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A recent Baltimore Sun article described a project to digitize rare images from the LIFE magazine archives (dating back to the Civil War era) to be made available through Google Images.  Included in this image archive are photographs never published in the magazine.
To view some of the 2 million images available so far, browse the [...]

According to a report from the Pew Research Foundation, the Internet has now overtaken newspapers as a source for news among Americans, making it second to only television.
From the report:
Currently, 40% say they get most of their news about national and international issues from the internet, up from just 24% in September 2007. For the [...]

From the Library News Blog:
Alden Library will be closed beginning Friday, December 19, at 5:00 PM through Monday, December 22, 8:00 AM due to floor sealing in the seventh floor mechanical rooms. Environmental Health and Safety requires that there be no occupants in the building for 48 hours after the sealing application, which means access [...]

The Pew Research Center has a new report showing the public opinion polls including only calls to people with landline phones show a small but significant bias by leaving out voters who only have a cell phone.  Polls that included cell phone-only voters showed slightly different results, though these were often within the margin of [...]

In “A Regional Analysis of Assertiveness” Kathy Sigler, Ann Burnett and Jeffrey T. Child explore the differences in self-reported assertiveness among people in the Upper Midwest and the New York Metropolitan area, testing stereotypes about “Minnesota/North Dakota Nice” and the “New York State of Mind.”
From the abstract:
Co-cultural differences in assertiveness within the United States have [...]