Recent Websites

Past Portal is a website of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, maintained by the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. It provides digital access to rare books, manuscripts, and other primary resources from Virginia's history, including the full run of the Virginia Gazette. Users can browse the collections, or make use of the site's search features, which include Boolean logic and word truncation.



American Women Through Time is a site maintained by Ken Middleton and provides chronological timelines of notable women or events, with hyperlinks to relevant online sources. There are also links to primary resources such as diaries, advice columns, newspaper, and even quilts. Links to other timelines, including ones categorized by name, state, and subject are also included.




Space Available: Economic Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy is a report from the Brookings Institute that describes a national trend of waning demand for convention center space, while at the same time many local governments nationwide are investing heavily in such facilities as a way to boost economic development. Author Heywood Sanders, Ph.D., professor in public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio, dispels what he sees as myths about the economic prospects of building or expanding convention centers, and uses case studies to reflect the shrinking marketplace of convention centers.



The Archival Appraisal of Moving Images: A RAMP Study with Guidelines is a digitized version of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's 1983 publication regarding a long-term Records and Archives Management Program (RAMP). This "present study, prepared by Sam Kula under contract with the International Council on Archives - ICA - is intended to assist archivists and records managers involved in the selection of moving images for preservation through a comparative study of past and present policies and practices in this area, and the formulation of guidelines based upon the most widely acceptable of these to other cultural policies and practices." -- Preface
Note: PDF is in two formats, printable image scan of the original, and textual version generated by optical character recognition (OCR), which can have spelling/grammar errors.



Inquiring into Inquiry , edited by Jim Minstrell and Emily H. van Zee, "focuses on three questions: Why inquiry?, What does inquiry look like?, and What are some issues associated with shifting toward inquiry-based practices? Contributing authors are scientists, teachers, researchers, professional development specialists, and administrators. Many work with students from diverse cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances. Settings ranged from science lessons with primary students to informal meetings with experienced teachers. " --from the Publisher's website
The e-book is divided into three parts, and the front matter, each as a PDF.