Saturday, November 10, 2007

Muckraking the cobwebs from the sky... Last Halloween Link of the Year, Honest... OK, I'm late with this... but I just ran into Kevin Tapp from Radford University's McConnell Library, and he is using a blog -- with room for comments -- to point out interesting Hidden Treasures available via the library. Perfect timing for another reminder to my Media & Society class to use library databases, not just Google, in their research. For the past holiday season, Kevin has had a "Halloween Challenge" -- near the bottom of the the right column of the post about Halloween Treasures From ArtStor -- which is actually a journalism-related question. Who's that witchy-looking figure flying over the Capitol on something other than a broom? See the discussion linked to his page. Note... The ArtStor service is great, but its images may require you to login from Radford or another affiliated library or its proxy server... The lady on the muckrake sweeping the cobwebs from the Capitol sky, however, is on file at the Library of Congress, so you can see her here. Like credit lines? Here's one: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-13653, b&w film copy neg. of drawing published in: Washington Post, April 16, 1924. Does that make the Washington Post the first source of Web-based muckraking? Hmm... muckrake... cobwebs... web... Webmucker? Muckwebber? Webraker? No time right now to Google around for past uses of those terms, but if you saw them here first, so did I! 4:17:02 PM    comment [] First copy of new weekly paper hits streets of the Roanoke Valley. The Roanoke Sun, a new free weekly paper, hit the streets of the Roanoke Valley on Friday. It is being published by former city hall spokesman Chris Slone, who worked for the city during ex-Mayor Ralph Smith's tenure. [The Roanoke Times: Home page] 3:13:28 PM    comment []

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