Taste of Twitter (Notes from Class)

Taste of Twitter

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Twitter Support

• Tweetie for Mac also available for PC, iPhone, and more
• TweetDeck
• Hootsuite for updating multiple accounts now or in the future
• TinyURL for shortening URLs (from http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/ tohttp://tinyurl.com/mjfopd)
• bit.ly "a simple URL shortener" (from http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/tohttp://bit.ly/WoE39)

Using Twitter

• Twitter in Plain English Short explanatory webcast.
• Elements Of Twitter Style Explains mentions, re-tweets, replies, and more, from Red Sweater Blog.
• Ray's 2.0: Advice: don't use Twitter's so called "retweet"!
• Twitter is the New CNN by Lance Ulanoff at PCMag.com
• Twitter & the Library of Congress blog post by my alter ego, CogSciLibrarian.

Please follow @JoMCParkLib on Twitter if you're not already!

Books in Print Online!

Books in Print contains records for millions of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming book, e-book, audio, and video titles. Reviews from well-known resources are included when available. You can search for bestsellers and award-winning books.

Remember that you can check out thousands of these titles via the UNC Libraries!

Market Research Resource

Business Insights Interactive provides strategic management reports of various industries. Each report is based upon unique market research and provides detailed analyses of major markets. Industries include consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology. Current reports include The Future of Digital Home Entertainment and The Lifestyle Disorders Market Outlook to 2014.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm

The UNC Libraries recently licensed online access to ProQuest Digital Microfilm. This is a digitized version of microfilm -- it looks just like microfilm but is available online.

Newspapers include:



• News and Observer
• Chicago Tribune

• Los Angeles Times

• New York Times

• San Francisco Chronicle

• Wall Street Journal

• Washington Post

Coverage is 2008-present, with a 2-3 month embargo. Currently, there is no 2010 content.

Like everything, this database has some pros & cons:

• Cons: There is no search function; like microfilm, you must select a newspaper (click on select at the top left of the page), then choose a year, month, day, and date.
• Pros: The image quality is pretty good and downloads as a pdf. Additionally, you can access the content from anywhere, unlike microfilm, which requires a dedicated reader.

I'm very curious to know your reaction. If you use this resource, please contact me with your feedback.

American Broadsides and Ephemera: *awesome*

American Broadsides and Ephemera

Includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900; also 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera. Facsimile images are full-color and fully searchable. Browse by genre, subject, author, place of publication, or language.

Subjects include contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports.

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 also offers autobiographies and dying confessions of convicted criminals, theater playbills, sheet almanacs, publishers' prospectuses, advertisements, newspaper carriers' addresses, patriotic and popular songs and poems and items illustrating political party organizations and controversies.

More Online News Archives @ UNC Libraries

Great new online news archives / compilations, made available through the UNC Libraries. You may have seen some of these before, but there is new content:

Archive of Americana
Primary source materials for in-depth study of the history of the United States. Component parts include:

• America's Historical Newspapers, about 2000 titles from 1690 to 1920s
• Early American Imprints Series I and II, over 70,000 printed works from 1639 to the 1820s
• American Broadsides and Ephemera, over 30,000 documents from 1639 to 1900.

World Newspaper Archive

More digitized newspapers from around the world from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Components include:

• African Newspapers, more than 40 papers published from around 1800 to the 1920s
• Latin American Newspapers, more than 35 papers published from around 1805 to the 1920s

Titles with coverage dates

Chinese Research Resource Online via UNC Libraries

Duxiu Knowledge Search

2 million full-text scholarly resources and books in all subjects. Formats include books, journal articles, conference papers and video clips. The full-text isn't available online, but you should receive contents by email within 2 hours. Search & articles are in Chinese. 1930s-present.

The Princeton University East Asian Library newsletter describes Duxiu as "... an enormous combined Google Scholar and Google Books for Chinese material. But Duxiu has its own characteristics; there is no real English equivalent. Duxiu is a huge content-based database composed of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). Some text you can read immediately, other texts you can send to yourself by email." (I'd confirm that myself, but my Chinese reading is so rusty as to be non-existent)