International association of orientalist librarians The Web site of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians hosts the online version of the society's biannual bulletin, provides a directory of member librarians, and reports on recent meetings. The main feature of the resource is the Association's online bulletin, which includes articles and conference papers, book reviews, and a news section. Some articles are available in HTML format, but most need to be downloaded through Acrobat. Issues covered include: Chinese block books and manuscripts in the Russian State Library; doctoral dissertations in East Asian studies con From New Humbul Resources on November 12, 2005 at 10:30 p.m..
Hong Kong journals online Hong Kong Journals Online makes selected academic and professional journals from The University of Hong Kong Libraries freely available to the general Internet User. Focussing on English and Chinese-language journals published in Hong Kong, this periodical database covers such humanities subject areas as: literature; education; linguistics; and the history of Hong Kong. Users can search the database by author, title or keyword, or can browse the contents of individual journals. Publications of interest to humanities scholars include: The China Review, with issues dating from 1872 to 1901, whic From New Humbul Resources on November 12, 2005 at 10:30 p.m..
How to Create Your Own Podcast - A Step-by-Step Tutorial This tutorial, sponsored by New York Time Publishing, provides factual information about podcasts in easy to understand language. It includes information on how to record your audio and create your MP3 file; how to create your RSS feed file; how to write the directions in the RSS file; and how to upload the MP3 file, RSS file, and validate it. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 12, 2005 at 11:30 a.m..
Jamendo Posted By Laurent KRATZ on Nov 9th 3:53AM: Creative Commons Complete Albums from France, Belgium, Luxembourg and elsewhere in the world are hosted on Jamendo. They are distributed using the most popular P2P technologies : BitTorrent and eMule/eDonkey From Common Content: Newest Items on November 12, 2005 at 9:30 a.m..
PureH Posted By Skyd on Nov 8th 2:04PM: PureH has been on the alternative and electro music scene since 1993, but its members have worked their way in different noise/punk/metal bands even before that. PureH is one of the first Slovenian bands who fused together modern electro, variety of ambiental, d’n’b and heavy New York illbient music with acoustic rock instruments and took it all to live concerts with addition of synchronised video projections as a counterweight to all laptop artists and Djs. From Common Content: Newest Items on November 12, 2005 at 9:30 a.m..
Gravitational Tractor The best known way to prevent a dangerous asteriod from impacting the earth is described here. The subject is the 11/10/05 Astronomy Picture of the Day. APOD is super site for learning astronomy and well worth a daily drop-by. Astronomy From Golden Swamp on November 12, 2005 at 8:30 a.m..
Italian Digital Multimedia Library Catalog of audiovisiual materialsproduced by the educational sector of the Italian Broadcasting Corporation indexed by topic. Once you have registered and received your login and password, you can access the audio material. Each audiovisual item has an interactive section where teachers can attach their comments, lesson samples and additional audiovisual documentation. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 11, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Cultural Map of Hellas Web-site of the Greek Ministry of Culture with an interactive map of Greece. Users can select a district of Greece by clicking on it and get information of cultural interest about the district (museums, archaeological sites and monuments etc). From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 11, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Virtual Finland This is the page for people who need basic information about Finland. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 11, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project Stanford's website is a repository for the ongoing study and exploration of the fragmentary remains of the Forma Urbis Romae, also known as the Severan Marble Plan of Rome. This was an enormous map of Rome made between 203-211 A.D. and covered an entire wall inside the Temple of Peace in Rome. It depicted the groundplan of every architectural feature in the ancient city, from large public monuments to small shops, rooms, and even staircases. Most of the Forma has been lost and the site contains drawings of the map made when more pieces were extant and photos of the extant fragments. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 11, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
The Pompeii Forum Project An in-depth repository for the ongoing study of the uban center of this ancient Roman city, the Forum in Pompeii. View the a map of the forum, 3-d reconstructions of the buildings with overlays and links to photos of the extant remains. Self-described as a "collaborative research venture" it is an up-to-date and evolving site. The goals are to provide the first systematic documentation of the architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence as it pertains to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the history of urbanism and contemporary problems of From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on November 11, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
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