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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century. Download it free from http://bit.ly/2ybnIB8
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SSRC (Social Science Research Council) Labs has published a set of modules about digital scholarship under a Creative Commons Licence:
Has anyone tried the new Anchor app (https://anchor.fm/features)? Apparently, it's a free tool for phones and tablets that allows users to record and edit podcasts right in the app and then publish them via RSS to the various podcast directories. It also has some interesting features like Conversations, which lets up to ten people record together. Sounds like a nice tool for classroom projects without the steep learning curve of Audacity.
Dear list members,
We just wanted briefly to let you know that we have now linked the following two resources:
“Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages”
"In preparation for the bicentennial of Olmsted’s 1822 birth, the Library of Congress has made 24,000 documents providing details of Olmsted’s life available online.... The collection includes journals, personal correspondence, project proposals and other documents that offer an intimate picture of Olmsted’s private life and work. The collection is linked to an interactive map at Olmsted Online showing all Olmsted projects in the United States."
Soon after Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections, Kentuckian Mary E. Britton put aside the racial differences that had torn apart the women's suffrage groups during the 1860s and spoke of her new-found commitment to the cause.
As a result of a collaboration between the California Office of Legislative Counsel and librarians at the University of California, Stanford University and the California State Library, nearly 4,000 California Assembly and Senate publications are now online and have been opened for reading access to everyone worldwide. They are available in the HathiTrust Digital Library as a featured collection, as well as individually in Google Books.
The Tenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium, sponsored by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, the American Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Research Library. Further information and the registration form are available at
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research/symposiums-and-lectures/index.html
This Naked-brand Green Machine juice includes 1335mg of spirulina. For more on the history of spirulina, see Christian Ruth's related essay, "Tasting Old Foods of the Future," in H-Nutrition's "What Should I Eat? Why?" series.
The Victoria and Albert is digitizing Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Forster notebooks, "so named because they came from the private collection of John Forster in 1876." The first one is now available online.
