Category Archives: Reference

Free Archives from Newspapers and Magazines

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 … Continue reading

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Regret the Error

So much of the discussion about Wikipedia focuses on issues of accuracy, not only in Wikipedia, but also in Britannica and other “professional” resources. Regret the Error is a blog covering media corrections, retractions, apologies and clarifications, and they never … Continue reading

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Camera Information on Flickr

You probably know that Flickr is a site for sharing photographs, and a great resource for finding photographs of nearly anything you can imagine, or a patron could need. But Flickr is also an excellent consumer resource for anyone interested … Continue reading

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Zotero : A Bibliographic Manager in Your Browser

Zotero is a free Firefox extension that lets you gather citations from a variety of sources, organize and annotate them, and print or export bibliographies in a variety of formats. It knows how to recognize and extract bibliographic information from … Continue reading

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Smithsonian’s Database of Outdoor Sculpture (and more…)

This is a photograph I took of a sculpture of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem. When I added it to Flickr, I wanted to credit the sculptor, but I didn’t know his name. I decided to try looking this up in … Continue reading

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Poynter Online

Journalism and librarianship are twin professions in many ways. Both professions share the goal of providing people with information, and both deal with issues of intellectual freedom, objectivity and accuracy. And we’re both always trying to anticipate the interests and … Continue reading

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