Posts Tagged as ‘newspapers’

June 3, 2008

Newstritional Disorder

Evidently people in the 18-34 age range often suffer from newstritional disorder according to a recent study. It’s a completely made up term but it means that people my age can only handle news in small amounts or as they say in this Time article, bite-sized pieces.
I suppose this doesn’t really surprise me because [...]

September 13, 2007

Historical Newspapers

Something that I came across a while ago and have been meaning to get to in this blog is a (relatively) new offering on the web by the Library of Congress. On the “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers” website, you can search through ~310,000 digitized newspaper pages from 1900-1910. What’s really cool about [...]

March 21, 2007

New York Times - Free e-access

Yesterday I posted about a New York Times op-ed piece. Many of you may or may not know that we do receive a daily copy of the Times as well as The Charlotte Observer, The State, The Post & Courier, and The Wall Street Journal in the library. Recently I received an email [...]