatres before the feature film.  Each newsreel was a collection of six or seven short segments, usually just a minute or two in length, covering news, sports, the arts, fashion and more.  The whole Universal Newsreel [...]]]></description>
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