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Word lovers rejoice: the Historical Thesaurus will be added to OED Online in...
Last October, I blogged at length about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which was only available in two massive print volumes priced just under $400 (though discounted at...
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“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the...
Today, July 2nd, is the 234th anniversary of American independence. July 4th is the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. For the whole story, see my post from last year, “Why...
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The BBC radio and television archive website
Thanks to Jay Lake, I discovered that the BBC Archive website contains some fantastic collections of old radio and television content. Here are just a few of the collections that caught my eye: In...
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The David Foster Wallace archive
Today the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that the literary archive of David Foster Wallace they acquired after his death is now open to researchers. The archive...
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Productive frustration, lost libraries, and required reading for aspiring...
As I read Ben Greenman’s “Lives” essay in today’s New York Times Magazine, this caught my eye: By supplying answers to questions with such ruthless efficiency, the Internet cuts off the supply of an...
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The CRAP test for evaluating sources
I frequently blog about evaluating sources– it was the subject of my very first post–so it should come as no surprise that I liked “Crap Detection, A 21st Century Literacy” from the Libraries and...
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Scrivener software news
Over the years I’ve heard writers rave about Scrivener, software that combines a word processor with project management tools to help organize research and ideas and structure long works with outlines...
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57 years of author interviews from The Paris Review are now online
If you liked the BBC archive of interviews with British novelists that I blogged about a couple of months ago, you’ll love this. The New York Times reported that Lorin Stein, the new editor of The...
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Yet another study shows that “digital natives” suck at searching
I’ve blogged before about studies showing that so-called “digital natives” lack basic information literacy skills and have great difficulty doing academic research and finding and evaluating sources....
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Let’s talk about search
So my last post, “Yet another study shows that ‘digital natives’ suck at searching,” seems to have struck a nerve– it’s received over 5000 hits (thanks to links from BoingBoing and Fark, as well as...
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My posts on American Ephemera on the Bauman Rare Books blog
I wrote a series of posts on late 18th-century American ephemera– pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers of the American Revolution– for the new Bauman Rare Books blog. My first post, American Ephemera:...
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My posts on Forgotten Founders on the Bauman Rare Books blog
I’ve started a new series of Americana posts on the writings of the “Forgotten Founders” for the Bauman Rare Books blog. My first two posts are on George Mason of Virginia, who Jefferson called “the...
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My posts on Thomas Paine on the Bauman Rare Books blog
I’ve started a new series of posts on Thomas Paine on the Bauman Rare Books blog. You can read my earlier Forgotten Founders posts on George Mason (Parts 1 and 2) and John Dickinson (Parts 1, 2, and 3)...
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I’ll be teaching a research workshop for Clarion West in May
I’ll be teaching a one-day Clarion West workshop with Louise Marley on Sunday, May 4th from 10am to 4pm in Seattle’s University District: Fiction R&D: From Research to Ideas to Stories Research is...
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Free access to Oxford online resources the week of April 13th
To celebrate National Library Week, Oxford University Press is providing free access to their online resources from April 13th through 19th: Username: libraryweek Password: libraryweek Go here to see...
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Books the Founders Read, my new series for the Bauman Rare Books blog
I’ve started a new series, Books the Founders Read, on the Bauman Rare Books blog. I’ll be highlighting books that the Founding Fathers read, owned, wrote about, and were influenced by. My first post...
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My new Books the Founders Read post on Blackstone
“In America the law is king.” –Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 My new Books the Founders Read post on the Bauman Rare Books blog is about William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, the...
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Lying to children about the past
I reviewed A Birthday Cake for George Washington, the controversial children’s picture book about slavery, for the Seattle Review of Books— read it here:...
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I’ll be speaking about fact-checking on November 14th
I’ll be speaking about fact-checking at the November 14th meeting of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild in Seattle: Fact-Checking: Don’t Assume Anything Whether editing fiction, nonfiction,...
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My talk about fact-checking
The Editors Guild recorded my talk about fact-checking last night and posted it to their YouTube channel, so you can watch it here: Here’s a link to the PDF handout I prepared and refer to in my talk,...
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