History.net

What is HistoryNet?

The HistoryNet.com is brought to you by the Weider History Group, the world's largest publisher of history magazines. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.

"If you are interested in a specific history subject, try searching our archives, you are bound to find something to pique your interest.

The HistoryNet.com website contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.  We have something from almost every period of history. Our popular features include;
Daily Quiz – Play our Daily Quiz to win free subscriptions to any of our magazines.  Changes every single day.
Today in History – What happened on this day in history?  We have the answer!
Photo of the Day – View a photo from history, every day!
Discussion Forums on History – The Weider History Group operates one of the biggest (and professionally maintained) history forums on the Internet today.  We have over 1,000,000 posts covering just about everything in history." site.

"ArchDaily was founded in March 2008 as the online source of continuous information for a growing community of thousands of architects searching for the latest architectural news: projects, products, events, interviews and competitions among others.

Our mission is to improve the quality of life of the next 3 billion people that will move into cities in the next 40 years, by providing inspiration, knowledge and tools to the architects who will have the challenge to design for them.

Our editorial staff works in a daily basis with the most prestigious and influential architectural practices around the world in order deliver specific and valuable content to a premium readership of architects, designers, consumers and influencers. In one year ArchDaily has quickly established itself as one of the leading architectural websites in the world due to our editorial staff’s meticulous understanding of what the audience is really looking for: the best architecture around the world, as soon as possible." Site.

Recommended in the May issue of ACRL's Choice: "This lively, engaging website thus far has logged 24,500-plus posts, averaging nearly 16 comments per item. It has also amassed over 1.16 million Facebook fans (the largest such community). Registration is free. The MyArchDaily personal profile page includes a useful bookmarking feature for filing projects and posts of interest as well as a mechanism for users to track their own comments. Although there are several on-screen shortcuts, the news, articles, and additional categories otherwise appear in neatly tabbed sections."

Federal Judicial Center

The Federal Judicial Center is the research and education agency of the federal judicial system. It was established by Congress in 1967 (28 U.S.C. §§ 620-629), on the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States. The many specific statutory duties of the Center and its Board fall into a few broad categories:

•  conducting and promoting research on federal judicial procedures and court operations;  
• conducting and promoting orientation and continuing education and training for federal judges, court employees, and others; 
• conducting and fostering the study and preservation of federal judicial history; and 

• providing information and advice to further improvement in the administration of justice in the courts of foreign countries and inform federal judicial personnel of developments in foreign court systems that could affect their work. [site:about]

"Despite the Center's statutory mandate to serve judges and court employees, the numerous documents, reports, and videos on its website will interest a wide audience. The uncluttered home page offers ready entry to the major topical areas: Federal Judicial History (FJH), Educational Programs and Materials (EPM), and International Judicial Relations (IJR). The primary link, labeled Publications and Videos, takes users to the catalog containing records of materials created by or for the Center since its inception in 1967."
from the April 2014 issue of ACRL's Choice, 

Emily Dickinson Archive

Emily Dickinson Archive (EDA) provides high-resolution images of manuscripts of Dickinson’s poetry, along with transcriptions and annotations from selected historical and scholarly editions. This first release focuses on gathering images of those poems included in The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, edited by R. W. Franklin (Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1998). These manuscripts vary from “scraps” written on envelope flaps and pieces of wrapping paper; to drafts; to finished poems sent to friends or copied into the manuscript books called “fascicles.”

image from the Library of Congress Dickinson collection

This site is not a new edition of Dickinson’s poems. It is, as its name says, an archive that seeks to make available in one virtual place those resources that seem central to the study of Dickinson’s work: images of her manuscripts; a selection of editions of those manuscripts; and selected print and electronic resources that serve as a starting point for the study of Dickinson’s manuscripts. It should be viewed as a resource from which scholarship can be produced, rather than a work of scholarship itself.

The long-term goal of this Archive is to provide a single site for access to images of all surviving Dickinson autograph manuscripts. Future priorities include: images of Dickinson letters; additional modern and historical editions of both poems and letters; additional metadata about the manuscripts; and additional tools for manipulation of the content of the site.

Recommended in the May 2014 issue of ACRL's Choice.

FINNA: Find the treasures of Finnish archives, libraries and museums with a single search

Finna provides access to the collections and services of archives, libraries and museums. Finna currently contains material from dozens of organisations. You can access Finna to search for information in library and archive collections, view images of museum pieces and works of art, and download documents and old books. Various additional functions are available to registered users of the service.

Finna is geared to all users of Finnish archives, libraries and museums. The expert organisations involved in Finna ensure that the content of the service is reliable, unlike that of many other search services. The search functions have been created to make it easy for users to find and use material.

Using and borrowing material

In the case of some material (e.g., a book that can be borrowed from a library), Finna offers metadata in text format, while the actual content can be found on the library shelf. If the material you are looking for is available through a library involved in Finna and you have a card for the library in question, you can reserve the material. If you have no library card, the best way to obtain the material is to request it from your local library.

In the case of works of art and other objects, Finna displays an image in conjunction with the search result. You can contact the relevant museum to enquire whether it can offer a print-quality image.

Finna can also be searched for digital content, such as articles, old books, newspapers, maps, images and recordings. Information about such material is available through a link in Finna.

Finna also contains information about archive documents classified as the official archive material of the National Archives Service of Finland. Some of these documents are available in digital format, whereas others must be requested from the National Archives Service and read on its premises.

The metadata stored in Finna are freely available, but the availability of digital images or content displayed or linked to in Finna may be restricted by law or agreement.
Reviewed in ACRL's April 2014 issue of  Choice

NOVA's Physics Blog: The Nature of Reality.

What is The Nature of Reality? It’s a blog, and it’s pretty much the biggest question we could think of. We can’t promise that we’ll answer the question once and for all – in fact, we can pretty much guarantee that we won’t – but we promise a space that welcomes big ideas about space, time, and the universe; where we take questions as seriously as we take answers; where physics is about way more than inclined planes and levers and pulleys. Stick around; we just might expand your cosmic horizons.

Recommended in the May 2014 issue of ACRL's Choice

Zooniverse: home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects

The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will get you into all of our projects, and you can keep track of what you've contributed by watching 'My Zooniverse'. site. 

Over 1 million registered volunteers, known as "Zooites" form the Zooniverse community.

Check their list of publications for over 60 documents on various topics.

Keep up to date with what the Zooniverse teams are doing and our latest results on the Zooniverse blog. You can also follow the Zooniverse on Twitter,Facebook and Google+.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center

recently rated "Best Job Resource" by Library Journal

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, "contains information on everything from schools and career and industry resources to job hunting. The comprehensive resource contains 3,400 job articles, 55,000 searchable industry resources, a news section (updated monthly), and 300 videos. Ferguson also goes beyond the data to provide young adults more personal insight into careers, featuring interviews with professionals and advice from a career expert."

To access Ferguson's Career Guidance Center, log in via the Library Research Guides at TCC Library with your TCC username and password, or to the database directly using your TCC ID card number and user name.