Archives for the Month of December, 2008

Nylink and RapidILL: Join the Pod

Nylink is pleased to announce that we are putting together a RapidILL pod. What is RapidILL? It’s a unique resource sharing system that was designed by the Interlibrary Loan staff at Colorado State University Libraries. Pods of libraries share journal articles. Once your library joins a pod, it can belong to as many other pods [...]

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online

Now this is a terrific national project, a free database that presents "A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court." The Old Bailey Online also has plentiful and clear notations on historical background.Published by the [...]