Wednesday, September 14, 2005

New on our website for the week of July 29 Genealogy and History African American Genealogy Research "Bibliography of resources for researching African American genealogy, including beginner's guides, guidebooks, case studies, and bibliographies. "African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress" is also available by navigating up a level on this website to "Bibliographies & Guides." From the Library of Congress, Humanities and Social Sciences Division." (LII) African American Research "Overview of the resources of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for researching African American genealogy" (LII) Science Quantum Physics made relatively simple "In 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbors at the Kendal of Ithaca retirement community (near Cornell University). Given by Professor Bethe at age 93, the lectures are presented here as QuickTime videos synchronized with slides of his talking points and archival material." (LII) "review" 4:29:05 PM     New on our website for the week of July 22 Business Career Jet searchs a variety of US job search sites. Government, Elections, and Law Congressional Research Service Reportsfrom the Center for Democracy and Technology RSS Feed for the Congressional Research Service Reports from the Center for Democracy and Technology Science Deep Impact from the Jet Propulsion Lab. Learn how to view comets. (TB) "review" 4:28:04 PM     New on our website for the week of July 15 Books and Reading Complete Review book reviews, can be searched by genre. (LII) Holidays Rakhi Festival "Find information on rakhi festival, legends, customs, celebration, and rakhi gift traditions" "review" 4:27:02 PM     New on our website for the week of July 7 Leisure Your Wedding 101 "WEDDING PLANNING GUIDE Everything from engagement rings, wedding gowns, wedding flowers to honeymoons and more." Tour de France Stage Guide maintained by the BBC. (LII) Librarian Links Library Success : A Best Practices Wiki "This wiki was created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas for librarians. All over the country, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized." (TTW) "review" 4:25:43 PM     New on our website for the week of July 1 Books and Reading What's Next? search for the next book in a series of adult fiction. From Kent District Library. Kent District Library's Books and Reading Page book lists, staff recommendations, what to read next, etc. Government, Elections, and Law Congressional Research Service Reports from Open CRS. "Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports." (RB)(RT) Health Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy from the CDC (LII) Leisure Travelinformation.com "this site offers free Official Tourism Guides and kits from tourism bureaus and cities." (TB) Food 411 "the ultimate resource for everything on the Web related to online food shopping opportunities; gourmet foods, ingredients, recipes, cooking, and dining, food blogs, unique gift ideas, meals delivered..." (LII) "review" 4:21:08 PM

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