Daily Archives: 5 October 2006

Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory

You name it, if it relates to genealogy, it is probably listed on this site. from the Web4Lib Listserv

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Beyond Freakonomics

Interested in a one-hour Princeton lecture by Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics?  Here you go!  (you may want to save the .asx file to your desktop, then play it from there). from ResourceShelf

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Google Gadgets

Google has opened up their gadget library of over 1200 gadgets to the general web.  Gadgets are user made code that were originally designed to customize people’s Google Personalized Homepages, but they are now available for anyone who wants to … Continue reading

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Advanced Searching on WorldCat.org

WorldCat.org has added an Advanced Search page, allowing the user to search by Title, Author, ISBN, OCLC, Language, Format or Publication Date.  This ought to be helpful when searching for items with commonly used words.

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