The folks at Dulcinea sent me an e-mail about SweetSearch, a custom search engine designed for students. This is a custom search engine that’s had a bunch of work put into it […]
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125 City Directories for Pittsburgh
I don’t know how new this resource is, but it’s new to me. The University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library has a collection called “Historic Pittsburgh City Directories,” available at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/p/pitttextdir/. This […]
Search Engine for Creative Commons and Public Domain Images
After watching major search engines develop way to search for Creative Commons images, it’s no surprise to discover that there’s a search engine dedicated exclusively to Creative Commons and public domain images. […]
Lots of Digitized Online Vital Records in West Virginia
Wow! I had no idea West Virginia had such a great online vital record collection. I found out thanks to this article in the Charleston Daily Mail. What am I going on […]
What’s In YOUR Water?
Wondering what’s coming out of the tap? The Environmental Working Group can tell you, thanks to analysis of 20 million tap water quality tests performed between 2004 and 2009. There’s a database […]
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