In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience.



A brief description of this resource, product of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience underscores and explains the extraordinary diversity of African Americans living in the United States today. For the first time in history all the components of the African Diaspora are gathered together. The United States is the only place, the present time the only time. African Americans, Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, Central Americans and South Americans of African descent, as well as Africans and Afro-Caribbeans born in Europe live side by side, each group bringing its specificities, culture, and sense of identity. The ethnic and cultural diversity of the black population has never been greater, and richer. And it is all part of the African-American migration experience.

From the Archives

Things have been busy in the College Archives this winter. So busy, in fact, that I haven't been keeping up with the From the Archives blog. Here's the latest post:

Whatever happened to the archivist?

Illustrated Newspaper Supplements from The New York Tribune

Illustrated Newspaper Supplements from The New York Tribune a sampling of the Library of Congress' Chronicling America.

Coverage: 1909 - 1910.




1910 illustration regarding the Titanic:

Tweets from Space

Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut currently residing on the International Space Station, is using Twitpic to post photos of earth.

Read the article on Mashable
Visit Soichi Noguchi's Twitpic account

World War II Imagery in Google Earth

Yesterday Google added aerial images of European cities during WWII to Google Earth.  Here's a clip from Google's LatLong blog:

"Many of us have heard stories, read books and watched films which show the many impacts of WWII across the world. Today we're giving you another way to understand this period in time - by exploring a new set of historical aerial images, taken over European cities during World War II, via the historical imagery feature in Google Earth. They can now be compared directly to images from the present day."

Read the full announcement

Educause Library Technology Forecast

2010 Horizon Report

The annual Horizon Report has been published by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). It profiles six new and emerging technologies which will impact education over the coming years. Here’s a brief recap of their findings:

Time to adoption:

One Year or Less
Mobile Computing
Open Content

Two to Three Years
Electronic Books
Simple Augmented Reality

Four to Five Years
Gesture-based Computing
Visual Data Analysis

Check out the full Educause/New Media Consortium Report: 2010 Horizon Report

iPhone App for Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library has released a free app in iTunes. Here are instructions for accessing this database from your iPhone or iPod Touch:

You will first need to visit the Naxos Music Library from your computer. Click on the "Playlist" tab at the top of the page and then "Sign Up." You will be asked to enter your name, email address, and to create a password. After creating your account, you can log in and create a playlist from any piece within the Naxos Music Library.

You will use this same account user name (email address) and password to log in to the NML app from your iPhone. And, you will be able to listen to both institutional and personal playlists.

Get the NML app
Create an account and playlist in Naxos Music Library

New Library of Congress NAACP Exhibit

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom

"The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom exhibition presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years. Currently, the site highlights 70 treasures and will eventually expand to feature more than 150 items."

Visit t he exhibit

HubMed - A Cleaner, Kinder Interface to PubMed

"HubMed is an alternative search interface to the PubMed database of biomedical literature, incorporating external web services and providing functions to improve the efficiency of literature search, browsing and retrieval. Users can create and visualize clusters of related articles, export citation data in multiple formats, receive daily updates of publications in their areas of interest, navigate links to full text and other related resources, retrieve data from formatted bibliography lists, navigate citation links and store annotated metadata for articles of interest." summary from Oxford Journals

The day I searched both, HubMed had more current citations than did PubMed. It's worth a look.

HubMed

Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication

The Center for Studies in Higher Education has just released a new report, "Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines."  The seven disciplines covered in the study are archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political science.  The entire report is over 700 pages, but there is an executive summary available.

Read the report