New York Public Library Digital Collections - Awesome

Hi All, 

Click on the following link to explore the over 700,000 items digitized from the New York Public Library's collections.  

Users can search for free using keywords, items, collections and various divisions of the library.

Some of the various collections include New York city Directories,  National Dance Institute Video Archive, German Master Prints, The Villager, Italian Master Prints, a Collection of Photographs of New York city and New York State, Early American Manuscripts Project and Winnie-the-Pooh Stuffed Animals (seriously), Atlases of New York City, Atlases of the United States, Maps of Africa hanging New York, George Washington Papers and more.

Enjoy the archive and the links!

Regards,
Stu

Internet Speed Tests

Hi All,

It takes bandwidth - think lots of fiber optic cables and such - to get your videos, chats, pictures, Instagram stuff and more to your house.  But how fast is my computer you might be asking?

Good question...there are lots of internet speed tests out there on the web.  Some might ask you to download software in order to perform the test...I prefer not to download software due to the spam/virus/malware threat that software downloads can create...

So...you might want to do an internet speed test using any of these free speed tests...
AT&T Speed Test
Test Your Broadband Speed
SpeakEasy Speed Test 
TestMy.net
Top Tips to Speed Up Your Internet Service

Enjoy the sites - hope your upload and download speed are really, really fast!

Regards,
Stu

The Digital Public Library of America

Hi All,

I've been waiting for just the right opportunity to discuss this next website. I wanted a day where the the weather was cold, snowy and raw - so that readers would be able to do a deep dive into this next website and not be distracted by other events!

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)!  What is it?  Great question. 

The quick answer is that the DPLA is a national digital library that contains books, images, historic records and audiovisual materials. The materials are available to anyone with Internet access.  For a more full description of the DPLA, click on this link.

From the homepage users can click on Exhibitions, Explore by Place (maps), Explore by Date (timeline), download DPLA Apps, get DPLA News and more.

There is also a separate link for the DPLA Bookshelf - which is an easy way to search DPLA's books, serials and journals.

This is an eclectic - and very interesting - look into American social, political and cultural history.  And, too top it all off...its free - and very, very easy to use!

Enjoy the sites and the results and the many hours of entertainment you'll spend on DPLA.  And you won't even know that you're learning all about American history!

Regards,
Stu