See this interesting post with a search engine that allows you to find a book by color: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/170/
Note that you need to know hex values for the colors, you can see those here: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/article.php/3478961
Have fun!
Full text digital collections of newspaper archives are incredibly useful tools for historians, students, and the general public. These tools typically offer simple keyword searching and more advanced searching of phrases, combinations of search terms, and date specific search ranges.
Many newspaper websites these days offer search access to their archives and so it’s a fairly simple process to go to a specific newspaper website and look for their archive database. If archives are available usually there is a prominent link somewhere on the newspaper’s homepage. There is a catch, however. Many, though not all, newspapers have established fee based subscription requirements for access to their valuable historical article archives. They may let you search the archive for free, but often payment of a fee is required to retrieve the full text of the article to your computer.
Fortunately for students and faculty, the USCA Library offers free access to the full text articles from some of the best newpapers in the US through subscription to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers archive. Newspapers included in this service are:
The service pemits searching of any one or combination or all of these newspapers at one time. Note that ProQuest also provides full text access to the current article databases for these newspapers and the Los Angeles Times. ProQuest does not permit searching of their historical and current databases at the same time.
The giant search engine Google recently introduced its own historical newpaper archive section. You can visit the Google News Archive Search at http://news.google.com/archivesearch.
A big advantage of the Google service is that it includes many, many more newspapers than ProQuest. Some of the hits you’ll find in Google’s service will feature access to free articles, however, as expected most articles in digital newspaper archives involve a fee to access the full text. Search hits found in searches of Google’s database include helpful extra features, such as links to recommended Web sites.
Should you just use one or the other of these great tools? Heck no; both are powerful research tools which should be consulted whenever you’ve got a research project concerning American history.
For full text access to current national and international newspapers, students and faculty at USCA should of course also consult the Lexis Nexis search engine. You can access the ProQuest and Lexis Nexis search engines by using the Database and E-Resources Index on the USCA Library homepage.
Buried within the May 17, 2007, New York Times (Arts section) appeared the news of the regrettable suspension, and possible termination, of the American Heritage hardcopy magazine edition. Effective with the June-July issue the publication will be on indefinite hold, according to editor Richard F. Snow. A simultaneous announcement appeared at the publication website from Frederick E. Allen, editor of AmercanHeritage.com and managing editor of American Heritage. The Forbes owned magazine will continue to maintain a web-based edition for the time being. A full archive of past issues, along with other online only features, may be found there.
American Heritage, founded in 1954 by three ex-Life Magazine staffers, remained advertisement free until 1982, when economic realities forced abandonment of the policy. Costs were met through steep subscription fees – - $10.00 per year payable in installments. Covers were hardback and clothbound with color paintings on front. That format endured until 1980 when hardcover editions became optional for subscribers only. In spite of the shift to advertising acceptance, the magazine failed to prosper except for a high point in the mid-1960’s. It was sold to Forbes in 1986, bounced back for a time, but by the late 1990’s was faltering again. According to Scott Masterson, a Forbes vice president and president of American Heritage, the magazine experienced a further downturn in the post 2001 magazine business environment and has had difficulty recovering its business fortunes. Despite a mid-decade refocusing of appeal toward the baby boom generation, Forbes has “been carrying us for a while,” said editor Snow.
Aficionados of American Heritage ( “everything a magazine of popular history should be.” according to Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) would do well to consult the full May 17, 2007, New York Times article by Charles McGrath, “Magazine Suspends Its Run in History.” It is as much an overview of this history magazine as a whimsical profile of current editor Richard F. Snow.
The New York Times is available in full text through the USC Aiken Library databases, or you may consult your librarian.
Posted by Tom Hobbs, Reference Librarian, USC Aiken Library
TV worth watching.
Tonight the PBS Frontline series will present a program titled Spying on the Home Front that examines the changes in government surveillance of American citizens since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The program highlights a number of cases where citizen right to privacy and other constitutional protections are being eroded. The combination of new laws enacted in the wake of 9/11 and powerful information technologies have substantially increased the government’s surveillance capabilities. The confiscation of book store and library circulation records and warrantless electronic phone tapping are just some of the activities that are undertaken in the effort to protect our security.
For more about tonight’s program which airs locally at 9 pm on channel 13 SCETV and to watch a program preview, visit this site.
If you can’t catch tonight’s program don’t worry. Frontline does an excellent job of archiving their programs. You should be able to watch it from their website soon.
