Early American Newspaper, Series 2 offers several hundred thousand fully searchable issues from more than 250 significant 18th- and 19th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Based primarily on the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), which houses a vast collection of American newspapers through 1876, Series 2 also includes titles from the acclaimed newspaper collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society and more than 90 other institutions.  Send comments to Ann Kenne.  Trial ends 11/30/09.

If you prefer Bofton over Boston, then this is the resource for you!

For advanced researchers working in the areas of Biblical hermeneutics and the Early Church, we call your attention to a new database tool on the web. BIBL Index is the online version of the well known, if incomplete, Biblia Patristica.

Just as Biblia Patristica, BIBL provides a working index of Biblical quotations and allusions in Early Christian literature, Greek and Latin. Used as a Scripture index to early church writings, researchers can trace the cited passage(s) to a critical edition like SourcesChrétiennes (at Ireland Library) or within TLG Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (online) and Library of Latin Texts, formerly CETEDOC (online access on the way)

The search interface is quirky, to say the least, but BIBL should prove a valuable tool for advanced users. Please note that as the index itself is not nearly complete, some major figures are NOT included (St. Augustine for one!) as well as some major works by included authors.

Here is a bare bones video to get you started

The sponsors, the folks behind Sources Chrétiennes, do plan further indexing but it appears that their “funding has been suspended” and so this worthy project must be deemed endangered, to say the least. Although BIBL is completely free, and in spite of a funding freeze, registrations are still accepted. Individual registration is required. Those concerned with personal online security (all of us) might consider a separate “dummy” email account (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) for your registration, as a foil to the spammers.

Enjoy!

Graduates: be prepared to move around a bit. 

Note also a recent Gallup poll that reported business owners as having the hightest well-being of any occupational group.  Professionals and managers were close runners-up.   Transportation and manufacturing workers have the lowest overall well-being.

Graduates: own your own business. 

One path to owning a business is to get in on the ground floor of a small business, with the upcoming year being a good time to do so.   Forty-four per cent of small business owners indicate that they’re looking to hire in the next year in this recent survey from Intuit.com. 

Graduates: Get a job with a small business, use your entrepreneurial skills to grow and eventually buy that business, and enjoy the good life.

Sample graphs:

 

Daniel thinks that the schools should have resisted the criticisms, and suggests that much of the research doesn’t impact business: “ The number of academic journals in business tripled over the next 25 years, and the number of business books published each year more than quadrupled. Their relevance and usefulness can’t, of course, be quantitatively proved or disproved, but it’s commonplace to hear businesspeople scoff that academic research never has any influence on what they actually do in their companies.”  I’m wondering, however, how much of what one learns in any educational program is explicitly or consciously remembered and applied, versus how much just becomes ingrained in one’s intellect and skill sets and is used unconsciously.

What do you think?

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