The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has made a collection of documents pertaining to the impeachment of President Trump available as a pdf download or for reading in a browser.
DPLA is proud to release this preliminary version of The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump and The Report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian Active Measure Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election.
DPLA
If you thought that you had hidden that old year book where no one could find it, you’re in for a surprise. Ancestry has just added a huge number of high school year books to its database. To find it:
You can do a search, but that probably isn’t what most customers want to do. They want to browse! So you have to go up to the top right box and pull down the state, city, and high school:
You can adjust the page size to read more comfortably on your computer screen, too.
Not all of our high schools are included, but here’s a quick summary of what’s there:
| Arlington HS | 1909-1989 | incomplete |
| Coupeville HS | 1910-1989 | incomplete |
| Darrington HS | 1953-1960. 1976 | |
| Edmonds HS | 1927-1989 | incomplete |
| Granite Falls HS | 1919-1989 | incomplete |
| Lake Stevens HS | 1924-1989 | incomplete |
| Lakewood HS | 1982-1988 | incomplete |
| Langley HS | 1953-1975 | incomplete |
| Lynnwood HS | 1971-1989 | incomplete |
| Mariner HS | 1978-1982 | incomplete |
| Marysville HS | 1910-1986 | incomplete |
| Marysville Pilchuck HS | 1971-1988 | incomplete |
| Meadowdale HS | 1969-1989 | incomplete |
| Monroe HS | 1946-1989 | incomplete |
| Mountlake Terrace HS | 1955-1988 | incomplete |
| Oak Harbor HS | 1922-1988 | incomplete |
| Scriber Lake HS | 1985 | |
| Snohomish HS | 1943-1989 | incomplete |
| South Whidbey HS | 1987 | |
| Stanwood HS | 1925-1987 | incomplete |
| Sultan HS | 1922-1988 | incomplete |
| Twin City HS | 1953-1959 | incomplete |
| Woodway HS | 1969-1989 | incomplete |
And won’t it be nice to be able to say “yes” when someone asks you for the old high school yearbooks!
Incomplete means that the span of years does not include every year within the span. But Ancestry is constantly adding new content, so anything is possible.
I recently helped a family member whose Uber account had been hacked. He couldn’t get Uber to do anything when he used the “contact us” link on their website. Fortunately, I was able to show him Elliott.org and its database of over 500 companies with links to names and addresses (real and email) of executives. This list is maintained by Christopher Elliott and his crew–he’s a well-known consumer advocate and journalist.
Long story made short–within 2 hours of sending an email to a Vice-President at Uber, my relative had everything straightened out.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has made the first two volumes of their Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945 freely available on its website at
https://www.ushmm.org/research/publications/encyclopedia-camps-ghettos/volumes-i-and-ii-available-online.
Volume I includes the major concentration camps, their sub-camps, SS
construction brigades, and early camps set up by the police, SA and SS
shortly after the Nazis seized power. Volume II includes ghettos in
German-occupied territories. Each volume matches the physical format
of the book, and each consists of two pdf files. The place name index
is in the back of the second part of each volume. Each signed article
includes citations and bibliographies for further research. Overview
articles provide additional information, and are worth reading.
Future volumes will be made available online after the print volume
has been available for a few years. Volume III- camps and ghettos in
countries allied with the Nazis- is scheduled to be released in print
this year.
The volume II will be helpful to any patrons researching their Jewish ancestors and volume I will be helpful for the families of American soldiers who help liberate the camps.
From:
Megan Lewis, reference librarian
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Topo (topographical) maps are very popular with hikers, explorers, and outdoor enthusiasts. And there are some great topo map sites out there, but printing those maps can be a nightmare. National Geographic has come up with a solution!
National Geographic has built an easy to use web interface that allows anyone to quickly find any quad in the country for downloading and printing. Each quad has been pre-processed to print on a standard home, letter size printer. These are the same quads that were printed by USGS for decades on giant bus-sized pressed but are now available in multi-page PDFs that can be printed just about anywhere. They are pre-packaged using the standard 7.5 minute, 1:24,000 base but with some twists:
There is a great article in last quarter’s Reference & User Services Quarterly: What’s in a Name? Toward a New Definition of Reference. The current president of RUSA asks if we’ve become so focused on what we call ourselves that maybe we are missing the real question: how do we define our work?
A new Pew Research Center survey shows the extent to which America is a nation of ongoing learners:
For more information, including the full report and the survey template, please see http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/03/22/lifelong-learning-and-technology/
The Digital Public Library of America is taking the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all. This impact-oriented research effort unites the leaders from all types of libraries, museums, and archives with educators, industry, and government to define the vision for a digital library in service of the American public. They’re working with the National Archives and Harvard University to to share digitized content from their online catalogs for the project’s two-year Digital Hubs Pilot Project. This pilot project is scheduled to launch on April 18-19, 2013 at the Boston Public Library, which will host an array of festivities, including presentations and interactive exhibits showcasing content from the DPLA’s content partners. The DPLA will include 1.2 million digital copies from the National Archives catalog, including our nation’s founding documents, photos from the Documerica Photography Project of the 1970’s, World War II posters, Mathew Brady Civil War photographs, and documents that define our human and civil rights.
Thanks, again, to Penni Vogel for sharing!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvinjamuri/2013/01/16/why-public-libraries-matter-and-how-they-can-do-more/
The Future: Public Libraries as Local Centers For Book Discovery, by David Vinjamuri
“Libraries support three core missions: promoting reading, offering access to information and anchoring communities. Although individual library systems may communicate these priorities differently, most of the librarians I interviewed broadly agreed with these goals. All three missions contribute to make a library of the twenty first century the ideal place to discover new books.”
Great article about one of our librarians, Mark Burnett, and how Sno-Isle Libraries add value to our communities!
Information Services @ Sno-Isle 