11 Temmuz 2012 Çarşamba
10 Temmuz 2012 Salı
Chefs For Obama: Top Talent Will Cook At Tasty DC Fundraiser For President Obama
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First Lady Michelle Obama To Host Luncheon Celebrating 2012 National Design Awards
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9 Temmuz 2012 Pazartesi
Art in the Stacks: "Material World", Photographs by David Welch
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The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library are pleased to present "Material World", an exhibit of photographs by David Welch. The exhibit will be on display during regular library hours througout the month of March.
David Welch is a fine art photographer based on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. His work explores social issues, using large-format photography steeped in conceptual influences from art history and economic theory. His work has been widely published and exhibited both nationally and abroad. David was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Hey Hot Shot! competition and in 2011 he was selected as one of Photolucida’s Critical Mass top 50 photographers. David is a recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he earned his MFA in photography. He lives on the island with his partner Trina and daughter, Camden. The artist has said of his work:
"Material World is my response to our contemporary consumer milieu. By treating these artifacts of consumer culture as Duchampian-inspired Assisted Readymades, I photograph assemblages, constructed by my own hand to form monuments and totems that serve as precarious externalizations of culture and social biography. Modeling Marx’s concept, the photographs of the totems then act as symbolic mirrors, points of reflection for my own contemplative gaze and that of society’s. The photographs speak of accumulation and materiality and aim to encourage debate about consumption and the ways in which we feel compelled to consume."
"Art in the Stacks" is an initiative of the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, to provide individual artists an opportunity to show their work, and for library patrons to enjoy art at the library throughout the year.
David Welch is a fine art photographer based on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. His work explores social issues, using large-format photography steeped in conceptual influences from art history and economic theory. His work has been widely published and exhibited both nationally and abroad. David was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Hey Hot Shot! competition and in 2011 he was selected as one of Photolucida’s Critical Mass top 50 photographers. David is a recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he earned his MFA in photography. He lives on the island with his partner Trina and daughter, Camden. The artist has said of his work:
"Material World is my response to our contemporary consumer milieu. By treating these artifacts of consumer culture as Duchampian-inspired Assisted Readymades, I photograph assemblages, constructed by my own hand to form monuments and totems that serve as precarious externalizations of culture and social biography. Modeling Marx’s concept, the photographs of the totems then act as symbolic mirrors, points of reflection for my own contemplative gaze and that of society’s. The photographs speak of accumulation and materiality and aim to encourage debate about consumption and the ways in which we feel compelled to consume."
"Art in the Stacks" is an initiative of the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, to provide individual artists an opportunity to show their work, and for library patrons to enjoy art at the library throughout the year.
Author Appearances at the Library in July
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On Sunday, July 15th at 3pm, the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library are pleased to present a free event honoring local author Cynthia Riggs, with reception to follow. Cynthia Riggs is the author of the Vineyard-based mystery series featuring 92-year-old poet & sleuth Victoria Trumbull. Educated as a geologist, Cynthia has also earned an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. Cynthia's eleventh mystery, Poison Ivy, is available on Kindle and coming soon to paperback.
On Wednesday July 18, at 7pm, the library welcomes fifth generation summer visitor Phyllis Meras, who has written a new book, In Every Season: Memories of Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Meras, a former editor at the New York Times and The Vineyard Gazette, celebrates the natural beauty and values of the older Island lifestyle of Martha’s Vineyard. Having lived on the Island since 1967 when she became editor of the Gazette, she says of her book, “This is about the eternal aspects of the Vineyard that should be cherished.” Join us for a reception after Ms. Meras' talk.
On Wednesday July 25, at 7pm, Charlayne Hunter-Gault will be at the library to talk about her new book for young adults, To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement. The first black woman writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter for The Times, for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS and for National Public Radio, Charlayne Hunter-Gault was also one of the first students to integrate the all-white University of Georgia in 1961. In her book, Charlayne Hunter-Gault retells her journey through the Civil Rights Movement from 1959-1965. Charlayne will join us for a special reception and book signing. Her book is aimed at the young adults in your life so bring your children and grandchildren along.
On Wednesday July 18, at 7pm, the library welcomes fifth generation summer visitor Phyllis Meras, who has written a new book, In Every Season: Memories of Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Meras, a former editor at the New York Times and The Vineyard Gazette, celebrates the natural beauty and values of the older Island lifestyle of Martha’s Vineyard. Having lived on the Island since 1967 when she became editor of the Gazette, she says of her book, “This is about the eternal aspects of the Vineyard that should be cherished.” Join us for a reception after Ms. Meras' talk.
On Wednesday July 25, at 7pm, Charlayne Hunter-Gault will be at the library to talk about her new book for young adults, To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement. The first black woman writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter for The Times, for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS and for National Public Radio, Charlayne Hunter-Gault was also one of the first students to integrate the all-white University of Georgia in 1961. In her book, Charlayne Hunter-Gault retells her journey through the Civil Rights Movement from 1959-1965. Charlayne will join us for a special reception and book signing. Her book is aimed at the young adults in your life so bring your children and grandchildren along.
Monthly Book Sales Held 3rd Saturday of Each Month
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The Friends of the Library hold "mini" book sales at the library, from 1pm-3pm on the third Saturday of each month. The July sale will be held on Saturday, July 21st.
Proceeds from these sales benefit library programs for children, and other library services supported by the Friends. Sales are also planned for Saturday, August 18th, and Saturday, September 15th, from 1pm-3pm.
Proceeds from these sales benefit library programs for children, and other library services supported by the Friends. Sales are also planned for Saturday, August 18th, and Saturday, September 15th, from 1pm-3pm.
Save the Date for the Library 5k Run/Walk and Fun Run
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On Sunday, September 16th, the Friends of the Library will host the annual Race for the Library. The 5k Run/Walk starts at the library with runners proceeding to the West Chop lighthouse and back. There will also be a 1/2 Mile Fun Run for Kids (13 & under). There will be prizes for winners in all age groups, and a raffle. 5k starts at 10 am; Fun Run for Kids starts at 9:45 am; Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Registration forms will be available soon, in the library and online.
Registration forms will be available soon, in the library and online.
Art in the Stacks: Carolyn Daniele
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The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library are pleased to present an exhibit of watercolors and oils by Carolyn Daniele this month. The exhibit will be on display during regular library hours until early August. "Art in the Stacks" is an initiative of the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, to provide individual artists an opportunity to show their work, and for library patrons to enjoy art at the library throughout the year.
Carolyn is a multimedia artist. Her first love is ceramic sculpture, and after that... everything else. Carolyn had a very successful one woman show at Featherstone Center for the Arts last summer, selling most of her paintings to new and loyal followers. She has also shown at the West Chop Club, the All Island Art Show, the Family Planning Show, and Dragonfly Art Gallery. Her subjects are as varied as her medium, including Vineyard scenes, landscapes, flowers, abstracts, and
animals.
The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library are pleased to present an exhibit of watercolors and oils by Carolyn Daniele this month. The exhibit will be on display during regular library hours until early August. "Art in the Stacks" is an initiative of the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, to provide individual artists an opportunity to show their work, and for library patrons to enjoy art at the library throughout the year.Carolyn is a multimedia artist. Her first love is ceramic sculpture, and after that... everything else. Carolyn had a very successful one woman show at Featherstone Center for the Arts last summer, selling most of her paintings to new and loyal followers. She has also shown at the West Chop Club, the All Island Art Show, the Family Planning Show, and Dragonfly Art Gallery. Her subjects are as varied as her medium, including Vineyard scenes, landscapes, flowers, abstracts, and
animals.
8 Temmuz 2012 Pazar
Reminder: The 1940 U.S. Census to be Released on Monday, April 2
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We've written previously on the upcoming release of the 1940 U.S. Census, and we are hardly the only ones excited by the issue. Staff at the State Library of North Carolina are planning a 1940's themed party around the release, complete with music, clothing, and toys on display from the era.
The State Library staff were also interviewed by their local public radio station for a segment that highlights the kinds of information to be found in the data release. If you're curious as to why people get so excited about the released of new Census data, click on the image below and stream their interview. The interview provides an excellent context for the historic importance and value to researchers of this Census data.
And don't forget to visit the National Archives and Records Administration (that's NARA to me and you) April Second to search these records of an America from just before World War II and the subsequent post-War Baby Boom. The opportunity to compare it to the 1950 Census data is only ten years away!
The State Library staff were also interviewed by their local public radio station for a segment that highlights the kinds of information to be found in the data release. If you're curious as to why people get so excited about the released of new Census data, click on the image below and stream their interview. The interview provides an excellent context for the historic importance and value to researchers of this Census data.
And don't forget to visit the National Archives and Records Administration (that's NARA to me and you) April Second to search these records of an America from just before World War II and the subsequent post-War Baby Boom. The opportunity to compare it to the 1950 Census data is only ten years away!
NASA's Joke Goes Over Everyone's Head
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On Sunday this week, NASA posted details of a new mission involving the craft currently orbiting the planet Mercury called MESSENGER or "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging."
The mission, PIA 15542, or "Mooning Mercury" to the layearthling, centers on a newly discovered natural satellite (moon) measuring 230 ft. across at a distance of about 8,890 miles above the planet. The proposed name for this moon is Caduceus.
The mission description goes on to say that rather than study this moon, as they might normally do, NASA had another plan. It goes like this...
If you don't think about the odds of being able to map that trajectory so specifically across the minimum 48,000,000 miles between Earth and Mercury, this all sounds well and good, but NASA gives its joke away with in love of acronyms.
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In related news that is not so enjoyable, NASA has begun the process of decommissioning the Space Shuttles and their overall program. President George W. Bush first called for the retirement of the shuttle program in January of 2004, in the aftermath of the shuttle Columbia accident and its disintegration over Texas during atmospheric re-entry. In speaking about a new focus for NASA on the International Space Station, Bush said:
The photoblog In Focus, from The Atlantic Monthly, has compiled a series of images from the dismantling and preparation for display of shuttles Discovery and Endeavor as well as of the launching pads, cargo bays, and propulsion systems. It is good-bye, for now, to American manned spaceflight.
Click on these images to visit the In Focus set.
The mission, PIA 15542, or "Mooning Mercury" to the layearthling, centers on a newly discovered natural satellite (moon) measuring 230 ft. across at a distance of about 8,890 miles above the planet. The proposed name for this moon is Caduceus.
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| The very, very, very small moon, Caduceus. |
...The new plan is to use the remaining propellant to crash MESSENGER into Caduceus. "Our detailed analysis tells us that if we act now, and with the right trajectory, MESSENGER will impart just enough momentum to the moon to break it free of Mercury's gravity well and set it on an Earth-crossing trajectory suitable for recovery as a Mercury meteorite," said Panini.In other words, something a little like the plot of the 1979 movie, "Meteor."
...If Caduceus is successfully released from the pull of Mercury and placed on a course to reach Earth, we can expect the moon to arrive at Earth by 2014. "The risk to the public is reassuringly small", offers MESSENGER mission design lead Adam McJames. "We have designed a trajectory that will bring the moon to Earth at a remote location on the Wilkes Land ice sheet in Antarctica. This trajectory will avoid all population centers and will put the moon's impact site within reach for retrieval by the scientific staff at the U.S.-operated McMurdo Station."
If you don't think about the odds of being able to map that trajectory so specifically across the minimum 48,000,000 miles between Earth and Mercury, this all sounds well and good, but NASA gives its joke away with in love of acronyms.
If successful, MESSENGER's extended extended MIN-C mission will mark the first instance of the documented arrival to Earth of material from the Mercury system. Moreover, it will serve as the basis for a new Discovery-class mission proposal currently in development by the Applied Psychics Laboratory for a Mercury lander mission for in situ X-ray analysis of surface composition. That mission is to be named the Hermean On-surface Analysis with X-rays.That's right. The mission's name is H.O.A.X. At least when NASA makes a joke, they do it big. Happy April Fool's Day.
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In related news that is not so enjoyable, NASA has begun the process of decommissioning the Space Shuttles and their overall program. President George W. Bush first called for the retirement of the shuttle program in January of 2004, in the aftermath of the shuttle Columbia accident and its disintegration over Texas during atmospheric re-entry. In speaking about a new focus for NASA on the International Space Station, Bush said:
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| Excerpt of President Bush's 2004 remarks to NASA, announcing the retirement of the shuttle program. |
Click on these images to visit the In Focus set.A Stunning Real-Time Surface Wind Map
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Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, leaders of Google's "Big Picture" visualization research group and owners of the hint.fm Web site, have found an ingenious and beautiful use for the real-time surface wind data compiled by the National Digital Forecast Database.
Using the NDFD -- which is explicitly a database "available for members of the public to use in creating text, graphic, gridded and image products of their own" -- Viégas and Wattenberg created a animated, zoom-able map that displays, in real-time, surface wind speeds across the United States.
The end result has gained positive attention from multiple media outlets, including CNET, MIT's Alumni News site, and io9 and is hypnotizing to watch.
Here is one public user's experience with the site.
The NDFD, a product of the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, consists of "gridded forecasts of sensible weather elements (e.g., cloud cover, maximum temperature)" and "a seamless mosaic of digital forecasts from NWS field offices working in collaboration with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)."
The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) was designed to provide access to weather forecasts in digital form from a central location.
Using the NDFD -- which is explicitly a database "available for members of the public to use in creating text, graphic, gridded and image products of their own" -- Viégas and Wattenberg created a animated, zoom-able map that displays, in real-time, surface wind speeds across the United States.
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| The HINT.fm Real-Time Wind Map |
The end result has gained positive attention from multiple media outlets, including CNET, MIT's Alumni News site, and io9 and is hypnotizing to watch.
Here is one public user's experience with the site.
The NDFD, a product of the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, consists of "gridded forecasts of sensible weather elements (e.g., cloud cover, maximum temperature)" and "a seamless mosaic of digital forecasts from NWS field offices working in collaboration with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)."
The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) was designed to provide access to weather forecasts in digital form from a central location.
Oops--Not a good day for CNN and Fox
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CNN and Fox, in a rush to announce the results of the Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, announced on live television that the mandate for individual health insurance was unconstitutional. Both got it wrong. Corrections and amusement followed quickly on the heels of this major gaffe. On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart observed that you need to read beyond the first page. The complete opinion is available at the Supreme Court website. All 905 pages of the act are available at FDsys--GPO's Federal Digital System. Happy reading.
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| Gary He Photoshopped a photo of Truman triumphantly displaying the newspaper which errorneously reported on his loss. This time it's President Obama with an iPad. |
El Nino--Keep Your Fingers Crossed
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Last night for the first time in months we had a nice amount of rain in Boulder. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, "Experts say Colorado's weather is likely to shift to a much wetter El Niño pattern this year, which could mean good news for firefighters, farmers and those just sick of hot, dry weather." The experts are at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facility in Boulder. Understanding and predicting El Niño is so important to predicting the weather and climate that the phenomenon has its own website: http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/. Weather and climate have profound and sometimes surprising effects. The latest research suggests a link between El Niño and the global flu pandemic of 1918/19 which killed over 50 million individuals worldwide.
According to the site "El Niño is characterized by unusually warm temperatures and La Niña by unusually cool temperatures in the equatorial Pacific." The site features a link to a YouTube video explaining how NOAA collects data on ocean temperatures using sea buoys.
In addition to information that is too technical for most people to understand, the site features educational materials about El Niño and the related La Niña phenomenon. Check it out.
According to the site "El Niño is characterized by unusually warm temperatures and La Niña by unusually cool temperatures in the equatorial Pacific." The site features a link to a YouTube video explaining how NOAA collects data on ocean temperatures using sea buoys.
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| Collecting Data from An Ocean Buoy |
In addition to information that is too technical for most people to understand, the site features educational materials about El Niño and the related La Niña phenomenon. Check it out.
7 Temmuz 2012 Cumartesi
A Search Primer (you don't have to always go with Google)
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While Google is the undisputed king of internet search, there are other options. Try some from the list below the next time you do a search. The bottom portion of this post contains links to search tips that will help you become a better searcher.
General Search Engines
All the Web, All the Time
One of the more recently developed Web indexing tools, this search engine indexes a very large database. It has separate search boxes for audio, FTP, and picture files. Advanced search options support domain filters, word filters, and allow searching in 25 different languages.
AltaVista
Alta Vista has a large database. It can perform searches in Spanish or English and translate words, phrases, and entire Web sites online into many languages using "Babelfish." Other improvements include phrase detection, spell check, Family Filter, and natural language capabilities.
Ask
Ask is a search engine that is intended to be used with natural language questions. There are many extra features such as suggesting other terms that are along the same subject lines and local searching.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. On the left side of the screen, it has buttons for searching images, videos, shopping, news, travel, history and maps. There is a visual search option, as well.
Google
The most extensive search engine on the Web. Google search results are ranked based on site popularity rather than the common practice of paid positioning. Google also has specialized searches for certain operating systems, government documents, maps and scholarly articles. A single click translation service is available for most pages which will translate to the user's primary language. It also caches Web pages allowing an individual to view pages that are not currently available or that are on overburdened servers.
Hakia
Hakia is a semantic search engine that is focused on quality. Unique to Hakia, a single query brings a full set of results in all segments including Web, News, Blogs, Hakia Galleries, Credible Sources, Video, and Images. Among these segments, News, Blogs, Credible Sources, and Hakia Galleries are processed by Hakia's proprietary core semantic technology called QDEXing. Web, video, and images are processed by Hakia's SemanticRank technology using third party API feeds.
HotBot
HotBot allows many search options such as language, images, javascript, video, and MP3. Advanced search options allow searching by date, page depth, and domain name.
Mahalo
Mahalo is the one 'human-powered' search site in this list, employing a committee of editors to manually sift and vet thousands of pieces of content. This means that you'll get fewer Mahalo hit results than you will get at Bing or Google. But it also means that most Mahalo results have a higher quality of content and relevance (as best as human editors can judge).
Mahalo also offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions. Depending on which of the two search boxes you use at Mahalo, you will either get direct content topic hits or suggested answers to your question.
Topsy
The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses. When you search for something on Topsy, such as “free music,“ it finds snippets of conversations that match what you are looking for. Topsy results are the things people link to when they are talking about your search terms. Topsy ranks results based on how well they match your search terms and the influence of the people talking about them.
Twazzup
Twazzup is a Twitter search tool that provides almost all of what Twitter Search does itself, plus a list of the most influential tweeters on a topic, related photos, and keywords based on your search results to help you refine your search.
WebCrawler
WebCrawler is one of the oldest search engines and uses the Excite search software to search the Web. It is good for simple searching.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a collection of classified subject resources. If no matches are found in its own database, it searches the rest of the Web using Google. Options at the bottom of the screen link to searches in a particular country (Denmark, France, Mexico) or city (Los Angeles, New York City) which may be in the native language of that country.
Yippy
Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually harder to locate by conventional search. That's where Yippy becomes very useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool.
Dogpile
Searches the major search engines simultaneously and allows the user to view the combined results or compare the results of the various engines side by side.
MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler simultaneously searches Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, Thunderstone, DirectHit, LookSmart, and Yahoo. A brief annotation is provided with the search results.
Internet Public Library
Originally begun as a project of the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, the Internet Public Library locates, evaluates, annotates and organizes the information resources of the Internet which would be of interest to patrons of a public library.
Scout Report Archives
The Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is funded by the National Science Foundation. Resources can be searched by either a quick or complex search engine. Links can also be browsed by Library of Congress subject headings.
Web Searching Techniques
For more information on how search engines work, how to search, and tables and charts describing how these tools work, see the following articles:Beyond General World Wide Web Searching (From UC Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Checklist of Internet Research Tips (from the University at Albany)
http://library.albany.edu/usered/iguides/iguides.html
Searching the Internet
http://www.sldirectory.com/search.html
Recommended Search Strategy: Search With Peripheral Vision
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
General Search Engines
All the Web, All the Time
One of the more recently developed Web indexing tools, this search engine indexes a very large database. It has separate search boxes for audio, FTP, and picture files. Advanced search options support domain filters, word filters, and allow searching in 25 different languages.
AltaVista
Alta Vista has a large database. It can perform searches in Spanish or English and translate words, phrases, and entire Web sites online into many languages using "Babelfish." Other improvements include phrase detection, spell check, Family Filter, and natural language capabilities.
Ask
Ask is a search engine that is intended to be used with natural language questions. There are many extra features such as suggesting other terms that are along the same subject lines and local searching.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. On the left side of the screen, it has buttons for searching images, videos, shopping, news, travel, history and maps. There is a visual search option, as well.
The most extensive search engine on the Web. Google search results are ranked based on site popularity rather than the common practice of paid positioning. Google also has specialized searches for certain operating systems, government documents, maps and scholarly articles. A single click translation service is available for most pages which will translate to the user's primary language. It also caches Web pages allowing an individual to view pages that are not currently available or that are on overburdened servers.
Hakia
Hakia is a semantic search engine that is focused on quality. Unique to Hakia, a single query brings a full set of results in all segments including Web, News, Blogs, Hakia Galleries, Credible Sources, Video, and Images. Among these segments, News, Blogs, Credible Sources, and Hakia Galleries are processed by Hakia's proprietary core semantic technology called QDEXing. Web, video, and images are processed by Hakia's SemanticRank technology using third party API feeds.
HotBot
HotBot allows many search options such as language, images, javascript, video, and MP3. Advanced search options allow searching by date, page depth, and domain name.
Mahalo
Mahalo is the one 'human-powered' search site in this list, employing a committee of editors to manually sift and vet thousands of pieces of content. This means that you'll get fewer Mahalo hit results than you will get at Bing or Google. But it also means that most Mahalo results have a higher quality of content and relevance (as best as human editors can judge).
Mahalo also offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions. Depending on which of the two search boxes you use at Mahalo, you will either get direct content topic hits or suggested answers to your question.
Topsy
The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses. When you search for something on Topsy, such as “free music,“ it finds snippets of conversations that match what you are looking for. Topsy results are the things people link to when they are talking about your search terms. Topsy ranks results based on how well they match your search terms and the influence of the people talking about them.
Twazzup
Twazzup is a Twitter search tool that provides almost all of what Twitter Search does itself, plus a list of the most influential tweeters on a topic, related photos, and keywords based on your search results to help you refine your search.
WebCrawler
WebCrawler is one of the oldest search engines and uses the Excite search software to search the Web. It is good for simple searching.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a collection of classified subject resources. If no matches are found in its own database, it searches the rest of the Web using Google. Options at the bottom of the screen link to searches in a particular country (Denmark, France, Mexico) or city (Los Angeles, New York City) which may be in the native language of that country.
Yippy
Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually harder to locate by conventional search. That's where Yippy becomes very useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool.
Meta Search Engines
These search engines search multiple databases simultaneously. Both of these search engines remove the duplicates before presenting the search results.Dogpile
Searches the major search engines simultaneously and allows the user to view the combined results or compare the results of the various engines side by side.
MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler simultaneously searches Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, Thunderstone, DirectHit, LookSmart, and Yahoo. A brief annotation is provided with the search results.
Subject Guides
These subject guides are a starting point to specific information on the Web. Although they do provide search engines, those engines search only on the individual Web site (i.e., a search on the Librarians' Index to the Internet will only show sites listed on the Librarians' Index to the Internet).Internet Public Library
Originally begun as a project of the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, the Internet Public Library locates, evaluates, annotates and organizes the information resources of the Internet which would be of interest to patrons of a public library.
Scout Report Archives
The Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is funded by the National Science Foundation. Resources can be searched by either a quick or complex search engine. Links can also be browsed by Library of Congress subject headings.
Web Searching Techniques
For more information on how search engines work, how to search, and tables and charts describing how these tools work, see the following articles:Beyond General World Wide Web Searching (From UC Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Checklist of Internet Research Tips (from the University at Albany)
http://library.albany.edu/usered/iguides/iguides.html
Searching the Internet
http://www.sldirectory.com/search.html
Recommended Search Strategy: Search With Peripheral Vision
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
Announcing New Civil War Programs, No Registration Required
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As part of the Library's commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, a variety of special events and lectures will be scheduled throughout the upcoming months. Events have been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, and include the following programs:
Tuesday, February 28th, 7 pm
Susan Strane: A Whole-Souled Woman: Prudence Crandall and the Education of Black Women
Susan will discuss her book on Prudence Crandall, who opened the first boarding school in America for African-American girls in Canterbury, Ct. in 1833. She advertised her school as a seminary for "young ladies and little misses of color." The town, however, was not pleased and their presence led to boycotts, intimidation, and the poisoning of their well. The school had become a cause celebre among abolitionists. Its defense was one of the first campaigns of the great William Lloyd Garrison.
Wednesday, March 14th, 7 pm
Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Society : Civil War Era Poetry
During the Civil War, thousands of poems about the conflict were written by everyday citizens from the North and the South. These poems appeared in a variety of print formats, including newspapers, periodicals, broadsheets, and song sheets. These poems enable us to better understand the role of poetry during the war years and how poetry helped unify citizens, inspire troops, memorialize the dead, and bind the nation's wounds in the aftermath of the war. Drawing from the well-known poets of the period, including Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Tickner, and George Henry Boker, the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Society will present an evening of poetry readings. Library of Congress Poetry Resources: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lcpoetry/cwvc.html
Sunday, April 22nd, 4 pm
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker: The Blue and Gray in Black and White
Sparky & Rhonda Rucker's presentation will include stories from the American Civil War portrayed through music and in narrative and will focus on the war's impact on the different regions of our country. The stories, some sad and some humorous, reflect personal insights from the various personalities who participated in the war. Since more songs came out of the Civil War than any other war in history, they will have a large repertoire of music to draw upon. They will sing slave songs, and songs from the Underground Railroad, while accompanying themselves with finger style picking and bottleneck blues guitar, harmonica, old-time banjo, slide guitar, piano, spoons, and bones.
As much a folklorist and community historian as a performer, Sparky Rucker has combined his love for blues and songs from the Black ballad tradition with a desire to both educate and entertain. Rhonda, a versatile performer, joins Sparky playing blues harmonica, piano, banjo, and adding vocal harmonies. They have been featured tellers at the International Storytelling Center and Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and on NPR's On Point. Join us for an afternoon of fun, history and songs for the whole family. This program is free of charge with a reception to follow.
Wednesday, April 25th, 7 pm
John Hough Jr. Seen the Glory: a Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
John Hough tells the story of Luke and Thomas Chandler, who grew up on Martha's Vineyard, raised by their abolitionist father and Rose, their headstrong and beautiful Cape Verdean housekeeper. When a recruiter comes to the island, the boys, who have already witnessed their father and Rose helping a runaway slave to freedom and who are determined to join the fight against slavery, eagerly enlist in the storied Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Tuesday, May 1st, 7 pm
John Sundman: Lincoln at Gettysburg: the Words That Remade America
John Sundman will present a discussion of Gary Wills’, Pulitzer Prize winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. Wills’ thesis is that the Gettysburg Address came to define not only the meaning of the war, but the meaning of America. Subjects under discussion will include the rhetorical devices Lincoln used and his implicit arguments about the nature of the Union and its relationship to freedom.
Tuesday May 15th, 7 pm
Patricia Sullivan: “One Hundred Years of Freedom?”
When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961, the hundredth anniversary of the Civil War loomed larger in the national consciousness than the emerging Civil Rights Movement. Historian Patricia Sullivan will discuss how rising black protests in the South converged with the Civil War centennial, challenging public memory and historical accounts of the war, its meaning, and its legacies.
Also in May (dates to be announced), Jim Thomas, founder of the U.S. Slave Song Project, will talk and the interpretation of codes used in the slave songs for the underground railroad, and Robert Hayden, President of The Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, will trace the history of his family, the battles they were involved in, and their journey to Martha’s Vineyard as freed slaves.
Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War", has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
As part of the Library's commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, a variety of special events and lectures will be scheduled throughout the upcoming months. Events have been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, and include the following programs:
Tuesday, February 28th, 7 pm
Susan Strane: A Whole-Souled Woman: Prudence Crandall and the Education of Black Women
Susan will discuss her book on Prudence Crandall, who opened the first boarding school in America for African-American girls in Canterbury, Ct. in 1833. She advertised her school as a seminary for "young ladies and little misses of color." The town, however, was not pleased and their presence led to boycotts, intimidation, and the poisoning of their well. The school had become a cause celebre among abolitionists. Its defense was one of the first campaigns of the great William Lloyd Garrison.
Wednesday, March 14th, 7 pm
Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Society : Civil War Era Poetry
During the Civil War, thousands of poems about the conflict were written by everyday citizens from the North and the South. These poems appeared in a variety of print formats, including newspapers, periodicals, broadsheets, and song sheets. These poems enable us to better understand the role of poetry during the war years and how poetry helped unify citizens, inspire troops, memorialize the dead, and bind the nation's wounds in the aftermath of the war. Drawing from the well-known poets of the period, including Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Tickner, and George Henry Boker, the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Society will present an evening of poetry readings. Library of Congress Poetry Resources: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lcpoetry/cwvc.html
Sunday, April 22nd, 4 pm
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker: The Blue and Gray in Black and White
Sparky & Rhonda Rucker's presentation will include stories from the American Civil War portrayed through music and in narrative and will focus on the war's impact on the different regions of our country. The stories, some sad and some humorous, reflect personal insights from the various personalities who participated in the war. Since more songs came out of the Civil War than any other war in history, they will have a large repertoire of music to draw upon. They will sing slave songs, and songs from the Underground Railroad, while accompanying themselves with finger style picking and bottleneck blues guitar, harmonica, old-time banjo, slide guitar, piano, spoons, and bones.
As much a folklorist and community historian as a performer, Sparky Rucker has combined his love for blues and songs from the Black ballad tradition with a desire to both educate and entertain. Rhonda, a versatile performer, joins Sparky playing blues harmonica, piano, banjo, and adding vocal harmonies. They have been featured tellers at the International Storytelling Center and Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and on NPR's On Point. Join us for an afternoon of fun, history and songs for the whole family. This program is free of charge with a reception to follow.
Wednesday, April 25th, 7 pm
John Hough Jr. Seen the Glory: a Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
John Hough tells the story of Luke and Thomas Chandler, who grew up on Martha's Vineyard, raised by their abolitionist father and Rose, their headstrong and beautiful Cape Verdean housekeeper. When a recruiter comes to the island, the boys, who have already witnessed their father and Rose helping a runaway slave to freedom and who are determined to join the fight against slavery, eagerly enlist in the storied Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Tuesday, May 1st, 7 pm
John Sundman: Lincoln at Gettysburg: the Words That Remade America
John Sundman will present a discussion of Gary Wills’, Pulitzer Prize winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. Wills’ thesis is that the Gettysburg Address came to define not only the meaning of the war, but the meaning of America. Subjects under discussion will include the rhetorical devices Lincoln used and his implicit arguments about the nature of the Union and its relationship to freedom.
Tuesday May 15th, 7 pm
Patricia Sullivan: “One Hundred Years of Freedom?”
When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961, the hundredth anniversary of the Civil War loomed larger in the national consciousness than the emerging Civil Rights Movement. Historian Patricia Sullivan will discuss how rising black protests in the South converged with the Civil War centennial, challenging public memory and historical accounts of the war, its meaning, and its legacies.
Also in May (dates to be announced), Jim Thomas, founder of the U.S. Slave Song Project, will talk and the interpretation of codes used in the slave songs for the underground railroad, and Robert Hayden, President of The Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, will trace the history of his family, the battles they were involved in, and their journey to Martha’s Vineyard as freed slaves.
Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War", has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
Attend the Library Community Forum and You Could Win an eReader
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The Library is in the middle of a planning process to map a course for the next five years. On Wednesday March 28th at 6pm, the Library will host a forum to discover where you would like to see the town in five years and how the library can help with your vision.
As a special thank you to participants, the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library have sponsored door prizes for this event. Those who attend will have a chance to win a Nook eReader that may be used to check out library eBooks, or a gift certificate to the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven.
We want to make sure we're meeting the needs of the community as best we can. If you're happy with what we do we'd like to hear from you, and just as importantly we'd like to hear what you'd really like us to change. Barbara Andrews, an adviser from the Massachusetts Library System will be facilitating the discussion. Light refreshments will be provided.
We're hoping to get a representation of all the different populations in Tisbury-- town officials as well as ordinary citizens, primary residence or second home owner, library users and non library users, older residents, and younger ones! This is your chance to tell us what really makes this library important to this community and what we need to do to keep it that way. We're looking forward to hearing what you have to say-- please come!
The Library is in the middle of a planning process to map a course for the next five years. On Wednesday March 28th at 6pm, the Library will host a forum to discover where you would like to see the town in five years and how the library can help with your vision.As a special thank you to participants, the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library have sponsored door prizes for this event. Those who attend will have a chance to win a Nook eReader that may be used to check out library eBooks, or a gift certificate to the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven.
We want to make sure we're meeting the needs of the community as best we can. If you're happy with what we do we'd like to hear from you, and just as importantly we'd like to hear what you'd really like us to change. Barbara Andrews, an adviser from the Massachusetts Library System will be facilitating the discussion. Light refreshments will be provided.
We're hoping to get a representation of all the different populations in Tisbury-- town officials as well as ordinary citizens, primary residence or second home owner, library users and non library users, older residents, and younger ones! This is your chance to tell us what really makes this library important to this community and what we need to do to keep it that way. We're looking forward to hearing what you have to say-- please come!
Join Us For "Common Threads" Poetry Discussions in April
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Common Threads is a program of MassPoetry.org that seeks to have as many people as possible read and discuss the same nine poems during the month of April, National Poetry Month. All poets selected have strong ties to Massachusetts. As part of the annual celebration, Michael West will lead a discussion of the poems on three afternoons in April at the Vineyard Haven Library. Each week Michael West will be joined by one of the island's poet laureates to discuss three of the poems:
Saturday, April 7th, 2pm
Justen Ahren (incoming poet laureate of West Tisbury)
Baseball by Gail Mazur
Horseface by Sam Cornish
The Hardness Scale by Joyce Peseroff
Saturday, April 14th, 2pm
Fan Ogilvie (outgoing poet laureate of West Tisbury)
No. 1129 – Tell all the Truth but tell it slant by Emily Dickinson
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
if see no end in is by Frank Bidart
Saturday, April 28th, 2pm
Dan Waters (first poet laureate of West Tisbury)
Out at Lanesville by David Ferry
The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
The Fire of Drift-Wood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nine poems and discussion questions are available at http://masspoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/This-Is-It.pdf. This year the MassPoetry website also features videos of the living poets reading their own poems as well as those poems of the non-living poets: http://masspoetry.org/about/common-threads-2012-updated/?. Even if you are unable to join the discussion, please stop by the library to read the poems, which will be featured in a special display throughout the month of April.
Common Threads is a program of MassPoetry.org that seeks to have as many people as possible read and discuss the same nine poems during the month of April, National Poetry Month. All poets selected have strong ties to Massachusetts. As part of the annual celebration, Michael West will lead a discussion of the poems on three afternoons in April at the Vineyard Haven Library. Each week Michael West will be joined by one of the island's poet laureates to discuss three of the poems:Saturday, April 7th, 2pm
Justen Ahren (incoming poet laureate of West Tisbury)
Baseball by Gail Mazur
Horseface by Sam Cornish
The Hardness Scale by Joyce Peseroff
Saturday, April 14th, 2pm
Fan Ogilvie (outgoing poet laureate of West Tisbury)
No. 1129 – Tell all the Truth but tell it slant by Emily Dickinson
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
if see no end in is by Frank Bidart
Saturday, April 28th, 2pm
Dan Waters (first poet laureate of West Tisbury)
Out at Lanesville by David Ferry
The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
The Fire of Drift-Wood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nine poems and discussion questions are available at http://masspoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/This-Is-It.pdf. This year the MassPoetry website also features videos of the living poets reading their own poems as well as those poems of the non-living poets: http://masspoetry.org/about/common-threads-2012-updated/?. Even if you are unable to join the discussion, please stop by the library to read the poems, which will be featured in a special display throughout the month of April.
TumbleBooks and TumbleReadables "eBooks for eKids"
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TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you.
Tumblebooks are also available for viewing on the iPad. Check out the first batch of iPad-compatible TumbleBooks by signing into TumbleBookLibrary on your iPad and going to the Story Books section. Just below the "Story Books" heading, there is a link called "Click here for iPad-compatible titles". Click on this link, and the iPad books will be sorted for you. Next, simply click on the "iPad" button to launch the book of your choice. The book will appear in a small window at first. Click on the "full screen" button to expand it.
The creators of Tumblebooks have also created Tumblereadables, featuring elementary, middle school and young adult titles, as well as classics and graphic novels, and nearly 200 educational videos from National Geographic. Vineyard Haven Library has trial access to Tumblereadables for the summer, so please try them and let us know what you think.
Tumblebooks are also available for viewing on the iPad. Check out the first batch of iPad-compatible TumbleBooks by signing into TumbleBookLibrary on your iPad and going to the Story Books section. Just below the "Story Books" heading, there is a link called "Click here for iPad-compatible titles". Click on this link, and the iPad books will be sorted for you. Next, simply click on the "iPad" button to launch the book of your choice. The book will appear in a small window at first. Click on the "full screen" button to expand it.
The creators of Tumblebooks have also created Tumblereadables, featuring elementary, middle school and young adult titles, as well as classics and graphic novels, and nearly 200 educational videos from National Geographic. Vineyard Haven Library has trial access to Tumblereadables for the summer, so please try them and let us know what you think.
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Survey Results Are In
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The results of PCL's patron survey of favorite books of 2010 are in. Non-fiction favorites you might want to check out include:
Patron's First Choice Winners:
1. None of Us Were Like This Before by Joshua Phillips
2. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
3. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (not non-fiction but it made it on the list!)
4. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
8. **** My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
9. Methland by Nick Reding
10. True Compass by Edward Kennedy
Patron's Second Choice Winners:
1. Negro President by Garry Wills
2. Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4. How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
5. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Patron's Third Choice Winners:
1. How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom
2. Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
3. Keep the Change by Steve Dublanica
4. High Society: the Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto
Patron's First Choice Winners:
1. None of Us Were Like This Before by Joshua Phillips
2. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
3. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (not non-fiction but it made it on the list!)
4. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
8. **** My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
9. Methland by Nick Reding
10. True Compass by Edward Kennedy
Patron's Second Choice Winners:
1. Negro President by Garry Wills
2. Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4. How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
5. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Patron's Third Choice Winners:
1. How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom
2. Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
3. Keep the Change by Steve Dublanica
4. High Society: the Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto
A Search Primer (you don't have to always go with Google)
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While Google is the undisputed king of internet search, there are other options. Try some from the list below the next time you do a search. The bottom portion of this post contains links to search tips that will help you become a better searcher.
General Search Engines
All the Web, All the Time
One of the more recently developed Web indexing tools, this search engine indexes a very large database. It has separate search boxes for audio, FTP, and picture files. Advanced search options support domain filters, word filters, and allow searching in 25 different languages.
AltaVista
Alta Vista has a large database. It can perform searches in Spanish or English and translate words, phrases, and entire Web sites online into many languages using "Babelfish." Other improvements include phrase detection, spell check, Family Filter, and natural language capabilities.
Ask
Ask is a search engine that is intended to be used with natural language questions. There are many extra features such as suggesting other terms that are along the same subject lines and local searching.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. On the left side of the screen, it has buttons for searching images, videos, shopping, news, travel, history and maps. There is a visual search option, as well.
Google
The most extensive search engine on the Web. Google search results are ranked based on site popularity rather than the common practice of paid positioning. Google also has specialized searches for certain operating systems, government documents, maps and scholarly articles. A single click translation service is available for most pages which will translate to the user's primary language. It also caches Web pages allowing an individual to view pages that are not currently available or that are on overburdened servers.
Hakia
Hakia is a semantic search engine that is focused on quality. Unique to Hakia, a single query brings a full set of results in all segments including Web, News, Blogs, Hakia Galleries, Credible Sources, Video, and Images. Among these segments, News, Blogs, Credible Sources, and Hakia Galleries are processed by Hakia's proprietary core semantic technology called QDEXing. Web, video, and images are processed by Hakia's SemanticRank technology using third party API feeds.
HotBot
HotBot allows many search options such as language, images, javascript, video, and MP3. Advanced search options allow searching by date, page depth, and domain name.
Mahalo
Mahalo is the one 'human-powered' search site in this list, employing a committee of editors to manually sift and vet thousands of pieces of content. This means that you'll get fewer Mahalo hit results than you will get at Bing or Google. But it also means that most Mahalo results have a higher quality of content and relevance (as best as human editors can judge).
Mahalo also offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions. Depending on which of the two search boxes you use at Mahalo, you will either get direct content topic hits or suggested answers to your question.
Topsy
The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses. When you search for something on Topsy, such as “free music,“ it finds snippets of conversations that match what you are looking for. Topsy results are the things people link to when they are talking about your search terms. Topsy ranks results based on how well they match your search terms and the influence of the people talking about them.
Twazzup
Twazzup is a Twitter search tool that provides almost all of what Twitter Search does itself, plus a list of the most influential tweeters on a topic, related photos, and keywords based on your search results to help you refine your search.
WebCrawler
WebCrawler is one of the oldest search engines and uses the Excite search software to search the Web. It is good for simple searching.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a collection of classified subject resources. If no matches are found in its own database, it searches the rest of the Web using Google. Options at the bottom of the screen link to searches in a particular country (Denmark, France, Mexico) or city (Los Angeles, New York City) which may be in the native language of that country.
Yippy
Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually harder to locate by conventional search. That's where Yippy becomes very useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool.
Dogpile
Searches the major search engines simultaneously and allows the user to view the combined results or compare the results of the various engines side by side.
MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler simultaneously searches Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, Thunderstone, DirectHit, LookSmart, and Yahoo. A brief annotation is provided with the search results.
Internet Public Library
Originally begun as a project of the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, the Internet Public Library locates, evaluates, annotates and organizes the information resources of the Internet which would be of interest to patrons of a public library.
Scout Report Archives
The Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is funded by the National Science Foundation. Resources can be searched by either a quick or complex search engine. Links can also be browsed by Library of Congress subject headings.
Web Searching Techniques
For more information on how search engines work, how to search, and tables and charts describing how these tools work, see the following articles:Beyond General World Wide Web Searching (From UC Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Checklist of Internet Research Tips (from the University at Albany)
http://library.albany.edu/usered/iguides/iguides.html
Searching the Internet
http://www.sldirectory.com/search.html
Recommended Search Strategy: Search With Peripheral Vision
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
General Search Engines
All the Web, All the Time
One of the more recently developed Web indexing tools, this search engine indexes a very large database. It has separate search boxes for audio, FTP, and picture files. Advanced search options support domain filters, word filters, and allow searching in 25 different languages.
AltaVista
Alta Vista has a large database. It can perform searches in Spanish or English and translate words, phrases, and entire Web sites online into many languages using "Babelfish." Other improvements include phrase detection, spell check, Family Filter, and natural language capabilities.
Ask
Ask is a search engine that is intended to be used with natural language questions. There are many extra features such as suggesting other terms that are along the same subject lines and local searching.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. On the left side of the screen, it has buttons for searching images, videos, shopping, news, travel, history and maps. There is a visual search option, as well.
The most extensive search engine on the Web. Google search results are ranked based on site popularity rather than the common practice of paid positioning. Google also has specialized searches for certain operating systems, government documents, maps and scholarly articles. A single click translation service is available for most pages which will translate to the user's primary language. It also caches Web pages allowing an individual to view pages that are not currently available or that are on overburdened servers.
Hakia
Hakia is a semantic search engine that is focused on quality. Unique to Hakia, a single query brings a full set of results in all segments including Web, News, Blogs, Hakia Galleries, Credible Sources, Video, and Images. Among these segments, News, Blogs, Credible Sources, and Hakia Galleries are processed by Hakia's proprietary core semantic technology called QDEXing. Web, video, and images are processed by Hakia's SemanticRank technology using third party API feeds.
HotBot
HotBot allows many search options such as language, images, javascript, video, and MP3. Advanced search options allow searching by date, page depth, and domain name.
Mahalo
Mahalo is the one 'human-powered' search site in this list, employing a committee of editors to manually sift and vet thousands of pieces of content. This means that you'll get fewer Mahalo hit results than you will get at Bing or Google. But it also means that most Mahalo results have a higher quality of content and relevance (as best as human editors can judge).
Mahalo also offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions. Depending on which of the two search boxes you use at Mahalo, you will either get direct content topic hits or suggested answers to your question.
Topsy
The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses. When you search for something on Topsy, such as “free music,“ it finds snippets of conversations that match what you are looking for. Topsy results are the things people link to when they are talking about your search terms. Topsy ranks results based on how well they match your search terms and the influence of the people talking about them.
Twazzup
Twazzup is a Twitter search tool that provides almost all of what Twitter Search does itself, plus a list of the most influential tweeters on a topic, related photos, and keywords based on your search results to help you refine your search.
WebCrawler
WebCrawler is one of the oldest search engines and uses the Excite search software to search the Web. It is good for simple searching.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a collection of classified subject resources. If no matches are found in its own database, it searches the rest of the Web using Google. Options at the bottom of the screen link to searches in a particular country (Denmark, France, Mexico) or city (Los Angeles, New York City) which may be in the native language of that country.
Yippy
Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually harder to locate by conventional search. That's where Yippy becomes very useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool.
Meta Search Engines
These search engines search multiple databases simultaneously. Both of these search engines remove the duplicates before presenting the search results.Dogpile
Searches the major search engines simultaneously and allows the user to view the combined results or compare the results of the various engines side by side.
MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler simultaneously searches Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, Thunderstone, DirectHit, LookSmart, and Yahoo. A brief annotation is provided with the search results.
Subject Guides
These subject guides are a starting point to specific information on the Web. Although they do provide search engines, those engines search only on the individual Web site (i.e., a search on the Librarians' Index to the Internet will only show sites listed on the Librarians' Index to the Internet).Internet Public Library
Originally begun as a project of the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, the Internet Public Library locates, evaluates, annotates and organizes the information resources of the Internet which would be of interest to patrons of a public library.
Scout Report Archives
The Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is funded by the National Science Foundation. Resources can be searched by either a quick or complex search engine. Links can also be browsed by Library of Congress subject headings.
Web Searching Techniques
For more information on how search engines work, how to search, and tables and charts describing how these tools work, see the following articles:Beyond General World Wide Web Searching (From UC Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Checklist of Internet Research Tips (from the University at Albany)
http://library.albany.edu/usered/iguides/iguides.html
Searching the Internet
http://www.sldirectory.com/search.html
Recommended Search Strategy: Search With Peripheral Vision
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
More New Non-Fiction
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There have been quite a few students coming to the library recently looking for resources on their assigned 'controversial topic'. This week's new titles should make your research a little easier. We also have titles for builders & contractors, travelers, weavers, and a fascinating title donated by the Pennsylvania German Society for those interested in local history.
'Current Controversies' & 'At Issue' Titles
"The Alaska Gas Pipeline"
"Biological and Chemical Weapons"
"Consumer Debt"
"Does the Internet Increase Crime?"
"The Energy Crisis"
"Fair Trade"
"Hurricane Katrina"
"The Local Food Movement"
"Poverty and Homelessness"
"Should the U.S. Close Its Borders?"
"The U.S. Economy"
"The World Economy"
Reference & Travel
International Fuel Gas Code
International Existing Building Code
Frommer's Colorado
Insight Guides: France
London's Hidden Walks
Frommer's New York City With Kids
Frommer's Spain
Insight Guides Spain
Additional Titles
The Weaver's Idea Book
Die Pennsylvaanisch Deitsche
'Current Controversies' & 'At Issue' Titles
"The Alaska Gas Pipeline"
"Biological and Chemical Weapons"
"Consumer Debt"
"Does the Internet Increase Crime?"
"The Energy Crisis"
"Fair Trade"
"Hurricane Katrina"
"The Local Food Movement"
"Poverty and Homelessness"
"Should the U.S. Close Its Borders?"
"The U.S. Economy"
"The World Economy"
Reference & Travel
International Fuel Gas Code
International Existing Building Code
Frommer's Colorado
Insight Guides: France
London's Hidden Walks
Frommer's New York City With Kids
Frommer's Spain
Insight Guides Spain
Additional Titles
The Weaver's Idea Book
Die Pennsylvaanisch Deitsche
New Non-Fiction Titles Are In
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A number of new non-fiction titles are in--here is a small selection:
My Lucky Life / Dick Van Dyke
This title is a memoir that explores the life and times of the well known American entertainer. Van Dyke has been making the rounds promoting his book and his book has gotten generally warm reviews.
The Idea of America / Gordon Wood
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon Wood has written a title that explores 'the ideological origins of the American Revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment'--and explains how the radical ideology of the Founders continues to shape the country and the world today.
Teach Us to Sit Still / Tim Parks
A novelist with chronic pain explores the connection between mind and body in this work of personal discovery. Expect to learn about Mussolini's ulcer's (he thought he had them, but his autopsy revealed otherwise), and how meditation can influence the perception of pain.
The Ten Trillion Dollar Gamble / Russ Koesterich
Interested in the nation's debt? Want to know how you can still make money in the markets even if the nation defaults? This work shares Koesterich's perspective on the current and future economic situation and recommends methods to prosper--no matter what.
Blood and Smoke / Charles Leerhsen
Think NASCAR is dangerous today? You'll change your mind after you've read this work--subtitled "A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500". Leerhsen claims that 'the shadow of death hung over every starting line in those days..and the odds were strongly against a fatality-free afternoon'. So forget NASCAR and check out the Indy 500 circa 1909.
The Best Advice I Ever Got / Katie Couric
Katie Couric has spent a large portion of her life surrounded by news-worthy figures. In this title, she shares what she learned from such notables as Christine Amanpour, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, the Dali Lama and more. Couric then reveals how that knowledge helped her through the difficult moments in her life and how it can help you.
The Well Trained Mind / Susan Bauer
This title is a well researched tome that explores how to give your children a true classical education. Parents that home school or those who would like to broaden the minds of their children will find this book a remarkable reference.
My Lucky Life / Dick Van Dyke
This title is a memoir that explores the life and times of the well known American entertainer. Van Dyke has been making the rounds promoting his book and his book has gotten generally warm reviews.
The Idea of America / Gordon Wood
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon Wood has written a title that explores 'the ideological origins of the American Revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment'--and explains how the radical ideology of the Founders continues to shape the country and the world today.
Teach Us to Sit Still / Tim Parks
A novelist with chronic pain explores the connection between mind and body in this work of personal discovery. Expect to learn about Mussolini's ulcer's (he thought he had them, but his autopsy revealed otherwise), and how meditation can influence the perception of pain.
The Ten Trillion Dollar Gamble / Russ Koesterich
Interested in the nation's debt? Want to know how you can still make money in the markets even if the nation defaults? This work shares Koesterich's perspective on the current and future economic situation and recommends methods to prosper--no matter what.
Blood and Smoke / Charles Leerhsen
Think NASCAR is dangerous today? You'll change your mind after you've read this work--subtitled "A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500". Leerhsen claims that 'the shadow of death hung over every starting line in those days..and the odds were strongly against a fatality-free afternoon'. So forget NASCAR and check out the Indy 500 circa 1909.
The Best Advice I Ever Got / Katie Couric
Katie Couric has spent a large portion of her life surrounded by news-worthy figures. In this title, she shares what she learned from such notables as Christine Amanpour, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, the Dali Lama and more. Couric then reveals how that knowledge helped her through the difficult moments in her life and how it can help you.
The Well Trained Mind / Susan Bauer
This title is a well researched tome that explores how to give your children a true classical education. Parents that home school or those who would like to broaden the minds of their children will find this book a remarkable reference.
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