The National Endowment for the Humanities announced their latest round of funding today. Included in the awards are several to institutions who participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program who will be contributing material to the Chronicling America website – yeah! more digital newspapers! Papers included will have been published between 1836-1922 and will be […]
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Today I learned of a website analytics software package called Woopra that is a very interesting application for sure! The premise of it is that you install a tracking script on your site, and you are then able to view your site visitors “in real time” as they navigate around. As a test, I set
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The month of July has gone by in a whirlwind for me due to some new responsibilities. Effective July 1, I became the new statewide coordinator for the Tennessee component of the USGenWeb project, the TNGenWeb! I have been extensively involved with the NCGenWeb Project for several years now and have enjoyed every moment and
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…is on the way! The University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library & Archives have received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize historical newspapers for inclusion in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America newspaper portal. The goal of the project is to digitize 100,000 pages from 1836-1922 with representation from
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Tonight while going onto the FamilySearch website to look for a death certificate in TN, I saw two new collections in their list of records. Just added today, these browsable only collections are: Tennessee Probate Court Records, 1795-1927 – has records from Carroll, Carter, Coffee, Davidson, Dickson, Franklin, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Henry, Johnson, Lauderdale, Lincoln, Madison,
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When BillionGraves launched just prior to Memorial Day I was quite excited at its availability. Though it was initially offered as an iOS app and I don’t have an iPhone, I enjoyed perusing the website and using what was available there. I wrote a blog post outlining my initial impressions. I am a power techie
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What do I talk about on Twitter? Check out this word graphic I created from my twitter postings using Tagxedo.
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Well, virtually anyway 🙂 Adam Hansen is physically at the conference and I saw him tweet that they have a monitor up showing the Twitter stream on site. Looked at the picture and guess whose tweet was on the screen. My own! Fellow Twitter, Linda Geiger, had tweeted that she enjoyed David Lambert’s presentation and
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I heart the Tennessee State Library & Archives 🙂 This week they announced on their blog the new availability of two microfilm scanners attached to computers to allow for digital capture. I was quite happy to hear the news because I have been wanting this for years now. The Nashville Public Library has two
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Today I learned of a new iPhone app and service called BillionGraves.com. I don’t have an iPhone, but I am excited by the potential. My first reaction was “oh no – we already have Find-A-Grave. Why would they compete with them?” But, in looking at the BillionGraves site, the function is quite different and is
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