What's Happening? Today in History

Hi All,

Well, they say that 'time flies when you are having fun'. Well, time is flying on the blog so we must be having fun. In particular, since I started blogging regularly back in August, we've posted 39 previous posts...betcha didn't know that. Well, when we hit our 50th post, I've got a surprise for you! Check back when we hit post number 50 for a.....

I can't give it away - I need to build some suspense and generate reader interest. Looks like you'll have to come back - but you can always bookmark us or RSS feed us. Anyway, on to todays' post.

Clever title, eh? I thought so myself - it does however summarize the sites I'll mention today.
I've mentioned RefDesk.com before, but did you know that there is a link on the site to 'This Day in History'? Click here to go to the link - just scroll down the page a bit and you'll find it midway down. As you scroll down the page you'll also see Article of the Day and Word of the Day. Nothing like a bit of learning and education in a painless manner - and it is fun also. There is also a 'Today's Birthday' section a bit further down on the page which is interesting to peruse during the day.

When you link back to RefDesk.com and look a bit further down on the page, you'll see other 'Today in History' resources from the AP, BBC, InfoPlease and the Library of Congress (LOC) and the NYTimes (NYT). Neat sites that definitely can help patrons and students find out what happened on a parents' birthday or a siblings' birthday or any other day in history.
Click here for the NYTimes link to Today in History.
Click her for the Library of Congress American Memory link to Today in History.
Click here for the History Channel link to Today in History.

The library subscribes to an online resource called US History Resource Center in Context. Just visit the library homepage, click on Reference and then click on History. Scroll down a bit to the US History Resource Center link. You'll have to enter your library card number to access the database, but once you do that you'll have complete and unfettered access wherever you have internet access. Click here to get to the Reference link for the database.

Besides for being a great history database, the site has a very helpful feature called 'Browse Topics'. What's more the topics they cover include the 1900's, 1910's, 1920's and so on up to the present day. That kind of ties in with the original theme of this blog entry of 'What's Happening? Today in History'. This is just a bit more of a directed search for students who need to know about a particular event in history.

See how time flew as you were reading this blog entry today? Time definitely flies when you have fun.

Regards,
Stu