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Camilla Elliott

Digital Video Collections Guide | ALA Connect - 0 views

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    "Below is a curated bibliography, mirrored from the University of Minnesota Digital Video Collections Guide, consisting of quality licensed and open digital video collections that has been inspired largely with support from Arizona State University (deg farrely) and some resources culled from various institutions in the LibGuides Community.  This resource is being shared on ALA Connect as an Online Doc with the hope that a community of media interested professionals will contribute further links/descriptions of quality licensed or open digital video collections, and repurposed as they see fit to meet the needs of their constituents.  Attribution is greatly appreciated, but please repurpose regardless."
Camilla Elliott

American Museum of Natural History Digital Special Collections | About - 0 views

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    Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History's Research Library provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations
Rhondda Powling

Digital Collections and Services: Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collectio... - 0 views

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    You can explore (US) historical pictures, maps, and more in the digital collections from the Library of Congress. The option to download of images is available. Any citation must be created by the user. "The LOC concentrates on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else. The services are a gateway to a growing treasury of digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, as well as "born digital" materials such as Web sites. In addition, the Library maintains and promotes the use of digital library standards and provides online research and reference service"
Rhondda Powling

Get started - Early Australian census records - Research Guides at State Library of Vic... - 0 views

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    "This SLV guide explains how to find and use information collected in censuses from 1788 to 1901. It also includes information about the history of censuses in Australia. A census counts and describes the population of a particular area. Census data is useful for researching places & people's lives over time, or at a point in time. Sometimes information about individuals is available too. The earliest systematic collection of information about Australia's residents occurred in 1788. The colonies and states regularly collected data in musters or censuses, up until the first Australian (national) census in 1911."
Rhondda Powling

Culture Victoria - Stories - Collections - Places - 0 views

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    Culture Victoria - worth going to to have a look at her collections of primary source documents from archived collection
Rhondda Powling

The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sources - The Edublogger - 2 views

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    "sources for free images and organizing them in such a way as to help you find what you're looking for. Here are the criteria we've examined: Subjects: Does a site focus on specific genres of images, or is it a mass collection of various image types? High Resolution: Lots of great image resources emerged in the pre-Web 2.0 phase, but it wasn't until bandwidth dramatically increased that allowed for the uploading of much higher resolution images suitable for editing and printing. License: The licenses vary extremely from source to source. Some are listed as Creative Commons (with variations on attribution and availability for commercial use), others are Public Domain, and still others have unique licenses that maintain copyright while allowing users to download or embed photographs. To better understand Creative Commons licenses, check out our post on Images, Copyright, & Creative Commons. Safety: Government sites and many specific subject collections are extremely safe for students to use. But before you start using one of these sites for student blogging, check out our safety note and examine the site to see if you find it appropriate for students. Some sites are terrible for filtering out inappropriate con"
Rhondda Powling

NYPL Digital Collections - 0 views

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    You can explore historical pictures and documents that have been digitized from the NYPL's collection. They are in the Public domain. You only need to click on the picture to access its page. You can download links on the right, The citation details are on the left, under the picture.
Camilla Elliott

Library War Service slides collection now online and browsable | American Library Assoc... - 0 views

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    While the battles, uniforms, and weapons that made up a World War I serviceman's life are very well documented in the history books, the day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life doesn't often get as much attention. The ALA Archives has recently migrated our collection of digitized lantern slides from World War I into the CONTENTdm system, which shows one way these men filled their downtime: reading.
SLAV Connects

Oxford Reference: Oxford Reference Library collection: - Oxford University Press - 1 views

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    Perpetual access to online reference material.  Australian content growing. Browser based - HTML content.  Collection focussed on literature.
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    Perpetual access to online reference material.  Australian content growing. Browser based - HTML content.  Collection focussed on literature.
Rhondda Powling

Free Kindle books for your kids . . . - Ben and Me - 0 views

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    "If you don't have a Kindle, you can download Kindle for PC for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPad and iPod, as well as Droid. Amazon frequently runs freebies on books for the Kindle, but there are many books that are always free. This post lists/links some of the free Kindle books available. It is no way exhaustive, but begin to get a collection started by to collecting classic children's literature on the Kindle
Rhondda Powling

Welcome to Open Library (Open Library) - 0 views

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    The Open Library is a part of the Internet Archive. It is a collection of more than one million free e-book titles. The collection is cataloged by a community of volunteer online librarians. The ebooks in the Open Library can be read online, downloaded to a computer, read on a Kindle or other e-readers and embedded into other sites. Some of the ebooks, like Treasure Island, can also be listened to through the Open Library.
Rhondda Powling

Give eBooks a Physical Presence: Sacramento PL Shares Marketing Ideas | OverDrive Blogs - 0 views

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    Many are askin "What's the best way promote the library's digital collection to patrons visiting the physical branch?   This post shares some ideas used by staff members at Sacramento Public Library who came up with a clever way to connect its physical and digital collections. " The Electronic resources librarian Amy Calhoun explains how Sacramento PL has improved discovery of eBook titles among patrons visiting the library branches"
Rhondda Powling

Fact or fiction? Libraries can thrive in the Digital Age - 1 views

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    "Today's school library uses an increasing number of digital resources to supplement a print collection that is moving more toward fiction and literary non-fiction. Supplemental resources, including streaming video, online resources, subscription databases, audiobooks, e-books, and even games, round out the new collections. Despite the best efforts of even the hardest-working librarians in the best-funded libraries, there are many challenges to going digital." Links to free, full text and PDF versions
SLAV Connects

eBooks & Audiobooks Support Center - 0 views

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    Manage through EBSCOHost Collection Manager.  Over 430,000 titles.  Purchase on one, three or unlimited simultaneous users basis.  Subscription model with or without downloading available or purchase individually.  Can read through browser or down onto device.  Go into current EBSCO databases.  Downloads onto Bluefire devices.
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    Manage through EBSCOHost Collection Manager.  Over 430,000 titles.  Purchase on one, three or unlimited simultaneous users basis.  Subscription model with or without downloading available or purchase individually.  Can read through browser or down onto device.  Go into current EBSCO databases.  Downloads onto Bluefire devices.
Rhondda Powling

Collections | The Public Domain Review - 0 views

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    This is a large, curated selection of images, books, audio and film. You can choose to browse the content either by medium ( images, books, film, audio),by time ( from pre-16th t 20th century), by tag or by source. For each of the material you find you will be provided with directions to help you download and save it.
Rhondda Powling

What Does Learning Commons Mean for Your School? | PFAU LONG ARCHITECTURE - 0 views

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    A reflection about one school library faculty's goal of creating a positive learning environment with space that would help students and teachers develop real-world connections and the approach they took to creating it. The ideas for the space included housing the collection, helping students and teachers collaborate, being a hub for learning with a flexible floor plan and supporting newly developing areas in educational technology. The school decided to create a learning commons to move beyond traditional thinking about libraries and respond to what the kids and teachers really needed. The faculty envisioned their environment to be developmentally appropriate for their young students, as well as to foster a sense of creativity, inspiration, and encourage dialogue and a sense of community. The new learning commons library offered more space for stacks, added conference rooms and a lounge area, but the learning commons concept informed more than the library. These design changes increase opportunities to be inspired by student work and performances and create stronger interpersonal connections among students and faculty.
Rhondda Powling

Google Arts & Culture - 0 views

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    A useful resource. An aggregator like Google Cultural Institute can bring together collections from multiple institutions from around the world.
Rhondda Powling

Listen to 15 Literary Icons Reading Their Own Work - Flavorwire - 0 views

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    "A collection of 15 writers - some alive, some long gone - reading their own words (all fiction, with the exception of William Faulkner, whose Nobel Prize speech is included because it's now often taught alongside his novels and stories, and Joan Didion's memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking). "
Rhondda Powling

World Digital Library Home - 0 views

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    The World Digital Library hosts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. It is sponsored by UNESCO and the mission is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource. There are a lot of maps and images as well as text documents.
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