2East eNewsletter

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New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The New York Times, the newspaper of record for the nation, has been available through the Library's electronic resources with indexes and abstracts, or by selected full text in one of the aggregated database. Previously, searching required consulting paper indexes, and microfilm was the only comprehensive full text product available. But now there is a powerful and more easily used full text version on the web.

Learning Technologies

This is an article about learning technologies, not about urban planning or art history, but begins with a story about searching for a relationship between urban planning and art history:

Recently I became interested in the way the Arts and Crafts movement influenced urban planning at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Some time ago I happened to see a facsimile of the plan for Vancouver BC and I noticed that the printed plan made use of an Arts and Crafts font.

Blog World
Feel the need to share your stream of consciousness with the rest of the world? What you need is a blog. Blogging has been around since 1998, but has only in the last year begun to attract some serious attention from mainstream press.